My weight loss story

I have struggled with staying at a healthy weight for most of my life. Firstly, I was an overweight kid eating all the wrong foods. Second, over half my family either passed away to cancer or had serious medical complications including cardiovascular disease, diabetes and autoimmune conditions. I was brought up on a highly processed food diet and this often led to recurrent ear infections which required many repeated bouts of antibiotics over a long period of time. This led to an imbalance of gut bacteria and feelings of gassiness and bloating all the way throughout school until 19-20 years old. In addition, I had recurrent bouts of heartburn and stomach ache, and by the time I had reached 20, I decided no more!

I made a conscious decision to make a change for good!

I started to increase my activity level, eating healthier and losing weight. It was at this early stage in my weightloss journey I came to a realisation that my body was not enjoying the foods I was giving it. My body wasn't enjoying the lifestyle of drinking and partying every weekend. It was then I had a second massive realisation. I would need to change the lifestyle I was living if I wanted to continue to lose weight and become healthier.

Thus began an ultimate 10 year journey.

First, entering the fitness industry as a personal trainer and discovering that it's not all what it's cracked up to be. I worked in and out of gyms for the first couple of years as a qualified Trainer and was witness to some horrifying things. Bad dieting advice and making promises of ‘guaranteed weight loss’ are all too common in our secretive fitness and wellbeing industry. As you may or may not be aware of, there are several toxic elements of the fitness industry, one of which is crash dieting culture. This culture prescribes an orthorexic approach to dieting, often ensuring nutritional deficiencies commonly occur in people that attempt it, making it an unsustainable approach and regularly leading to clients gaining the weight back and/or gut issues later on.

So I began to do my own research first hand by trying every diet out there! I wanted to discover what was best for me, and could I still eat yummy foods but also have a healthy body? I tried the Paleo diet, the Pescetarian diet, the Keto diet, the Vegetarian diet and the Vegan diet just to name a few! By doing this I gained some reliable first hand experience of how each of these diets affect the body, the mind and most importantly us as a whole human being. And so, it wasn’t until midway through my 20’s I discovered that some of the nations that have the lowest incidence of obesity and diabetes are in SouthEast Asia. This took me to 3 different countries, and 11 cities to see how these people live, produce food and eat differently from the Western world.

I learned so much and would love to share my many secrets with you!

The experience and knowledge I have gained through a decade in the fitness industry, in addition to the completion of my Bachelor of Health Science degree, where I acquired expertise in herbal medicine, nutritional medicine, myotherapy and lifestyle disease prevention.

Allow me to guide you toward a healthier you today!