My Story

I was a skinny kid growing up.  Even in my 20′s when I became pregnant with my first child I was warned by my doctor to put on some weight.  I was 105 and had been training for a marathon, and I felt great.  Well, I did what the good doc told me to do, and I gained 25 pounds.

Then I had my second son, hadn’t taken off all the 25 pounds I had gained with my first, then I had my third son, and the ball started rolling and I rolled myself into a pleasantly plump middle-aged mom.  I was working full time, had a crazy busy life running after three little rug rats, and always seemed to be on a new diet or exercise program to try to get back to my slim & trim days before children.

Soon, though, my weight crept up to my all-time high of 170 in January 2009.  I’m 5′ 4″ and 170 put me into the obese category!  I was so embarrassed when we got our pictures back from a beach vacation in November 2008.  What a sad sight I was, even though I tried to hide under an old-lady’s bathing suit with a skirt.

Well, my two younger sons had ordered this crazy-looking P90X workout program off an infomercial, and from January to March of 2009 my middle son Jeff did the program.  He followed it to a T – the workouts and the nutrition guide – and he got absolutely ripped and the healthiest he’d been in years.

Jeff working out in our backyard

He suggested I try Power 90, a shorter, easier version of P90X.  I thought heck, if he could work out 60-90 minutes a day and get those results, I'd be happy working out 30 minutes a day and getting half his results.  I also liked the idea of having a set start and end date, 6 days of workouts per week, 1 day of rest, and a nutrition guide to follow.

Well, the rest is history.  I am HOOKED!!!!!!!  So far I've lost 40 pounds, 30 inches, and 20% body fat - gone forever.  I've got so much energy, I sleep like a baby, I'm not hiding under big old men's work shirts anymore (or bathing suits with skirts), my heart rate and cholesterol levels are great, and I am physically and mentally strong.

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE BEACHBODY'S WORKOUT PROGRAMS, AND I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE TONY HORTON, the Power 90 and P90X instructor!  He's got a gift, and he makes you want to keep coming back for more.