The long version I've spent almost half of my life overweight, self-conscious, and full of self-doubt.
If you're here because nothing's working, the diets, the challenges, the Monday-morning restarts, I want you to know I've been exactly where you are. This is the story I don't tell in a neat one-liner on a coaching sales page. It's the long version. It's the one that explains why I coach the way I do.
Chapter 01 · The struggle
Binge, restrict, repeat, for over a decade.
As a teenager I binge-ate and struggled with self-confidence, and that carried right through my early twenties. I'd yo-yo diet, binge, lose weight, regain more, promise to start again on Monday, then break that promise over and over. I tried every fad. I hired personal trainers. I did the shake diets. And nothing stuck.
I remember hating getting ready in the morning because of the way I looked. I'd get anxious about my weight when I went out with friends. I'd avoid social events, especially anything involving the beach in summer. Eventually I realised just how much my weight was affecting my life, and I said, enough is enough.
I know what it's like to be stuck, to lack confidence, to feel overwhelmed, and not feel comfortable reaching out for help.
Chapter 02 · Rock bottom
At my lowest: 25 kg overweight, heavily depressed, a relationship in tatters.
My friends had stopped inviting me out because I always said no. My confidence and self-belief were at an all-time low. I was at least 25 kg overweight. My relationship of four years was falling apart. And I was heavily depressed.
I knew at that point that things needed to change, and if I was going to turn my life around, I needed to get a handle on more than just my diet and exercise. I needed to rebuild who I was.
Chapter 03 · The turn
Leaving, studying, starting over.
So I set out on a mission to reinvent myself. I left the relationship I was in. I stopped following plans I didn't understand and started actually learning about food and nutrition. I trained to get strong, not just to get smaller. I invested money in a coach and in personal development content, instead of another shake diet. I set a new vision for who I was going to become.
I swapped my corporate career for a role in the natural health industry. I started teaching group fitness classes before and after work. Soon I was personal training, and that's when I realised my journey was far from unique. There were so many women going through exactly what I had.
Chapter 04 · The work
Where the FHC Method came from.
I saw very few coaches combining real personal development, mindset, identity, behaviour change, with proper nutrition and exercise science. Most were doing one or the other, and most weren't doing either particularly well.
So I built the Fit, Healthy & Confident Program. I took the essential elements of mindset and personal performance, combined them with the latest in nutrition and training, and I coach each client 1-on-1 to provide the level of support, guidance and accountability that's actually required for long-term sustainable results.
The same thinking that created your current situation can never create a new one.
Chapter 05 · The decade
Ten years in. Same program. Sharper every year.
I wrote the first version of this story about eight years ago. A lot has happened since.
I've coached hundreds of women through the FHC Program. I've banked a decade in this industry, and I haven't stopped studying. On top of my Diploma in Health Psychology, Diploma in Health Science, and NASM Personal Training qualification, I'm right now completing my Sports Nutrition Specialist and Clinical Nutritionist qualifications, alongside ten years of ongoing work in women's physiology, protein and metabolic health, strength training and behaviour change.
I've also been coaching online since before it was cool to be online. That matters because I haven't had to reinvent my work to keep up with a trend. I've run the same program the whole time, same pillars, same principles, just much sharper every year as hundreds of women have taught me what actually holds up in real life.
And I became a mother, which reshaped how I think about realistic routines, energy, and what "sustainable" actually looks like for a busy woman carrying a full load. You'll feel that in every part of how I coach now.
Chapter 06 · The purpose
Why I still coach this way, even harder now, as a māmā.
Because of my own journey, and the hundreds of women I've coached since, I've been able to simplify things and think outside the box. I've helped women lose 25 kg. I've helped busy mothers rebuild their energy and find themselves again. I've helped women who were down and out regain their confidence.
Doing this work as a māmā myself has only made me more committed to sustainable, realistic, evidence-based coaching. Extreme diets and punishing protocols don't build lives. Structure, education and support do.
If you resonate with my story and you're ready to stop starting over, I'd love to hear from you. You don't need to tackle this alone.
