ASKING FOR HELP

I hired a personal trainer, a nutritionist and a therapist.  Yep, all three. I was sick and tired of feeling sick and tired. I was out of ideas and thought, this can’t be it. This can’t be the body and struggles I’m stuck with. There has to be something that works. I began working with each of them to tackle my nutrition, my fitness and my mindset.   My nutritionist helped me to embrace a plant based lifestyle and I slowly began adjusting my meals and habits, increasing more fruits and veggies and decreasing the processed stuff.

My trainer showed me warmth and kindness (Hi, Eric!👋) and made it a lot less intimidating. I was super scared to work with a trainer and he showed me that I was stronger than I realized. He helped me to believe in myself again. His unwavering encouragement when I had moments of doubt helped me find my confidence again. His passion for fitness was contagious and I too caught the bug - I loved how I felt in my body when I was lifting weights and moving in ways I had never tried before.

My therapist helped me work through a lot of food triggers, limiting beliefs and the weight of other peoples thoughts, negative comments and opinions that I had carried around for a long time. I did the work to break free from my disordered eating and discovered a mental freedom that I had never experienced before.

With time and consistency with my new habits, my energy levels soared and my health improved significantly. Feeling stressed around food lessened and eventually became a thing of the past.  Bonus, I lost the weight I wanted to lose! I was piling veggies onto my meals and feeling super satisfied. Plant based is something that worked well for me - I’ve always loved veggies and I never really enjoyed meat, even as a kid (I have vivid memories of avoiding the ham on Easter Sunday because all I could picture was a pig on the table in my mind), so it was an easy yes for me.

I lost 30 pounds and have maintained it for over a decade! Feeling like completely new human ignited my passion for helping others achieve their own transformations. If my life could change and expand so much just by working on these things, surely I could help others experience this too! People needed to know this information and know how to apply it to their own lives!