My Story

Hello, I'm Kenzie :)

I don't share my story very often but I want to give you all a little insight on who I am. I am 20 years young with the mind of a 30 year old. I am a full time culinary student with 2 part time jobs. I am employed at a gym and a photography studio (completely different). I recently got my certification to be a personal trainer :D I have big dreams of one day opening my own wellness center. I say wellness because I want to offer training AND nutrition plans. I eat, breath and sleep health.....I live a healthy lifestyle because of one reason, I want to live a long time! Our body's are so sacred, we need to treat them the best that we possibly can. This means staying active and eating clean! Diet is so important, I cant stress that enough. Good food makes us feel good! Unfortunately, not everyone knows what that feels like because they don't know where to start or how to make clean delicious food. I for one LOVE food...... good food, bad food, I love it all! In order to maintain a healthy lifestyle I've had to rethink the way I cook and come up with variations for my favorite foods. This inst to say that I don't enjoy myself now and then. I have a cheat meal once a week so I can enjoy myself, you should never deprive yourself of the things you love (that's not living a healthy lifestyle). I hope to change peoples lives by introducing a new way to look at food and this lifestyle. I WILL be offering online training and meal plans very soon, so stay tuned :)

Now to give you a little idea of where i used to be............

I wasn't always this dedicated to a clean lifestyle. I went out almost every night, binge drinking and then stuffing my face with fast food. I always ended my night at a Del Taco or Jack In The Box. I had a gym membership but would only go once a week and would just to the elliptical. I was the typical person that thought that was enough. All I wanted to do was have fun and didn't really care about my health or anything else. Over 2010 summer I gained over 30 pounds just from drinking and eating munchies. By August I was 165....maybe more. My lifestyle had gotten so out of control and I was beginning to see for myself how drastic my body was changing. I felt like shit, I had no confidence and my whole body was puffy. I decided to stop drinking and get my shit together  I stayed in every night and pushed myself to go to the gym. I did tons of research on clean eating and how to get healthy, I've been on countless diets and tried tons of supplements. After trial and error I finally realized there's no secret to it, you eat clean and you push yourself in your training and you'll see the results. The beginning was the hardest but I never gave up. 3 years later I am proud to say that I'm a completely different person. I'm addicted to this lifestyle and cant get enough...working our has become my high. It gets my blood flowing like nothing else in this world. I would never go back to where I was.