From the beginning...

Thanks for stopping by!

I will start with this disclaimer, I am not a good writer, so please forgive me for the grammatical errors. :) I am starting this blog to encourage people to eat healthy like the Lord intended, exercise more and to find grace in Jesus when we fall.

I had eaten like a southern girl all my life and was a very sickly young child, who had chronic ear infections and bladder infections and was on antibiotics 24/7. I watched people I love die of cancer and die from cancer drugs. I knew God had a better way for us and was determined as a young adult to find the answers.

 It was in the year of 1998 that the Lord laid it on my heart to start researching and practicing better health. I decided to go to college for nutrition and began my journey to a better way of life. Only a semester into college, I found out I was pregnant with our second child and decided to put my education on hold because of my chronic morning sickness. Though, I may have been a "college drop out" the Lord lead me to multiple books on health and wellness that would change my life. Fast forward to the end of 2000, it was just 6 months after my third child, we were living in Atlanta,  and I was in the best shape of my life. After working out daily at the gym, I would watch and admire the personal trainers and thought to myself, "I could do that." So, I decided to become a certified personal trainer. Several months later, and lots of studying I was sitting in the testing class and made a 98% on my exam. I was now ready to change the worlds direction to healthier living. I'm an all or nothing kinda girl!

I starting my business at Golds Gym in Conyers, Ga and enjoyed several years of teaching people how to eat and how to get fit. During that time my kitchen staples continued to change. I was making whole wheat bread from fresh ground wheat, juicing, fasting, adding herbs and different vitamins to my diet and eating organic. I also learned a lot about alternative cancer treatments through a close friend, who was in his 30's and got colon cancer. I became passionate about alternative treatments to treat illnesses and learned how diet, juice fasting, enemas and chelation therepy can heal your body.

 Near the end of 2004, the Lord moved us to Daphne, AL and all that hard work  slowly came to an end. When arriving in Daphne, we noticed no large gym to train from. The only gym was the Y.M.C.A. and after living in Atlanta and charging $55 an hour, the Y.M.C.A. didn't come close to paying me what I felt I deserved. So I felt I was pushed into another career. I won't bore you with my career change since this blog is about health.

Living in lower Alabama I was surrounded by southern cooking, had no Whole Foods Market or Dekalb Farmers Market and slowly began to slip back into my old ways of eating.
The past few years have been extremly stressful because of marriage issues, job loss, and lossing our home. I stopped exercising as much and started allowing junk food back into my diet while still eating my healthy food.  As a result I gained 20lbs. and starting feeling bad and thats why this year I have decided to get back to my all organic no junk diet, exercise more, get rid of bad habits and start this blog.

The Lord has been so gracious to us this past year and healed our marriage, given Mark a great job and forgiven me for my failures.

I have all this knowledge about diet and exercise and felt it was time to share a little with you. I hope you are encouraged as you read this blog. :) 

In Him,
Angie