the Fit Esthetician : General

I have always been a pretty active girl! I loved playing Volleyball, that was by far my FAVORITE sport and the ONLY one I played. Hey, it got me a volleyball scholarship, so I'm ok with that. :) I have always enjoyed being healthy, although my knowledge on Carbs and Sugar didn't sink in until later in my life. Lets just say....I GAINED the Freshman 15! Not cool. On off season of volleyball I decided to still eat all the Carbs and therefore gained some WEIGHT! NOW that I'm older in my years, I feel like I really understand healthy eating and why it's CRUCIAL to my health. I remember my family always calling me a rabbit eater, because honestly my favorite meal to eat when I was little was...SALAD! I love me some GREENS!

It's truly all about BALANCE! Right? SO here I am....a Fitness Coach and now enjoy sharing what I know about how to eat well. How to take care of your body in the BEST way, INSIDE as well as OUT!

After having my three kids, I wanted to make GOALS for myself. I wanted to be toned and have those girl abs! I worked hard, I was determined, I had a vision and so I worked to ACHIEVE that goal of mine. Working out 25 min a day at home is doable! Drinking a Nutritional Shake, Shakeology so doable! As a mom, I'm always on the GO! I don't always have the time to find something healthy to eat and so Shakeology was my LIFE SAVER! Quick, Easy & oh so Healthy! BAM!

With those 2 magical things combined your body will not ONLY FEEL better, but LOOK better and your self confidence will GROW within you.

I have seen it in myself and also in the LIVES of others. I love to see that. I do. It makes me happy knowing that I could be a little PART of that change. Every one is WORTH it in my eyes. It's my DUTY to make them BELIEVE that too. :)

Photos taken by the Wonderful Steven Hatch :)

Gluten Free Breakfast

GF Crepes
GF Hoot N' Nannies (German Pancakes)
GF Churro Cinnamon Waffles
GF Pancakes
GF Coconut Flour Fluffy Waffles
GF Chocolate Chip Muffins

Gluten Free Snacks

GF Protein Bites

Gluten Free Lunch

Gluten Free Dinner

GF Bisquits
GF Coconut Flour Tortilla Shells
GF Biscuits & Gravy with a Twist

Gluten Free Dessert

GF Chocolate Chip Cookies
GF Flour-Less, No Butter, PB Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies
GF Healthy No Bake Cookies
GF Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins/Cookies
GF Sugar Cookies
GF Homemade Brownies
GF Monster M&M Cookie Bars
GF Homemade Magic Shell Chocolate Sauce
GF 4 Ingredient PB Bars
GF Twix Bars

I stuggled. I had low self-esteem. I was embarrassed. I thought I was ugly.

These were my thoughts...about 15 years ago. I stuggled with acne. Bad. The kind called, Cystic Acne. Not small zits, big ones! That NEVER came to the surface of my skin, they just fester and are huge! Oh, and they hurt. :(

I actually used to have FLAWLESS skin, up until I was a clueless teenager and decided to NOT wear sunscreen one day. Well, wrong MISTAKE! That "one day" happened to be my Volleyball Car Wash Raise money day and it was blistering hot. So I was in the sun for 7 hours straight....NO sunscreen!

Did I get SUNBURNED?

Let's just say, I looked like a LOBSTER. Red, burnt and oh so crispy.

That's the day my skin CHANGED forever. Lesson Learned.

Wear SUNSCREEN people!!

So I got 2nd Degree burn on my face, my skin started to get HUGE pores and this was the start of my horrible ACNE. My skin NEVER has looked the same since that "one day".

So fast forward about 5 years....I graduated High School...I earned a Volleyball Scholarship to a 2 year College in Tri-Cities, WA and I served a Mission to Detroit, MI for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Yet, I still struggled with Cystic Acne and had low self-esteem because of it. I remember my sweet mom taking me to a Dermatologist and he injected a steroid into my acne to make the inflammation go down! Oh my goodness, it HURT so badly. I'll NEVER forget those days.

They would go AWAY for a time, but would reappear again. It was this cycle that was never ending. I thought there was NO hope. Envying girls that had FLAWLESS skin became an obsession of mine. I wanted perfect skin and I needed to find something or someone to HELP me.

I had heard of Esthetician's, but never knew what they all did. I would ask my Dermatologist if the makeup I was using was alright, but it was like he didn't even know! So I made an appointment with an Esthetician and she forever CHANGED the course of my LIFE. She was beautiful inside and out. I felt her PASSION in wanting me to feel better about myself. She wanted to help me ACHIEVE that. She looked at me like she understood how I was FEELING. I could tell she LOVED being an Esthetician.

She did HELP me. In MORE ways than one. Not only did she HELP most of my acne clear up, she helped my Self Confidence GROW within me. She gave me the GIFT of loving myself no matter if I had acne or not.

I wanted to be like her. I wanted to HELP people with their struggles in life. I wanted to help others with their Acne.

So I did.

In 2005 I attended school at Bon Lossee Academy in Provo, UT. It was a school for hair and skin, but of course I was only INTERESTED in Skin Care. :)

I LOVED every minute of being there. I felt like I belonged. I knew I was on my way to make a DIFFERENCE in someone else's life. Out of the 8 students in my class, me and this other girl were the "Guinea Pigs" for Chemical Peels and Extractions.

We were the ones with the most horrible acne, so we were picked on for all the treatments pertaining to acne. At the time, I was embarrassed and bitter. But my skin started to clear because I was constantly getting treatments done. My attitude changed, my self confidence grew, I was happier.

When I graduated Esthetics School, my skin had never looked so good. I wanted BEAUTIFUL skin on my Wedding Day and guess what?

It was!

So this is the story of WHY I became an Esthetician and WHY I love helping people that have acne or need any skin care help, for that matter.

I have helped numerous people with their Acne Struggles and to me....that is PRICELESS!