09/22/2026
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I have always been into fitness. I’ve always loved working out, and discipline in the gym was never really my problem.
Nutrition was.
After having my second baby, I became someone I barely recognized. I was irritable, rage-filled, impatient, and a nighttime binge eater. I could bust my ass in the gym every single day, but I could never get my nutrition under control.
At one point, I tried Ozempic for three weeks. And I hated myself for it.
Not because of how it made me feel physically, but because I felt like I was cheating.
“I’m cheating. I can’t stand a cheater.”
Those were literally my thoughts.
So I stopped taking it and told myself—and everyone else—that I’d had an allergic reaction.
The truth? I was angry about the entire GLP-1 trend. I was mad at everyone taking them. Here I was busting my ass in the gym, doing all this work, and wondering, Where the hell are my results?
Looking back, a lot of that anger was jealousy and frustration. And I had absolutely no idea how much my perspective would eventually change.
Around that time, my amazing husband encouraged me to go see Tanya Moorehead at Transcend Training.
Tanya became so much more than a trainer to me. She became my life coach, and we started with the most basic things imaginable: Drink your water. Eat throughout the day. Fuel your body.
Those simple habits eventually turned into weekly meal prepping, with a ton of my food inspiration coming from Makayla Thomas Fit.
I lost around 25 pounds.
And then I got stuck.
Because no matter how “good” I was during the day, nighttime came—and so did the binge eating.
One trip to the cabinet.
Then two.
Then three.
Sometimes six.
Thousands of calories later, I would tell myself the same thing I had told myself a thousand times before:
I’ll do better tomorrow.
But tomorrow night, I would do it all over again.
The one thing I never did, though, was quit.
I never stopped working out. I never stopped drinking my water. I never stopped trying.
But there was something much bigger happening underneath all of this.
I was still angry. I was yelling. I was impatient and constantly overstimulated. And this is hard to admit, but there was a point when I was happier being at work, away from my family, than I was being home with them.
I truly hated being a mom.
Eventually, I basically sprinted to my P*P and unloaded everything I was feeling.
And she told me something I had never considered:
ADHD.
What do you mean I have ADHD?!
I started learning about how ADHD can present in women and how it can go unrecognized for years, especially when symptoms have previously been attributed to things like anxiety or depression. Motherhood and all of its demands had made symptoms I had apparently been coping with for years impossible for me to ignore.
Naturally, I fell down the ADHD-in-moms TikTok rabbit hole.
Holy. Cow.
I had never related to more women in my life.
For me, ADHD looked like constant thinking. It was knowing I had a million things to do but being unable to start because I didn’t know where to start.
It was finally getting into a groove and accomplishing something, only for one of my kids to interrupt me because they needed me to open a string cheese—and feeling irrationally furious about it.
It was loud noises, crying, whining and chaos making me feel like I was going to crawl out of my skin.
It was binge eating. Impulsive spending. Constantly looking for the next thing that would make my brain feel good.
I was constantly chasing stimulation and relief without even realizing it.
I was terrified to start ADHD medication because of the stigma I had attached to it.
But getting treatment changed my life.
I love my kids.
I love my husband.
I love being home.
I love being at work.
I genuinely love my life.
Of course I still get frustrated. I’m still a mom. My kids still act like kids. My house still gets loud. The chaos tornado is absolutely still there.
The difference is that now I can stand in the middle of that tornado, smile, and open the damn string cheese while it swirls around me.
Finding the right medication fit hasn’t been easy, though. And even as other parts of my life improved, the binge eating didn’t.
Actually, it was getting worse.
And then, randomly, I decided to give a GLP-1 another chance.
That decision was HARD.
How could I take something I had spent so much time judging other people for taking?
Wouldn’t that make me the biggest hypocrite?
I cannot tell you how long I stared at that purchase button.
But eventually, I pressed it.
And I wish I had done it sooner.
I wish I had spent less time judging other people for using a tool that helped them. I wish I had recognized that some of my anger toward their success was really frustration with my own struggle.
I started microdosing a GLP-1 in June with the goal of quieting the food noise that I could not seem to control on my own.
And I want to be very clear about something:
A GLP-1 didn’t build my muscle.
It didn’t teach me how to hit my macros.
It didn’t meal prep for me.
It didn’t make me drink my water.
It didn’t create my discipline in the gym.
It didn’t put the weights in my hands and make me lift them.
I did those things.
What it did do was help quiet the food noise and stop the nighttime binge eating that had been standing between me and the progress I had worked so hard for.
And that was the tool I needed.
Today, I’m not chasing a number on the scale. Actually, the more I see that number go down, the more nervous I get.
I’m chasing a look.
I’m chasing a feeling.
I don’t even know exactly what either of those are yet.
But when I figure it out, I won’t hesitate to share it.
Until then, I’m going to keep my head down, hit my macros, drink my water, and lift as much heavy s**t as I possibly can.
And through all of this, there are two people I owe more to than I could ever put into words: my husband and Tanya Moorehead.
You two believed in me, supported me, challenged me, and helped me become a version of myself I wasn’t sure existed anymore.
You didn’t just change my body.
You changed my life.
And for that, I will be forever grateful!
