New Member Introduction

[Guest guest]

Hello Everyone!

I will be starting my twelve-week challenge soon, but before you

start reading messages from me, I feel I should introduce myself and

give a little bit of background information.

I am 21 years old and a college student at The Ohio State

University, majoring in Meteorology (Go Buckeyes!). I have

been 'overweight' for my entire life and most of my family is

overweight as well. Despite playing varsity athletics through high

school, I continued to gain weight up through my junior year; at

most, I weighed 210 pounds during mid-Junior year in high school. It

was at this time, that my mother and I joined weight watchers, and I

lost about forty pounds.

During my senior year, I completed 'a portion' of the twelve-week

challenge, before falling off-track and not getting back on. This

past summer, I completed a full twelve weeks, but did not follow the

nutrition plan as strictly as I should. I saw good gains in overall

strength and endurance, but did not lose much body fat or make much

of a drastic change.

Now going into Spring Break, after hiring a personal trainer, I've

seen a great increase in muscle tone and strength from earlier this

school year, but again, my nutrition plan was not adequate. Body for

Life gives me one thing that I desperately need to stick with it -

structure. Being a college student, working part-time, being in a

Fraternity and a host of other student organizations, being able to

plan my meals and stick to a solid structure will make things a lot

easier. (I am waiting until after Spring Break to start, only a

couple weeks away. Spring Break in Arizona will be interesting... I

couldn't imagine starting this up with that on the horizon.)

I look forward to getting started on my program, putting everything

together and getting/providing support. Good luck to everyone ... I

can't wait to get this thing going!

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