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I was a slender child, very active, played sports. When I was 20 years old I got pregnant with my son and gained 87 lbs with that pregnancy. Since the birth of my son, I gained more and more every year. I was feeling old before my time. I had health issues such as sleep apnea, acid reflux, high cholesterol, chest pains and my feet would swell up in the summer months. I had a hard time walking from my car, across the parking lot, into the building where I work. I had to pass on some activities when they came up because I wasn’t in shape enough to do them. Even easy things that just required walking across a parking lot into the building. For many years I was a single mom. I could only afford pasta and breads basically, so I started blowing up huge.
One year, a few weeks after a check up, my doctors mailed me a hand written letter pleading me to lose weight. I was diagnosed with morbid obesity (the kind of fat that kills) My doctor shared in her letter the risks of an early death. I read her letter and thought, “I have to do something about my health someday” and then didn’t give it another thought.
On April 21, 2007, I married the man of my dreams. Poor darling, I couldn’t cook other then boil water for pasta and zap frozen dinners in a microwave. So we ate out a whole lot. Then my wedding pictures came in from the photographer and it hit me. I could now see that I was really, truly, honestly, FAT.
It was a Sunday morning, about the first week of August of 2007, I was flipping through channels, when I came across THE informercial. If your reading this, you know the one. I was touched by everyone that was on there. I could feel in my heart that these people were genuine, no actresses or actors. The way my heart connected, I knew this was the answer my husband said that God would bring my way. I knew hardly anything about the program, but I could see the hearts of the people on the infomercial, and that was enough for me to just know. Eating more, exercise less was a cool idea too, but it was the hearts of the people that got me to order. On August 22, 2007 I started this program.
Now at age 40, I am feeling 20 years old again and happy to be slender and in shape.
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