‘I am more driven and motivated to have a successful future than I have ever been before’.

My love affair with health and fitness started at a pretty bad time in my life, as I was struggling with a recent break up and felt a little lost. Deep down I knew I needed to feel better, and BE better, so I started playing sport and joined a gym. The moment I walked in to the gym I fell in love with weights. I loved the way they made me feel and the strength I was developing. It was at that point I wanted more than the gym and sport could give me. Don’t get me wrong, I loved what was happening and the way my body was beginning to feel but I felt like I could be better than I was. I got myself a personal trainer, who spoke to me about the importance of eating the right foods, especially for a woman.

At this point, I was introduced to Jen. When I first met Jen, I sat roughly around 76kg and thought I had some decent muscles. When I compare myself to the woman I was then to now, there are drastic differences. Not only physically, but mentally. Physically I weigh a little less, but I have so much more muscle and I LOVE the way my body looks, how it feels, and I am definitely more in tune with my body’s needs (and continue to understand this more and more every day).

Mentally I’m a completely different person. My priorities have flipped, I have a much higher standard across every aspect of my life, whether it be the way I treat others, the way people treat me, or more physical things such as food. Since meeting Jen I set myself goals, and achieve them. And the standard at which my goals are set continues to increase with what I’m learning and the way my body continues to develop.

Jen has taught me too much for me to put down in to words. The main thing has been around nutrition and the importance of making sure that I’m fuelling my body the best way to get the absolute best outcome for me HOLISTICALLY, not only physically. I understand how fuelling my body with nutrients can affect my entire body positively, and not only for weight loss. I understand that nutrients turn in to energy and affect my moods, alertness and general wellbeing. The time she took to not only educate, but made sure I understood, is something I won’t be able to say thank you enough for. It’s amazing what I believe I am capable of with the things she has taught me. I understand the importance of focusing on long-term success and not letting anything get in my way.

My favourite part of the whole journey so far has been my success in my new and ever changing body. I have physical memento’s of my competition success, but the mental memento’s are what I’m most proud of. I went from being a footy playing, partying, unhealthy 20-something to a natural body builder who competes not only nationally (and places top3) but also completes internationally (and takes away some silver wear from those competitions too), within a few short years.

I am more driven and motivated to have a successful future than I have ever been before. I have loved seeing my body change and I’m so driven to continue to change it to be the best I possibly can be, and I know-without any doubt that I can and will achieve that with Jen.