My Health Journey: How a Blender Changed My Life
Posted on March 10, 2016 by Kristen Elyse, One of Thousands of Life Coaches on Noomii.
How I went from being your average, out-of-shape person to a muscular health nut EASILY!
Let me take you back to April 2012. I was sitting on my couch, eating straight out of a bag of Doritos wondering why I felt sick again. I got up, looked in the mirror and had my first health “ah-hah” moment.
I had grown up playing sports and dancing. I was skinny, but my diet ALWAYS sucked. Then I had a super, duper intense knee surgery in 2010 that made it so I couldn’t be active (seriously, the recovery from this surgery was over a year…) and my bad diet caught up with me. I was sick with a cold at least once a month, I got something quite nasty like pneumonia or bronchitis about twice a year, and I had definitely packed on some pounds. So here I am, April 2012, looking at myself in the mirror almost 150 pounds and feeling like crap.
That day, I bought a blender, protein powder, and a butt-ton of fruit. Seriously, my health journey started with smoothies. I have had a smoothie for breakfast almost every day ever since.
I hated fruits and most vegetables, but making a smoothie made them delicious. That was how I decided to start making my diet healthier. From there, I was able to incorporate more vegetables into each meal. Next, I started drinking more water. And then I learned that food prep was the best thing since sliced bread. Then I joined a gym.
Very small, incremental steps. That is how you get healthy. This is how you sustain these new habits and create a healthy lifestyle. No overwhelming lifestyle change that you are going to give up on after a couple days, no crazy fad diet.
I didn’t have a massive amount of weight to lose, but I feel so much healthier now and I rarely get sick! (I am now about 130 pounds, 20 pounds lost.) But I do feel that no matter what your goal is (to get healthier- like me!, lose weight, get in shape), small changes little by little will create a new lifestyle that you can sustain and get you to your goals.
Through my journey, health and fitness have become my passion. I am so happy to now be in a position to help other people, like me, who may be just beginning their path to better health. This journey had led me to create my monthly wellness planning program, which includes: creating a personalized and measurable goal, tips & tricks to help you succeed, and weekly email check ins to hold you accountable. This is way cheaper than all of the shakes everyone tries to sell you and this is customized to fit you and your lifestyle. Whatever it may be, take that first step today- even if it is just buying a blender!
