Jen is truly a beautiful soul!

I initially got into health and fitness for the same reason most teenage girls do, to look good. After starting my journey focused purely on the physical, I learned that true health and fitness is about way more than what you look like. It’s about how it makes you feel. I am so glad I learned this lesson the right way!

The difference between who I was when I started and who I am now are worlds apart. Initially I spent so much time looking in the mirror, picking things on my body apart, wanting to change them, make one thing bigger and another thing smaller. Although it wasn’t an instant change, I eventually stopped looking in the mirror so much and started looking at what my body could do, and focused on how it could perform instead.

“I learned that true health and fitness is about way more than what you look like. It’s about how it makes you feel”

Day by day I would surprise myself at how much I could accomplish, and with that grew a confidence in myself I never knew I had. Now when I do look at myself in the mirror, I love every part of me! And learning to be confident in myself is the best thing that has ever happened to me.

I think the biggest and most important thing I have learnt from Jen is that self-love isn’t something that just happens – you have to work for it. Even if you just tell yourself that you can do it at first, eventually you start to believe it. I have also learned from Jen that having a good relationship with food is so rewarding.

Food is a much better medicine than anything you can get over the counter.

My biggest accomplishment over this journey has honestly been how much belief I have in myself now. I am focusing on strength training now – powerlifting – and I am off to nationals in powerlifting in a couple of months! I could never have done if I didn’t have this confidence in myself.

Big thank you to Jen, if I never had met you, none of this would have happened