ABOUT ME …
“I’m just a hungry Black Woman who is sick and tired of eating myself to death…literally.”
I’ve spent over 20 years of my life struggling with diabetes, high blood pressure, and being overweight. I’ve tried diets, supplements, exercise, etc. I would lose the weight, but it was never a lifestyle change so that I would stop and gain even more weight.
When I asked my doctors what I should do, they would just prescribe me medications. And those medications had side effects, which affected other aspects of my health and weight.
I’ve read books, watched health documentaries, and even started, what I thought was, eating “healthy.” Unfortunately, I was believing the brands’ marketing and buying “Low Calorie,” “Low Fat,” “Heart Healthy,” etc. products. But at the end of the day, they were all just processed foods with tons of sugar or salt that was making me more sick.
Then, one day, while watching a food documentary, one of the doctors said,
“A financial professional would tell you that there is no cure for undisciplined behavior. If you don’t save or invest, you will not have money later when you need it. This is the same with eating habits.”
This statement hit home because I am a personal finance expert, media commentator, author, speaker, and former financial institution executive. That is exactly something I would say and have said regarding money. I just never applied it to food and my eating lifestyle.
At that moment, I made the decision to stop eating foods that were slowly killing me and eat foods that would heal me from the diseases I was struggling with.
