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Growing up, I was very involved in swimming and dance (tap and jazz), and I took several years of tennis lessons. In 8th grade, I quit dance, and was on the swim team. When I started high school, however, my physical activity level dropped to include only gym class, and Marching Band.

When I turned 18 in Jan 1995 during my senior year of high school, I weighed 149 pounds.

In college, I gained the "freshman 15", and my physical activity included a mere handful of games of intramural soccer and basketball.

I graduated with my MBA in 2000, and over the course of the next 5 years, I gained weight, and exercised rarely. I went on a beach vacation in Jan 2005, and when we got home, and I saw the photos of me, I was horrified. I promptly went out and bought a new scale, and was shocked at the number I saw – 185.3!!!! I had gained more than 36 pounds in 10 years. My body fat was 40%!!

I promptly began working out and calorie counting. I got a personal trainer and saw him twice a week, but didn't do much else, except maybe a Firm video now and then. From Feb 05 through Oct 05, I lost 20 pounds...which brought me down to 164.9.

Then with the holidays, I was off and on with my workouts and my diet went off track. My weight had crept back up to 175.2 by Feb 06.

In May 06, I discovered Beachbody, and supplemented my PT sessions with Turbo Jam and joined WOWY. Between May 06 and June 2008, I completed hundreds of workouts. I have used many Beachbody workouts (I own - and have done - almost all of them!). No matter what workout I did, I made sure to log it in WOWY. While I didn’t lose a lot of weight in that time frame (diet is SO important, and
unfortunately, mine wasn’t very good), I did lose body fat.

Between June and Sept 2008, I completed a 12 week power lifting rotation at the gym where I was lifting VERY heavy three times a week. I also began riding my bike everywhere – to work, to the gym, to church. I rode almost every day. If it was raining and I couldn’t ride, I did Beachbody workouts. And as always, I made sure to log every workout into WOWY – I LOVE having that little “X” on
my WOWY calendar! I started the 12 weeks at 169 pounds, 35% body fat, and wearing size 14 pants. I ended the 12 weeks at 154 pounds, 30% body fat, and in October I bought my first size 10 pair of pants in I don’t know how long!! I lost 15 pounds, 5% body fat, and TWO pant sizes in 12 weeks. And I biked over 1100 miles!

With morning temps in the upper 40’s, biking to work was over for the season. I did a mish-mosh of workouts from Oct-Dec 08.

I completed my first round of ChaLEAN Extreme on in April 2009. I didn't have super great results this time around because my diet wasn't good (and as I said, diet is SO important), and I also needed more cardio. So I did CLX Round 2 on from April - July 2009. I added in extra cardio workouts (mostly TJ until it was warm enough for me to resume biking).

Then in August-Sept 2009, I did 6 weeks of Insanity. Unfortunately, because I was biking to work, I completely hit a wall (I had NO energy, and just couldn't eat enough food), so I had to take a break from both.

That break turned into a 4 month workout hiatus (over the holidays no less), and I wound up gaining about 10-12 pounds.

Giving myself no room for excuses, I signed up for the local 2010 Iron Girl Sprint Triathlon. My training consists of swimming, biking, running (ugh!), and Beachbody workouts! My weight is going back down, and I plan to be below 149 by the Triathlon on August 7! :-)