Meet R3 Director Susan Torborg

Susan Torborg is currently the Director of R3 for Melaleuca: The Wellness Company. In this role, Susan leads The Wellness Company’s R3 Weight Loss Program, which she herself built years ago and perfected on a foundation of more than 25 years in the health and fitness industry.

The R3 Weight Loss Program has helped countless individuals lose weight and maintain their weight loss, but more importantly, it has helped them maintain a healthy lifestyle, improve their relationship with food, and gain greater self-confidence. The R3 Facebook group currently has 150,000 active participants that share their weight loss success stories in engaging and positive ways.

Discovering the Love of Health

Susan was raised in Syosset, New York, a small town on Long Island. The youngest of three girls, Susan kept herself active. She has always had a passion for fitness and physical health and has always loved sports. In fact, she was the captain of the soccer and lacrosse teams at Syosset High School.

She attended Arizona State University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in exercise science. Here at the university, Susan began improving her own physical fitness, including playing lacrosse and soccer of course, and helping other women with similar goals. This work gave her great satisfaction, and she knew that helping others achieve wellness would be a big part of her life.

“Finding what you love to do and making a career of it brings much joy to one’s life,” Susan says. “I love what I do, and it has never felt like a job!”

Not long after graduating, Susan became certified in personal training and group fitness by the gold standard in the health and fitness industry, the American College of Sports Medicine.

Creating a Career of Wellness

She soon established many different clients and over the next two decades created programs for community organizations, corporate fitness centers, and health clubs, including aquatic training, pre- and post-natal classes, classes for seniors, and sports training for athletes.

Susan and her husband, Jim, have five children, which Susan homeschooled for years until Jim was laid off. Out of necessity, Susan turned more of her attention to her business and her children began attending Catholic School.

Susan is a devout Catholic, and though she took her faith for granted when she a young college student, she established a strong relationship with God soon after graduating from college. Her faith has been a rock-solid anchor in her life, especially as she has brought her services to pregnancy centers, drug rehab centers, and even women’s prisons, where she also led Bible studies.

Susan also created a health program specifically designed for Catholic priests, called the Priest Health & Wellness Program. Through this program, Susan helps priests improve their nutrition and achieve greater mental and physical health.

Melaleuca The Wellness Company

Susan joined The Wellness Company in 1997 as a part-time independent Marketing Executive and helped educate those around her about toxic-free living. She left this role in 2019 and became an employee of Melaleuca, bringing her R3 Weight Loss Plan to the company. She is now the Director of R3 and helps people around the world improve their health by stacking the seven healthy habits and following the five R3 principles.

The R3 Weight Loss Program

Susan created the R3 Weight Loss Plan over the past 30 years and has been perfecting it and perfecting it since. When she became Director of R3 for Melaleuca: The Wellness Company, her own mission to help people reach their goals aligned perfectly with Melaleuca’s mission: “to enhance the lives of those we touch by helping people reach their goals.”

Susan is enhancing lives every day through R3. Participants in the program can lose weight and live healthier lives by learning healthier eating habits and improving their physical fitness and self-confidence. Through R3, people are still eating the foods they love without having to count calories, weigh that food, or keep track of macronutrients like fat and carbs.

The R3 Weight Loss Program is based in science and psychology. It’s not a diet but instead a way to support weight loss, live a healthy lifestyle, and improve your relationship with food.