When it comes to people’s health and fitness journeys, it can be a common theme that most people will all have their reason ‘WHY’. These reasons can stem from celebrity influence to positive encouragement from family.

BUT, it can also stem from negative experiences and here’s mine:

I was always a keen sports player, but ALWAYS the last to be picked, I was the kid at school who was was bullied and laughed at for how they looked and this indefinitely had a detrimental effect on my confidence growing up. I was 18 stone by the age of 17, the only exercise I would do was walking to the shop to buy more junk food and I was on a slippery slope to a whole host of health implications.

The ‘lightbulb’ moment for myself was seeing a picture of me on social media, which was followed by a whole host of malicious and hurtful comments on my appearance and this had hit me at an all time low – this for me was rock bottom, and most importantly was the call for change that I so desperately needed.