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VanDee Van Deusen Won $1,000 in September 2009

For a woman in her sixties, Christina Van Deusen led a fairly active lifestyle. With weekly dance outings, daily walks, and African drum lessons, she moved around, but menopause added 30 pounds, and she just couldn't get rid of them.

"I went through menopause, and I tried some herbal remedies for the problems, and I ended up putting 30 pounds on in a month."

She wanted to lose that extra weight, but it just wasn't happening. Then a Power 90® infomercial caught her attention, and she ordered the workout program. The day they arrived, she took the DVDs out of the box and immediately thought, "I don't have time for this."

"I looked at them, and I said, 'When am I going to have time to do those?' I went to work that day and got laid off. So I have plenty of time."

With the stress and extra time from having been laid off, Christina looked for a healthy outlet. She turned to Power 90 and hasn't looked back.

"I liked the fact that I could do it at home. I couldn't afford at the time to go to gym."

"I'm not doing Power 90 to get the big muscles . . . I'm doing Power 90 just to stay in shape. And I feel healthier and I can do more things if I'm working out . . . and I know that if I don't work out every day, I'm going to fall behind one way or another 'cause I've got to keep these wings at bay, and I gotta keep my back limber, and I gotta keep having fun."

She loves the comraderie of Beachbody's online support and logs her workouts into WOWY® daily. Having the same workout buddies provides the support and accountability needed to stay motivated.

"I found out about the message center and went online to find other women in menopause that I could talk to. . . . It was a great support system as I was moving every year for the next five years."

"I think maybe when you get over 55, 60, 65, that you may not lose the great amount of weight that the younger people do. But you do firm up! You feel better, and you look better too."

At almost 65 years old, Christina is now living a very healthy lifestyle. Mixing in Turbo Jam® and Hip Hop Abs®, she has dropped 24 pounds and 7 percent of her body fat. For all of Christina's hard work and dedication, she is $1,000 winner in Beachbody's September Million Dollar Body Game®.