All my life I was very athletic, commited to sports, such as basketall, snowboarding, skiing, and downhill mountain biking. I always struggled with my weigt since I can remember, being teased from day 1! All through highschool I was around 180 lbs around 30-35% body fat and was very unhappy with it. I never knew why I was continuing to grow and gain fat through all my excersize. I played 4-5 hours of basketball everyday, skiied competitly every weekend, competed with everyone around me! It wasnt untill high school ended and my basketball team had broken up, excersize had come to almost a complete hault besides some balll on the weekend. I packed on 60lbs in the blink of an eye and was depressed as ever. I started reading into ways to loose weight because i was super unhappy. I started on Jenny Craig at 18 and lost 30lbs staying extremely strict to the diet, working out 1 hour a day (cadio only). After this I moved out of my parents house to a local ski resort where I got a job teaching snowboarding. Teaching boarding, running up and downhill all day with beginers, constantly picking them up and helping them down the mountain, not to mention only being allowed to eat what the kids were served (small grill cheese, hot dog, pizza, french fries) i would only eat an apple and a protein bar i would bring myself, and through all this after 1 season i dropped another 40lbs. After this season i quickly packed up and headed home where i would leave my stuff and take off to a weightloss camp in los angeles for 1 month. During that month i learned more then i could ever imagine. I learned EXACTLY how pourly i was treating my body leading up to present date. I learned that on an average day i was consuming 4-5000 calories. I was SO LUCKY i had excersize in my life otherwise id be 350lbs easily today. I learned that all my favorite foods were my worst enemy, pastas, pizzas, ceasar salads, you name it, i finally learned what i was putting into my system. During this experience i took my weight from 170 to 165 having a 15lb fat loss and a 10lb muscle gain. At this point i weight 15lbs lighter then i did in grade 7, and im feeling extremely great about myself. I had learned proper eating, eating tecniques, proper excersize routines for weight loss and muscle gain. When i left camp i went home and continued with the excersize, but not for long! I was having alot of fun being a competly different person, being treated different, being treated id say almost equally for the first time! that i lost track of everything and sure enough my muscle mass lessened and i packed on some fat! A year had passed and i had fallen back into an old smoking habit that i wasnt having an easy time kicking, my excersize was weakening, could no longer run distances cause my lungs would hurt and i knew i had to get ontop of things again! I went back to camp for round 2 and this time was even better then the last, my fitness reached a level i never new possible, i had reached 7% bodyfat at 157lbs and i damn near cried! i NEVER in a million years thought something like that was possible. To see my muscles for the first time in my life was a crazy experience, it CHANGED me instantly. This time i knew there was no going back and i was going to push this further and further. My last round at camp ended may 30 2012, I never left los angeles this time except for a week to get more clothes! I am now living in los angeles actively training, attending santa monica healing arts college to get my National Association of Sports Medicine certification. I am studying to be a personal trainer because after everything i have been through, there is nothing more i want in life then to share the experience! I am looking so forward to becoming a trainer and helping everyone and anyone with achieving their fitness goals through nutrition and excersize!

I love it because it shows me that anything is capable with hard work and dedication. Its the most rewarding sport in every way if done right. It has also changed my life, opening more doors then I ever knew possible