I am also a mother of one, a beautiful little girl, Jocelyn (7)

You can do it too!!!

Overcome any obstacle with God in your life! I did!!!

No, I have not always been in shape. I have a 7-year-old little girl and we all know how pregnancy affects the body. I maintained a healthy figure until my senior year in high school when l starting lacking in dance classes. I gained a bit for a year and then started back in classes just when my husband and I began a family. After a 50 lb pregnancy weight gain, topping the scales at 178, and some ups and downs post-pregnancy I joined a national known fitness facility which features the circuit training (it was minimal cardio and hydraulic resistance for weights) . I slowly lost 15 lbs over 9 months and came to a stand still. I quit the fitness center and got back into a Jazz class and performing again and the weight came off. What I didn’t realize then was that every 6-8 weeks the body needs to be shocked. Your body will adjust to the workout and calorie in-take and come to a stand still if it is not changed. The weight kept dropping as I continued to dance and purchased an elliptical machine for the house. I incorporated ½ hour sessions on the elliptical 3 times a week that began to increase to 4…5…6…7…until I had an obsession with exercise. My world began to spin out of control when the scale controlled my life. Eating disorders took over and I eventually had no energy for exercise, to raise my own daughter, to work, to keep up on homework… I was 5’6” and hit 100 lbs. I was a walking skeleton. I had to sew all my size 0 clothing, even my underclothing, to fit or it would fall off. I simply looked like death.