Ever since I can remember, I have had an emotional connection with food.
Our family would always come together and celebrate with food. Coming from an Italian family the food wasn’t always the healthiest and mostly consisted of pastas, breads and a lot of dessert, so I was never brought up with the terms ‘portion size’ ‘nutritional value’ and definitely never knew there was a ‘low fat’ option!
As kids we played nonstop. There was no option of spending hours inside on the Playstation, or Netflix, or Facebook, so getting enough exercise was never an issue. We were all just healthy kids who ran and ran and ran.
But somewhere along the line a change happened. Kids started eating more, playing outside less and takeaway came into the picture more than just on those ‘special occasions’.
It wasn’t until I reached my 30’s until I realised something wasn’t right with me. I gained a lot of weight after having my children and losing weight became an issue, and all kinds of health problems started popping up.
I think I can honestly say I tried maybe 20-30 different ‘diets’, most of which failed in the 1st week, because let’s face it – who wants to survive on a diet of cabbage soup and kale smoothies!
I even tried one of those many “health shake diets” and that worked great for a while. I lost a lot of weight really quick! but then my hair started thinning, toilet habits changed, and not for the better, and I had a lot of saggy skin.
I was then introduced to the world of whole foods, portion control and clean eating!!
This changed my thinking 180 degrees on what foods we should be eating every day
After this change I was blown away, and decided that this new found love of mine had to be shared, and that’s when I decided that becoming a personal trainer was for me.
I was able to help others achieve their health and fitness goals and educate them in healthy choices.
But there was one aspect of my clients lives they just couldn’t change. FOOD!
So i started adding meal prep meals into their PT packages, and BOOM!!!!! They started getting amazing results!
And just like that, EasyFit meals was born!