My journey to incredible health 👇 I didn’t start out caring about health at all…I was from a pretty average family from a poor farming village of about 375 people growing up, we had the normal American meals: a huge breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, orange juice or some combination of “acceptable designated breakfast foods”. Lunch was usually some sandwich and french fries or some kind of meat with a mushy vegetable from a can with dessert, we didn’t eat dinner growing up because of my dad’s health problem so we were served a snack to tide us over for another big breakfast in the morning which was almost always our largest meal. In high school, I first discovered pilates on some television infomercial, not being able to afford the program, I illustrated by hand all the movements on the advertisement into workout cards and imitated them as best I could. Once school started, we were forced into an “elective” in school for two hours a day of physical education where I took up running and found out I was pretty good at it. I’d always been fast as a little girl. I became addicted to the feedback on how quickly I was improving in my performance, I started running another hour at home after school. I starved myself down to 97 pounds to fit in. On the inside, I was barely alive. I was freezing all the time, wearing 2 or 3 layers of clothes to school just to bear the air conditioning, my rib cage was hanging out, I had no energy. And when my body finally rebelled, it didn’t just bounce back, it overcorrected. I doubled in size to over 200 pounds. I became addicted to food. I was inflamed, constantly exhausted, and riddled with health issues most people never even talk about; insecurity and self hatred, my immune system crashed while living abroad, I developed ear infections so bad it took me 2 years to get my hearing back to normal, I had gout flareups every time I ate fruit so severe I couldn’t wear shoes, continuous face and body acne, uncontrollable sugar and caffeine addiction, burning joint pain, and I was allergic to sunlight for 15 years.