A Journey To Being More Fit
By Ainsley McSorley
I feel compelled to share my journey with fitness.
I had on the surface what most would envy. I developed what appeared to be such extreme self discipline (seemingly out of nowhere) that had I been an onlooker I would have thought wow that girl might be on stage with Tony Robbins before I know it. When I look back on it now I'm not sure if it was discipline or the fueling of my ego.
I was addicted to – those words of affirmation I so deeply longed for.
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I was studying Human Nutritional sciences in university. I was working in a restaurant/lounge constantly surrounded by food and drinks and indulgence. I was coming off a run of weekly nightclub appearances and late night fast food...you know the life of a university student at its finest!
I had gained weight yet for some reason I hadn’t quite noticed until 1 day in 2006 I looked down and my body looked foreign to me. Lying in bed that night I was reading a fitness magazine and saw an ad for a fitness competition coming to Winnipeg…boom, done I was going to compete to lose this weight and to learn how to workout. I had approx. 12 weeks. Right then and there I began researching, I began dieting – not 1 cheat for 12 weeks – I began working out 6
A Journey to Being More Fit
days a week and my 22 year old body easily transformed to a 4th place victory on that stage. I remember friends saying “its only 12 weekends until you party with us again,” or myself counting down the days until I could inhale a bag of chips the second I stepped off the stage. I was officially addicted…all the words of affirmation, the incredible photos, the attention!
Not knowing at the time, words of affirmation being my love language and being surrounded with loved ones who didn’t speak the same language I was in my glory. From that 1st competition I completed 3 months of dieting – compete – binge - repeat cycle for the next 6 years. I won titles, competed all over North America (have you ever seen a fitness competitor win 1st place, have her friends
