17/02/2026
This is Abbie, she is awesome!
Just over a year ago Abbie came to me after a difficult period marked by burnout and growing health concerns. Sheād gained weight, felt depleted, and was shocked to discover she was pre-diabetic. With little time devoted to her own wellbeing, she knew something had to change.
She began with nutrition, shifting to a whole-foods approach and cutting back ultra-processed foods and refined sugar. She gave up alcohol, too. The transformation was remarkable: she lost two stone, reversed her pre-diabetic readings, recovered from burnout, and regained her energy.
Once her foundations were in place, Abbie introduced exerciseāstarting with Pilates to rebuild confidence. Soon after, she reached out to me to take things further: adding spin for cardio and 1-1 strength training to build muscle and create a strong, resilient body.
Abbie credits her success to a mindset shiftāfrom simply wanting to lose weight to intentionally building long-term health.
Now Abbie has also qualified as a Nutrition and Health Coachā proof of just how far sheās come and how powerfully a single decision to prioritise health can reshape a life.
So from trying Pilates to rebuild confidence, to now bench pressing 40 kg for two reps, Deadlidting 77 kg for three reps, doing chin ups, various other impressive lifts, CrossFit, Spin and multiple solo weights session per week šŖ well done Abbie, keep up the good work!
I would just like to add to thisā¦
Weighing scales can be useful to measure progress
- If your level of activity stays the same
- If you are a long way overweight from where you would like to be
- Or if you have a āfighting weightā you like to stay within half a stone of.
As long as you arenāt weighing too often, and you are weighing on the same day each week and treating it as a weekly average⦠However if you are visibly slim or even slimish, and you vastly increase the amount of activity - then the scales really arenāt as important.
Remember, ladies in particular, do not aim to be thin and weak like society tried to get you to focus on in the olden days⦠Strong is beautiful šŖā¤ļø
(⦠And a MILLION times better for your brain, bones, muscle tone)