I grew up in North Carolina, born and raised a country girl at heart, before enlisting in the Air Force when I was 17 years old and serving 11 years active duty. I’ve been thankful to call many parts of this world my home, but I now live right outside of Tampa in the Florida sunshine with golden doodle baby, Nala. I grew up playing sports in high school, but never really understood how to “be healthy”. I was the girl who was always self conscious, felt like I couldn’t just “be skinny” like the other girls I was around, and really struggled with my goal to join the military because I was told to drop 20 lbs before I could start the process.