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I'm a 36 year old Mother of a five year old son, and the wife and guardian to my 38 year old husband who was injured in an industrial accident by being exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas.

I've been overweight all my life. My parents decided to start diets with me when I was 12 years old, and I think at that time I may have been only 15 lbs. overweight. It didn't make me feel to good about myself,

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I'm a 36 year old Mother of a five year old son, and the wife and guardian to my 38 year old husband who was injured in an industrial accident by being exposed to hydrogen sulfide gas.

I've been overweight all my life. My parents decided to start diets with me when I was 12 years old, and I think at that time I may have been only 15 lbs. overweight. It didn't make me feel to good about myself, and eventually, I gained more and more weight until I finally got up to 325 lbs when I was 34. I'd had enough! I was on heart medication, had severe anxiety and something had to change. So under the watchful eyes of all 5 of my doctors, I began to ride by stationary bike every day and began to lose weight. In four months, I'd lost 45 lbs. Then, my world was turned upside down.

My husband David went to work one hot sunny morning and ended up in a coma in the hospital with a brain injury by the time the sun set. Poisoned by hydrogen sulfide gas, he suffered an anoxic brain injury and wasn't expected to live. My son was 3 then, and my diet and exercise went totally out the window. David woke up 6 weeks later, but had to go through extensive recovery and rehab learning to walk, talk, eat, and all those things all over again. Some hospitals were over 2 hours away. I was on the road...and you can guess what that means. FAST FOOD EVERY DAY!
two years later, David is still in rehab therapy and I'm a grand 354 lbs.

Scared, frustrated, and feeling sorry for myself, my son John, 5, saw the turbo jam video's on the tv one morning. He's always on the move and said we needed to get those, so, I did!

I still find some days I'm feel bad about myself, and feeling depressed and frustrated things aren't happening fast enough. But, I haven't given up, and I'm getting stronger everyday, even though the weight is coming off slow.

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