Like everyone in her family, paralegal Andrea Evans has long battled weight. But as an avid soccer player and skier, she fought back gamely until recently, when sports injuries took a devastating toll on her knees, leading to severe arthritis. Sidelined, Andrea became increasingly overweight and depressed. Her boss kindly insisted that Andrea check out Curves, where she was a member. How do you say no to your boss? Apparently, you don’t, if you know what’s good for you. For Andrea, it doesn’t get much better than Curves.

Jasmine Confer joined Curves in January 2005, right after her husband of 10 years left for Iraq. At first she was a bit skeptical. "I was afraid to join another workout facility and never attend. I could not handle being a failure again." Fortunately she was greatly surprised with her commitment to Curves and with her weight loss results!
While Jasmine's husband was aware that she had joined Curves, during his time in Iraq she never sent him pictures of herself or spoke to him on the webcams that they had available through some of the computer labs. She also asked her friends not to talk about her weight loss or send him pictures of her.
"He would beg me to send him a picture of me and I would apologize and tell him I am sorry, he would have to make it out of Iraq alive and back home to me to see me again. I wanted him to have an extra incentive to come home, and extra initiative from me to keep working out."
In January 2006, Jasmine's husband called her to tell her he was coming home. On the day Jasmine picked him up from the airport, she says her heart was racing.
"After what seemed like forever, he came walking around the corner in his Marine Corp uniform and his eyes were the size of golf balls...he was so stunned and shocked it was me."
Then he hugged her and whispered in my ear, “I cannot believe that I finally get to hold you after all of this time. I cannot believe this is you and you are smiling back at me.” In this moment, Jasmine finally felt good about herself, which she says was a life altering moment.
"All that I had worked for at Curves had changed every aspect of my life and all made perfect sense right at the moment. He told everyone at the airport luggage rack that he barely recognized me and he could not stop putting his hands around my waist and hugging me. A year later (2007) this is still the case!"

As a wife and mother of six, Betty Radde struggled with her weight. Then in 1997 she tragically lost her husband of forty one years in a car accident. She turned to alcohol and food to cope with her depression and before she knew it her weight had skyrocketed to three hundred and eight pounds and she had developed high blood pressure. Finally in 2004 Betty decided that she needed to lose the weight and get healthy. She saw an advertisement for Curves one day and wondered if our program would work for her? At the age of sixty-seven, she decided to give it a try. "There was so much encouragement from so many people at Curves. I became less depressed, and had so much more energy." Since she joined Curves, Betty has lost one hundred and fifty four pounds.