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I'm a 45 year old mother of 2 who is here at Beach Body to get fit and healthy.

I've been here before ... in 2003 I purchased P90 with the intention of getting fit and trim by the time I turned 40 (my screen name at the time was fit@40). Well, I got VERY fit (not so trim), and eventually became one of the original P90Xplorers who was fortunate enough to embark upon the very first round of P90X

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I'm a 45 year old mother of 2 who is here at Beach Body to get fit and healthy.

I've been here before ... in 2003 I purchased P90 with the intention of getting fit and trim by the time I turned 40 (my screen name at the time was fit@40). Well, I got VERY fit (not so trim), and eventually became one of the original P90Xplorers who was fortunate enough to embark upon the very first round of P90X as it rolled off the presses!

Unfortunately, during that 1st round of P90X, I aggravated an old back injury and was not only unable to finish the round, I couldn't even workout for several weeks. I eventually let that setback and other life events derail my fitness efforts, and slid back into my old, unhealthy ways. Like so many moms, I busied myself taking care of everyone and everything else, and completely stopped taking care of myself. Not a wise choice.

But even as my fitness delcined and my weight ballooned, I never forgot how GOOD it had felt to be fit and how POWERFUL I had felt knowing that I could drop and crank out an ASTONISHING number of pushups at the drop of a hat!!

So one day, I woke up and decided that I wanted to be fit again and I ... joined a gym. I made a pact with a friend, got the advice of one of their best trainers, and started working out religiously. And after months of devoting as least 2 hrs/day to the whole "gym thing" - driving there and working and sweating and using all those machines and driving home - I had virtually nothing to show for it. I wasn't all that much stronger, the long stints on the cardio machines were getting tedious, I had only lost a couple of pounds, and, worst of all, I wasn't having much fun.

So FINALLY, I gave in to that little voice that had been nagging at me through so many hours on the treadmill and the eliptical ... "P90 works! P90 is fun! If you'd been doing P90 all this time you'd be cranking out pushups by now!" And so I have returned to what I KNOW works and I'm pushing play every day and I've made more progress in the first 30 days of my new round of P90 than I did in months at the gym. And it feels SO GOOD to be home :o)

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