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I guess you could say I took the 'had to see it to believe it' roller coaster ride to better health. I smoked cigarettes until the day I put my wife into the hospital for respiratory problems. You see I didn’t understand what she meant when she woke up at night coughing and saying smoking was going to kill her. A stint in the hospital set me straight. When she was released we both quit cold turkey. We thought we did well but didn't realize we were substituting food for cigarettes. I ballooned to over 270 lbs. I didn't think too much about it till one day, while working in the yard I heard my wife tell my sons "get out side and help your father." That made me think, no one ever had to help me before, and something might be wrong; after all I did feel a little strange. To this day I’m not sure if it was heat exhaustion or maybe something worse like a heart condition. That is the day I decided if cigarettes didn’t kill me then, I wasn’t going to let obesity do it either. That fateful day we tried to change our life style. We figured loosing weight would be a start. We tried to eat less and used the wonder pills from the "others" (not wishing to name names) and lost maybe 10 or 15 lbs. which was probably just water. Try as we may something was grossly lacking. We bounced from one plan to another without any results. One day my wife stumbled upon Beachbody and P90.
She and my daughter did the initial 90 days and had some really good results. The remarkable thing was they started a ‘team’ based friendship with some other people doing P90, even to the point that some of them met at a restaurant (Dave and Busters) in the Chicago area. I thought that was pretty cool. My wife challenged me to do P90 with her for the next 90 days. So I took the challenge.

Let me tell you what transpired, in the next 90 days my life went form a living hell to something only I could relate to. I went from 270 plus lbs to 195 lbs, from not being able to do jumping jacks or push ups, to doing Power 90 with my wife. Our life was truly changing for the better.

Then the roller coaster struck again. My wife needed surgery (of the female kind) and was out of action for awhile and then had a trip to the hospital for an inflamed appendix. This was during the time we were moving into a new house. Right after signing for the house I had a job change. After finally getting settled and my wife on her feet again I injured my back at work. Well that just about put the fork in me. With the help of a great chiropractor I was able to return to my former self, just many pounds heavier, but I could move without much pain. I was again 248 lbs and not in good shape. My wife and I decided to return to Beachbody and were pleased to find Shaun T. and Hip Hop Abs. We started back with HHA and the rest you could say is history. We have made it our life’s goal to remain with Beachbody. We have both become coaches in hope to help others. We are proud to say that 2 of our children have also change their lives and are also coaches. After all the trials and errors we have decided it is the ‘Team’ aspect of Beachbody that has made the difference.