Feevha

I've come a long way. I was once 330 pounds. Today I am 190 pounds, 30 pounds away from my goal! I have been doing Juan’s classes since he started teaching Zumba. I started this trainer (Hardik Soni, he deserves to be named here lol) shortly after. I have been overweight since very young (7 years old).

Even though I had a happy life growing up, I still have suffered the consequences of being obese. You know, I wanted to fit in, part of society discriminated me, I wanted to wear certain clothes and I couldn’t, I felt embarrassed to show my body in a swimsuit, my self esteem was in the ground level, and of course I suffered from a severe depression.

My parents gave me everything they could possible give and provided me with treatments in and outside the country for my obesity. Nothing worked. I had a surgery to lose weight, didn’t worked. After the surgery, I realized there was no miracle. I think because I had so much pressure from society and family to lose the weight I could just not do it. I needed to want it for the right reasons; I needed to ask for help, I was the one who needed to start the process to become healthier. And that is what I did. I have my struggles, but with a good a balance in your life such as exercise and eating healthy, those struggles are easy to recover from.

On my process of losing weight, when I started to see results, I felt so good, and I liked the way I was getting in shape and the energy level I had. And what keeps me going is all these in addition of the great support I found. Without support it is very difficult. Juan’s classes brings me happiness, fills my time with fun, energy, and takes all my worries away for an hour. Juan’s class helps shape difficult parts of our body that are really hard to shape with weights. Feevha family definitely is great inspiration and motivates me to keep coming to the classes.

And I have to mention, my trainer changed me not just physically but mentally as well. I look at exercise differently and the eating as well. He pushed me to limits where I thought I could never go, and most importantly, he never gave up on me.

Fixing my weight is a dream I have had since I was very very young. I have lost so far 140 pounds, and I just need to lose 30 more. That is what keeps me going!

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Thank you for sharing Claudia!!! You are truly an inspiration to the Feevha family and all your fellow freaks!!

Kathy