Kareem,
While searching for a way to lose weight and body fat quickly, I stumbled onto one of your videos.
I am a 26 year old female. I am 5′9″ and weigh around 220+ pounds. I have struggled with that weight for several years. No matter how hard I worked out, no matter how little or how much I ate, no matter what it was I ate, or how often I changed up my routine, my body weight has remained at 220.
My weight bothers me on a number of levels. Socially, romantically, physically, health, job opportunities, activities/adventures, and so much more. All of these have suffered my entire life from the fact that I am either too big, too heavy, or just too out of shape. Because I never seemed to see my weight changed, it has been very difficult to maintain a routine to reach my goals.
You see, I want to join the Coast Guard as a Marine Science Technician. In order to do that, I have to get both my body fat and my weight down. I have to lose at least 40 pounds. Seems a small number to most people, but if you remember, my weight has not budged in several years. I desperately want to join the CG and want to be able to get in and leave for boot camp by September 2010. If I don’t make it by then, I run the risk of not being able to get in at all because I will be too old.
As the first person in my family to graduate High School, which I did with honors, and then also be the first person in my family to go to college, which I did and graduated with my B.A., I know something about reaching difficult goals. My mother was just diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a life threatening disease without cure, so I want to make my parents proud and show my mother my accomplishments (both in health and in joining the CG) before it is too late.
My other hope is that I can share what I learn with those closest to me, including my mother and father and my sister who is a single mom. If there is any way that I can lengthen, strengthen, and enrich their lives through this program, it will mean the world to me.
I don’t want to be left behind anymore. I don’t want to have to decline to go on adventures/trips where the physical requirements are beyond my ability. I want to be able to go rock climbing, scuba diving, hiking, or whatever else someone might invite me to join them for.
I don’t want to get turned down by the Coast Guard because I couldn’t get my weight down.
I desperately am hoping that your program will work for me while all others have failed.
I need to be able to pass the following requirements:
Push ups (60 sec) – 23
Sit ups (60 sec) – 32
Run 1.5 miles – 15.26
I can’t currently do a single push up off of my knees. They don’t allow any of them to be done on your knees. I can do a few sit ups, but not nearly enough. And the run, well I can’t go more than a 1/4 – 1/2 mile without getting completely winded.
I need some serious help. I hope you can be that help I need. The only fear I have is that when you do finally release the full program, it will cost too much. Which is why the opportunity to win the Ipod Touch with your complete program would be such an amazing blessing. As a recent college graduate and being currently unemployed, I don’t have any extra money, rather barely enough to cover expenses.
Thank you, for your help and your inspirational videos you have so far put up. Good luck with your launch!
- CC Goff
) – why not to get it a go.
I have learned a lot about nutrition, and am eating healthy and sensibly. I also have been doing some weight training, and have built up more strength, but I need guidance, a set plan, for overall toning, weight loss, and in particular, I want to see my abs!! I am visually oriented (my degree is in Visual Communications 
) so video guidance would really be my cup of tea. I want to learn the proper techniques to achieve my fitness goals. I have always been highly motivated, and have a positive attitude, so I promise I would be a good student!
