I AM BACK AND AMPED FOR LIFE
So I am so extremely excited to give my update of my life the last couple of months. The end of last year 2011 I decided to take my health back into my own hands and use healthy foods to heal my body from the years of unhealthy food abuse. I was so sick of feeling sluggish, tired and angry. A little bit about why I was so amped to get my health back.....
Years of eating White Castle, Burger King, Mcdonalds, Pizza hut finally caught up with me. I tipped the scale at 202lbs!!! YIKES! In 2007 my senior year of college while in Canada for a student exchange program, I started my journey to lose weight. Every day I worked out twice a day, got plenty of rest and ate healthy. I lost 22lbs in 5 months which put me at 180. I was stuck at 180 for 4 years. I got down to 160 by becoming a raw vegan but gained all the weight back and then some. I was so tired of yo-yo dieting, binge eating and being strict with my diet. So at the end of 2011 I started on another journey of being healthy. I used the master cleanse to help cleanse my toxins out and then started eating tons of fruits and veggies. But I fell back into the cycle of binge eating, and then being strict with my diet. I realized that if I continued down this road I could really harm my body. But flashing back a bit at the age of 26 I was diagnosed with high blood pressure. I was put on medication and everytime I would go back to the doctor, he would up my dosage or add another blood pressure pill. He made a statement that would change my life forever. He saide " YOU WILL ALWAYS BE ON MEDICATION, THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO, ITS ESSENTIAL HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, ITS YOUR HEREDITY". He did not want to work with my diet to help get my blood pressure down, he just threw medication at the symptoms. Flashback to 2011, I stopped taking my medication, though I do not recommend doing this. But I told myself I would not be on medication to help with something that could be changed with diet.
My journey was not only to get my vibrant health back but to prove to all the doctors in the world, that it is not ok to give up on a patient and push pills!!! Nature should be the go to for healing a person’s body not synthetic medication. Now today, I have never felt better. I eat about 80% raw fruits and veggies and eat some cooked greens or black bean burgers. My body has never felt or looked this AWESOME!!!
SAVE THE DATE OCTOBER 27, 2012
This will be my first figure competition!!! I see a figure competition as the icing on my weightloss cake! Regardless of what place I come in, walking out on the state in a barely there bikini will be so worth it. It take a mentally strong person to compete, and I have never been stronger!!! I am currently 158 with about 28lbs to go which will put me at 130lbs for competition.
Have A Great Day!
