If you've lost weight before only to watch it creep back on, you've probably blamed yourself.
You may have told yourself that you lacked willpower.
Discipline.
Consistency.
You may even have wondered if there was something wrong with you.
But what if you were never the problem?
Through science, behaviour change, support and compassionate accountability, I'll help you get off the weight rollercoaster for good.
You'll stop fighting your biology and start working with it.
The transformation goes far beyond weight loss, by the way.
You'll regain confidence.
You'll trust yourself again.
You'll participate fully in life instead of waiting until you've "fixed" yourself.
You'll get your spark back and then you'll go out and light up the world around you.
A strong, lean, resilient body is the best insurance policy for your health.
Ready to meet Future You? Let’s get started.
ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Chi.
You've probably been to one of my classes, seen me around the gym or stumbled across my work online.
Now's your chance to get to know me a little better.
I'm also a wife and Mum of two who knows firsthand that there's more to weight loss than meets the eye.
For much of my life, I believed that if I could just do everything "right" - eat perfectly, exercise consistently and maintain the "right" body - I would finally feel good enough.
I grew up believing that thinner was better.
Fitness became part of my identity early on, but for years it was tangled up with perfectionism, self-criticism and the hope that if I could just change the way I looked, I'd finally feel confident and accepted.
At university, I pushed my body to extremes in pursuit of that ideal, only to realise that chasing thinness wasn't bringing me any closer to the life I wanted to live.
Over time, my relationship with health evolved.
During pregnancy, I stopped exercising to become smaller and started exercising to become stronger.
After leaving a career in fashion, I retrained in nutrition and discovered that my love of science and my creative mind weren't opposing forces after all - they were exactly what allowed me to help people piece together their health puzzles.
Like the people I now work with, I've worked my socks off to lose weight, regained it, blamed myself, tried even harder and wondered what I was doing wrong.
I know how easy it is to turn food, exercise and the number on the scale into measures of morality.
Here's what I've learned:
There isn't a food in the world that can make you good or bad and there isn't a workout that determines your worth.
The principles of health are often simpler than we're led to believe, but applying them in a way that fits your body, your life and your circumstances requires curiosity, flexibility and self-trust.
I also learned that health isn't ideological.
Taking GLP-1 medication isn't “cheating”, just as a holistic approach isn't naïve.*
Sometimes lifestyle changes are enough.
Sometimes additional support is appropriate.
*It is, of course, beyond my remit to offer advice on any medication.
Instead, I help clients detach morality from food, exercise and body size, build sustainable habits, and make decisions based on evidence rather than shame.
Full disclosure: I still care about how I look.
The difference is that I no longer see my appearance as a report card on my worth.
I've worked hard on my relationship with food, changed what I eat and made resistance training the cornerstone of my fitness routine.
As a result, I'm stronger in my fifties than I ever was in my twenties.
I grew up exercising with Jane Fonda and Cindy Crawford on VHS tapes while my brother squeezed away on his Bullworker beneath posters of Schwarzenegger.
How times have changed.
The pride I feel in my body (and my hard-earned muscles) doesn't come from finally being "good enough."
It comes from what it represents: years of consistency, discipline and the mental and physical fortitude it has taken me to get here.
This work has taken me a lifetime.
I’m not perfect and I certainly don't have all the answers.
I’m still a work in progress.
I, however:
Eat delicious and nourishing food without ever feeling deprived.
Make strength training and everyday movement a non-negotiable part of my life.
Spend time in nature whenever I can.
Have a deep and abiding trust in my body's ability to provide information about what it needs.
I want the same for you.
You aren’t broken.
You may simply have had your ladder up the wrong wall.
I’m neither unique nor special.
I’m everything you are - and could be.
After a lifetime of trying to earn the right to feel at home in myself, I can honestly say this:
I finally have.