MEET TANYA
NASM CWC, AFAA Certified Group Fitness Instructor
ICF Professional Certified Wellness Coach

LIFE is a journey of lessons and experiences. My story may sound familiar to some, foreign to others, but unique to ME. We all have a story as we learn at an early age how to look, feel, act, eat, and many other behavioral lessons that make us who we are today from our adult teachers/mentors to television personalities. We then take those lessons learned and incorporate them into our daily lives as we enter adulthood, and many of us, will teach our children those same lessons with our own personal tweaks.

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If you think about where you were as a child to where we are now, not only have we changed mentally, but the way our bodies function also change with what life throws at us. We might have been in our best shape with the fastest metabolism at one time in our lives. Ladies and Gentlemen, I have a secret... our bodies change as we get older. We could have been overweight as a child but as an adult grew to become a healthy human being or we could have been the healthiest child and grew to being a bit overweight and having to overcome fitness obstacles.

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The fact is that change happens. Life happens. I use the analogy of a runner. Think about running and training daily for an event or athletic sport. We might have ran 5 miles back then, but now we can barely run 1 mile. Our minds can sometimes go back that we should be able to run the 5 miles we once ran back in the day; but our bodies say otherwise. The fact is that if we don't use it, we lose it right? Staying healthy is a habit and lifestyle that we must work on daily. 

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From early childhood, weight issues have always been a challenge – the typical rollercoaster many of us go through. In 2018, I embarked on my own personal fitness journey that would change my life. I was a Type 2 diabetic with hypertension issues. What I didn't expect through this process, was that this would be the beginning of my own personal fitness journey to learn about myself, change bad habits, and develop positive lifestyle changes.

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With the help of amazing coaches, both mental and physical, I learned to own my decisions, create and maintain positive healthy habits, focus and go after my life passions, cope with grief, navigate through my fears of the unknown and life's uncertainties; remove the "mask" to become my authentic self; navigate through career changes, set boundaries for myself, and many other lifestyle changes that led to a better and balanced life for myself.