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Amber Kwitck Won $1,000 in September 2009

Twenty-six-year-old Amber Kwitck's health problems were such that she didn't feel like she was truly living life. She felt like she was just existing. Amber was extremely heavy—weighing 262 pounds. She was on medication for several problems: high cholesterol and abnormal heart rhythms amongst others.

"I felt miserable every single day. Sick. I never wanted to go out because I was so sick all the time."

She was unhappy and looked exactly how she felt: horrible. She believed that nothing would make her look or feel better so why do anything about it.

"I felt really helpless, and I would just basically give up because there was really nothing that I could find that really worked for me."

But then the day came when she was at a festival with friends. One asked to get on one of the park rides. But Amber couldn't; she weighed too much to get on the ride. That was her turning point.

"It was a pretty humiliating experience for me. . . . I realized at that point how much my weight and how much my health was holding me back from really doing the things I wanted to do in life."

Her boyfriend, familiar with Beachbody®, suggested she try Power 90®. Amber noticed he was getting great results with the workout, so she decided to give it a try.

"I absolutely loved how much I sweated with the workout. How I felt afterwards. I felt like I was getting a really good complete workout in not that much time."

Amber initially struggled based on how she felt, by the numbers on a scale. If the pounds weren't coming off fast enough, she thought about quitting.

"Having to lose over 100 pounds can be quite discouraging when you are constantly thinking about that number all the time. . . . Using Beachbody and the Beachbody Network and Message Boards, I realized that the scale is not the only thing you need to measure your success by. You need to measure your success by how you feel, how you're fitting into your clothes. . . . I would log in every day to WOWY and be able to see and track my progress, my diet progress, my workout progress, and that helped quite a bit."

Amber has dropped an amazing 116 pounds. Her cholesterol is back to normal, and she no longer takes medication for her abnormal heart rate. She is still working out, having moved on to the Power 90 Master Series, and is looking forward to a continued healthy lifestyle. For all of Amber's hard work and dedication, she is a $1,000 winner in Beachbody's September Million Dollar Body Game®.