I know what it's like to avoid your own reflection. To get dressed in the morning and feel dread before the day has even started.

I know the Sunday night feeling. The “I'll start Monday” promise you've made so many times it doesn't feel like a promise anymore.

I know all of it. Not because I've read about it. Because I lived it.

At my heaviest I was 85kg and a size 14. I tried everything — calorie counting, cutting carbs, restriction diets that always ended in a binge. Gym memberships I barely used — because walking in felt like walking into a room I hadn't been invited to. I wasn't lazy. I wasn't lacking willpower. I just didn't have the right support.

Every time I fell off, the voice in my head got a little louder. You always do this. You have no discipline. You're never going to change.

Then I looked at a photo of myself and saw it clearly. Not just how I looked — but how I carried myself. The embarrassment. Wanting to disappear. That was the moment I decided it was my turn.

In 12 months I lost 20kg and dropped four dress sizes. But the number was almost the least interesting part.

I stopped avoiding mirrors. I started saying yes to things I'd been quietly declining for years — invitations, photos, a day at the beach. The constant noise — what do I look like, what are they thinking — gradually turned down.

And in that quiet, I found something I hadn't had in a long time. Myself.

I became a trainer because I wanted to be the coach I needed when I was at my lowest. The women who need this most have convinced themselves they're not ready yet. That they need to lose weight before seeing a trainer.

You don't. That's exactly what I'm here for.

I hold a Certificate IV in Fitness and have spent over 10 years in the fitness industry helping women across Perth and online lose weight, build strength, and finally break the cycle of starting over. But the credential that matters most to me is the 50+ women who no longer avoid their own reflection.