Columbia, MO Curves owner Dotty Hammond has lost 25 pounds and wants to help other women reach their fitness and weight loss goals. Her members are joining in the movement to make one million women stronger in 2010. You can too, at www.curves.com/strongertogether.
Pamela Massey wasn't always one of those “workout women,” although she knew deep down she should be.
"You know, eat well, eat healthy, exercise, and do all those kind of healthy things."
But she threw herself into the Curves workout after life threw her a curve ball. She was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, which has a very low survival rate.
"I started exercising as I started my first round of chemo." And eventually her doctors noticed something.
A Denver woman who had a massive tumor removed from her body is vowing to work at staying healthy after living through years of embarrassment.
Carolina Sifuentes, 19, weighed more than 550 pounds and her stomach was enormous when she first went to a gym to try to do something about her body.
Sifuentes decided to join Curves, a gym that's exclusively for women, because she says she'd had enough with being vastly overweight. As a student at Metropolitan State College of Denver, some people thought she was pregnant.
Seventeen-year-old Curves member Berenice Salceda realized her weight was causing her to miss out on too much in her young life.
At 5' 2" and 280 pounds, she decided to take her life and her health into her own hands. The results? She joined Curves and lost an amazing 132 pounds!