That one sentence whispered by a teenage girl in a Target dressing room shattered my wife.

Not because of the jeans that wouldn't button…

But because she already believed it.

She was doing everything right.

Fasting. Tracking. Morning workouts.

But her stubborn fat wouldn't budge.

She'd look in the mirror and see someone she didn't recognize anymore.

Until a research trip 7,000 miles away changed everything.