Nearly all my life I struggled with my weight. Beginning senior year of high school I began to see a bit of progress with dieting and became completely obsessed, never stopped. From there my college career involved a disordered relationship with food as well as struggles with addiction and alcoholism. After getting out of detox in August I started my road to recovery from addiction, but continued to hold on to my oldest of issues, body image obsession. I was ~127lbs of nothing and looking very sickly in December of 2011. It was then then I realized I need to let go of my old habits of starving myself and put my obsessive knowledge of nutrition to proper use and get healthy!

I highly enjoy being able to enjoy my very active lifestyle while having it actually amount to something! I'm now healthier than I've ever been and loving every minute of it. I'm rediscovering my love for cooking and food, as well as finding a balance with life and exercising for general health instead of just using it as a way to purge calories. Learning to love life one day at a time and feeling great!