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80 Pounds Down: Hackensack Mom Turned Trainer Motivates Fellow Gym Members 80 Pounds Down: Hackensack Mom Turned Trainer Motivates Fellow Gym Members
80 Pounds Down: Hackensack Mom Turned Trainer Motivates Fellow Gym Members HACKENSACK, N.J. — It takes a special someone to pack a group fitness room to maximum capacity before sunrise.  At Retro Fitness of Hackensack, that someone is Lauren Belton. When she joined them gym in 2012, she weighed 238 pounds. Her workouts were limited to walking in isolation on a treadmill in the gym's dark movie room.  She was too self-conscious to wander into other areas of the gym -- namely the weight floor. Once she did, though, Belton shed the weight faster with the support of friends she made on the floor, and began seeing glimpses of her passion: group training. Every Tuesd…

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by Cecilia Levine