My road to health & sanity!

The first thing that I want to share that I love - would be www.marilu.com . I have became passionate about health & fitness. Below will give you insight on my own journey to health & sanity.

Let's just say like it is - I was a fat kid and I have been on ever diet in the world. I have used every meal replacement, diet pill "natural" or not. I have been super skinny and super fat, I have binged and I have purged and  I hated to exercise most of all.

 In Sept 2000 is when I picked up a book called Total Health Makeover by Marilu Henner. I started reading and I had that light bulb kind of moment where I thought I could do this. I could get healthy and not feel guilty about eating,  to enjoy food who would of thought that was possible not me.

I really understood the idea of food combining, eating fruits alone, proteins/veggies, grains/veggie. In the book it talks about dairy, so I gave up milk that moment. I also made the choice for me to give up , meat, poultry & pork and  this is what works for me, now cheese was a different story.  I pretty much ate this way for the next 7 years, some good years, some bad years. On January 3, 2007 I realized that my health wasn't were it should be, that is when I gave up cheese and eggs. Low and behold, my allergies are a 1000 times better, and within the first month I lost 8 lbs. I started to exercise  walking, pilates, and yoga, this has became a passion with me. In the fall of I think of 09, I was asked to the coach on Marilu's website for the Get Moving thread - and exercise and support thread. Me, the fat kid who always picked last in PE.

So over the last 4 years, I have lost 24 lbs and the best of it all have learned to love myself. So check out http://www.marilu.com/ and see what a great community this is. There are classes, recipes and a support group that is 2nd to none! I hope to you there!