Welcome to Fit, Fab and Funny! I – your host – live in Massachusetts. I’m a comedian who daylights as a teacher. I love my life. I love my friends. I love my family. I love my careers. I love my boyfriend. I love my face. And I want to love my body. This is my journey.
I’ve always been an athlete. Note: I am not saying I was an exceptional athlete. I played collegiate volleyball, but if we’re being completely honest with each other, I played during practice and watched from the bench during games. I’ve run two marathons since graduating. Do not be overly impressed. One was done in 2008 and the other in 2013, neither of which made headlines. But regardless of these feats and of the fact that I live on the healthier side of life, I’ve never been confident in my body. On the contrary. I’ve been incredibly unconfident.
I believe it’s important to explain that my extreme low self-esteem led me to a dangerous place circa 2006. I’d lost about 45 pounds from my heaviest college weight. To accomplish this, I ate no more than 1,080 calories on a daily basis. I was 5’9” and could fit into my 5’2” roommate’s size 2 skirt. But this is the crazy part: even at that size, I still saw “fat” in the mirror.
Since then, my weight has been steadily creeping back up the scale, causing stress and periodic panic attacks (I also have anxiety issues. Who knew.).
Do not get me wrong – I know exactly why this is happening. I love food. I love to eat food. I love to eat a lot of food. I need to start eating the right food.
Cliché alert!! Through some struggle, self-reflection and discovery, I have much more confidence in myself and put less emphasis on my physical appearance as a determiner of my self-worth. It’s with this stability that I contacted a college friend of mine, now a personal trainer and bikini competitor (seriously, she’s the shit), for help with my next goal: an NPC sanctioned bikini competition. I want to lose weight, and more importantly, I want to do it in a healthy way.
This is where I’ll be documenting my journey from fabulous and funny to fit, fabulous and funny.
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