My Husband’s Story

My husband, Erik, and I have been married since June of '07 and I couldn't have married anyone more perfect for me. He's basically the reason I got into living a healthy lifestyle and through him, I realized how fun and achievable it could be to loose excess weight, gain muscle, maintain a healthy weight, and eat great food! With a past in personal training, bodybuilding, and a Bachelors in Exercise Science, he's very knowledgeable and has helped and taught me very much.

He's had a pretty interesting life and sometime in '05 or '06, he put together a YouTube video of a part of his life. He's had a bit of a rough life, and dealt with a lot of pain and because of this has tried just about everything life has to offer, including loosing a lot of weight and becoming a body builder.

First his description of the video ... (and be sure to watch the end ; )

"I had a rough time as a kid. So all my life I tried to find things to heal the pain I had inside of me. I partied, I slept around, I had lots of money, I dieted and got skinny, lifted got huge, and just about any and everything else the world told me would lead me to happiness. But nothing ever took an ounce of pain away from me and in fact it only made me feel worse. I'd put all my hope in what I would do at the time and tell myself this was going to be the thing that heals me. That truly makes me happy. But I never found that. Everything I always found faded away usually in a matter of weeks. Until one day when Jesus Christ radically crashed into my life and in one instant took every ounce of pain that had ever been stored away right out of me. From that moment on I decided to live for the only thing that ever healed me, the only thing that ever made me happy on the inside. He loved me when I didn't even love myself. This is a short video of one of my fruitless searches. "

While he hasn't competed for awhile, he still regularly works out and really enjoys it. He's a great cook, a hard worker, a wonderful integral person with a fun and crazy personality who is always completely himself. And most of all, he's the best husband a girl could ask for! : )
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Any questions for him or about him? Feel free to contact Lesley at lesleyborger@gmail.com or Erik at borger4902@aol.com