After a year of putting on excessive weight, I had had it. I got sick of looking in the mirror and being so miserable with what I saw. Going to the store to get bigger sizes because nothing looked good because it was so tight. I just wanted to look good in the mirror and in my own skin again. I picked up a book that began to change my life. It taught about exercises, choosing this food over that and being able to know what you really should be eating.
I was always playing 2 or 3 sports at a time, always active but never nutritionally healthy. My breakfast would consist of pop tarts and chocolate milk and my lunches would be pizza hamburgers or whatever I wanted.
When I started college full-time I stopped playing sports–that’s when I started gaining weight and the lack of nutrition and the increased food intake started catching up to me.
I grew up in a house full of girls that were extremely active but we ate whatever we wanted and we literally had Twinkies at o[...].