About Me

 
Hello!  I am a wife and a mother of two kids, ages 7 and 9.  In September of 2013, I knew that it was time to make a change!  I wanted to lose the "baby weight" that had been lingering for the past 4+ years!  My youngest sister had experienced great success while approaching her own transformation through Beachbody.  She decided to become a coach and jumped in with helping others who were wanting to change their own lives!  I began to learn about clean eating.  I ordered the "ChaLEAN Extreme" program along with Shakeology.  The rest is history!  I have been on an adventure with this ever since!  I became a coach myself in early March 2014.  I am SO excited to now be helping others along with their own goals and progress!  I have lost about 60 pounds to date and have perhaps another 25 or so to go before I reach my goal weight.  After CheLEAN Extreme, I went on to spend 4.5 months with the 21 Day Fix.  Next was PiYo!  Then I went way outside of my comfort zone and I tackled Insanity Max 30 and loved it!  In mid-February 2015, I began 8 weeks with the brand-new 21 Day Fix Extreme.  After that came a return to PiYo!  Next up was Cize - all DANCE and that was the summer of 2015.  Since December 2015, I have been lifting heavy with the recently released Hammer and Chisel program.  Now I am about to begin 8 weeks of Bootcamp with the BRAND NEW 22 Minute Hard Corps with Tony Horton!  Prior to being home with my kids, I had spent much of my life working with horses.  I was a rider and also an instructor who coached students at home and also at competitions.   This is a rather physically-demanding field and in combination with my then-younger self, it was enough to keep me in decent shape.  

Then I became a mom and everything changed!  Suddenly I found myself in a whole new world and needed to learn how to best manage myself within it!  It has taken me a few years to get to where I am making my health and fitness a top priority.  I am now in my mid-30's and realized that everything was going to "catch up with me" sometime soon.  I decided to take action and get ahead of the game.  This is typically my approach in most areas of life!  I do not know why I had delayed in tackling my own nutrition and fitness?  I think that it was a combination of a certain comfort level with my self as things were, combined with a fear of what change would bring.  What if I failed and what if it was just so difficult to accomplish that I could not manage it in my day to day life?  This is where having the right tools available made all the difference! Through Beachbody home DVD workouts, nutritional boost via Shakeology and the support of a challenge group, I began to see progress and was hooked!  Feeling myself transform through this effective combination is what inspired me to become a coach so that I could help others in the same way! 

One of the things that I am enjoying the most in my own transformation is that I am taking charge of this one all-important area of my life.  It does mean getting up early to exercise.  It also means taking some time to plan a weekly menu and making sure that I get to the store.  I am saying "no" to many of our old favorites but am pleasantly surprised that it is not nearly as difficult as I thought it may be!  A coach once shared that "Nothing tastes as good as feeling fit feels!"  I agree 100% and keep this truth in mind as I navigate my days.