Nutrition Mission 365

It is difficult to condense one's whole life into a page but here I go.

Like any 24 year old girl living in the 21st century, Western world, I have had my fair share of body issues, emotional hitches and general ignorance about the things I have put my body and mind through.

I started out life in South Africa, raised on a big property, big sky, wide open spaces and lots to do. My mom had discovered at the age of 27 that she was allergic to gluten through her own research and eliminating and so we predominantly ate a "real-food" diet free of heavily processed foods and treats were treats - NOT everyday events. Fast forward to moving to Australia in high school and I developed some unhealthy attitudes towards my body. I started working part time at a pharmacy and this opened my eyes to the world of weight loss pills, shakes and supplements. Not the place you want an impressionable, insecure 18 year-old mind to be. So I tried them all - some with horrible side effects and not surprisingly the only thing I succeeded at was developing an even unhealthier association with food and weight. Starving myself didn't work, I physically couldn't make myself throw up so i just ended up eating more. Then I started university and I was too busy to really think much about food but somewhere along the way I developed symptoms of IBD. Stressing about it only made it worse. In my third year I discovered a ex-fitness model turned nutrition coach who helped me to shed about 10kg and I felt great. My confidence soared, my skin cleared and I kept the weight off for about 2 years. I met my now husband. But the world of eating out and becoming very social eroded my good (albeit it a little extreme) eating and exercising habits and the numbers on the scales started to climb. There I was again, back to the same old tricks - new diets and tricks. Bleh.

NO MORE! I am throwing out the scales and spending the next year of my life being a sponge for information and learning, testing out healthy means of eating and exercising and finding out which one works best for my lifestyle, my health and my body and then doing it. So that I can get on with other things in life - like travelling, spending quality time with my husban, family and friends and putting t bed my anxiety about food and the way I look. So here goes.....