Hi! I’m Michelle.
and I have been exactly where you are now.
Over the course of 4 years in college, I started to gain weight, and from start to finish I had gained about 35 pounds.
I went from doing all the extracurricular activities: water polo, swimming, dance, to doing none. I didn’t know how to eat to fuel my body properly because growing up I ate a lot of fast food and sweets without it harming my body (at the time).
During college, I was so confused about what I needed to eat. I just wanted to hangout with my friends and have fun, like everyone else was doing. I didn’t realize that in order to continue eating the way I did, I would have to continue exercising.
This is where the battle began.
I needed to lose weight. I was overweight, my pants size was hitting the double digits, and I wasn’t happy with my body image.
So naturally, I started dieting, spending over $3000 on supplements, diet pills, appetite suppressants, juices, caffeine pills, and weight loss bars/shakes/snacks. You name it, I bought it.
And I lost the weight! I was 35 pounds down and it only took 4 months.
But, my relationship with food had become unhealthy. This is where the YEARS of binging, restricting, and punishing began.
I was under-eating (around 1000-1200 calories a day), while working out to get more muscle definition. When I started working out, I lost even more weight! I was now down 40 pounds!
I felt amazing, but I was still SO UNHAPPY.
Every week I would starve myself for 3 days eating 1200 calories a day, that by the time the 4th day came around, I would binge like crazy. There was no stopping me.
I would look in the mirror, hate what I’d done, and cry into my pillow just wondering to myself, why can’t I stop? The next day, I would workout even harder, run even father, and stay at the gym for hours punishing myself for what I had done.
And the cycle would repeat - binge, restrict, and punish. Binge, restrict, and punish.
I knew something wasn’t right, but I didn’t have any help. I didn’t know what was wrong. I wasn’t normal. No one else was struggling like me. No one else was eating uncontrollably at restaurants or at home. None of my friends could relate.
I was just so beyond frustrated, and I just kept thinking what is wrong with me?
NOTHING. Nothing was wrong with me. Nothing is wrong with you.
No one taught me how TOXIC the diet culture was. How UNSUSTAINABLE it was.
The one rule that I want to share with you that I wish I had known all those years:
Never do anything that you’re not willing to do for the rest of your life.
It took me years of dieting and berating my body to finally be where I am now. I’m down a total of 30 pounds, happily maintain my weight without a diet, love my body, and continue to workout not to punish my body but get STRONG.
I’m going to help you break up with dieting forever.
I’m just like you. A woman who wanted to lose weight and keep it off without ever having to diet again.
My mission is to help YOU lose the weight without a diet, and keep it off for good. LOVE your body, BUILD your body, and be so HAPPY with your body.
Because I truly believe the best body is the one you build without a diet.