Welcome to This Fit Kitchen! I am so excited that you are here! I hope that you enjoy the recipes and information that I have to share. My name is Andrea and I love to experiment in my kitchen.  I am all about creating recipes that are both delicious and healthy.  I firmly believe that you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other.

I have loved to cook and bake for as long as I can remember.  However, too many years of indulging this hobby, paired with a few other unhealthy habits and I found myself weighing upwards of 200 pounds.  Today I weigh a lot less than that but even more importantly, I couldn’t be happier with how I feel in my own skin – regardless of what I weigh.  But it took me a while to get here.  Regardless of where you are in your own wellness journey, just take it day-by-day.  

My breaking point was realizing that putting on my shoes was becoming an uncomfortable undertaking.  As a result, I decided to make some changes in both the way I move my body and the things I nourish it with.  For a while, that meant my food wasn’t too exciting – and my exercise mostly involved being a slave to various cardio machines.  

More recently I had the fortune to find an amazing coach and these days I lift (heavy!) and always enjoy lots of awesome food.  I’ve come to love having fitness in my life, and now I also love the foods I eat.  My coach provides me with guidance on macros, and then I take it from there, creating recipes that I love.  I eat carbs, fat and protein every day.  No Keto diet or paleo diet here – just mostly minimally processed foods in proportions and portions that work for me.  If you want to know more about my awesome coach, check her out on www.teamstronggirls.com

But follow along here for all the yummy things.  I promise that my recipes are always the things that I actually eat – and that my hubby eats too.