My life has taken me on some incredible adventures – my journey has been full of pretty high highs, and very low lows. It hasn’t always been exciting, a lot of times, it’s been pretty rotten.

My life was full of bad choices, brought on by hurt, confusion and a need to fit in. My choices brought me to morbid obesity and that’s a choice I wish I had never made – morbid obesity cripples you emotionally, socially and mentally. I was hiding. I hid behind an overly confident façade –I had to keep people laughing with me so they wouldn’t laugh AT me.

After my daughters were born, I reached out to a personal trainer named Brandon Glore, and Brandon worked with me to get a handle on my obesity. He educated me, he never gave up on me because I never gave up on myself. I am now down 125 pounds, and while I still have a long way to go, I am closer now than I have ever been.

For so long, I had allowed my obesity to control me until I stepped out of the shadows of obesity. I put myself out there, because I was ready to make a dramatic POSTITIVE life change.

I never dreamed I would struggle with my weight, but there I was, killing it!

Now my struggle is different, I work hard every day to keep my body moving, allowing only good and healthy food. It’s not really a struggle, the food is great – the struggle is carrying around this extra weight.