Voting opens Tuesday for Pembroke mother looking to be crowned Ms. Health and Fitness 2022

A Pembroke mother is looking to take home the title of Ms. Health and Fitness 2022. Terri Burdan tells myFM she is looking for votes to be featured on the cover of Muscle and Fitness HERS magazine and win a $20,000 prize.

Voting in the online fitness competition opens Tuesday, April 26th at 1:00pm.

Burdan has worked as a nurse at the Pembroke Regional Hospital since 2006. She started out as an Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) and in 2013 went back to school to become a Registered Nurse (RN). Burdan works with the assertive community treatment team working with people who are bi-polar and have severe schizophrenia.

She works-out at the Pembroke Fitness Centre located inside the Best Western. She says when gyms were shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic she hired a personal trainer and worked out from home.

Burdan says it’s important and healthy to challenge yourself.

She says one of the biggest mistakes she made was thinking that not-eating food was the right way to loose weight. Burdan says every couple of hours she is putting nutrious food into her body with proteins at every meals. Once a week, she will spend a few hours meal prepping to have healthy options to choose from.

In terms of fitness, Burdan says she does strength training about five times a week and cardio once a week, but also likes to hit 10,000 steps a day. She also enjoys going for hikes and taking in natures energy.

Burdan says if she wins the $20,000 grand prize, she plans to take some time off work, go on a trip with her 7-year-old son and partner, pay-off some bills and get her hair and nails done.

You can vote online here starting April 26th at 1:00pm. The next round of voting opens May 12th.

Burdan says you can send her a message on Facebook or reach out to her on Instagram if you have any questions and she might be able to point you in the right direction and share some tips and tricks that worked for her.

(written by: Rudy Kadlec – photos submitted by Terri Burdan)