My passion for healthy cooking started way early in my teenage years, I always liked cooking. As far as I can remember I was always looking at cooking labels, looking at the ingredients and finding new way to recreate new dishes. Although when I turned 18 I was highered on as a cook at a sizzler and my cooking passion took off, cooking came natural to me. I soon was running the kitchen.
Where I became obsessed with healthy cooking came from my passion of fitness the two passioned collided. I soon started studying nutrition and found myself finding ways to recreate my favorite dishes that where, well not so healthy and finding was to may them healthy and make them taste amazingly great.
What happen to me was i soon realized that there was a disconnect between health and fitness, a lot of people in fitness where actually not healthy. I struggled internally with the two different beliefs and for lack of better terms diets. They are every different . One is holistic and the other is protein packed and full of chemicals.
I began my journey of nutrition by studying the food, literally. I would go to the library and i would study each and every vegetable fruit, you name it i studied it. I wanted to understand the nutritional content and how our bodies assimilated food. Then I started going to classes and learning from other and experimenting with juicing and raw food. I bought every book there was to read and began my journey of experimental healthy living. I learned how to make everything myself and with all types of mediums. I learned that everything we learned in school in nutrition was ass backwards and that our nations was sick because of it.
As a national Figure Competitor, I found myself after 7 years of being raw and vegetarian give in to the fitness diet to attain a dream and goal. I was very conflicted during this time. although,Looking back I realized that it was very much required for me to be where I am today. The first year of competing I had a coach when gave me the regular chicken and rice regiment and then i found a new coach that was in the middle that was more in line with my belief but it still didn't alien with my spirit. it was more salad with chicken or fish six times a day with Odo's oil. Then i found the strength with in me to create my own diet that I created that was 85 percent raw and organic and with wild fish. I would also include raw juice and vitamins that I created a that would help supplement my diet and nourish my body, after a year of that I even took it a step further and created my own supplementation. Today I love my food and I realize that I require protein to operate optimallly, I also require a small amount of carbohydrate with the amount of energy I exert. I choose to eat sweat potatoes because they are actually a fruit and are high in fiber and full of nutrients. All the food that I eat today all from the earth in there original state of are altered by me. I do not eat processed foods or anything pasteurized. I also make all my food from scratch and I have to tell you I have so much fun doing it too.
My passion is making healthy foods taste great and today I love sharing that passion with others. To me health is everything with out that we are unable to show up to do anything else in the world.
Where I became obsessed with healthy cooking came from my passion of fitness the two passioned collided. I soon started studying nutrition and found myself finding ways to recreate my favorite dishes that where, well not so healthy and finding was to may them healthy and make them taste amazingly great.
What happen to me was i soon realized that there was a disconnect between health and fitness, a lot of people in fitness where actually not healthy. I struggled internally with the two different beliefs and for lack of better terms diets. They are every different . One is holistic and the other is protein packed and full of chemicals.
I began my journey of nutrition by studying the food, literally. I would go to the library and i would study each and every vegetable fruit, you name it i studied it. I wanted to understand the nutritional content and how our bodies assimilated food. Then I started going to classes and learning from other and experimenting with juicing and raw food. I bought every book there was to read and began my journey of experimental healthy living. I learned how to make everything myself and with all types of mediums. I learned that everything we learned in school in nutrition was ass backwards and that our nations was sick because of it.
As a national Figure Competitor, I found myself after 7 years of being raw and vegetarian give in to the fitness diet to attain a dream and goal. I was very conflicted during this time. although,Looking back I realized that it was very much required for me to be where I am today. The first year of competing I had a coach when gave me the regular chicken and rice regiment and then i found a new coach that was in the middle that was more in line with my belief but it still didn't alien with my spirit. it was more salad with chicken or fish six times a day with Odo's oil. Then i found the strength with in me to create my own diet that I created that was 85 percent raw and organic and with wild fish. I would also include raw juice and vitamins that I created a that would help supplement my diet and nourish my body, after a year of that I even took it a step further and created my own supplementation. Today I love my food and I realize that I require protein to operate optimallly, I also require a small amount of carbohydrate with the amount of energy I exert. I choose to eat sweat potatoes because they are actually a fruit and are high in fiber and full of nutrients. All the food that I eat today all from the earth in there original state of are altered by me. I do not eat processed foods or anything pasteurized. I also make all my food from scratch and I have to tell you I have so much fun doing it too.
My passion is making healthy foods taste great and today I love sharing that passion with others. To me health is everything with out that we are unable to show up to do anything else in the world.
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