Vicki Mangum of Missouri —  “For the last eight years I had been fighting cancer,” Vicki says. “In 1990 the doctor told me I had three to six months to live. Right when I thought my life couldn’t get any lower, it did. Last year I lost my 20-year-old son in a boating accident. This was the second son I had lost. My first on was hit by a car and killed in 1970.” Then one night Vicki looked through a copy of Muscle Media magazine that a customer had left at the bar. She then began the Challenge. “I decided to look to the future and make this best of what I had. I thought, ‘I can do this!’” Vicki had to drive 59 miles to a gym, but every time she worked out Vicki was rebuilding her confidence. “It’s only been three months since I started the Challenge, and I can’t believe the change in my body and my outlook on life. I was so excited when I had my body fat measured. My body fat dropped from 34 percent to 19 percent! I gained muscle and energy too!”

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