What is up guys? Welcome back to another episode of Empowered Radio. I am your host, Emma Montgomery.

Today we're getting a little personal. I realized when I was having a conversation with someone the other day that I have never actually shared my full fitness journey, weight loss journey, all of the things from basically like the very start, the messy

middle until now. And there's like multiple layers of it, I think is why I've never actually

like sat down and done like a full post on Instagram or even a full podcast on it. I've talked about

it on podcasts that I've been interviewed on, but as far as like

setting down and going through just all the nitty gritty of where I started and even like

how my business came about until now, I've never really got into that, like full story. So I thought

I would do that and record it on a podcast because obviously this is

long form content so this is something you know it'll be harder to fit into an Instagram

post or a real but I thought we'll just start at the beginning on here and hopefully I can

fit it in one episode. I think I can.

So we're going to rewind way back. I know I've never really shared this before.

And I won't even say that it was like out of embarrassment or anything. I just never really,

I don't know, felt the need or it never really found a place to come out. But when we're talking about people who have had any type of disordered eating patterns

or, you know, gained weight throughout their life, there's usually a lot of it will have like

transpired from some event.

And I can just talk about like when I was growing up and we never did without food.

Let me just start with saying that.

We never did without food.

My mother was always expected to make really big meals, you know, like the meatloaf and

the mashed potatoes and the green beans and pot roast with all the veggies and all the things. And it was like

very elaborate home-cooked meals. That's what my dad wanted after she had worked all day.

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