I have a great southern family that unfortunately believes the secret to a happy life is more butter and sweet tea! When I meet my would-be-husband (senatemiles) in college I was over weight and had the self-esteem of a toilet! He was extremely fit introduced me to healthy eating and weight-lifting... I have to admit at first I only did it cause it made him happy and I was afraid if I didn't loose the weight I would loose him...But as the weight came off so did my fear of putting myself out there and challanging myself... doing things that before I would have said were impossible for me! Now I love being able to lift more than the guy sitting next to me in the gym!

Fear is a terrible thing and more often than not I believe it is the thing that stops us from achieving our dreams... we become so afraid we will fail we dont even really try! This is what eating healthy and weight lose was to me... I wanted it but I was afraid of the pain, the denial and the challange. It was only after I pushed myself and realised how much more I could do once I actually tried that I actually started to love bodybuilding!