My Story

Who am I and Why do you care?
Well maybe you don't care. If not, see ya!
Are you still here? Awesome...here's some more.
I am married, 3 step children and 1 fur baby. I am from Pittsburgh PA but have lived several other places as an Army wife. On top of blood family I am some what of a biker bitch (back seat only) and whenever possible hang out with dirty old veteran biker trash and wouldn't have it any other way.This second I'm in Missouri but we are headed back to the 'burgh for a bit very soon.

I could go on forever.... I was an only child, grew up in two different homes since mommy and daddy were divorced blah blah but that's boring.
You really came here to try my recipes and get healthy right?

SKINNY BITCH
Yep, as my loving best friend would call me. 5'2" 100 lbs. So I get a lot of people not relating to me because I can't see their struggles. Well let me tell you what! The number on the scale isn't the only factor of health. I ate like shit. Fast food a lot, a vegetable was hardly in sight, and if I had salad it was covered in ranch dressing and French fries. AND I smoked probably 1/2 pack a day or more. I was a partier as a teen and early 20's. I smoked a lot of weed, drank (not much past 14-15) and other experimental drugs. I was a "hippie chick" <---- total poser phase
Can you relate now? I usually ate once or twice a day and ate processed garbage, lots of coffee, and sweet tea, and barely drank water.
ENTER the late 20's. I moved away from my job where I was a CNA walking probably 10 miles a day and lifting patients to a basically sedentary life style as a stay at home Army wife in the hell hole of Fayetteville, NC.
I did go back to work while my husband was deployed and also back to my bad habits.
Now he comes home and we both packed on the weight. Enjoyed life, enjoyed food, enjoyed being lazy!
Suddenly, I'm up to 130. 30 lbs heavier that I was ever used to. I don't care what the number on the scale is, 30 lbs is noticeable. Not to mention HORRIBLE heartburn that would usually keep me up at night having to be propped up to even fall asleep. "Take this pill," they said. I said NO. Never a mention of what could be causing it with my diet or how to FIX the problem.
I tried the gym, 2 personal trainers, doing it on my own with slim fast, and thermogenics (can you say speed and constipation city!) FOR A FULL YEAR and the only results I had was a loss of about 7 lbs from the thermogenics. If I had it to do over again, I'd take the 7 lbs back and be able to poop.
I also tried P90X ALONE, still wasn't eating right, and would totally crash 30-45 min in. I'd be dizzy, nauseous, etc.

MY SAVIOR
I got invited to a challenge group and given shakeology to try. I'm not going to give you some sales pitch. Tim and I within the first 3 months lost 15 lbs. HE wasn't even working out, just eating right (Somebody learned how to cook)

I'm pretty sure I never really knew what it felt like to be out of the bad food fog until I was 28 years old. I had natural energy, my headaches were gone, and heartburn GONE! Hallelujah! Oh and not to mention I was hot again.
No but seriously, on top of the vanity stuff, I also gained another huge family. A big supportive, positive, cheering you on family. I have some
really great people in my life and did before beachbody, don't get me wrong. But this was different. This was encouraging. This IS a group of people who drove me to dream bigger, squash out the self defeating demons, and want to be excited about my health and helping others. Sure, sure, I joke and am still smart ass me, still think for myself, and no we are not a cult,  but I have grown into a person I never pictured 10 years ago. I was exposed to drive and growth and I'm never looking back!

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