In today's “gotta get it now” world, we've all come to expect success without much time or effort. We want to get rich quick, look younger, feel better and lose weight fast. We've been promised super results, super fast from so many products and programs that most of us have lost touch with reality.

Let's face it, not everyone can lose 10 lbs. in ten days or 2 sizes in four weeks. Many things can alter physiological function and the length of time it takes to achieve results. Medications, inflammation, stress, hormones and health issues are just a few factors to consider.

But, the human body is an amazing machine that can repair, rebuild and rejuvenate—regardless of age or fitness level—if you move it in patterns that stimulate physiological function. I've never been a firm believer in the “K.I.S.S” concept that tells us all we need to do is decrease calories and increase exercise to lose weight. I believe education is the secret to success. That's why the instructional section of T-Tapp Total Workout is so detailed. I believe that once a person understands the “how and why” each exercise works in regards to muscle activation, neuro-kinetic transmission and lymphatic function, not only can they increase their ability to succeed, they can also maintain it for the rest of their life.

Even though it is common for people to lose inches quickly with T-Tapp, I've always been truthful about individuality. Understanding how your body works and what each exercise is designed to do enables better focus to see and feel results that might not be immediately visible by the tape measure or scale.

Here are two success stories from two women who didn’t limit themselves to only 10 days or 4 weeks to achieve success. Instead, both of them continued to exercise and achieve results week after week, month after month and never quit. Seeing their before/after pictures are proof that they finally won their war with weight because they didn't give up!

Jeanne Zimet’s 2-Year Success Story

JEANNE ZIMET - Photos of her progress from (left to right) June 2004, April 2004, Oct 2005, Feb 2006, Sept 2006, and Oct 2006

Hi, my name is Jeanne Zimet and I'm probably the poster child for the Slow Losers Club. I'm what you would call a “curvy girl,” spending most of my life wishing for narrow hips, thin thighs and wide shoulders, not to mention a few extra inches in height! At 5-foot-2 all those curves makes one look a lot rounder than you would think!

No one in my family is thin. I've struggled with my weight most of my life and while it was always easy to gain a few pounds, losing them seemed to take forever. After two pregnancies, including a c-section, it became harder and harder to lose the weight. In my early 30's I got hooked on exercise. I started with aerobics and quickly moved on to step aerobics, never thinking about the abuse my knees were taking. Soon after I discovered free weights and I was sure I found my answer. I knew I would never have skinny legs, but now at least, they would be strong! I spent 45 minutes in the morning doing step aerobics or using a step machine I bought for my home and one and a half hours at the gym in the evening working with weights six days a week.

This worked for a while, I did manage to lose weight and I was happy with how I looked. In time however, I realized I needed to use heavier and heavier weights. Since we were always told that women don't bulk, I wasn't too worried about the heavy weight. I would happily leg press 400 lbs for reps. Unfortunately, I soon realized that some women can and do build larger, bulky muscles and I was one of them! As I approached my 40's I realized I couldn't maintain this rigorous schedule any longer. After chronic knee and lower back problems I wound up with a shoulder injury that severely limited my time at the gym.

Around this time I read an article in Women's Fitness magazine by Teresa Tapp and decided to try the beginner rehab workout. I loved the exercises and I included them in my repertoire of workout videos. I had everything from Kathy Smith, Reebok Step, Tae Bo, Pilates, and Yoga to the Firm and I would T-Tapp along with all of them. After all, if some is good, more was better, or at least that was my way of thinking. And with it all, I was still struggling with my size. How much more time could I spend on exercising?

Over the next few years many of the videos would go by the wayside, but I would always stick with T-Tapp while trying the next workout craze. Fast forward to 2004, my husband and I moved to Tampa Bay, Florida, quite a change for a lifelong New Yorker. Between the stress of moving, leaving my family in NY and starting a new job, I seemed to be getting bigger and bigger. So I joined the local gym and started working out with weights again and using the treadmill.

I stopped into the T-Tapp office to pick up one of Teresa's latest workouts and discovered that Teresa led a morning class at 6 am not far from my home. This was too good to pass up. So here I am working out with the woman who had been in my living room telling me “Yes you can” for the past few years. I was still going to the gym at night, working with weights and the treadmill. More has to be better, I thought, or does it?

In June of 2004 I decided to participate in one of the T-Tapp contests. I knew I had to give up the weight training and concentrate on just T-Tapp for the contest. I was worried that I would lose some muscle density but to my surprise I was able to lose almost 17 inches and still maintain muscle without using weights. I felt better than I had ever felt before, I was gaining flexibility, my knees stopped hurting, my back wasn't constantly sore and I didn't have to spend two hours a day to get in shape! I knew T-Tapp was the answer for me.

There were many times I would read on the T-Tapp forums about women who would lose two dress sizes in a month. While I had lost a substantial amount of inches, it only translated in about one size for me. Since I'm a combo body type, I lose from all over so the size changes are slower to come by. But I was determined.

By October of 2005 I became a certified T-Tapp trainer and continued perfecting my form and bringing my own T-Tapping to the next level. I stayed away from processed foods, and starchy foods and I continued to lose inches. As of October 2006 I have lost a total of 44 inches, 10 inches from each leg! I currently T-Tapp four times a week for 45 minutes to an hour. I've finally realized that “Less is more” with T-Tapp!

At the annual fitness event that Teresa hosted in Tampa this past October, people that I hadn't seen for a year walked right past me and didn't even recognize me. One friend even told herself that I must be “Jeanne's daughter.”

It has been more than two years since I started my T-Tapp journey, and I'm down two sizes, bordering on my goal size, but I know that it will come. I have longer, leaner muscles and I'm seeing definition in my arms that I haven't had in a decade. My skin is clearer; I look and feel younger at age 46 than I did a few years a go. My shoulder is completely rehabbed and I don't suffer from any back or neck pain anymore. My husband tells me my legs are the thinnest they've ever been in the nine years we've been together and I even wore shorts in public for the first time in years!

I know how difficult it is to stay motivated if you're a slow loser, but with perseverance and consistency, you will win if you don't give up! If I did it, so can you!

Rhonda Wilkins 9-Month Success Story

RHONDA WILKINS - Photos of her progress from (left to right) Jan 2005, Oct 2005, Feb 2006, Sept 20, 2006, and Oct 20, 2006.

My name is Rhonda Wilkins and I’m happy to say that I look and feel better now, at age 50 than 10 years ago. As an active mom with a daughter in college and a son in high school, I am constantly on the go and have always exercised to some degree.

I never really had a weight problem until I hit my 40’s. It was a shock to my system when, no matter what I did, I kept gaining weight. At about age 45, I finally went to my doctor to find out where I was in the Peri-menopausal cycle and much to my shock I was told that I was post menopausal! How could that be? I was still having regular cycles!

About the same time I started experiencing problems with sleep, night sweats, and I developed Restless Leg Syndrome. I went to my Ob/Gyn and he decided to put me on “The Patch” and gave me medication for the RLS. Within six weeks, I gained 20 lbs! At this point I was feeling like I had no control over my body at all. I went off the patch, tried the ring, and tried the pill but, the more I tried to control the menopausal symptoms, the worse I felt. The final straw came when I decided to try Bio-identicals and ended up in the hospital with chest pains, numbness in my extremities and blurred vision.

My doctors advised me to stop all HRT’s at that time, and eventually added a different one back until I was finished with all the testing that was necessary to determine why I had this “cardiac episode.” I decided right then that enough was enough. I decided to try to get through menopause naturally, as it was evident to me that I was very sensitive to most medications and I certainly was not happy with the weight gain.

It was about this same time that I discovered T-Tapp and started working out with it in January, 2004. Within the very first week my RLS symptoms virtually disappeared. I was ecstatic! I also started taking the Premium Blend Alfalfa from the CRT Skin Tightening–Body Brushing Program to naturally help my body balance my estrogen. I also reduced the amount of processed, refined foods I ate and tried to eliminate eating anything with sugar before bedtime. Within weeks, those annoying symptoms of the Big M started to disappear.

I learned from T-Tapp that I have a combo/borderline short torso body type that also happens to be a slow loser. While I felt so much better being off all meds, I still had weight issues to deal with. Never having a weight problem prior to this, I wanted to drop two sizes and needed to lose about 20 lbs. Because I was dealing with hormone issues, I certainly wasn’t expecting to get two sizes off in a month. I kept T-Tapping as much as I could (usually three times a week) and I honestly think my body finally “gave-up” and said “you win.” It took me about nine months and I broke through three plateaus, but I finally went from a size 10 to a 6!

I feel and look better now than I have in years. I truly believe that T-Tapp is what enabled me to rebuild my body during menopause. I am a walking testimony that you can manage menopause with movement and without medication. Through T-Tapp I have been able to turn back time, regain control of my body, and am a much happier and healthy wife and mother. T-Tapp truly is the anti-aging workout that works!