Like so many people, I have struggled with my weight and tried lots of fad diets out there. Nothing worked and the older I got, the harder the struggle became. However, things got real for me a few years ago when my doctor told me I have high cholesterol and was pre-diabetic. I knew it was time to make a lifelong change if I wanted to be around for my family.
I started working out, which was new for me, and once it became a habit I focused on my nutrition. I assumed food would be the easy part for me being that I have a degree in Culinary Arts and have been a Chef my professional career. I was so wrong! Between working full-time, being a wife and mom, and life just being crazy, I couldn’t find the time to meal prep. It was so much easier to just grab fast food or pick up a pizza on the way home. The more I talked to friends the more I realized that so many people in my life struggled with finding the time to meal-prep and eat healthy.
Helping people has always been my nature so when a friend asked me to make healthy meals for her sick mother I didn’t hesitate. When my friends heard about the meals I created for her, they asked me to cook for them. More and more people wanted my meals so from there, Shy’s Eats was born! I decided to leave my Executive Chef position and focus on my business full-time, creating healthy meals and snacks with clean ingredients without sacrificing taste or nutritional value I have been fortunate to partner with a registered dietitian who does the nutritional information because as a Chef I was more used to a “pinch of that” and a “handful of this.” There are still days where I pick up a pizza on my way home but now that I have my meals and snacks planned out it’s’ far less often.
