With summer in full swing all of the greedy marketers come ’round to collect their new wave of victims.Creating products that are dangerous, ineffective, and highly misleading.

These companies use their Facebook banners and Instagram endorsements to play on the desperation and the laziness of people trying hopelessly to achieve extremely high (and often impossible) standards with as little effort as possible.

Not only do these products damage the body but they cripple the mind by creating habits out of instant gratification and throwing money at bigger issues.

I understand this so well because I have been there for the past 3 years!

When I turned 22 I gained 30 pounds and it has not gone away. I went from a size 1 to a size 8 and I felt so incredibly betrayed by my body. I felt hopeless and terrified and anxious and depressed as I realized that the fat wasn’t going away.

The fitness products and memberships and new yoga pants I bought did nothing to fix the problem. Because, I soon realized, the problem was not with my resources, but with my brain.

My brain wasn’t getting the nutrients necessary to regulate my metabolism and digest my food optimally. In addition to lack of nutrition and exercise, my brain had a network of terrible habits built in over years and years of an on again off again relationship with health.

By changing my lifestyle and retraining my brain to love health and hate harm, I was able to finally see progress in my quest for a healthy body.

I loved filming this and I am so excited to hear your thoughts on what I have to say!