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I am 23 years old, and I've been married for 3 years. In my first year of
marriage I put on between 35 and 40 lbs. I'm 5'11 and I was about 150-155
lbs when I got married, and I had gotten up to 190 lbs. I just stopped caring
about eating healthy, and I ate really bad, and I quit exercising. We lived in
New Orleans (helping the victims of Hurricane Katrina), and there was so
much good food there. We would eat out
about 3 times a week or more, and I would always get dessert. We also had
so many people depending on us for help that I began to turn to food for
comfort. Those pounds
came on so fast, before I had even realized it! It was awful. I would find
myself
having emotional breakdowns after looking at myself in the mirror. I hated
the body that had become mine. I also developed acid reflux, and I would
wake up with heart burn. I could just drink a cup of water and get heart burn,
and I knew it was because of all the weight I had put on.

I also have a history of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer in my family. When
I was 16 I had to have heart surgery, for a disease called supraventricular
tachycardia. I would have episodes where my heart would race at almost 300
beats a minute, and this was not after doing strenuous exercise. My normal
heart rate was about 150 beats per minute. After my surgery, my heart rate
returned to normal, and I did not have anymore SVT episodes. After I put on
all this weight I had started to have a few SVT episodes every once in awhile,
and that was scary to me. I knew it was because of the foods I was eating,
and all the extra weight was not good on my heart. I decided it was time to
make a change so I can
have a long healthy life like God has intended for me.

My pastor's wife introduced me to Team BeachBody after her husband
preached a very convicting sermon about being good stewards of our body,
and now I absolutely love Team BeachBody. There is so much support.

On January 7, 2008 I started using Power 90 (introduced to me by my coach,
Brad Davis) as my work-out, and man it was
great, and I also started doing the Slim Express Series with the ladies from
my church on Saturdays. I also liked to throw in Turbo Jam and Hip Hop Abs
for fun. I wanted something more challenging, so my husband and I started
P90X on April 14, 2008, and it is definitely more challenging. We are love it.
It's hardcore, but awesome, and we're bringing it! I have cut my
calories down to 1600-1800 calories a day, instead of the close to 2500 or
more I used to eat. It's been a struggle making myself eat healthy foods, but I
know I'm helping myself out in the long wrong, and it's getting easier each
day. I have actually started to crave healthy foods. I still fail sometimes, but I
try not to make it a habit like I used to. I do allow myself one treat day every
week to two weeks because that helps me to not want it so bad. I'm already
feeling better and feeling muscles build. I have so much more energy now.
I've even been doing Chalean extreme, and it's helped me lose more lbs and
more inches all throughout my body!
I'm really loving it. I've lost 49 lbs so far, and 7 inches in my chest, 9.5 inches
in my waist, and an 6.1 inches in my hips. I've gone from a size 16 pants to a
size 6. It's amazing. I have so much more self-confidence, and I love it and so does my husband. I've made a lifestyle change for the
better forever. I no longer have any SVT episdoes, and my acid reflux has
drastically improved. I don't have to take medicine every day for acid reflux, so it's
pretty amazing. Beachbody has been so amazing and has really helped me
improve my life physically and emotionally. I would go as far to say that
Beachbody has saved my life.

My goal is to have a healthy body because my body is a gift from God, as a
matter of fact God tells us in His word that our bodies are the temple of God
(1 Corinthians 6:19-20). I need to be a good steward of my body since it is a
gift from God. That is why I have decided to call my business HisBodyHisWay.
My body is His body and His home, and I want to live my life His way and
honor Him w/ my body, and that includes what I put into my body and
exercising to stay healthy.