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The series is from Beach Body they have a bunch of great workout programs. I actually am a NASM personal Trainer and I work for Beach Body as a million dollar

body coach. This blurb is the description: 

Slim Series® ExpressYou can achieve the same great body-slimming results you got with Slim in 6® and Slim Series® in half the time... Thirty minutes a day is all it takes to jump-start your metabolism, shed fat, and reveal a lean, sculpted body. These workouts feature real Slim in 6 success stories to keep you motivated to succeed. With trainer Debbie Siebers.

Good Luck!!

My name is Tiffany Hillman I am a Personal Trainer and I am 39, I live in Phoenix AZ, with my husband George.  I am a 90% Raw Vegan. I would like to share my story with you. I hope you don’t mind, it is a little long, it has been a bit of a journey for me.

Prior to becoming established as a Personal Trainer and Raw Food educator, I worked as Executive Assistant.  I was extremely stressed, overweight, and living on a slightly healthier vision of the Standard American Diet.  I was sick all the time and suffering from adult acne and acid reflex, in addition to depression, anxiety and constant worrying.  Like most people working in that type of environment, I was subject to emotional eating and constantly riding the sugar rollercoaster - peaking and then crashing.  Additionally, because of the long hours that I worked,  most evenings, George and I would go out to dinner. 

After eating out, my body would shut down like clockwork.  As soon as I got in the car after eating a meal, I would fall right to sleep - even a vegan meal(cooked of course).  My body needed to shut down so I could digest the meal.  My personal favorite foods didn’t support my health and took a great deal of effort for my body to digest.  Pizza was a big problem for me.  Pizza from a very young age is connected to fun and parties.  I would continuously eat pizza on Friday evenings as a reward for getting though another difficult work week.  However, I would pay the price for many days following that meal, in the for form of digestion problems due to lactose intolerance.

Over five years ago I got sick in tired of being sick and tired and left corporate America to return to school.  I decided to study Exercise Science and pursue my dream of being a Personal Trainer.  

George and I had both experimented with vegetarianism years before we met, so the decision to give up meat for a month wasn’t much of a stretch. That month rather quickly turned into a year.  We both loved to cook, so we’d take turns making delicious vegetarian meals for each other and wowing friends at dinner parties.  At that time we were still eating a significant amount of processed foods.  This includes the soy products that I now think of as transition foods, such as fake meats and also frozen vegetarian meals.  Unfortunately, switching to these products didn’t produce any improvement in my health.  As a matter of fact, the tendency to be lactose intolerant seemed to become worse.  So dairy fell by the wayside and we adopted a vegan lifestyle.  Giving up all thing dairy was extremely hard for me.  I loved cheese, ice cream, yogurt and butter.  However, when I eliminated dairy from my life, I really started to see improvements in my health.  My adult acne and eczema started to clear up. 

 We rose to the challenge of creating tasty vegan dishes and we wanted to make the changes we were making a permanent part of our lives.  Therefore, to support our sacrifice of dairy (or more specifically, ice cream), we purchased an ice cream maker to create our own using nut milks.  We invested in the best ice cream maker on the market and found a book on line called Vice Cream by Jeff Rogers this book has over 70 dairy free ice cream recipes.  After about six months of being vegan, I realized that I was addicted to sugar. It was a sad day for when I realized what that actually meant. It meant no more making homemade sour dough bread and no processed sugar of any kind. It also meant no starches, so no more rice or potatoes.  After all, starches degrade to sugars, and then to fat which deposits in our bodies.  If I didn’t process the food myself, I didn’t eat it. This part of the journey was a lot like coming off of an addictive drug.  Luckily, it didn’t take very long for the desire to go away. After a few months, I discovered stevia, agave nectar, and grade B maple syrup.  After introducing these sweeteners to my diet, I no longer needed sugar.  

The first vegan year was coming to a close and we both felt great.  A friend of ours had just completed the Master Cleanse and spoke of  how amazing they felt being able to shut down the bodies digestive system and allow  the body to detoxify and heal itself.  George and I decided to give the cleanse a try, and begin with a 30 day fast.  The fist four days were the hardest.  We started on a Friday evening so we had the rest of the weekend to adjust to fasting.  We both worked right through the rest of the fast.  Half way though our fast we decided that we were going to go raw. All of the free time that we created by not preparing or eating food,  we spent online searching everything they could find on the Raw Vegan Life Style. We also bought countless books on the subject. 

We bought a Vita-Mix high speed blender, an Excalibur Dehydrator , an Omega Juicer and a huge cutting board to put on top of the stove we’d no longer be using.  During the fast George lost more than 60 lbs and  I lost 20 lbs.  Although some of that weight returned once normal eating habits resumed,  the bulk of that weight never returned.  We became much healthier by loosing all of the fat and toxins released during the fast.  In fact, we are constantly told that we look younger then we really are. We have more energy and we don’t need to drink coffee.  I don’t suffer from any of the ailments that I did when I was on the Standard American Diet.