My background

A little about me to understand where I am coming from and how I have developed my beliefs...I grew up in Louisiana - land of the best cooking! I also lived in Italy for four years - country of the best cooking! I have a love for food. My ex-boyfriend would always comment on my "happy dance." This is the dance I do when I am eating something really good. So, I get frustrated when my clients make as if eating controlled and clean comes easy to me and that I can't possibly seem to understand their struggles, well I do.

Growing up with an older brother who would always challenge me to things or make comments to me like "I can do anything you can do, but better" made me love a good challenge. I would consider myself an athlete with love mainly for volleyball. That being a team sport, the love somewhat faded due the exhaustion of finding good play. My focus then went to triathlons. It was something my father and I could do together and became very enjoyable and a new way to compete. Then, with moving to Denver, CO, swimming in the open water wasn't enjoyable and without Dad there to have the camaraderie, that too faded. This led to running - four marathons later I'm tired of running. So, here I am figure competitions!

I am blessed to work with an awesome team of trainers here in Denver, CO. I have learned so many things in the last five and half years as a personal trainer and, within this last year, so much specifically on how to prepare for a figure competition. Now, I would not consider myself a professional at training for them, but this is going to be my documentation on how I am going to take what I have learned and figure out what works best for me. I'm sure I won't be perfect, but life always is a learning process.

I want this to be a process from someone who it doesn't come easy, like most every day people, to accomplish a goal. Specifically in this case proper nutrition and exercise to result in weight loss to be measured through a figure competition. However, I hope to hit a broader audience to aid all in nutrition, fitness and changing body composition. Please do not take everything I say or do and assume it is the end all, be all. You need to figure out what works best for YOU. So, try it...if it doesn't work for you, try something else. If it does, great!