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I would get out of breath, my knees would hurt, my feet would get really swollen, and I would eat to try and ease emotional pain. I would struggle to lose the weight and then I'd feel bad, so I'd eat more, and it just became this dark downward cycle. I would put so much energy into hiding how much I was struggling at work and with friends and family. By the time I got to the weekend, I was exhausted, and some days I couldn't get out of bed. That meant my children suffered for it because all the things that I should be doing with them and spending time with them, I couldn't do. I'd considered having weight loss surgery. I spent about six months looking at it, researching it, and until I saw a Body FX ad pop up on Facebook. It just looked fun, and it looked enjoyable, and everyone looked really happy, so I thought “I'm gonna give that a go.”

I am the happiest I've been in a long time. I'm the most confident that I've been in a long time and mentally and physically healthiest I've been in a long time. Since beginning Body FX, I have lost 45 pounds so far. I have gone from a size 2X down to a size L and I've lost 39 inches off my entire body, and I'm so happy about it. My main goal has always been to be healthy, to be happy, and to be a good example for my children, and doing Body FX has been a really nice way for me to kind of teach them how to have a healthy lifestyle. As soon as the music comes on, they come running into the room because they know what I'm about to do, and they're learning all the different names of the dances, particularly the “wiggle wiggle” from Figure 8. We like a wiggle wiggle.

My favorite non-scale victory involves my children. They always hug me and tell me how much they love me. And it got to the point where they could hug me and their hands could meet around the other side - “Mommy, my hands touch now!” Oh, it's the best feeling ever!

In the beginning as I was watching the videos, I realized the way that Jaana teaches you the moves is that she breaks them down and it makes it manageable. For example, with the Samba rock step, I would just do the feet, and I would just point my feet out to the side and step each side. As I felt more comfortable with that, I was able to add the hips in and I could put a little hip lift in. Then as I built up more stamina, I could do the arms, bringing my elbows down to my hips and engaging my obliques and I was able to do the whole move. The best feeling in the world!

Body FX has changed the way that I look at myself, it's changed the way that I dress, it's changed the way that I move, it's changed the way that I interact with people. I'm proud of who I am. I'm proud of my body and I've worked hard to get this body. Body FX is forever for me. It keeps me strong; it keeps me fit, it keeps me healthy, it keeps me happy. It's taught me how to be mindful and to look after myself. So, I don't think there is an after Body FX for me. I think Body FX is for life.

Over time I just kept getting heavier because I didn't care enough to do anything about it. I Had terrible acid reflux and would find myself waking up in the middle of the night taking medicine. I was going to the chiropractor because my back hurt, I suffered from daily headaches and I kept medicine in the car, in the purse and in my desk at school. I was tired all the time, I had no energy to do anything really, and with young children, that’s just sad. Then, I saw the ad for Figure 8 by Body FX and decided to give it a try, and seriously, the fat started to melt off of me.

When I first started Body FX my range of motion was a little bit more limited, but there was a lot more of me then. And I thought, I'm moving, that's something better than being "the certified couch potato" that I was before, and now I'm like, "Come on, I'm ready, let's go!"

With Body FX I have lost 76 pounds and 9 inches off my waist, and I have gone from wearing a size 18 dress to a size 6. I don't ever have a headache, I don't have acid reflux, I can breathe, I can tie my shoes, I can shave my legs, I have energy, I'm comfortable in my skin, and it feels incredible!

The great thing about Figure 8 is that I didn't have to get down and crawl around on the floor and strain my neck or my lower back, because you get to do it all while you're standing up, and so within an 8-minute drill, I do literally hundreds of crunches. I love it!

I don't think I found Body FX like Body FX found me. The fact that I enjoy it is why it has worked, and there's so much variety, so I didn't get bored. I am so happy. My new body feels energetic, flexible, powerful, like, I feel amazing. I've reinvented myself with Body FX.

Before Body FX, I was pretty sedentary. I suffer from a chronic condition called fibromyalgia. It causes a lot of pain in the joints. I had chronic pain in my hips, my neck, my lower back, my shoulders, my elbows, my wrists, and carrying extra weight was not helpful. Actually, my weight spiraled out of control after the diagnosis. I was on crutches for two years because the hips were so bad. It was a never-ending cycle of pain, painkillers, and basically trying to get through the day with a smile on your face. I wanted to be fit and healthy for my daughter.

I saw the ad for Figure 8, and the one thing that really triggered my interest was when I heard that you could do crunches standing up. What is that? I've never heard of it. That was it, decision made, and I signed up.

I did the first practice session. I actually couldn't believe that I could move my hips this way. I've been on the crutches for so long that I knew that the hips were my real problem area. I realized if I can move my hips like this, I can do this. And that was me hooked. I couldn't wait 'til the next day to put the new video on. I actually went to bed and I dreamed about it. I was so excited.

In the six months I've been using Body FX, I've lost a total of four and a half stone, which is 30 kilograms (66lbs). I've lost 14 inches on my waist alone. I never knew what my shape was because I couldn't see it because of all the lumps and bumps. I now have one tummy, like the whole package. And for me, that means I can wear a dress. I've never had dresses, and now I have so many dresses. I just want to wear dresses all the time. That alone is a huge achievement.

Figure 8 movements are so simplistic and repetitive and easy to learn. Beyond, Body FX gives us all the tools we need so that we can get the best performance from our lives. And sometimes I laugh, and I say, "I feel like a little bit like an athlete." My body's in the best condition it's ever been in. I press play every day. There's no excuses, and I'm literally, I'm living the result of that. And I just, can't be more thankful for that.

I absolutely love Body FX. I shout it from the rooftops. It's transformed my life, it's as simple as that. I can get up from the floor happily, I can play with my daughter. It's made me healthy, strong and confident. It's not just about weight loss, it's about everything. It's about how I've changed, and that is just so powerful for me. I'm loving every minute of it. I'm very happy, very, very happy.

I had some hip pain, and plantar fasciitis in my feet. What I used to love is to shop, and not wanting to do that anymore made me realize that I had to make a change and start putting my health as a priority!

With Body FX, I lost 42 pounds, I went from a dress size 16 down to a 6, and I lost 8.5 inches just around my waist. I'm able to tuck shirts in and look slim and fit - I can wear a belt! I mean, I don't think I ever really had a belt that I wore for years and years and years, I'm thrilled. I'm pushing 50 and can't believe I feel this good!

My stamina is through the roof. I can dance, dance and dance! It surprises me that I don't get winded, and my husband has commented that I dance way better than I used to - It's just thrilling.

I love the move called Cord the Shaka in Figure 8. There is so much going on with this one, your feet, your hips, you're just moving everything at the same time. The more interesting the moves, the less it feels like exercise. You're crunching the abs like a karate chop, and Samba is a focus on the belly crunch. As I've developed better abs, it's easier for me to tighten them up. Sometimes I'll be driving in my car and I'll be going around a curve and I'm like, "I can tighten my abs right here "and lean into it," and I can feel it.

The Figure 8 move gives you this flowy, sensual feeling when you're doing that. It took me some time to get used to it, but it was fun, and so I wanted to keep working on it and working on it, and now it's one of my favorite moves.

I enjoy modification videos, you get the moves broken down. If you're doing the Salsa Rock, the first thing you do is just get your feet in there, and once you get that, it's just a step-ball-change. Then you add a layer, which would be like getting your hip in there, and doing a Figure 8 move, and then when you have that mastered, then you can add the hands, as well - I love it!

Body FX has absolutely changed my lifestyle. I was a couch potato for a long time, and now I am over-the-moon happy. I'm standing up tall, I am just confident in a way that I never was before. It's absolutely changed my life, my fitness, my outlook, my priorities, and I'm very grateful!

Because I was morbidly obese, I was told by my doctor multiple times that I had to get my weight down. There was the risk of diabetes, heart disease, heart attack and stroke. I felt trapped. It's a slap of reality of how dangerous it can be.

When I started Body FX, I had this mindset, as long as I'm pushing play, I'm doing it, right? Regardless if I do all 40 minutes, or if I do 5 minutes, or I do 10 minutes. I do it during my breaks, even if I split it all up, I'm still doing it. As I was dropping the weight, my energy was going through the roof and then it got to the point where I wasn't doing half a video, I was doing a whole video and I got to the end of the video and I was like, it can't be over yet. With Body FX, I lost 14 inches off my waist, went from a size 22 to a size 6 and lost 100 pounds! It's weird for me because I was overweight my whole life. Now I'm the fit one in the family. I feel like me for the first time!

With Figure 8, I have learned how to move my body and isolate my muscles. Regardless on whether I'm moving side-to-side, tucking or rotating, no matter what I'm doing, like you can feel it all through your core. And in my life, I have never moved my body like this and now I can't even sit still. I'm constantly wiggling, or dancing, doing Samba bounces waiting in front of the microwave while warming up my food at work - I can't help it.

When I started I thought there was no hope, but there's hope. And if I can do it, anybody can do it. It's all about those little steps. Those few minutes that lead into just lifestyle change of wanting to work out, just wanting to wiggle. If I can do it, anybody can do it. There is hope for the hopeless with Body FX!

All of these things were taking place and I was putting everything else in front of my health. My aha moment was actually when I got a call from my doctor to make my annual physical, I was like, oh no. I was already on blood pressure medicine and I really didn't want to up that dosage. So, I thought I've got to do something.

With Body FX, I've lost 50 pounds and 11 and a half inches on my waist alone. Not even when I was young did I have abs like this. Body FX has made me healthy again, has made me look forward to going to the doctor again. I just had my last physical and everything is A-okay, I'm so happy.

Before Body FX, I did not do floor ab workouts because I have some tailbone damage and it's really uncomfortable to be on the floor. So being able to crunch and really get those ab muscles engaged and do hundreds of repetitions really felt like I was doing a floor ab workout, but on my feet.

I don't know if I ever really enjoyed shopping this much as I have now. I'm 53 years old and I love trying on clothes. This is crazy. For the first time in my life, I actually bought an outfit with a crop top. That's amazing.

I had to really understand that it was possible for me to make these changes at 53 and once I got my mindset right, and that self-love going again, then everything became easy. Body FX has changed my life. I feel fit, I feel healthy, the confidence I wear, my smile. Everybody tells me I'm getting younger, I'm not, but I feel younger and that's really kind of awesome. Super awesome!

Weight loss had been a true struggle for me. I had bad knees, frozen shoulders, and I would get pain attacks as well. I was just rotting inside.

When Body FX happened, I remember that night exactly. I'm scrolling, looking to buy Spanx because I have a huge tummy, and this is not fitting me. Then I see Jaana, sexy Jaana, it was love at first sight. My results were so quick, happening so fast and I think I reached my goal weight within 4 months and lost 10 inches.

I've had a C-section, so first I was skeptical, but my answer to that is keep on pressing play. It will happen, and look at me, I have abs!

My greatest non-scale victory was when I stopped getting these pains, because I had been suffering for so many years. Right away I joined a challenge. I started with the basic, and within a week, I lost about 9 lbs., just by doing the warmup and 2 cool down sessions.

Body FX is therapy for people. So, it was a challenge for me to break out of my outer shell, and you know how a child plays with building blocks? Well Body FX has actually helped me build myself. Thank you, Body FX!

There was a divorce, my first husband took his own life, and I felt like, wasn't I worth him staying around? That wasn't what was happening, but I felt so alone and like I wasn't worth these people who kept leaving me. I've just felt so down. I didn't feel worth it for myself, 'cause I was in such a bad place, but for my children, I would do anything for my children. I thought, I have to do something, I can't just wither away. Within two weeks from that moment, I was on Facebook, and this ad came up for Figure 8, I was looking at the people dancing, and it was like this light bulb moment. This is a movement I could do with joy. I signed up for all of it and I'm so happy!

I love Figure 8. If you think of the number 8 and all of its curves, there's so many parts of that. There's the movement of Figure 8 that moves the hips, it's flowing, it's elegant, it's beautiful. It chisels these muscles in just the right places that make it shapely and beautiful. I always thought I had this heritage of being a straight, thick body and I didn't think it was possible, but, as I began doing the motions and all of the movements, I began seeing that I was getting chiseled little by little. People comment, "Look at your little thin waist!", I never thought I could have a thin waist, and I have a waist!

With Body FX, I have gone from a women’s size 22 down to a size 4! I get these comments all the time, "What's happened in your life? "You're glowing! You're radiant! "You're so happy now!" And it's not just my body, my body changed, oh yes, but, my happiness, I see things, I see beauty everywhere I look, and this is incredible. I see beauty in myself. This surprises me, because all my life, I didn't think I was pretty. I didn't think I had beauty. I would tell myself all these bad things, and now, I feel beautiful, I feel like I can radiate, I feel energy, I feel happy, I feel life! I want to give, I want to share, I want to express joy, of all these beautiful things around me. It's amazing to me, because it's so different, it's just so different. I keep thinking, who am I? Who am I?

I was always tired and just not ever with a lot of energy. The big thing for me is, I was depressed a lot. We live at the beach, and I didn't want to go to the beach, because I didn't want to wear a bathing suit, because I was not happy with how I looked; and now, I'm like yeah let's put that bathing suit on!

The day I found Body FX; it was right after the New Year. When John got home from school I said, "Hey, I signed up for something."

I just looked at her and I said, "Alright, let's do it, it's time." We needed to get healthy and Body FX looked like the way to do it. It's just super fun. I don't even think about how awkward I might feel or how I might look, because I'm just doing it for myself, and we're doing it for each other.

I'm lucky because when we work out together, I usually dance behind her, so I get to see Koreen do all the wiggles, which is my favorite part. Using Body FX, I've lost 51 pounds, and I've gone from a size 36 to a size 30. I like the way that Koreen looks at me now. When I get dressed, she just looks at me differently. It's nice.

Since I started Body FX, I've lost 60 pounds, which I equate to carrying around 12 bags of sugar. Every time I would lose five pounds I was like, that's a bag of sugar, that's another bag of sugar. So now, 12 bags of sugar later, shopping is actually great, because now I don't have to just look for something that fits me, I can find things that I like the style.

She looks amazing. Every morning when she gets dressed, it's like I'm meeting her for the first time again. Everything she wears is form-fitting and I get to see her curves. It's just, it's awesome! It took me a long time to find my soulmate, and now I've found her and I wanna live a long time with her. The only way that's gonna happen is by being healthy, and Body FX has got me there.

Body FX has been great for our relationship because we have new bodies, we have a shared interest, we spend time together every day doing something that makes us feel good. It's just changed our whole life.

Those moments made me realize how precious life is and how short life is, and I was too unhealthy. I was tired all the time, I had no energy, and just felt like I couldn't do things. I was out of breath, couldn't walk far distances, I was not gonna live a long life in the condition that I was in, and that was my aha moment. I wanted to be around for my son and my husband because they deserve a mom and a wife in their lives.

Body FX changed my life! Like it's the best thing I've ever joined. I'm healthier, I'm fitter, I have muscles that I never had before. I've been able to stop my cholesterol medication. I went to the doctor and we tested the numbers and they were within the low end of the normal range. So, we are no longer taking cholesterol medication, that's phenomenal!

I found Body FX through Facebook and I saw those beautiful women dancing and having fun and smiling and the energy, and I said, "there's no way." This woman has no grace, like I trip over air. I can't walk down the street without stumbling. For about two weeks I just kept watching and watching, and then I'm like, I'm going for it! Forget grace, I can do this; and I did it!

I can honestly say that I have always been in double digits and plus size clothing for at least 30 of my 44 years, and today I can say I have wiggled, and sweat and danced away 35 pounds and 51.5 inches. That is like a whole 'nother world. People in my life totally have seen a change. When I started Body FX, I was an HR manager at a call center, and the first time I came in with my little pencil skirt that showed my waist, I had so many comments that day. They're like "Oh, you look so amazing!" I have people all the time asking me "What are you doing?" and I can't help but tell them it's all about Body FX. I'm happy, I'm so happy! I am beyond the moon happy!

I gained weight progressively. I was heaviest at 175 and since the last 15 years, I grew to about size 12. Clothes stopped fitting and I was getting depressed. I needed to do something.

With Body FX, I've lost 30 pounds and 7 inches just off my waist. I went down from a size 12 to a size 2. I am absolutely over the moon. I can't stop smiling. I feel more alive, I feel confident in front of people and I also see that in my family life with my husband and with my son. It's just a self-discovery journey and it feels so amazing!

A couple of weeks after starting Body FX, I got brave enough to take a bikini shot of myself at the age of 45. It was not to do anything other than inspire other women that it's possible. You can look fit at the age of 45 and it got a lot of attention. I've never done this before, and nope, there is no Photoshop manipulation. It's just consistency and sweat. The recipe works, and this is what happens.

Body FX is absolutely my lifestyle. My husband, my son and the rest of my family know that dance is a part of who I am right now which is really interesting because I started out not being a dancer, and now all of a sudden, dance is a fabric of my life. I'm having a hard time remembering my old self, which was just 6 months ago, how different it was and it's just unbelievable what Body FX did to my life!

I've gained 55lbs from my average weight. I didn't want to see my pictures, I never wanted to be in the pictures. I don't want to show those pictures to anyone either.

And that's when I found Body FX. I use all of my muscles and makes me sweat. It's so much fun! Jaana says "Tuck, Tuck, Tuck!" then crunches her stomach in the video. You easily do over 100, maybe over 150 crunches. I’ve lost inches in my stomach area and thighs. All my friends asked, "You lost weight! How did you do that?"

In Figure 8, Jaana coaches us from beginning to end while dancing with us and encouraging us!

My 4-year-old daughter loves to dance next to me.

I never thought I could lose weight in such a short period of time. I have more energy now at 47 than I did at 27. I have more muscles now and I'm more confident. I used to only wear yoga pants, now I can choose more tight, form-fitting clothes to show off my curves.

I'm so glad that I started Body FX. My husband tells me that I look like a totally different person. My kids tell me, "Mom, you are so beautiful," and that makes me smile!

Before Body FX, I was 80 pounds heavier. I believe I've been obese for about 50 years, high blood pressure that ran in my family and hardly able to walk up the steps. Not being able to do things with my grandkids, those boys are rambunctious, and I can't because of the weight. One of the biggest aha moments to make a change was one of my trips, I was stuck in the middle isle and 80 pounds heavier. I was noticing I was having a hard time putting a seatbelt on. I'm like, I gotta do something because I know I'm gonna be too embarrassed to ask the flight attendant for that extender.

I found Body FX scrolling on Facebook, and I said, oh, this is dancing. I could do this. They say, you don't have to get on the floor. I didn't wanna get on the floor, because it's just too hard to get up, my knees, I can't kneel on the floor, it's just too hard. So, I said, I'm gonna try this. Made it a New Year's resolution, and I said okay, I'm gonna do me, because I was gonna turn 60 that year and I wanted to prepare myself for my 60th birthday. Three months later, by my birthday, I had lost 50 pounds!

I created a she-cave in my bedroom, and I have my own little party in there. I think I'm at a party with Jaana and the girls, and I feel good when I do it. It gives me a lot of energy. When I come out sweating, my husband looks at me like what are you in there doin'? But, no, it's not hard work, it's actually fun.

With Body FX, I literally lost 80 pounds. I went from basically a 22 dress to a size 10 dress. I see a waist that I never had; I've never seen an indention in the waist. The way I fit in my clothes; it just gives me a really really big smile. I'm amazed at how I fit my clothes. My biggest non-scale victory was when I sat down on the airplane seat again, put the seatbelt on and I pulled it and I was like, wow! And right then and there, I took a picture of how much room I had on the belt and I posted it on social media, and it was amazing. It still amazes me!

Even if you have a knee issue as I did, you still can do the workout some sort of way. I've done this myself, so anybody can do it, you can do it at a slower pace.

I'm 62 years old, women my age, we have to keep moving and this is the easiest way, just Latin dancing, to keep movin'. I'm just amazed at myself and so glad I made the decision to take my life in my own hands and so glad that this program came across my news feed, and that I took a chance on it. I really feel great. I feel lighter, I'm flexible, I'm friendlier, I'm happy, I'm really happy!

I was struggling so much with what I had become, and I went for two weeks to Kauai and not once wore a swimsuit. It isn't always just about the size of your body, yes that influences things, but I've found that I struggled with some depression. I was struggling to find that thing inside you that makes you wanna get up in the morning. That summer, stepping on the scale, and finding out I was 213 pounds, I just wanted to cry. I didn't think there was any choice. I just didn't have hope.

That summer, everything changed. I saw this little ad on Facebook, and it was an ad for Figure 8 fitness, for dancing, and I thought, I used to love dancing. When I was younger, I loved going to nightclubs, I loved dancing, it was so much fun. Maybe if I could just find something that was dancing, that I could love, I could do it the rest of my life.

With Body FX, I lost 16 inches around my waist alone. It wasn't even that hard, like, it was dancing the length of a TV show a day. You can change everything. It gives you the power to do that. It's so exciting, I feel like Cinderella. I feel like Jaana's my magical fairy godmother and her program has just twirled me into Cinderella.