Where it all began...

Beginning a blog is something i have thought about for a long time, and for a while i have used my other social media pages for this outlet... But sitting up still after 10.30pm with my mind racing and no chance of me drifting off to sleep anytime soon has me sitting at my computer and finally taking the leap!

I suppose the most fitting first blog should be a bit about myself (although im sure you will come to learn a lot about me through these posts!). So where did it all begin? This passion for health and finding the truth about what it really is that us as human beings thrive and excel from?

I guess it all begins with childhood doesn't it? I mean who cant trace a habit or belief back to this time. As you may be aware as i have mentioned on several occasions, i have Crohn's disease. I was diagnosed at age 11. My fascination with the human body and what it is capable of began here. More importantly my awareness of what should and shouldn't be entering the body began here!

As an 11 year old i had to keep a journal. I had to focus my attention on what different foods did to me, and how they made me feel. I believe i had already developed a coping mechanism of using food for comfort- which still exists and isn't going anywhere anytime soon i might add! I soon learnt that foods with numbers and unpronounceable names didn't do good things to my body. I also learnt to not trust my body... and that is a relationship i am still trying to heal.

Mostly i realised dairy, and high sugar containing foods were the enemy. And of course, telling an 11 year old you cant eat these two things only makes them more desirable and craved!

So fast forward to late teens, past puberty and all the fun hormone changes that come with it, my relationship with food was still an unhealthy one. I would make poor food choices, and feel immense guilt afterwards. I developed bulimia for a short period- but was to ashamed of this also to let it continue. I developed anxiety and was diagnosed with depression and placed on anti-depressants, again my shame for needing these things and feeling like i had failed meant they didn't last long. Not to mention the dramatic effect they were having on my focus and memory which wasn't ideal whilst doing my VCE.

All of these hurdles and challenges have shaped me into the conscious, curious and information hungry person i am today- and i wouldn't change it for the world. I am so glad i learnt those hard lessons before having my son. Whilst i know i don't have everything figured out in his diet- i know i have the experience and knowledge behind me to give him some tremendous building blocks that many other mothers wouldn't even have on their radar. I am confident i can prevent him from many of the immune disorders, chronic diseases and obesity trends that are running rampant in our next generation. This is what drives me. The thought that our children actually now have a shorter life expectancy than us. How have we gone so wrong with diet and the information we are led to believe is true? Who do we really trust in this time?

All these questions i want answers to and this is my mission. My why. My daily motivation. My babies <3

LJ xo