034 {series P1} How to heal your body while living ethically: Dominica Roszko

Dominica Roszko started making changes to her life 10 years ago. After getting in tune with her body through meditation and suffering an embarrassing rash on her face, she got real about what she was putting in her body through her nutrition.  Her journey is inspiring. Learn how she got real about her food and in the process, lost close to 45 pounds in less than a month.  You can find her website here: http://www.vegerasta.com/ Save Save Save Transcript: Hey, everybody, Happy Wednesday, I want to kick off a series that I’m going to be starting today, that is three different interviews. So you’ll get this one this Wednesday, and then there’ll be two others on the subsequent Wednesdays. So, let me tell you a little bit about the story and sort of how this came to be. So thank you for indulging me for a minute while I share with you kind of what happened. I if you followed along with me on my journey and, and been part of my little tribe of friends here for the last couple years, you know that I have been a competitive weightlifter. And I love that it’s one of my passions, and I owned a CrossFit gym, and I sold that gym and just focused on building this business and, and, and lifting. And so I competed in the pan-am masters, it was about two years ago this June. So just coming up on two years ago. And during that time, I really, really super honed in on my nutrition. And I wrote a book called become a nutrition Ninja, that’s helped thousands of people to be able to cut weight and compete at a weight that they wanted. And when you’re a competitive weightlifter, your weight actually matters because when you when you sign up for a competition, you sign up in a weight class. So you have to hit that weight class to be able to compete. So there is that pressure of your weight, where is the typical person that I talked to you that just wants to look good and feel good and have energy, I usually tell them just don’t look at the scale, we’re going to focus on other factors. But when you’re a weightlifter, it’s your weight. So I did that. And I competed, I got a bronze medal, and then time went on, and I stopped lifting as much I started writing my second book called start small, live big. And that just came out in December. And so I was really focused on that. And during that time, I had a coach and a mentor. And I was really focused in on learning like endless, long, long days of learning. And literally, I would meet with this mentor for like three to four hours a day and go through my belief systems and how I thought about things, like really intense stuff. And during that time, I think probably a combination of like high stress, you know, intense time and not lifting as much I started to gain some weight. And I actually felt okay with that, like, I felt like I was being a little bit more balanced about my life. But then it got to the point just a couple months ago, where I just was feeling like, I don’t really feel that good anymore. Like I gained some weight. And I was okay with that. Because I didn’t necessarily need to be as lean as I was. But I felt good. And now, since I had clothes that were at that old weight, I didn’t really you know, it, you know that feeling where you’re just like, Oh, I’m just not myself, I’m not myself is really what it came down to. Now I’m a big meditator, I really enjoy that I get a lot out of that. And so one day when I sat in meditation, and I just asked my body and I asked many times, I’ll ask like my guides around me. And I said, like body, what is it you want? Because you’re not acting the way I want. And so I must not be giving you what you want, what is it that you want? And there are times where I ask myself things, I’ll ask my intuition,