I thought I was hiding my obsession with food and my weight.

Until my 6-year-old daughter said six words that shattered me.

It was a regular Friday family pizza night.

I had my usual salad — with dressing on the side — while everyone else dug in.

My five-year-old daughter looked at her six-year-old sister and asked,

“Why doesn’t Mommy ever eat the pizza?”

“Because it has too many calories,” she said.

That moment stopped me cold.

My lifelong battle with dieting and body shame wasn’t a secret. It was a lesson I was passing on.

And I knew right then: if I didn’t make a change, my daughters would grow up believing the same toxic things I did:

That their worth was tied to their weight.

That eating had to come with guilt.

That smaller was better.

I couldn’t let that happen.

So I made a decision: no more diets. No more tracking, restricting, or starting over.

Instead, I got to work.

I studied how the body actually works, why we obsess over food, and why willpower isn’t the answer.

And what I discovered changed everything.

Ten years ago, as an award-winning behavior specialist and educator for more than two decades, I combined my expertise with my work as a certified nutritionist to develop a groundbreaking approach that stabilizes blood sugar and rewires the thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors that have kept women stuck for decades.

That night around the pizza table?

It became the catalyst for everything I do today.

Now, more than ten years later, that lightbulb moment has helped transform the lives of thousands of women and their families.

Because when we stop obsessing over the scale and start fueling our bodies, we gain something no diet ever gave us:

Freedom. Confidence. And a life we actually want to live.