Hi, I'm Nina Rocco... 

I grew up in the mountains of Northern Idaho, where being outside is practically in our blood. Climbing, snowboarding, fishing, camping, and boating at the lake is how I spent most of my summers.

All the outdoors activity helped me stay relatively healthy throughout my teenage years, but like most girls my age, I always struggled with knowing how to eat and exercises properly.

I thought cutting calories and doing as much cardio as possible was the healthy way to lose weight. I grew up in the 90's, the low carb, low fat was the way to get model skinny! 

But little did I know this way of "health" left my body vulnerable.

In the fall of 2004 I was riding on the back of an ATV’s when things took a turn for the worst. 

My boyfriend that was driving approached a jump a little faster than I’d anticipated and we landed wrong which created a hard impact at out landing! 

I felt a jolt up my spine and knew there was something wrong immediately!