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I am a wife and mother of five children and grandmother of four. My husband and I fell in love many moons ago and slowly but surely the weight started ouncing its way onto my body. Like a thief in the night it would quietly and without notice ease itself on. Six pounds a year is only eight ounces a month. Multiply that over a twenty year period and OH MY !! You have added one hundred and twenty

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I am a wife and mother of five children and grandmother of four. My husband and I fell in love many moons ago and slowly but surely the weight started ouncing its way onto my body. Like a thief in the night it would quietly and without notice ease itself on. Six pounds a year is only eight ounces a month. Multiply that over a twenty year period and OH MY !! You have added one hundred and twenty pounds one day at a time. A person becomes so used to taking care of all the people he or she loves that they forget to take care of themselves along the way and I was no exception. My health started failing and I developed high blood pressure, diabetes, and my knees were wearing down. The Doctor informed me and my husband that the weight had to go or I would pay serious consequences. Scared out of our minds, I would join a health club and go for a month then quit and join another, this along with non-working diet after diet, actually left me depressed and starving. The doctor finally suggested a major surgery to lose weight and get a handle on my other health problems. With no where else to turn my husband and I decided our only option was for me to have this major expensive life threatening surgery before my health problems became irreparable. On April 15,1998 I had a gastric bypass surgery which was a very large life threatening surgery at that time. The 265 pounds that had silently climbed on my 4 foot 10 inch frame was going to kill me. The surgery was a success and I was sick as a dog for a year and now scarred for life where the cuts were made but the weight came off and the 120 pounds that had eased onto me was forcibly removed. I felt weak and stayed sick trying to figure out what I could digest over the next couple of years. I finally was resolved in the type foods my body would accept but I was still fat in my head. Then my Father was diagnosed with cancer and given a short time to live, depression found it's ugly way back into my mind and food was the only answer I could find. Dad lived fourteen months after we first learned of his illness and I ate and cried for most of the time. The weight was coming back and I knew there was nothing I could do about it. After all my mother is a very heavy lady with diabetes and other health problems. My twin brother is also a very heavy man with diabetes and high blood pressure and other health problems so I might as well accept the fact that I would always be fat and sick. Not feeling very good about myself at all was having effects not only on myself but also on my immediate family. I didn't care anymore and every problem was another excuse to eat. Then I met Cyndi lou and her and I discussed her becoming my trainer and coach. I just knew this was going to be a waste of time but I wanted to appear to be trying something.
Then it happened, Cyndi lou introduced me to Beachbody and turbo jam. In the beginning it was very hard to get up and go every morning but with Cindylou and others encouraging me I continued with the program. At the end of every Turbo Jam session it got easier and easier to get out of bed and the depression got better and better. I actually looked forward to getting up and working out with my friends. It was awesome to watch the transformation of my body back to where it used to be. The medicines were gone forever as I had finally found a program that not only takes the weight off but actually builds one self esteem in the process. Beachbody gave me back my life not only physically but this time mentally. It has been a total body makeover inside and out. My husband thinks I am twenty years old again with all the energy and the way he looks at my body is awesome. I now realize that exercise will help with depression better than any medicine I could ever take. June 28,2006 was the first day that I did turbo jam and I have done several of the other programs since. I will always know that Chalene and Cindy lou with Beachbody saved my life at the hardest time ever. I will continue to do beachbody 5 days a week for the rest of my life not only for my physical appearance which is great these days but also for my mental well being. Thanks to Beachbody I don’t take any medicine and my health continues to get better and better. Today is my 2 year anniversary of living the beachbody way and WOW. I look better and feel better than I ever have. When I started this program I thought it probally wouldnt last, but 2 years later doing the program 5 days a week and everything in my life has changed. I realized today on my 2 year anniversary that those years have flown by and it really is a wonderful, awesome way of life for me.

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