Fat Chance: Losing the Weight, Gaining My Worth

In the summer of 2006, Julie Hadden made her way to the open casting call in Jacksonville, Florida, for season 4 of the hit reality TV show The Biggest Loser. To this day she remembers standing in line with hundreds of would-be contestants, feeling fat, fearful and insecure. Could she-an average, everyday, stay-at-home mom-survive four months of sheer torture and walk away healthy, whole and thin? As it turns out, the answer was yes.

Julie's experience on The Biggest Loser helped birth …