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Doug Postell-MY Story-2010

I weighed around 230 pounds and at 5’10” I need to lose some weight. I have watched the P90X commercial on TV for a few years. I got it, used it for a couple of weeks and just stopped using it. I was starting to lose weight but still I just gradually stopped. I was working a lot of hours, I was always tried when I got home and I just didn’t have the time to exercise and get enough rest to start the next day of work (Although I have time for at least three or four hours a night for TV.)
A few months later September 2010 my wife and I go to her 30 year high school class reunion. I had gained a few more weight, didn’t really notice until I saw all the pictures tagged on face book. I didn’t like what I saw. I seen some of my old friends and one was an insurance salesman and we decided to add more life insurance on the two of us and the insurance company sent a nurse to our home to weight me and draw blood for lab work. My weight was now at 247 lbs, BMI is 34, and waist 42, cholesterol was high, triglycerides 900. I had eaten before the test but they said it still shouldn’t have been even close to that. They should be 150 or lower. So the insurance company was going to charge me such I high rate I couldn’t get the policy I wanted. I decided to go to my doctor to get the test done again. I didn’t eat and this time triglycerides were 393. It was still way too high. My doctor put me on a medication called tricore to help lower my triglycerides and told me I needed an exercise and nutrition plan. I already had the P90X and I had seen how it was working for a lot of people. I went to the beachbody web site just to check it out and saw the coach program and decided to sign up to be accountable for my workouts and what I was eating. At this point I was eating hot wings 6 and 7days a week on some weeks and I knew that had to stop. The doctor said I had to really take this seriously. I signed up as a coach and beachbody assigned me a coach. She ask what exercise plan I was doing and said she would help me anyway she could. She also said I should be drinking something called shakeology. It is a meal replacement shake. (The only experience I had ever had with a shake before was a strawberry meal replacement shake that went really well with a BIG MAC and fries.) But she said it had a lot of great health benefits. Lowers your cholesterol, it gives you energy, it wouldn’t leave me hungry and helps you to lose weight. It comes in two flavors, chocolate and green berry and it comes with a bottom of the bag 30 day guarantee, If it didn’t work for me or if I didn’t like it, even if I used it all I could get my money back and coaches get 25% off the price just for being a coach, I didn’t have anything to lose so I tried the chocolate and I really like it. I drink a shake every morning for breakfast Monday though Friday. I also have since tried the green berry and I like it also. I like to switch between the two flavors. I started to exercise using P90X and a treadmill and I am down to 210 pounds, size 36 waist and lab work is good. My BMI (Body Mass Index) is now 30. I fell better than I have in many years. I have more energy now and with the support of my coach and all the new friends I have found on the team beachbody site I feel this is just the beginning of what I can do for my health.
Another few months have passed it June 2011 and I am down to 193 lbs, 36 waists, BMI is now 28. I haven’t been below 200 lbs in over 20 years. My original goal was to be under 200. My next goal is the have my BMI lower than 25. My doctor said BMI below 25 gets me out of any health related issues that being over weight would cause. So far a good start to my story and I would like to help people the way my coach and beachbody friends have helped me to get started living a better and healthier lifestyle. Thanks Coach.