Hello!! My name is Andrea and I've been on and off fitness & nutrition websites for the past 13 years. I really LOVE this website though, I enjoy the different takes on different diets and reading about everyone's choices about how they choose to get to their goal weight. I live in North Carolina, I'm 25 years old and I have a two year old little girl!
A little bio on me......... I battled aneroxia and bulemia throughout most of highschool. While in college I fell in love with the gym and what femine muscles look like. So I started training and eating like a "fitness guru." My diet was very blah but it did what I wanted it to and at the time I was happy. I stayed right around 135/140 pounds (I'm 5'9) with my super clean eating and endless exercise hours. I think it was my outlet. I had been in a abusive relationship since I was 18. I left when I was 22, right afterwards I found out I was pregnant. We decided to give it one more chance. I didn't have the glam wedding or anything that I had always dreamed of, I worked the same day I got married and then went to the court house to have the nuptials. I left my husband on Mother's Day of 2007. During my pregnancy I gained 70 pounds, had to give up exercising (doctor's orders) and ate completly unhealthy. Going through the divorce at first I lost a lot of weight very quickly putting me back at my pre baby weight but I lost it the wrong way. I didn't eat and I had started smoking cigerettes to deal with bad nerves and drinking coffee constantly so I would be able to care for my daughter while working full time. In the mean time, what did make my life a little easier was I absolutly LOVED my job. I was an assisstant manager for LA Weight Loss. My college degree is in paralegal but my passion has always been nutrition so when I was offered the job I was so happy. Upon getting the job it wasn't really what I expected, it was a sales job and I can't sell. But the company did keep me and promoted me because my client's weight loss was the highest they had ever had. I worked for the company for three and half years when they closed out of the blue. After devoting so much of my life to the company and having my clients who I felt needed me, our franchise owner up and closed us over night. No warning- nothing. Called us up and told us that if we left anything at the center it would be mailed to us with our final check. So that brings me to now. I have basically been on a all you can eat binge since this happened almost a month ago. I'm scared to step on the scale because I know it will be very hard to bare. I do plan on keeping some sort of diary on here (where is the best place to do this, not really good at the blogging thing, I like the feedback
). AND to top things off I'm engaged to a wonderful man who wants to move our wedding date up from September to late February or early March. So I really need to say buh bye to my self destructive binging behaviors, accept the past and move on to gain control of my life and reclaim it. Currently I am not working, I stay at home with my little girl who just turned two. She keeps me active but it's VERY hard to work out with her because she wants to lift weights or do whatever I am doing and I worry about her getting hurt.
So.......... there's a very short bio !
I look forward to getting to know you ladies!
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