My Story

Hi, my name is Suzanne and I'm an emergency medicine physician...a high stress job with unusual work hours. During the last year of medical school, I was 33 years old and weighed 133 pounds.  Over the next 2 years during my residency training, time was scarce, food from the cafeteria was the norm and finding time to exercise was tough.  My intern year I managed to complete a sprint distance triathlon on minimal training relying on the fitness I'd carried over from being active in medical school.  But a few months later I suffered a herniated L5/S1 disc that caused the nerve in my right hamstring to get weak.  Over the span of 48 hours I was unable to use many of hte muscles in my right leg.

I had urgent surgery and slowly recovered my strength over the next year. The first 4 weeks was all about walking and getting confidence back.  The next four weeks I was able to walk without  a limp and was cleared to do any exercise activity I wanted.  The problem was, by that time I'd gained over 20 lbs.

The last straw was when one of my patients asked me when I was due.  I'd been an athlete my entire life but medical school and residency was killing me!

Fast forward to the end of residency and my first few years working as an ER physician, and I was ready for some kind of a change. I was tired of being overweight and feeling less active than I'd been my entire life. .   After searching youtube videos I contacted a beachbody coach and asked him about the p90x program.   That was back in 2008 when I began my first journey with Beachbody's and dreamy Tony Horton!  

In just 21 days I achieved inc redble results...so much so that many unscrupulous people have 'borrowed' my weight loss photos to use on their own website promoting p90x.  If you do an image search for p90x, p90x lean, p90x weight loss and many other words you'll find my photos near the top!

In January of 2013 I started running beachbody challenge groups after seeing my friend and fellow swim coach Ryan Chapman motivating and helping other people lose weight and eat healthier.