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Well, I'm 27 years old and started working from home several months ago. I've always struggled with my weight - I lost my first big amount of weight at 11 losing 40 pounds over a summer - and around 23 thought I had come to a good balance in my life, managing to maintain a healthy weight for 3 years, the longest length of time yet. Then in the beginning of 2004 I began to feel really sick which my general doctor wrote off as Irritable Bowel Syndrome due to stress but that June my gynecologist performed an ultrasound and found a lemon-sized cyst on my left ovary. I became depressed, figuring it would happen again and again and slowly but surely grew to the heaviest weight of my life - 170 pounds. I was eating in such a way as to thwart any possible results from working out that I stopped working out and stayed home and ate. My friends finally told me how worried they were about me and I took a look at what was going on and decided I didn't like it one bit. I started working out and was down to 155 pounds- then my husband and I up and moved to Colorado from Chicago and I was now working from home instead of an office. The depression from being away from home again combined with my friend food and....I got back up to 165 pounds. I found a local dance studio and it turns out the instructor is a coach on here and I knew that community is the key to staying accountable to your goals. I want to get on a fit track and stay there insteead of going up and down and up and down (since 11 this is my 4th attempt to get back to my ideal weight) and I know that if I have popele helping me and people to help it will be a lot easier than trying to do it alone. I don't have kids yet, but I know that if I have a healthy lifestyle it will be easier to teach my children to be healthy. I NEVER want my child to go through being the heavy one in the class and set them up for the same struggle I've endured.

My Progress

My fitness goal:

Transformation story

I'm still a transformation in progress, but I can tell you a few hints I already have learned along the way. Push play 6 times a week - even if you slip up in your eating as we all do on occasion keeping the workouts going will help mitigate negative impact from that piece of chocolate that was just tooo tempting!!

Make sure to take 10 minutes after each work out for stretching - the soreness you will experience the next day will be less, making you more likely to do that workout the next day.

Get connected! The more people you have to support you along your way the better chance you have to succeed!

Busy life? too busy to plan to eat right? JOIN THE CLUB AND USE THE MEAL PLANNER! There are lots of easy recilpes that are quick to throw together and take on your way. Also the message boards are good for getting ideas.

I'm still kinda new and am going through several of the programs to find what I like. So far I really enjoy the workouts of P90X, but I don't know if I am at the level to commit to the whole nutrional aspect of the plan! It's quite strict!

Come change with me!

Programs

Workout programs:

P90X®

ChaLEAN Extreme® - primary program

Slim in 6®

Power 90®

Hip Hop Abs®

Gear:

Resistance Bands

Weighted Gloves

Supplements:

P90X® Peak Results and Recovery Formula