Meet the Team

Thank you for visiting my website. My name is Tobi, and I am currently 46 years old. I am the mother of one beautiful son, currently aged 21, and the most angelic golden retriever, named Willie, you’d ever hope to meet.

I was only 8 years old, when I realized I was different, than other people, when it came to food. By the age of 19, I was 300 pounds. I was in college at the time. College is supposed to be fun, wild, free, but for me it wasn’t. I felt like a failure, hopeless, sad, stuck; stuck in a living hell. My body was my own personal prison. I was isolating, and eating alone, most of the day, every day, and headed for death, or, at the very least, being bedridden.

I struggled with food, weight and obesity for decades. During that time I did a lot of sad and crazy things with food. I hid food, I snuck food, I stole money from my parents to buy junk food, I used bill/rent money to buy takeout, I bought healthy groceries every pay day – only to throw them out next pay day and do it all over again. I regularly ate to the point of being in pain or feeling sick. I wholeheartedly know the suffering that goes along with this battle, with every ounce and fiber of my being.

During those years, I tried almost every diet and weight loss program known to man, multiple exercise programs, and even hypnosis; basically, every external solution I could find. None of them worked. Shots weren’t readily available yet, and I was never offered the surgery, or I probably would’ve tried those things too.

I also met with countless professionals. All of which genuinely had the best of intentions, and truly wanted to help me, they really did. But what all of them had in common, was that they had never personally experienced it themselves. They knew the science of medicine, diet, and exercise, but they didn’t have any firsthand experience with this vicious cycle or the pain and suffering that goes along with it. Unless someone has been through this themselves, they will never truly understand it. They won’t; that’s just the way it is.

Eventually I did find the help I needed, and for some reason I have been spared from the hell I was living. I am beyond grateful for this every single day. Today I live a beautiful, peaceful, normal life. Food and my weight no longer rule me. This is something I thought I would never get to experience, and I want to help you do the same.

I want to finish with this; I am a mom, a dog mom, a daughter, a partner and a friend. I am a pickup driving hillbilly, a bit of a tomboy but also a bit girly, and a klutz. I’ve spent years as a single mom, I’ve been married, and divorced. I’ve worked two jobs, I’ve worked seven days a week, I’ve cleaned offices and scrubbed toilets at night. I am not extraordinary. BUT I absolutely know the pain you feel, I absolutely know the hopelessness you feel, I have been there and lived there for decades. Pain has been my R&D. If I can do this, you absolutely can too and I can help, it’s time to return to life.