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In 2008 I was battling with a bout of depression because my younger brother had passed away from complications of leukemia and I was in the room when he took his last breath which was by far the hardest time in my life. We as humans deal with grief differently and i turned to food. Then 8 months later my dad was diagnosed with stomach cancer in 3 weeks he was overcome by cancer and also passed. I have to say that my brother-in-law and my sister were my strength and encouragement for getting motivated and taking off the weight. Plus my daughter had turned 2 and she started running and I realized that I could not keep up with her. That was more than enough motivation for me to begin a workout with my brother in law and sister.

We started p90x on July 25, 2009 I took off 8 pounds in the first 2 weeks workouts. I struggled with yoga X which really was tough and downward dog really made me angry because I could not hold it for more than 2 seconds without sweating my behind off. If i am not mistaken I think i lost 10 lbs. of sweat just doing downward dog. Then plyometrics had me struggling to catch my breath because a big guy with a gut has a challenge doing plyo x but it works I believe that i took off quite a few inches from my waste by doing plyo and don't even get me started with kenpox! All I have to say is I went from weighing 315 in 2008 to weighing 260 in 2009 I went from a 42 inch waist to a 38 inch waist. I have kept my weight off for a year and I am currently at 265 but I have maintained my weight for almost a year. I just restarted p90x and although my workout buddies have relocated I have continued to loose inches and am working on reaching my goal of 220 by summer of 2011.