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Perseverance Keeps Claudia Tamayo on the Path of Good Health

On January 6, 2013, exactly six months after having given “I find it very rewarding,” said Tamayo, who earned Platinum
birth to her first child, Claudia Tamayo, Patient Liaison, HCP status in Vitality last year, and is already at Platinum again
Glendale, participated in the New Year’s Eve Run in Down- this year. “I’m already working out. The program pays you.”
town Los Angeles. She and her husband, both
runners in the past, completed the event, Having fun with working out is what she likes
which was a challenge considering it started best. On March 22, she took part in an all-girl
at 9 p.m. They power walked at the end and mud run at the Rose Bowl, despite the fact that
finished the half marathon in two and a half she does not like feeling dirty. Her goal, some-
hours. day, is to complete a triathlon, despite the fact
that she is “kind of scared of the ocean.”
But perseverance comes naturally to Tamayo.
She used the elliptical at the gym until the She also does not let obstacles stop her from
day before having her baby. And because she achieving her exercise goals. Although she
was eager to start earning her Vitality points has always had lower back pain, and having a
again, she started walking seven weeks post- baby did not help matters, she continues to
delivery. “I didn’t want to lose the flow,” said get her workouts in. And she encourages oth-
Tamayo, who joined the Vitality program ers to do the same. Tamayo, who has been
when it was first offered and has become with HCP for almost six years, previously
progressively more active with it. worked at the HCP El Monte site,
where she served as a Vitality
Although having an almost two- champ. She still tries to encourage
year-old can make working out fellow teammates to sign up with
more difficult, Tamayo, who ran the program. And with her husband
throughout her pregnancy, finds a recently joining, and submitting
way. She goes at least four times a proof of her daughter’s vaccinations,
week to 24 Hour Fitness, through her Vitality points keep adding up.
which she earns Vitality points, and
she has a treadmill at home. She Despite all of the exercise during her
has used some of her Vitality points Claudia Tamayo and her husband at the New Year’s pregnancy, she gained 65 pounds,
Eve 5K, 2013.
to purchase a Polar Heart Rate Claudia Tamayo and her husband with their daugh- all of which and more she has lost
Monitor, as well as fun items such ter, who will be two in July. to date. It has to start somewhere,
as a D&B purse worth $400 and a D&B satchel. she tells others. “Even if it’s just 30 minutes a day that you
walk—take baby steps,” Tamayo said.

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