31/07/2026
Lou 🤍
What finally changed everything for Lou?
Lou Steele
It wasn’t the scales.
Come with me… let’s share this beautiful journey. 🫶
For years, I’d convinced myself that my role in life was to be the “fat, daft friend.”
It feels strange saying it out loud now…
…but when you tell yourself something for long enough, you start believing it’s who you are.
When we found out we couldn’t have children, I lost a significant amount of weight so we could adopt our beautiful boy, Reuben.
We brought him home.
Life happened.
The old habits quietly returned.
And so did the person I’d always believed I was.
Years later, Reuben discovered a love for running.
Every week, I’d stand at the side of the athletics track.
Healthy mums chatting.
Families laughing.
Children running.
I’d clap and cheer him on…
But every week, I’d leave feeling like I was standing on the sidelines of my own life.
I was asking my son to look after his body…
…while I wasn’t looking after mine.
That was the moment everything changed.
Not because I hated how I looked.
Because I realised I wanted to be fully present in my own life.
Looking back now, I can see that my weight wasn’t the heaviest thing I was carrying.
It was anxiety.
Low confidence.
A belief that I needed to hide behind being the funny one.
For years, I acted confident.
Inside, I wasn’t.
Week after week, I never imagined how much I could change the way I felt about myself.
Today, I genuinely feel like I could take on the world.
Not because I’ve become someone else…
Because I’ve finally found myself.
For years, I believed the story I’d told myself.
That I wasn’t capable.
That this was just who I was.
I know now that none of it was true.
I was never meant to stay the person I became just to survive.
I wonder…
What story have you been telling yourself?
And if it isn’t serving you anymore…
Maybe today is the day you start writing a new one. 💛
Congratulations, Lou.
Not for the weight you’ve lost…
But for finding the woman who was there all along.
Love,
Nat ###x