Hi! I’m Dena…
This has been a great journey for me and I am honored to be able to share my knowledge about appropriate exercise and fat loss with you. Like many people, I had a hard time excepting a consistently healthy lifestyle as my own. I had many ups and downs along my journey. I struggled with eating binges and negative thought processes and needed to stop my vicious cycle.
Where and How My Journey Began
As a child and teenager, I was overweight. As I struggled with finding my identity and making a mark of my own, I always turned to food. I grew up in a culture, like many, that revolved around food. Social events and meeting new people all circled around food. Celebrations or mourning’s – FOOD. Everywhere I looked, that’s what I knew. Food was the only constant in my life and while other things didn’t always make sense, food always did. I grew to have a very unhealthy view and relationship to the one thing that always remained the same for me. Oh and I ate! I binged, I lied, and I sneaked food. Until I was unhealthy, unhappy, and couldn’t take how I was living and who I was becoming. I wasn’t comfortable when I looked in the mirror. I didn’t enjoy clothes shopping. When I took pictures, I always kept my arms folded to hide the rolls in my belly. I was unhappy and not comfortable taking on the world in my current body.
I needed a change. And it needed to start with how I felt about my body. To me, the only way to feel differently was to look differently. I set out on a mission to change the way my body looked, so that I could change the way I felt about it. I joined a gym and I went. I would take classes, use machines, get on the treadmill. I crashed dieted. Then I binged, and then crashed again. It was a deadly mix of improper exercises and bad lifestyle choices. I was doing more damage than good. I was damaging my metabolism, nearly killing the one system that could get me to my goals. I would punish my metabolism for poor choices I had made moments prior. I killed my spirit. Any result I saw was momentary and always hurt worse when I continued to remain in the same body that I did not enjoy.
My Solution
Then something clicked. In order for me to always look good, I had to put myself into a position where looking great and being knowledgeable on how to do so would be a necessity. I became a Personal Trainer. I placed myself in a situation where, because I was so able to relate to my clients, I could help them and motivate them and myself to make goal-appropriate decisions. I was a regular person who was sick of not feeling great and on a mission to help myself and other women feel great about the bodies they were in.
Because I never denied my past, I was able to help women understand that feeling vulnerable and being human when it comes to exercise and nutrition is normal. And by recognizing and realizing our tendencies (and often working against them…) we could all make appropriate decisions so that when we look in the mirror now, we can be proud of ourselves and our bodies. And that’s what it’s really about. Being Proud of who you are, how far you have come in your body and fitness journey, and appreciating the successes that your body has made.
The First Steps Are The Hardest But The Most Important
We all have a starting point. It’s that time when you look in the mirror and say, “How is this the body that I am living in?” As long as we take the first steps to move past it, we will have so many points of achievement and pride along the way. Like zippering up the pair of jeans that haven’t fit in 5 years. Or walking into a party and having everyone comment and say, “Are you losing weight?”
Yes, you are and you can! This program is designed to show you all that I have learned along my weight loss journey. It is here for you as a constant tool for proper in home exercise and motivation. It is super effective, backed up by a scientific approach from working the body in stages to minimize injury and maximize results!
Now It’s Up To You To Create Your Journey
This is the story of my journey and how together, I will help you along yours.
If my success story didn’t start somewhere, I’d still be the same unhappy and unhealthy young adult that I was. But my starting point wasn’t worth settling for. And if you’re here, yours isn’t either.
Don’t hesitate…don’t let your own ‘starting point’ define you. Take it for just as it is the place where the success story begins.
I am so looking forward to helping you write you story of success!
In continued support,
Dena
