I have numer­ous things wrong with me phys­i­cally: Hyper­parathy­roidism and asthma. I bat­tle depres­sion every day and in the past I suf­fered from bulimia. Com­bine that with my sis­ter dying in March 2009 at 36 years old from some­thing that we still can’t name, and my father-in-law dying from things that may or may not have been asso­ci­ated with a life­time of abuse inflicted upon his body, I knew that some­thing had to change. If I wanted to life a long life watch­ing my daugh­ter grow up with my hus­band, we had to make seri­ous changes.

I’m Kristina and I am doing some­thing in this pic­ture that I have not done in a long time. I’m smiling.

The jour­ney to that smile is years in the mak­ing but what brought it on took place in only two months. After a long bat­tle with obe­sity, eat­ing dis­or­ders, and yo-yo diet­ing, I found Every­day Paleo, The Paleo Diet, and The Paleo Solu­tion. And what I began wasn’t a diet. I declared that I was done with diet­ing on July 4, 2011. What I began was My Life, Improved.

The truth is that I have started this jour­ney many times before and have failed. I’m talk­ing slammed on my face, failed. I have con­tem­plated weight loss surgery and came very close to hav­ing it this sum­mer (2011) but decided that the uni­verse was try­ing to pre­vent it from hap­pen­ing. I rec­og­nize when things are not sup­posed to hap­pen; I’m an athe­ist but I’m no dummy! I fol­low my intu­ition. This deci­sion cat­a­pulted me into a whirl­wind of emo­tional fucked-uped-ness and even­tu­ally lead me to the real­iza­tion that I had been doing it all wrong.

So with the help of some really cool peo­ple, my hus­band and I are embark­ing on a mis­sion to change  our lives by devel­op­ing healthy habits that will rub off on our 5 year old. We hope to lose a total of 460 pounds together in total!

I beg you to help me along and to share your sto­ries too. You can reach me here, on twit­ter (a lit­tle more social media focused), or at this twit­ter (me only more blunt).

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