About Elizabeth

Hello! I am Elizabeth and I started this blog as a fun little way to share my health and fitness adventure. I have been Instagramming my journey under various names probably since about 2012! I recently wrote in an Instagram post that I wished I had a blog so I could share my thoughts deeper on this journey. A gal on Facebook said "Do it!" and since I had blogged off and on since 2010, I decided why not!


I don't create recipes. I won't pay to make my blog be pretty. I won't pay for a domain so get used to typing in .blogspot.com hahaha.

I will share my authentic journey with you here. That includes the times when I really just want to eat a Justin's peanut butter cup and so I do... and then I eat five more!

I have been overweight my entire life. People thought it was cute when I was a child. Then I got into middle school and was the fat kid. I probably had my first Slimfast in high school. My grandma raised me and we used to freeze the chocolate ones with pineapples and enjoy them as a healthy dessert. I attended weight watchers meetings in high school as well. I'm the poster child for growing up fat and being told that was bad.

So I dated in college, as a fat girl. One summer I went to Kentucky with my then boyfriend and we walked all over that hick town, and we didn't really eat much because we were broke teenagers (I was 19, and I guess he was 20). I can't express the hurt I felt every time my grandmother would tell me to just get out there and walk because I had lost so much weight that summer when I was in Kentucky! Little did she know I was being sexually, and physically, and emotionally abused by him and we weren't eating but maybe once a day. I know she didn't mean it to be mean, but it hurt every single time.

I fell in love as a fat girl and got married as a fat girl. I went to weight watchers meetings and then I joined Beachbody, and my weight increased, and increased, and increased. My husband got orders to Okinawa, Japan in 2014. So we took three weeks to travel cross-country from California to Virginia and South Carolina to visit our families before we moved. I inched up in weight over those three weeks eating everything we "would never be able to eat again!"

In the fall, after one crazy international move, I had reached my heaviest weight: 328 pounds. How did it even happen? I don't even remember it happening, but there is was on the scale. I got serious: I started walking and doing Beachbody workouts, and the 21DayFix, and drinking my daily shakeology. It wasn't working for me and man, was that defeating.

Nothing was working for me and I tried everything. Finally, in July of 2017, I jumped feet first into Whole30! I had tried it and failed before our move to Okinawa, and it was BAD! I knew it would be hard, but I had to do SOMETHING.

Grocery shopping for my first round of Whole30 in July, 2017!

Whole30 changed my life, and I am happy to be able to share my adventure with you! It has been hard, and the struggles have been real! The results have been ASTOUNDING and the benefits are worth every struggle.