Nicole’s Success Story
My Journey with Booty Camp
I was diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease at an early age of sixteen when I had my emergency surgery. Crohn’s Disease is a disorder of the digestive tract. The walls of the intestine thicken resulting in pain, discomfort and possible surgery removing portions of your intestine along with other affected organs. This disease has become one of the major obstacles in my life which has mentally and physically taken over my body and family. My family and I have been stuck in a conflict between the reality of the disease and trying to sustain a normal lifestyle. Experimenting with unsuccessful options such as diets, work outs, chiropractic therapies and medicines, I was beginning to wonder if I would ever see the light at the end of the tunnel. The vicious cycle of depression was starting to ruin my spirits until I met my instructor of Booty Camp Fitness.
My husband has stood by my side for many years through many grueling crones’ attacks, and countless weeks of pain, exhaustion and physical drain. He joined me in the hospital during my attacks wishing he could do anything to help me; but couldn’t. He would patiently put up with me complaining about my weight gain from the different medications I had to take. The appointment I had this past spring with my crohn’s specialist, was very discouraging with the final prescription of another surgery in the near future if my body wasn’t going to stop deteriorating. The two options the doctor gave me was surgery or infusion (last chance drug) with possible surgery if my body wouldn’t accept the drug. The infusion administered drug is uncompensated and very expensive. After a long talk with my husband, we thought this was our year to turn the table, and make one last chance to find a way to accomplish our dream of a healthy family and lifestyle. I was not willing to go through another surgery; the more surgery’s you have with this disease limits your life, activity and hope. My husband and I decided to look for a work out regiment that would help make my body strong to accept this “last chance drug”; this is when I met my Booty camp instructor, my mentor of full body health. She took me from pain and depression to a whole other side of life I thought I would never see again.
One of the greatest things I have obtained from this experience, and come to appreciate, is the feeling of normality once again. I also possess a higher degree of energy. When I get home from a busy day at the office, I now find I have more energy then the kids. Before the infusions and partaking in Booty camp I used to be exhausted and lethargic but now my children appreciate having an energetic mommy. My youngest child said to me one day while playing; “Mommy, I’m tired and can’t keep up with you.” The smile on my husbands face made my heart melt with joy. Right then, I new this was the start of my healing process, the start of a long waited struggle to end.
As the weeks went on, and my transformation kept improving day to day, I began to realize that the depression was burning away with every drip of sweat that rolled down my body while I worked out. It feels like my old painful body has been blown away by the breeze made from the workout music… lifting all uncertainty of healing out of my mind; helping my heart let go of the idea that I may not feel normal again.
Booty camp fitness supplied us with weekly recipes to follow and with my limited diet due to the disease; I was unable to eat 85% of them. With the help of my Booty instructor, with her group nutritional talk, and the one on one time she gave me; my husband and I were able to take all the knowledge she gave us and come up with several nutritional alternatives that work with my diet. The Booty Camp website has many extra tips that also helped during my eight weeks such as, additional work-outs, online nutritional advice, diet dos and don’ts, inspirational and encouraging testimonials. This extra reference was above and beyond anything I could have ever asked for from such a program.
The true test was my latest doctor’s appointment. As I sat there in the doctor’s office expecting to hear more bad news, the doctor looked at me and said “NO surgery is needed in your near future, your body is healing”. After leaving his office I started crying, not because I was sad, but because I finally did it, I accomplished a goal that seemed so unattainable. I don’t think my body has looked or felt this amazing before, not only am I healthy through my mind and body, but also my soul.
With the help of my instructor with the workouts, healthy food alternatives, and determination my body went into an unbelievable change making Booty camp fitness the key directional position of my body healing compass.
Thank you,
Nicole Sedore