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My story may not seem very long to some, but for me it has been a long and very frustrating journey. I am only 20 years old, but the term “yo-yo” fits my life very well. My dad was in the Army for my entire childhood, so we moved a lot. I was always an average weight child with a family that ate pretty healthily. Then 8th grade cam e along and I met my first “male friend” who took me out to eat everyday, sometimes twice. I went from a junior’s size 5 to a 13! My self confidence had never been a problem, but I just wasn’t happy with the way I looked. All through High School I took gym, and classes like aerobics and jazz dance. The summer before my junior year, my mom and I joined a gym and I went down to a size 8. I felt pretty good, big bones and not-so-trim waist-lines run in the family so I just figured I would never be as thin as the other girls in school. Maybe my body just was not made to be skinny and sculpted. I found myself staring at all the girls in soccer and in cheerleading, totally jealous and wondering why their bodies could look so beautiful and not mine. I did not think I was fat, just heavier that I wanted to be. My friends always said I looked good, I coved up any “excess” very well. Then I reached my senior year, we moved again (this would be my 5th high school) back to Alaska where I had attended middle school. I was around all my old friends and I was not required to take P.E. so naturally, my waist-line increased again. Not to mention that on the drive up to Alaska I had gained a good 10 pounds being in the car snacking all day! Throughout my senior year I fluctuated from a size 9 to a 13. I was always frustrated with myself for not eating better and buying snacks at those stupid vending machines! (They should ban those things, lol)!

After I graduated, my family moved to Georgia. Another 2 week car ride with all kinds of goodies to snack on. I of course gained a few pounds, but figured I would start working out when we got settled. Soon after moving into our house, I found out I was pregnant with a baby boy! With everyone around me telling me to “eat for two” and having chocolate cravings all the time, my weight sky-rocketed to 185 pounds!! After my son was born, I weighed in at just over 160 pounds. Through walking and eating a “little” better I went down to 155lbs. About 5 months later and no additional weight loss; I met Jon, who is now my husband. I got very self-conscious of my weight and wanted to look my best so I started eating better and started looking for an exercise program I could do. That week, while sitting on my butt watching T.V., I saw the infomercial for Turbo Jam. I was completely hooked and ordered it that evening! I received it in the mail about a week later and started it that day. That was Feb. 12, 2007, the first day in my journey to real weight loss and happiness. In the first 4 months using TJ, I lost 10 pounds and 15 inches! I continued to use the program, but still wanted something more. I had seen so many amazing success stories and beautiful bodies while logged onto WOWY, from people who had used a program called P90. So…I logged onto beachbody and looked it up. After reading all about it I was so exited and wanted to try it. I could not afford it at the time, but I was going to save up to get it. In July my family, hubby, and I decided to move back up to Alaska. We didn’t leave until September so I had time to save money for the trip and I knew that I would probably gain some weight and lose muscle on the trip, so I ordered the P90 system before we left and had it shipped to a friend so it would be waiting for me when I got there. It took us 3 weeks in the car to get there. As soon as we got into our apartment and got the T.V. hooked up, I started prep week. On October 29th, 2007 I started P90. I was so exited. I pushed through each work-out and loved the way my muscles reacted to the weights. I have come to love the “burn” that comes with lifting weights and get so hyped doing my cardio. I am already past day 60 and looking forward to day 90. I am already so shocked at the results I have gotten already!! I have lost another 8 pounds and 15 more inches!! I have gone from a size 10 to a 4, a size 4!! I never thought I could be that small! I have definition in my arms and legs, my waist is down to 26.5” and I am feeling great.
I got P90X for Christmas and I am starting that right after I finish my 90 days in January. I am so exited to start that, and the thought that I will be in a two piece swim suit after having a baby and never being very thin, is enough to make me jump and shout it to the world, (and hey, that burns calories)! I received the “Eat Clean Diet” book and “Eat Clean Diet Cookbook” both by Tosca Reno for Christmas too and I am incorporating her philosophy of completely eating clean. I know I will loose all my excess flab and have an amazing sculpted body by the time I get done with my first round of the X! Through doing these real-life programs and meeting so many good people through beachbody and MDB, I have achieved so much more than I ever thought I could. The thought that I will be in a size 2 by this summer is so overwhelming and amazing that my eyes tear-up just thinking about it. I cannot thank Chalene Johnson, Tony Horton and all the people at MDB for making what I thought was the impossible, possible. You have helped so many people and I am so thrilled to be one of those success stories like I saw on T.V. and your web-site. I never want to look back at what I used to be, except to make sure I am never there again. Thank You MDB for changing my life and giving me the best body I could possible have!