So my name is Paula Ward and I live in Bolton Ma with my husband Jim and our 2 kids Peter 10 and Moira 9.  I spent over 20 years as a nurse in the hospital setting taking care of critically ill patients. Over the years I had let the stress of being a mom, nurse, caregiver and many other things take over my life. I never made anything in my life a priority, my health, my fitness and the diseases that creep up when you don’t take care of yourself were starting to destroy my body.  I was starting to not be able to take care of the people in my life that mattered most, my family, my ailing parents and most of all me.  After a major knee injury, a major car accident and watching a family member fade away due to depression and drug addiction, I decided to take control of my life, I did not want to watch life from my couch or better yet possibly not be here at all. I took control of my diabetes and my psoriatic arthritis by choosing a daily exercise program, clean eating and living a positive lifestyle. I have remained free of diabetes and put my arthritis in remission and I  had been on medications for these diseases since 2000.  I gained confidence and knowledge by completing over 18 different programs from Beachbody from start to finish some of them being 90-120 days.  This  helped me know that no matter how hard or ridiculous a program may be I can complete it start to finish.  It may not have been pretty or exactly like the trainers in the videos, but I did it my way . This has led me to lose 50 lbs and now my pre-diabetes, arthritis, high blood pressure, cholesterol and fatty liver have been controlled my my choices not by medications.