By Valentina Monteleon: Growing up I always enjoyed food and I did not think anything of it until I was six years old. I realized at a young age that I was bigger than the rest of the kids my age. As I grew older, my clothes got bigger, and […]
I come from an overweight family on my father’s side. As a young child there were no restrictions on what I ate, when I ate, or how much I wanted to eat. I was a typical active child that cared more about playing than I did about eating. That began […]
From birth, the odds were always against me from being physically fit. At 13 pounds and 9 ounces, I was already a good 6 to 7 pounds heavier than the rest of the other babies and this trend of always being the overweight kid continued for me throughout my adolescence […]
Trying to describe my lifelong journey with health and wellness seems like an epic task. I was born into a world of obesity. My entire extended family struggled with weight and health issues my entire life. I grew up knowing what it was like to feel like the fat kid […]
I never had a weight problem growing up, in fact, I was always busy with lacrosse, field hockey and women’s rugby in high school and we didn’t really have much junk food in the house. When I went off to college, I faced the Freshmen 15 or in my case […]
Some say that they simply woke up one day and decided to change their lives and get healthy. Me? It took years of embarrassing situations and uncomfortable feelings in my own skin for me to finally step up and make the change. It’s as if the lifelong struggle with my […]
“If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” – Jack Dixon. My whole weight loss journey began with one simple question that I did not have an answer to, “What are your fitness goals?” Last February, my boyfriend and I […]
We are high school sweethearts who got married and gained 20 lbs during our first year of marriage. Dinner was cereal, Hamburger Helper or Rice-A-Roni. That was if we ate at home but most of the time it was fast food from Zaxby’s, McDonalds, or Chick Fil-A. We were both […]
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure” – Colin Powell. At 24 years old, I am proud to say that I’m in the best shape of my life, although it has been quite the journey for me! Growing up, […]
