Katherine
Campbell
“I never thought I could eat so much good food, feel so satisfied and look my best.”
Age: 25
Height: 5'0"
Heaviest Weight: 125 lb
Current Weight: 104 lb
My Journey:
My journey to my current weight began in high school. As a cheerleader, I wanted to be as light as possible, so I put myself on starvation diets. Little did I know back then all I was really doing was slowing my metabolism down. I was always fairly small at five feet and 115 pounds, but I always wished I could have a toned stomach and smaller legs. By the time I went to college, I was 120 lbs. I always seemed to gain and lose the same five pounds by yoyo dieting. In college, I was a cardio queen and even resorted to using diet pills. By using diet pills, I was able to get my weight down to 110. But looking back at pictures it was definitely a flabby 110. My skin looked terrible. I slept only five hours a night because the diet pills revved me up so much. I also started to have panic attacks. As a nursing student I realized that the diet pills were very hazardous to my health and therefore I gave them up.
After quitting the diet pills, however, my metabolism came to a grindling halt. I quickly gained back 15 lbs, and settled at about 125 lbs. I knew I was healthier without the diet pills, but I wished there was some way for me to look like the models I saw in Oxygen magazine. But like a fool, I continued to do tons of cardio and eat processed foods. Finally at age 24, I started to lift weights and did see a measurable drop in my body fat, but I still wasn't exactly where I wanted to be. I had almost given up, figuring that diet pills had ruined my metabolism.
I first heard of clean eating in Oxygen magazine. It sounded simple enough. I basically just cut out all processed foods, kept my sugar intake slim to none, and upped my fruits and veggies. Miraculously, I started losing body fat and my muscles started showing through. The Eat-Clean Diet® helped me in that it taught me to plan my meals and always bring a cooler filled with healthy foods to work with me. I never thought I could eat so much good food, feel so satisfied and look my best. I also had help from Cathy Savage in achieving contest-ready shape. She helped me to fine-tune my diet by manipulating macronutrients. However, at the base of any competition diet is clean eating. And now that I am post-competition, I am maintaining my physique effortlessly by continuing to just eat clean. The great thing about eating clean is that it is a lifestyle. You don't have to feel like you're on a diet. Plus, I don't fear that I will gain all the weight back because it's next to impossible to be overweight if you eat frequent clean meals.