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My name is Michele and I'm a 44 year old woman.

I was never very physical as a kid due to asthma. I was the type who could eat anything and still look like a string bean. My mom always told me someday that would catch up to me and it did at the end of high school.

In my early 20's I became a police officer and had to start running to pass the physical. I continued running off and on

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My name is Michele and I'm a 44 year old woman.

I was never very physical as a kid due to asthma. I was the type who could eat anything and still look like a string bean. My mom always told me someday that would catch up to me and it did at the end of high school.

In my early 20's I became a police officer and had to start running to pass the physical. I continued running off and on but really got into it in my 30's with racing. I've done some 1/2 marathons and was training for a full in August 06 when I got injured. After recovering I was injured again in Jan 07 with a broken toe. After that I had a very hard time getting started again and started cycling instead.

I did a century ride in Sept and was in pretty good shape but lost motivation after that. The holidays didn't help.

In past years I ran outside all winter but winter came early in my area this year. With almost 4' in Dec alone, the roads were not safe to run at 5:30am. I saw the last 5 minutes of a P90X infomercial and did some research online. It sounded perfect for me. I'm starting on Jan 15th and I'm really excited about seeing the results. I'm hoping that in the spring I'll be much stronger when I start running again and will plan to do P90X+ as next winter's program. Unless I get so addicted I can't wait!

In 2008 I started P90X and had good results, I went back to running in the nice weather and doing the weight portion. In the winter, I went back to P90X full time and kept my weight at a healthy range.

At the end of 2009, I found out I would be laid off in early 2010. I'm a big stress eater and with the stress during those few months, I put on a lot of weight. By early 2010 I was at my heaviest ever at 161 and 5'4". I was depressed but couldn't stop myself from eating, I had nothing else to do. Being low on funds and having to resort to the food bank, I ate what I could afford or what was available to me. Luckily I was only unemployed for 5 weeks, yahoo! I found a great job in mid February 2010, still there as of Nov 2011.

Once I got a new job, I found the motivation to start working out again and could afford to go back to my healthier eating habits. I started running again and was feeling better. At the end of 2010 once I stopped running for the season, I started P90X again full time. I allowed myself to have some chocolate around the holidays and during my busiest audit period which is the 2nd week of January. Once that week was over, I was very strict about my diet.

In the spring I started running again and kept doing the weight routines and by mid summer, I had lost 30 lbs. In Sept, I went back on the fat shredder plan and lost another 9 bringing me back down to 122.

I'm now about to start Insanity. I'm kind of scared because I have had 4 herniated discs for the past 20 years and although it is mostly under control, I still have occasional sciatica and muscle spasms. I haven't seen the dr for this for a number of years because I know how to treat myself and what to do when it flares up. I'm hoping that if I keep proper form and go a little easy at first, I will be able to get through without injury.

It's now Nov 2010

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