I was overweight by the time I was 8, despite playing outside all day and playing soccer several times a week. I steadily gained weight throughout my teens and when I got to freshman year I was 50 lbs overweight. I was so active, it just didn't make any sense to me why I was overweight.

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What was really going on? How could I be overweight and so active?? Well, half the time I ate great-lots of veggies and homemade food when I was at home with my mom.  But the other half of the time when I was with my dad it was highly processed or fast food at all meals. See, half of my family was morbidly obese and the other half was not. I was living in 2 different worlds, with different sets of rules. 

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My love of exercise and sports began here in this place of trying to control my body, and with it my disordered eating and frustration at what I saw as my body betraying me.  Why didn't it look and work the way I thought it should??!!?  I worked so hard! 

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Once I had my daughter I developed chronic hip pain and thought my fitness journey was over. Having finally achieved stability in my weight, eating habits and exercise routine, only to be faced with something else I felt I couldn't control, all while trying to learn to be a mom, felt like a tremendous set back.

 I tried many physical therapists and specialists and they had nothing to offer but drugs. I was unwilling to accept that at 30 I was never going to run again or play with my daughter. So I sought out as much education as I could find on chronic pain, Self-Myofascial Release and healthy movement and worked myself back to health.

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I gained and lost that 50 lbs 2 times, not including pregnancy. I broke multiple bones (including my back) trying to outrun and outperform what I was eating. I tried every diet in the book, every sport and activity, desperately hoping that one of them would be the magic secret to achieving the body I had always wanted. I got close a couple of times, real close.....but it never worked for long. I broke myself over and over. All in the effort to be healthy and fit.

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But this amazing thing happened on this journey - I learned all about what doesn't work. When I finally started to fix my relationship with food, my weight stabilized and stayed put for 10 years. I learned how to lift weights 100 different ways from bodybuilding, group exercise classes, Martial Arts, Olympic lifting and functional fitness and tried every type of cardio I could find. I trained for triathlons, long distance hikes, mountain bike races, TKD demonstrations and tournaments, Crossfit competitions, Spartan races as my body started to reflect the work I was putting in.

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I learned everything I could about anatomy and physiology because with all this hard work my body was letting me know when I was pushing too hard, so I learned how to fix myself and then how to keep from injuring myself again.  I also learned how to slow down and recover when my body said it needed it.

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Overcoming my own struggles has developed into a full time passion for helping people unravel the complex, unique puzzle that we all are. The 5 Components of fitness are a methodology for applying all that I have learned to get to where I am today, that will help you take a shortcut to results.

 

We all want to change something, but how do you start?

With a proven system and a coach! 

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