I have been wanting to share our story but also wasn’t sure if I should. We have had so many people stop us and ask us what we have done , so I feel compelled to share. I wasn’t feeling well, my head hurt all the time , my body ached daily, I was needing a nap everyday at 2 pm, and I was moody with a capital M. That is when I started diagnosing myself. I was only this way because the stress, the grief, the heartache, or it was from this or that? Well not soon after that I was at the ball field watching Michael play and talking to Laura McCall. I said listen something is going on with me and Ican’t figure it out, and I went on about all my “problems”. That is when she said the words that not only changed my life, but saved me.She said “Come see me and let’s do some blood work”. So that’s exactly what I did. When the blood work came back I was a mess, well not really but somewhat. My blood pressure was crazy , my vitamin B was nothing, I was pre diabetic, and My thyroid was trash. Laura brought me in talked to me told me how we could go about it and explained what I needed to do . Then she said it, you have an auto immune disease, I am pretty sure you have Hashimoto’s, and a gluten sensitivity. Next thing that came out her mouth was we need to start by changing your diet . Well guess what, from that day on I did! I cut gluten out and I will tell you at first it was so hard, but now I don’t miss it at all. That afternoon I went home and told Michael and that is when we decided it was time to change our lives not just for us but for our family. Our kids deserved for us to be healthy for them, to want to go and do with them for along time. We wanted to be a family and enjoy trips and time together. We want to see our kids get married one day and have babies and so on. Michael started going to Laura at this time also and his blood work wasn’t awful but had some work to be done too. Laura suggested cutting out added sugars, watching what we ate, and becoming more active. Wow did this really open our eyes. Eating something was just so easy, but not eating something was even harder. However, it made us more aware of our foods and so we cut out the snacking first. We made a promise that we were going to do this for us, our kids, and our family. Now Fast forward to today: we have changed our eating habits , the amount we eat, the junk we eat, and the sugar we take in. We are more active than ever before. We are going to start working out and building more muscle. Together Michael and I have lost about 160 pounds. We have changed so much already but our attitudes , and our outlook on life , have changed the most in the last year. I will admit, We still have some work to do but looking back at pictures from where we started to where we are now just gives us more hope. Thank you for listening to me ramble on and on. I wanted to share because if you have any doubt that you aren’t feeling the best, trust your body. It knows you better than anyone. Then take the next step and reach out to Laura at Compass Rose. I promise you she will be there for you every step of the way.