In this episode, we have Audra Johnson, a licensed travel professional and author of three books "Love Yourself Girl", "Body Forgiveness", and "The Journey Continues". Audra shares her journey of overcoming her weight struggles and how she transformed her life through health and wellness. She shares how she weighed 350 pounds at age 30 and started researching health and wellness to create her own program. Through self-examination, she discovered that her weight struggles were rooted in a spiritual issue, which she addressed through a spiritual journey. Join us as Audra shares her inspiring story and offers tips on health and wellness to help you transform your life.

Key Points In This Episode: 

• Audra Johnson is a licensed travel professional and author of three books: "Love Yourself Girl", "Body Forgiveness", and "The journey continues".
• She helps people plan their vacations and offers tips on health and wellness through her books and health program regimen.
• Low self-esteem due to being teased in school and turned to food as comfort.
• Weighing 350 pounds at age 30 and started researching health and wellness to create her own program.
• Discovering that her weight struggles were due to lack of education and a spiritual issue.
• Peeling back the layers of her past and do a spiritual journey that led her to discover the root cause of her weight struggles.
• Finding out that her weight struggles were due to wearing improper footwear in middle school.
• Starting resistance training and walking to improve their health and physique.
• The exercise led to improvement in cardiovascular endurance, respiratory function and reduced symptoms of bronchitis.
• Combining exercise with a balanced diet and switched up their carb choices every 4 weeks to prevent plateaus.
• The speaker emphasizes the importance of continuously challenging the body to see results, and taking time for recovery.
• Celebrating non-scale victories, such as gaining muscle and losing fat, which can lead to improvement in overall health and well-being.

Quotable Moments: 

“And I just say, keep going, because when I hit a plateau, Amy, that's what I just ,kept going, and when my plateau broke, I didn't even realize when it broke. I just kept going.” - Audra 25:37

“Sometimes women that are always in the mirror, they're always looking at themselves. Sometimes they don't see themselves the way they really are.” Audra 33:08

Links Mentioned: 

Audra’Johnson’s Email

[email protected]

Amy Cassels

www.amycassels.com

Amy Cassels on Twitter

https://twitter.com/amy_cassels?lang=en

Amy Cassels on Instagram 

https://www.instagram.com/acassels/?hl=en

Amy Cassels on YouTube

 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBzoQfLNzz_ieatgaoWDTcw

Mentioned in this episode:

NingxiaRed

Sparkle Dust