My Story

I have yo-yo dieted most of my life, from a child through my teenage years and into my early forties. There are no other personal trainers in Maidstone who have been over twenty stones in weight, all the way down to under eleven stone, and then put all the weight back on again. I repeated this cycle many times before I learned the right way of doing things.

I am unique in that I understand not only the physical health problems that come with huge swings in body weight, but also the crippling anxiety and mental health issues too. I have some important qualification certificates but the thing that really makes the difference in terms of helping my clients achieve their goals is my life experience- it’s priceless. I remember once trying a home workout on YouTube created by a famous exercise celebrity that we all know from the tv. His session was for ‘ultimate beginners’ and I was alone in my house- what could possibly go wrong? Well, I lasted less than two minutes of this 30-minute session. It made me feel terrible about myself- a complete failure- I couldn’t even complete a workout designed for complete beginners- I may as well give up on myself!

Luckily, I had time to reflect and realise that surely I couldn’t be alone in feeling like this. That was a key point in me retraining to become a PT and becoming a trainer who is a bit more ‘normal’ and who hasn’t always been super fit. I am just a regular, relatable guy and this is what most of my clients have been looking for.

Listen, I’m going to share a secret with you. At my biggest, I was quite a lot bigger than I am in those pictures. But guess what? I was camera shy and avoided having my photos taken at all costs! Sound familiar?

Now I’m a healthy weight, one of my biggest regrets is not having some photos of me at my largest to compare and look back on. Now I know the secret to maintaining my weight without being on a diet, I’ll thankfully never put the weight back on, but I do wish I had taken the real before photos!

For this reason, I encourage all my clients to take private pictures of themselves to look back on in the future.

There’s no doubt some of these methods have some quick initial results. We then see a lot of transformation photos based on weight loss in the first few weeks of one of these plans. But how many times do we see true transformations that have lasted for months?

How many client testimonials do we see saying how someone loves starving themselves or living on shakes instead of enjoying a nice meal, and not cutting out any of their favourite foods? That’s because they don’t! None of these plans work in the long run because they are all unhealthy in one way or another; they are all restrictive, most of them demonise different foods and this can make us have a bad relationship with food and even lead to eating disorders.

I can show you how to enjoy everything you eat and never feel hungry, enabling you to lose weight safely and sustainably and most importantly- to be able to keep it off for life!