10/08/2026
Kinda chic, actually.
I spent YEARS yo-yo dieting, starting again every Monday and wondering why I could never just sort myself out once and for all.
When I started my plan 10 years ago, I really only wanted one thing. To lose weight.
I didn’t realise how much else would change along the way.
My relationship with food.
My relationship with exercise.
My confidence.
How I deal with weight fluctuations.
And eventually… my entire career. 🥹
Turns out losing 4 stone was only part of the story.
So here are a few things I’ve realised are actually pretty kinda chic after all… 👉🏼
I’d spent enough years thinking about food.
Having a simple plan to follow without weighing, measuring, calculating or trying to work out whether I’d hit my macros took away so much of the mental load.
Sometimes simple is exactly what you need 👌🏼
I think a lot of us hear “accountability” and imagine being told off when we’ve had a bad week.
That wasn’t my experience at all.
It was having one person who knew me, knew my goal, wanted to hear from me and genuinely wanted me to succeed. No more villages halls at 7pm on a Tuesday evening 🫣🤣
And that’s exactly the kind of support I try to give my clients now.
After years of yo-yo dieting, why WOULD I believe this time would be any different?
I didn’t start with some huge amount of confidence.
I started apprehensively, followed the plan and gave it a chance.
Four months later I’d lost 4 stone.
Sometimes you don’t need to believe you can do the whole thing. You just need to be willing to start.
I started because I wanted to be slimmer. Simple as that.
But along the way I noticed my energy, skin and nails too. I was fuelling myself with nutritionally complete products rather than just trying to eat as little as possible.
I went into it wanting weight loss. I came out of it thinking very differently about how I looked after myself.
Exercise used to feel like something I should do to burn calories or make up for food.
Now I genuinely love moving my body.
I train because I like feeling strong, fit and capable.
Not because I need to earn my dinner.
That change in mindset has been HUGE.
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