why i do this
I always had a love-hate relationship with food when I was growing up. I've always loved food– and I mean LOVED IT! Even today, I love to eat. When I was in high school, I ate too much of the wrong things– I was on every crazy diet that came along!

At the start of my professional acting career, my weight would fluctuate with my roles – or lack of roles! Up and down, up and down. If I was too heavy to audition for a part, I would fake an illness to avoid the audition. If I didn't get a part, I blamed it on my weight, or the failure of my last diet.

But then something happened to change my whole perspective on food and health. Both of my parents died in their fifties (my father at 52 from a heart attack, and my mother at 58 from arthritis complications). I vowed that no one else in my family would suffer like my mother did– so I started researching health. And I found that there are amazing connections between what we eat and how we feel. I learned that we can have a positive impact on our own health, just by making healthy food choices, and choosing a healthy lifestyle.

I started experimenting with the foods I ate, to see how they made me feel, and how they affected my weight. And after eight years of experimentation, I was living a healthy lifestyle according to the 10 Steps of the Total Health Makeover! Since 1987, I've been living this way. I haven't had a cold or a serious illness since then. I look better – and feel better! – than I did in my 20's!

I don't just follow THM - I live it every single day!