reporter: and that s when she found a special group of new friends. women like her who joined this high-powered dance exercise class each week to improve their physiques and their lives. cari cooper was heather s dance instructor. when you leave your job, you leave that stress behind, you come here and it s like the happy hour. reporter: everyone in heather s life noticed that happy hour was doing wonders for her. i d say, heather, turn around. i said, you ve gotten smaller. and she s like, yeah! were the pounds just melting off of her in front of your very eyes? melting off. melting off. reporter: it was nothing short of a total transformation. in 18 short months, she went from this to this. i remember that she brought a picture of a before and then where she was now and was so proud. and she was like, look what i ve done. she was so proud of herself. reporter: no one was surprised when heather soon landed her dream job, teaching at an elementary school in
Confidence. she saw a different life for herself. she immediately started working on her weight. reporter: and that s when she found a special group of new friends. women like her who joined this high-powered dance exercise class each week to improve their physiques and their lives. cari cooper was heather s dance instructor. when you leave your job, you leave that stress behind, you come here and it s like the happy hour. reporter: everyone in heather s life noticed that happy hour was doing wonders for her. i d say, heather, turn around. i said, you ve gotten smaller. and she s like, yeah! were the pounds just melting off of her in front of your very eyes? melting off. melting off. reporter: it was nothing short of a total transformation. in 18 short months, she went from this to this. i remember that she brought a picture of a before and then where she was now and was so proud. and she was like, look what i ve done. she was so proud of herself. reporter:
Brighter and lighter future. she had so much more confidence. she saw a different life for herself. she immediately started working on her weight. reporter: and that s when she found a special group of new friends. women like her who joined this high-powered dance exercise class each week to improve their physiques and their lives. cari cooper was heather s dance instructor. when you leave your job, you leave that stress behind, you come here and it s like the happy hour. reporter: everyone in heather s life noticed that happy hour was doing wonders for her. i d say, heather, turn around. i said, you ve gotten smaller. and she s like, yeah! were the pounds just melting off of her in front of your very eyes? melting off. melting off. reporter: it was nothing short of a total transformation. in 18 short months, she went from this to this. i remember that she brought a picture of a before and then where she was now and was so proud. and she was like, look what i
reporter: at one point before graduation, heather topphe scales at 400 pounds. but diane says that hard-won diploma now became a roadmap for heather, pointing her to a brighter and lighter future. she had so much more confidence. she saw a different life for herself. she immediately started working on her weight. step up, here we go! reporter: and that s when she found a special group of new friends. women like her who joined this high-powered dance exercise class each week to improve their physiques and their lives. cari cooper was heather s dance instructor. when you leave your job, you leave that stress behind, you come here and it s like the happy hour, you know. reporter: everyone in heather s life noticed that happy hour was doing wonders for her. i d say, heather, turn around. i said, you ve gotten smaller. and she s like, yeah! were the pounds just melting off of her in front of your very eyes? melting off melting off. reporter: it was nothing shor
She immediately started working on her weight. reporter: and that s when she found a special group of new friends. women like her who joined this high-powered dance exercise class each week to improve their physiques and their lives. cari cooper was heather s dance instructor. when you leave your job, you leave that stress behind, you come here and it s like the happy hour. reporter: everyone in heather s life noticed that happy hour was doing wonders for her. i d say, heather, turn around. i said, you ve gotten smaller. and she s like, yeah! were the pounds just melting off of her in front of your very eyes? melting off. melting off. reporter: it was nothing short of a total transformation. in 18 short months, she went from this to this. i remember that she brought a picture of a before and then where she was now and was so proud. and she was like, look what i ve done. she was so proud of herself. reporter: no one was surprised when heather soon landed her