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Tammy is a former United States Marine with a passion for fitness. In her youth she stayed active in cheerleading and marching band and upon graduating high school in 1999 she shocked her friends and family by choosing to become a United States Marine.  She stayed active throughout her enlistment and in 2000 gave birth to a baby boy and became a wife in 2001. After leaving the Marine Corps in 2003 fitness and staying active became less of priorities as she worked out sporadically at best. She returned to the gym with regularity in 2007 but with no real goals or purpose beyond saying that she’d gone to the gym.  

Tammy gave birth to a baby girl in 2009 and fitness again took a back seat. Between 2011 and 2017, Tammy earned two degrees while working full-time.  However, in 2016 she found herself laid off from work. Being unemployed she had nothing but time on her hands and slowly made her way back to the gym.  

This time it was different.  Instead of going to the gym and doing only cardio, as she had with every previous gym experience, she tried weight lifting and discovered and untapped passion. Strength, stamina, endurance and challenging herself became a personal escape but it also opened her mind to the importance of taking care of her body. Tammy returned to work within a few months of being laid off, but she was determined to make time between family, work and school to keep up a challenging gym and workout schedule. 

Through self-education Tammy informed herself of the numerous diseases that plague the African American community.  Medical articles and journals list numerous diseases that black people are supposedly more susceptible to. She found herself turned off by the notion that black biology was somehow sub-par.  In her view, African Americans suffer at a higher rate than others from heart disease, diabetes, strokes, obesity, high blood pressure and etc. due to lifestyle choices, not sub-par biology. She calls these diseases choice driven illnesses.  

The lifestyle choices leading to these illnesses are over eating, unhealthy meal preparation, smoking, drinking and excessively sedentary lifestyles. Exercise and healthy eating practices are the natural counters to the statistics surrounding the health of the African American community and any person of any community that finds themselves afflicted by diseases that are preventable by making better food selections and being active. Tammy’s view is that some diseases are not from heredity, they are instead from bad habits formed very early in life. 

With this new knowledge and perspective on life, Tammy has channeled her passion in to educating and helping those around her break the cycle of preventable illnesses. She shares her workouts, meal preps and two-cents on health living with anyone willing to listen and desirous to make a change.  Tammy’s mantra is that we all have only one body to last us through life on this earth. She encourages everyone to #LiftSomethingBih!!