I am a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, a mom, a wife, and a Marine Corps Veteran. I also suffer from lupus and mixed connective tissue disease. I have had my struggles with weight, loss of energy and PAIN. I know what it is like to workout everyday and not see results...there is nothing more frustrating. When I was diagnosed I decided there were two ways this thing could go. I could allow this di
sease to own me and I could take drugs that honestly in most cases were worse than the disease its self OR I could take charge of my health and I could own and control the disease. I decided to get my personal training certification; learn as much as I could about nutrition and how proper diet and exercise could help me manager the monster that is lupus. Since then I have lost 20lbs, everything I take for my lupus is homeopathic and natural and I am in better shape now than I was during my Marine Corps service. I tell you all of this because I have more than likely been were you are and know what it takes it to become your best self. It’s not easy, there is not magic diet or pill. It all comes down to good nutrition and proper exercise. Most of us just don’t know how to put the two together in the right quantities and the right times but with a little help and a lot of determination IT CAN BE DONE!
