Deidre Robinson never liked to have her picture taken because she was self-conscious about her weight. She has lost more than half her body weight -- 170 pounds -- since this photo was taken in 2008.
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Deidre Robinson never liked to have her picture taken because she was self-conscious about her weight. She has lost more than half her body weight -- 170 pounds -- since this photo was taken in 2008.
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Robinson said she was the only person in her family with a weight problem, calling her sister, Danielle Banegas, "genetically thin." "She ate everything I ate, but didn't gain weight like I did," she said. Banegas and Robinson are pictured here in 2007.
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Robinson said she was the only person in her family with a weight problem, calling her sister, Danielle Banegas, "genetically thin." "She ate everything I ate, but didn't gain weight like I did," she said. Banegas and Robinson are pictured here in 2007.
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This photo from 2008 is one of the few pictures that Robinson has of her and her family from before she started losing weight in 2009. "I hated the way I looked in a picture," she said. "When you look at yourself in the mirror when you're getting dressed, you see yourself differently. When you see yourself in a picture, that to me is when you see what you really look like."
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This photo from 2008 is one of the few pictures that Robinson has of her and her family from before she started losing weight in 2009. "I hated the way I looked in a picture," she said. "When you look at yourself in the mirror when you're getting dressed, you see yourself differently. When you see yourself in a picture, that to me is when you see what you really look like."
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This image from 2008 is one of many turning points that Robinson said caused her to change her lifestyle.
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This image from 2008 is one of many turning points that Robinson said caused her to change her lifestyle.
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This photo from January 2009 is one of the last pictures that Robinson posed for before starting Weight Watchers and Zumba classes the following month.
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This photo from January 2009 is one of the last pictures that Robinson posed for before starting Weight Watchers and Zumba classes the following month.
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Robinson posed in a bikini in summer 2011, around the same time she opened her first Zumba studio, Fitness Shakers. She went from a size 24 to a 2.
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Robinson posed in a bikini in summer 2011, around the same time she opened her first Zumba studio, Fitness Shakers. She went from a size 24 to a 2.
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This promo shot for Fitness Shakers was taken earlier this year. "It's amazing to think I used to have these huge round chubby thick arms and now I've got this muscle definition," she said. "Pounds don't even bother me anymore. Now it's body fat percentage."
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This promo shot for Fitness Shakers was taken earlier this year. "It's amazing to think I used to have these huge round chubby thick arms and now I've got this muscle definition," she said. "Pounds don't even bother me anymore. Now it's body fat percentage."
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Robinson shows off her 170-pound weight loss in this photo from earlier this year.
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Robinson shows off her 170-pound weight loss in this photo from earlier this year.
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Now Robinson teaches about 10 classes at Fitness Shakers each week. She also has 10 instructors teaching additional classes at her two South Carolina locations.
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Now Robinson teaches about 10 classes at Fitness Shakers each week. She also has 10 instructors teaching additional classes at her two South Carolina locations.
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