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My nick name is Sam, and I am 38 year old dental assistant. My husband helped me make the decision to try Turbo jam to help me loose weight. I am also a mother of a 11 year old daughter. I was always battling my weight when I was young until I joined a volleyball team, baseball team and did recreational rock climbing. I was in great shape until my shoulder gave out 4 years ago and was told to stop all sports and rest the shoulder. I also started a new carreer in the dental field.
No sports and working 10 to 14 hour days, not eating right and tired all the time made for bad choices. I went from being very active to not at all and from a 135lb 5'2" frame to 180lbs! Being a single mom and working 10-14 hour days to bring in good money to support my child. Also In those four years I had someone in the family die every year. The ones that devastated me most were my grandparents. I had a hard time getting over their deaths. They were my second set of parents, as I had lived with them for four years before my daughter was born. I felt like my cheering section and the ones I went to for advice were now gone and I had to make all my decision on my own. I think losing them made me depressed and I made bad choices in my eating habits. In Jan.2006 I also had surgery on my shoulder to repair my rotator cuff. Now home bound and one good arm what to do? My boyfriend then proposed Jan. 2007 and I had less than six months to loose some of that weight?!? By our wedding in July I lost 20lbs with a good diet and power walking. But after that I platued for 5 months.
I must also tell you that I have to loose weight not only for me but for my health. I was diagnost with IIH (Ideopathic intercaranial hypertention) Which means I have a pressure in my brain that is normally caused by a tumor but I do not have one. I just have an abnormal pressure that puts a great amount on my optic nerve, gone untreated I would be blind in a couple of years. The only thing they can link this condition to is an abnormal weight gain. I am told that if I loose the weight the condition will go away. Otherwise I have to take medication to decrease the pressure in my brain for the rest of my life. I have since started seeing a nutritionist and have lost 5lbs in one month. I now need to get a workout program into my new life to help me further that goal of loosing weight. My goal is to get back to that 135lbs of healthiness that I once had.

My husband and I decided that me staying home and taking care of myself and my health was more important than me working a 10-14 hour a day job.
Now being a wife and stay home mom, gives me the oppertunity to concentrate on my health and workout schedule. Also having the two most important people in my life to support me and cheer me on I think I will accomplish my goal! Well, since this all started I have gone from 180lbs - 5'2" to 147lbs! Beach body has given me my life back that I deffinately craved. With the encouragement of my husband, daughter, family and friends I am now refured as skinny minny! I am still a work in progress.