Hi and welcome to my site.
My name is Laura & I’m a 24 year old who currently lives in Sydney, Australia.
My blog has become the place for me to share my life with the world in whatever way I feel like at the time. I try my hardest to blog on a regular basis (when university allows). I have an unhealthy obsession with bubble tea, fresh juice, certain drinks at starbucks & I can not survive without sushi once a week. My music taste is equally as awkward as my love for a big bowl of steaming hot noodles.
I lost an entire person worth of weight when I was 20 years old & I have not looked back. Losing that weight dramatically changed the way I thought about food, the way I prepared my food and the way I enjoy my food. I became more aware of the food I was putting into my body & started to become very interested in the nutritional side of food.
This interest in nutrition lead me into university where I am currently undertaking my bachelor’s degree in Science, where I’ve chosen Biochemistry as my major. Since commencing my life as a student, studying full-time, I have changed the way I write this blog. I have been writing about what it feels like to be a student at university who likes to be healthy.
On November 11th, 2000 my life was changed forever. My local swim team had their usual swim meet and I was eager and excited to participate. I had signed up for multiple races one of which included the 100-meter breaststroke. This race began at the shallow end of the pool and even at the young age of 12, I knew diving into 900 cms of water wasn’t the brightest idea. Being the obedient swimmer I was I stood on the diving block anyways to begin my race. Within seconds my life was changed forever. The starting block I was standing on wasn’t at all stable and I fell face first and hitting my chin on the bottom of the shallow end of the pool.
The impact of the fall caused a whiplash effect in turn breaking my spinal cord, leaving me paralyzed from the neck down with little mobility in my arms. I have always been a resilient person and this has helped me cope with this life changing event I experienced. Dealing with a spinal cord injury is quite a traumatic experience however I was able to be strong, accept my injury, and move forward in my life.
It wasn’t an easy thing to accept by any means but I wasn’t about to give up on life because of the situation I was placed in.
That is my story and this blog is my life. These are my adventures, misadventures and everything in between.
Enjoy the ride – I sure am!
Wow!! You have sun an inspiring story! What a great attitude, and to get a hold of your health like that is incredible…keep up the great work!
Laura,
You are an amazing person. I love your positive attitude towards life and making weight loss a success; which you did. I think you look wonderful and healthy. I hope to accomplish my dream of a healthy me one day.
Keep up your strength, life is worth living no matter what happened in the past. You are an example for others. Congratulations on your success!
Cheers,
Mari
I’m in awe. To have gone through so much and be so strong in yourself – inspirational. I’ve been trying to comment on some of your other posts but clearly my laptop is playing up, because it won’t let me. But I’ll try and come back later and comment then!
P.S. If only you were still in Canberra, I’d be able to share my chocolate with you
Truly inspiring story. I respect you so much for being able to accept your injury and move on and live your life to the fullest
Ps- I’ve always wanted to visit Australia since I was little!
Wow, what an inspiring story. I am looking forward to reading your blog.
When I first started to watch your videos a few years ago I always knew about your disability, ect. But I never realised why or how it happened as I imagined it was something much to personal to discuss.
After reading this page it’s come as a surprise to me as I reading about the exact same incident 10 years ago in the local Geelong Advertiser, and never in a million years would I’ve imagined the swimming pool where I grew up as a child was responsible for such a horrific incident and to even stumble across your YouTube or even your Blog is quite surprising.
It’s really good to see you’ve made a complete lifestyle change for the better, I will keep tracing your updates on your blog as they’re also inspiring to myself, thank you again.
Hey!
I stumbled across your blog through the healthy living website not long ago too; you have a great story! Awesome to have another Aussie gal reppin’ in the blogosphere.
See you round!
this is so inspiring! i actually read the whole story! i’m a swimmer as well, and i’ve swam competitively for 6 years, going on my 7th. you’re so strong to be able to get through this. great blog!
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