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Hello,
Let me start by saying congratulations on taking this first step towards making your health and fitness goals a priority. It's sometimes hard to put time on your schedule for yourself but, make no mistake, you are worth it and there is certainly no time like the present.
Well, I am a healthcare professional and a fulltime 30 year old mom to 3 boys, yes 3. My 3 sons are ages 4, 5 and

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Hello,
Let me start by saying congratulations on taking this first step towards making your health and fitness goals a priority. It's sometimes hard to put time on your schedule for yourself but, make no mistake, you are worth it and there is certainly no time like the present.
Well, I am a healthcare professional and a fulltime 30 year old mom to 3 boys, yes 3. My 3 sons are ages 4, 5 and 11 years old. As if this doesn't sound crazy enough, my youngest son is special needs having been diagnosed with Autism just 15 months ago. All my life I have struggled with my weight and tried every diet out there. I never had confidence or the ability to really feel good about the person looking back at me in the mirror. In fact I ran from mirrors most of the time. I also felt physically ill all of the time not realizing that it was because of what I was doing to my body. I was skipping breakfast, eating out, going to the drive-thru, eating late at night and drinking sugar loaded sodas. Not to mention NEVER exercising. I would become easily out of breath just climbing the one staircase at home and I could barely bend over to tie my shoes. I dreaded shopping for clothes because I had to go to the plus size section of the store. I hated that feeling of trying on jeans and being dissapointed over and over leaving the store in tears then driving to the fast food line. I made every excuse for it. I told myself that this is how it is and going to stay because you are a mother now. My weight kept increasing with each pregnancy and then some until one day I saw what I looked like in some family photos. For some reason I looked a lot bigger in those photos then what I saw in the mirror. When I finally got on the scale I was over 200lbs. It was a big awakening. How was I going to take care of anyone else if I couldn't take care of myself? I was so disgusted and fed up with myself that I had to do something about this once and for all.
I made a decision to change my life and to take control. I wasn't going to do another diet again either because as I have learned diets don't work. Diet's are for the moment and then you go back to your old ways. I started out by making small changes everyday and adding exercise in 2-3 times a week. Being a mom, I couldn't just up and go to the gym whenever I wanted or get a babysitter when I needed one. Not to mention the cost of a gym membership was rediculous and I've done that too. Gym's may work for some people, but when you don't know what you're doing, have a routine, or a positive person pushing you along you are more likely to just quit and loose all your membership money. We all can't afford a personal trainer these days either. Still, that wasn't going to stop me. I would find another way and I did. I found out that I could get the same, if not better, workout whenever I wanted it in the comfort and privacy of my own home. I had discovered workout DVD's and how convenient they were. The weight was slowly starting to come off and I started to feel like I could stick to something. However, I was getting pretty board of my same old boaring workout DVD's. Someone had told me about this feature through my cable provider called Exercise TV. I came across these two workouts called AbJam and TurboSculpt. I had discovered TurboJam and her amazing crew. I quickly replaced an old addiction with a much better one. Everything was better with TurboJam. The music was current and energized, the workouts were challenging and fun, the crew were real people and had personalities. I looked forward to doing the workouts everyday and I felt like Chalene was in my livingroom doing them with me cheering me on. I could run faster and jump higher than ever before. Weight was flying off my body every week and I was addicted to the way I felt after a workout. The feeling of accomplishment and that I anything is truly possible.
Through Beachbody and Chalene Johnson's various TurboJam products I lost 62lbs. Still I wanted and knew I could DO MORE. Chalene had earned my trust and so I purchased ChaLEAN Extreme as soon as it came out to take it to the next level. Now I mix it up with both ChaLEAN Extreme and TurboJam for the most incredible results.
I have never ever been able to loose weight or stick to any kind of exercise until I discovered this. Not only do I feel like a million bucks, I look better than I did in high school. I am in the best shape of my life after 3 kids. Who would have thought this was possible? I certainly didn't. Chalene made a believer out of me and I am so thankful that she designed these programs because she wanted to help people like me. Everyone started asking me "What are you doing?" "What diet are you on?" Um, no diet! No magic pill! I just made a conscious decision to change. Now you can do it too and I can help you.
*****************************************************************Flash forward to 2010: So, 2009 was a pretty rough year for me.I left my beloved job and went into a deep depression and really lost my spirit.Once again, I let my weight get out of control, slipping right back into my old habits.I forgot about how far I have come and what I was really worth.In 8 months of eating, drinking and not exercising, I put back on half the weight I had worked so hard to take off in the first place.Imagine my horror in seeing those numbers on the scale again.Yikes!Time to make a decision.Keep going this way, unhappy and miserable or get real and take control. Decide.Commit.Succeed., right!So, the answer was obvious. Now, I am happy to say that things are turning around for me.I have learned from my mistakes, started back on my exercise regement, started a new and better job with new goals.I am looking forward to gaining back my strength to do ChaLEAN Extreme again. I know I have a little ways to go, but I will get there. After that, who knows. Maybe some Rev Abs or P90X. It's never too late to be who we might have been!

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