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My journey began in May 2003 when I was diagnosed with Diabetes in addition to my lupus. At that time, I weighed 254 pounds due to lack of energy and poor eating habits. It is hard to explain how much TURBO Jam has played a direct impact on my quality of life, but, today I am proud to share that I am down to 158. I would like to reach 140 pounds.

When I began my journey in 2003 I had no energy and was very depressed, all I could manage was to walk, so I started out with just walking 10 minutes. Then, as my energy increased I progressively added 10 more minutes until I was finally able to walk an hour. I started adding yoga to regain flexibility. Then my life changed in April 2006 when my boyfriend saw the Turbo Jam infomercial. He called me and said, "I want to buy this for you" because he knew I had been trying for two and half years to lose the weight. At that point, I was down to 194 pounds, but my goal has always been to reduce the weight so I can reduce my diabetic levels and live without medication. So, Bill bought me the entire video collection and I began using the Turbo Jam series right away. I lost 10 pds in the first two weeks... which really motivated me to continue. It was not easy, as I was still very over weight, but the more I persisted the more weight I lost and the more energy I had. Before I knew it I was having to buy new clothes and people around me were asking me "what is your secret", to which I responded TURBO JAM!! Bill also purchased me some books for nutrition that I used along with the information I received from Chalene in the Turbo packet. He bought me the Hip Hop Abs recently, and I have lost another two inches around the waist by "dancing away" with Shawn T!

I have been very fortunate to have a man who has provided me with these programs and to support me as I work towards my goal. His inspiration has also helped me to realize that I want to be a coach to others like myself who want to lose weight and think that because they have a chronic disease they cannot do it! I hope that by reading my story they will gain hope and know that there are others like themself who have achieved small steps towards living a healthy lifestyle. I'd also like to say that due to losing the weight and changing my eating habits I have reduced my sugar level to NORMAL levels with minimal medication needed and increased my quality of life because I have the energy to go out and live!!!