I’m Karie and I am in the best shape of my life!  I want to share my story with you so that you too can be in the best shape, extend your quality of life and fight disease.

I was never obese but I did get to an unhealthy weight and slipped into depression due to my excessive weight gain.  As a child I was very active, I was considered the neighborhood tomboy.  I grew up around boys and felt that I always had to compete with them to prove myself.  Then in my teen years I started becoming very self-conscious and became drastically thin as I felt that food was my enemy.  I wasn’t quite anorexic but borderline.  I weighed in at 117lb at 5′ 6″.  My face was hollow and my clothes hung on me.  Then into my twenties my husband would beg me to go to the gym with him. I rarely participated… mostly strolled on the treadmill with a good magazine because the gym is BORING!

Am I right or what?  This was considered our “together” time as a couple and kept him off my back for awhile.

Seriously… it wasn’t until I couldn’t lose my baby weight after I had my beautiful daughter that I realized I had lost myself along the way.  I had decided to stay at home because my baby girl was more important than my current career choice.  So here I am a stay at home mom, putting my child first and along the way I lost ME!  It wasn’t until I started hunting for pictures of myself to include on a myspace page that I noticed I went missing at some point. 

Are we supposed to pour ourselves into our children so much that we forget ourselves altogether? 

Absolutely NOT!  When we forget to put ourselves on the “list”…then we forget to keep our foundation strong, therefore we really aren’t the strong support needed to be a good mother, wife, friend, sister, co worker…

I also had my 2nd wake up call when I started going through older pictures and reminiscing about what I USED to look like.  Then I found my vision board and goals from my 8th grade class.  I started to cry… some things had come true but the rest had been put on a shelf.  It was then… in the middle of a divorce that I started hitting the gym…eating less… working on my mindset and getting rid of my “head trash”.

As I started to shrink my confidence grew…and I started to enjoy shopping again for clothes and looking in the mirror.  I didn’t avoid the camera anymore and realized that once upon a time I wanted to model and was in a beauty pageant.  When did I let myself go and why?  A lot of it had to do with my emotional bucket.  It wasn’t being filled.  My ex husband never complimented me and I didn’t believe those that did.  I also was an emotional eater as most women are.  I was rewarding myself with foods at the end of a hard day filled with an active baby.  I started working on myself… what a difference that made!  I was back to being the outgoing fun woman that I had always been.  I would look in the mirror and say… “I like being me!”

I went from a size 14 to a size 6!  I now have muscles and I enjoy activities that are strenuous such as hiking, kayaking, mountain biking, swimming, running, and most of all just being a big kid!  I’m an adventure seeker and my body doesn’t reject those activities like it had before.

If you can see yourself in my story and you feel that I can help you in some way get to the level where you feel amazing about yourself again, please don’t hesitate to contact me for a free one on one consultation.

The picture above is me on the left in 2004 with my baby girl, then me today on the right!  Feeling great and loving my energetic self!

You have what it takes to transform your body mind and soul!  Just like I did!  I believe in you!

Karie Millspaugh

Wellness Coach-Nutritionist-Author-Public Figure