Team Beachbody Guest

I have always been the fat girl. When I say that, I mean as a child, as a
teenager and most of my adult life. There was only a brief moment in time, a
few years during college
where I considered myself in shape and felt good in my own skin. Looking
back to that time, I really wish I had realized how good I had it and had
enjoyed living life instead of beating myself up over everything. By the
time I married and had two children, I had ballooned back up again--this
time weighing far more than I ever had before or ever imagined. Both of my
boys were large babies and I had C-sections with each of them. I gained
almost 60 pounds with my youngest son and it really took a toll on my body.
I tried just about everything to lose weight. I wanted it fast and I wanted it
easy. I drank shakes, I cut carbs, I skipped meals. I DIETED. I found
Beachbody back in September 2004 sitting on my rear-end watching TV one
evening and thought "Well, I've tried everything else. What will this hurt?" I
knew that when I was in great shape during my early 20's that one of the
keys to that was the exercise. I'm not sure why after having kids I thought I
could just cut calories and go back to that body!

I have used several different programs
since starting with Beach Body, each of them unique in their own way. It has
been a rough road--mainly due to lack of consistency on
my part and because I just never have fully committed to eating and
exercising the way I
should to lose the RIGHT way. I have finally found my path with Turbo Jam!
and am exercising
and eating CLEAN. There's just something about the music Chalene has
chosen and the awesome kickboxing moves that really gets me going and
holds my interest! Major stress relief!!!

I started off at an incredible 201 lbs. on a 5'3" frame. I was in absolute shock
when I saw the number. I have been up and down over the years, but never
have been that high. Who knows--I probably was during my last pregnancy,
but toward the end I started closing my eyes at weigh-in's at the OB office!
Using Turbo Jam and really sticking to my clean eating has been body
transforming...I
now I have less than 10 pounds to shed to hit my goal of 130 and to be the
hot momma I know is lurking inside me! I am already feeling awesome and it has
changed the way I approach shopping for clothes, what I choose to eat when
we go out and my life as a wife and mother. I no longer hide behind my kids
when pictures are taken and I take pride in how I look when I walk out the
door. I actually love shopping again--something I haven't enjoyed doing in
at least 15 years. I was the one in the closet in tears every morning because
everything I owned made me "look" fat (well, I WAS!) and frumpy. Now, I go
to get dressed in the morning and I'm excited because it all fits! And the only
downside is that sometimes I only wear things for a month or so before they
are too big and I have to give them away!

So it hasn't been easy by any means. But I've realized that easy isn't the way
to go. Hard work makes things happen and in the end, if I had to do it all
over again, that's the only road I'd choose!