Meet Kandi

I am a stay at home mom to two amazing kids, Emma 15 and Ella 7. I have been a SAHM mom more than 15 years and it has been the best experience, watching your kids grow into functioning adults. I have been married to my handsomely rugged welder of a husband for 16 years. My husband, Brian, builds gas stations like Buccess, 711, Circle K and many more. We live in Texas. I currently homeschool my kiddos and have for many years. That could possibly be changing in the near future. 

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In fall of 2017 I started getting really depressed emotionally. I was slacking in every part of my life, cleaning house, being a wife and mother. I also noticed I had gained a lot of weight. I was at my heaviest (without being 9 months pregnant) weighing in at 190pounds (and that is being generous). I realized I needed to do change the way I was doing things. Over the last 10 years I had worked out here and there, I never really stuck with a program or diet too long. Now, I am getting older I knew I needed to find a workout that I liked and I could stick with long term. So, I set out to find the perfect workout for me. I bought an amazing elliptical and used it for a year, however, I didn't see the weight loss I was looking for. Using the elliptical did help my depression, and this is the reason I kept with it for so long.

 

By the time 2018 was here I was done using the elliptical due to not seeing the physical results I had expected to see. This is when I found Fit Tea, I thought, well this couldn't hurt my weight loss. I feel in love with Fit Tea, it allowed me to drink WAY more water which in-turn helped my depression, weight loss.. I came to realize it wasn't my lack of activity that was hindering my weight loss, it was the food/drinks I was taking in. After I started the Fit Tea, I decided to change my whole diet. I did some research and found that the Paleo way of life was better for me. I am more of the person to be able to follow a diet if you can tell me exactly what to eat, instead of telling me all the things I cannot eat. This is what the Paleo life allowed me to do. Starting the Fit Tea and the Paleo Life was in January 2018 and I lost 15 pounds within that month and over the next couple of months I kept loosing weight. Then around June 2018 I start noticing the weight gain creepin' up. This made me realize that my diet and new way of life was not sustainable if I didn't have a workout program to go along with it. Since I didn't have the time to try a bunch of workout programs, I decided to put this on the back burner and keep doing the Fit Tea and Paleo. While 2019 came and went, nothing really changed. I was still heavy, the only thing that was better was my depression. Around October, Emma started asking me to do a game with her called Just Dance. I laughed it off and told her that is not for me. She kept on trying for a couple of months, telling me all the benefits of it (including loosing weight).

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For some reason I get real motivated in January to try new things ( I guess like everyone else it is due to it being a new year). I have never been one to do the whole new year resolution thing. But by now it is January 2020 and I finally decided to try the Just Dance game with Emma. I took measurements of my body prior to starting and then once a month thereafter. I noticed a visual difference in my body after the first week.. seriously! I was like "okay, I like this so far", I kept it up all of January and by the time I took measurements in February I had lost 2 1/2" off my arms... yes, you read that right, I will repeat, 2 1/2 inches off my arms!!! And that was just my arms. This is when I realized I had found my perfect work out and I had to share this secret weapon with anyone and everyone I could. This is what drove me to creating this blog. I wanted every woman to feel great in their own skin. That is exactly what this site is built to do.  Whatever your definition of that is, I want you to feel that amazing feeling. I wanted a whole community of women, men and kids to work together to back up each other in our own journey's to change. 

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Changing your diet, adding a workout plan, these should not be temporary fixes. It should be a life changing alteration. If you want to be able to manage your depression and feel great in your own skin, then this has to be a life changing journey. And you do not have to go through this journey alone.. that's why Happy Healthy and Holistic is here. Let's do this together. 

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God Bless you and your journey. 

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