![]() The only deciding factor behind that thought was if I could still fit in my size 2 jeans and since I could, well, it must be okay! Looking back and knowing what I know now, my diet was really leading me down a dark hole. I knew eating at those places wasn’t the best choice but I wasn’t noticing any negative impact yet. In high school I worked which meant I had my own money and trips to Dairy Queen or Olive Garden were pretty frequent with my friends. Peanut butter & jelly and Kraft mac and cheese were staples in our household but since they were made at home, I thought they were healthy.įast forward to my middle school and high school years where I had the metabolism to eat whatever I wanted. My mom would always say fast food wasn’t healthy for us so although we would stop occasionally, we didn’t eat it often when I was younger. Since money was so tight, the only time we ever ate fast food was the occasional Sunday after church and we would go to Wendy’s and order off the 99c menu. ![]() My mom loved to bake so I grew up having fresh cookies in the kitchen pretty regularly and we always ate dinners at home. In the summer we would get a box of otter pops or a case of grape soda but aside from that, we didn’t really buy those treats. ![]() In fact, I can remember the only time my mom let us buy candy was for New Years Eve. I grew up as a middle child in a small town with awesome parents and two sisters, who I am very close with to this day( shout out to the fam!). I’m here to show you, I’m human too and not perfect by any means and I dont expect you to be! I am constantly striving for progress and to make my health a priority but there have definitely been hiccups along the way. Then they add more guilt on top of that for feeling bad about feeling that way, its a vicious cycle. I work with a lot of people where the commonality is shame and guilt for getting to the place they are in when they come to us for help with their nutrition. I’m hoping that by giving you a glimpse into my journey, it’ll help you see that no one is immune to the pressures of society as I’ve struggled with them myself and I’ve been where you have been and still have my daily struggles. I try my hardest to share the knowledge I have, without judgment, because ultimately we all make our own choices and if I can educate you, I’m at least giving you the power to make the right choice. And its not just Flex Fuel members, I speak daily to others outside of Flex Fuel about their fears, their insecurities, and those long engrained cultural concepts about diets and the way we “should” look as society states. I get to work with them on conquering those challenges and building their confidence and it is SO amazing. I have so many people who call me coach, people who I get the opportunity to speak with weekly and hear about their personal struggles and challenges. I wanted to share a little bit of my current story today for a couple reasons. About how much I really do care about every single one of you and although I know you’re scared and I know its a lot of work, that we can get you to your happy place if you would just have some faith in the process and faith in yourself. I want to talk to you all about self love, about going after what you really want, about insecurities and mindset. I don’t use that word lightly but it is my passion to impact as many lives as possible so when I started writing this, it was hard to nail down where to start. I would start typing about one thing and suddenly have a light bulb go off and it would lead me down another path of me spewing these passions at you. I have so many things I want to say, each of them all subtly relating to each other, yet in the same way so different. This blog was really hard for me to write. ![]()
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