I’m Andrea Matthes, creator of the I’mperfect Life philosophy and methodology designed to help you let go of perfection so you can love yourself, care for your body, and live a  truly happy, healthy lifestyle.

I spent countless nights crying myself to sleep full of guilt, remorse, regret, and shame, believing that I was incapable of living the happy, healthy lifestyle that “others” got to live.

I hated myself for failing over and over again. I made promises to myself that I didn’t keep. I was convinced that there was something wrong with my brain, like I was missing some secret information that was integral to “success.”

I knew I was good at lots of things, but I could not figure out why I sucked so bad at life.

I thought that the only way to do life “right” was to do it “perfectly” and if I wasn’t perfect, I was a failure.

This thought created feelings of hopelessness and helplessness, and those feelings left me sitting on my couch, eating copious amounts of junk food, watching life pass me by.

Through a series of events that included weight loss surgery, losing 164lbs, and completing dozens of races including triathlons and Spartans, I found the secret information I had been missing…

By expecting perfection was creating failure.

It wasn’t that I was incapable of “success”– I was incapable of perfection. Imagine that!