When my husband became sick his Doctor recommended that he change his diet and excercise more. To show him support I decided to do eat better and excercise more with him. We started eating more fish, salmon and chicken more fruits and more vegetables. We also ate whole grains, brown rice and started taking vitamins
In May of 2004, I gave birth to my 3rd son. He had a brother who was born in May of 2003 and another brother born in May 1997. With this birth, came an overwhelming state of depression, one that I didn’t realize I could possibly experience. When my youngest son was 3 months old,
I always enjoyed exercising, whether bike riding or aerobics. My weight would fluctuate, but a conscious effort always brought it back to where it belonged. Then after I got married, I had a problem – serious weight gains led to dieting, led to weight loss, but nothing I could stick with. Quit the diet, and
Before I got pregnant I was in great shape. When I got pregnant with my first child I gained about 70 pounds and after having her I still had 50-60 pounds on me for a whole year.I was very depressed because of all the weight I had gained. I tried a workout program that helped
Okay, I am not on “house arrest” per se, but it is currently 110 degrees outside, so that kind of puts a damper on outside fun like running. My husband is gone frequently (military), so I must find ways exercise–in my own living room (ugh!)–after my 3 year-old goes to bed. Frankly, it is tempting
She starts out with workouts by Kathy Smith and Tammy Lee Webb. After a few months, she gets bored and starts pining for a bigger challenge. She does an online search and finds Cathe Friedrich, her Pure Strength series, and her Intensity Series. The rest, as the cliche goes, is history. I write this today
My story is a familiar one. I had been gaining weight steadily since my marraige in 1995. After having my two children in 1998 and 2000, I finally came to the realization that my lifestlye had to change if I wanted to get the weight off. In 2000, I started to exercise at home with
A few years ago, I had some tradgedy in my life, and my once fairly healthy and active lifestyle went for a loop. After I stepped on a scale at the doctors office, I realized I had gained fifty pounds without much effort at all! Of course, I knew I had put on a few,
I’m a bit surprised to find myself not just contemplating writing a success story about myself, but actually doing it. I’ve read many such stories over the years, and my story pales in comparison to many I’ve read. But I suppose the key is that it is MY story, and that, of course, makes it
Roughly 35,000,000 Americans suffer from depression, I’m one of those people. It wasn’t until my own severe episode with this disease in 1999 that I began to research ways of combating it, and found out that an exercise regimine is one of the best things you can do to improve mental health, so I joined
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At first I was scared of Cathe. Those sculpted biceps! Those chiseled quads! Those heavy barbells! How could a mere mortal like me ever do her DVDs? I was 210 pounds when I discovered Cathe in 2006. I’d spent the previous five years slowly transforming my body from a 350 pound couch potato to a
