This journey didn’t start with a scale.
It started when I stopped trying to handle everything on my own — and gave myself time.
These changes didn’t happen overnight.
They happened between March 2024 and November 2025, through consistent, simple choices.
In March 2024, I was 158.6 lbs and 27.2% body fat, postpartum, exhausted, and disconnected from my body. I was pushing happiness off until “later,” believing I needed to fix everything first.
Instead of chasing extremes, I returned to the basics — and asked for help.
Over time, I began fueling my body with mostly whole foods, paying attention to how food actually made me feel. I traded unhealthy habits for support groups, strength training, walks, and hikes — movement and people that supported my nervous system and fit my life.
At age 36, I’ve noticed many of my hormonal symptoms have significantly improved. Not from quick fixes, but from consistency over time: whole foods, strength training, reducing toxins, and removing habits that were keeping my body inflamed.
The deepest change happened on the inside.
With support, therapy, and the willingness to face hard things, I stopped waiting to feel happy someday and started building it daily. As my inner world stabilized, my body followed.
📉 March 2024:
• 158.6 lbs
• 27.2% body fat
📈 November 2025:
• 131.2 lbs
• 17.3% body fat
This transformation isn’t about perfection or willpower.
It’s about patience, consistency, and trust.
I’m not different than anyone else.
I still need accountability, support, and reminders to check in — whether that’s tracking food, movement, or measurements.
Healing didn’t happen overnight.
It happened over time, one consistent choice at a time.
💛 Whole foods
💪 Strength & movement
🧠 Support & therapy
✨ Consistency compounds
Inside first. Always.
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