Even though 2020 was a challenging year, it was also the best year of my life because of the birth of my daughter. I was adjusting to life as a new mom and it was the first time I’ve struggled with my weight. I thought it would be easy to bounce back quickly because I haven’t had issues with my weight in the past but I was wrong. I gained 50 pounds while I was pregnant and I had about 35 pounds to lose once I was able to start training again. With my background in nutrition, I knew that the stress of being a new mother, lack of sleep, and imbalanced hormones were all contributing to my inability to lose weight.
Although this is the first time I’ve struggled with my weight, I’ve done all the restrictive diets while training for bikini competitions and as a result of the restriction and overexercising, this contributed to slow metabolism and imbalanced hormones. I wasn’t getting the results I wanted and I didn’t understand why. I thought I was doing all the right things. I didn’t realize that the stress was causing imbalance in my body.