I started working with Katie when I was 13 stone 3lbs. I had tried already using the usual suspects that we all try; from Aloe Vera starvation 9 shakes, to expensive appetite suppressing stomach injections, through to slimming world – but my weight loss was really intermittent and I didn’t know what to do, whether what I was doing was right or wrong. Two memories that have stuck in my mind from around this time is receiving a certificate from Slimming World that said ‘don’t give up’ after only loosing 3lbs with them after being with them for an entire year and also thinking that somehow my fat was different to everyone else’s and that diets just ‘don’t work for me’.
When I first started with Katie my self esteem was rock-bottom; I didn’t feel at all attractive, I hated looking at myself in the mirror and my mind raced with awful negative self-talk… I wouldn’t have spoken to my worst enemy the way I was talking to myself.
I had learned enough about myself by this point to recognise that most of my destructive habits were because of emotional reactions to food. I ate/ drank when I was happy, when I was sad, when I was angry… in fact pretty much every mood was either soothed or enhanced with food and drink!
On this programme I get daily WhatsApp and voice note chats with Katie, I submit my nutrition goals for the day and I have access to all of her exercises. I also get a CBT session once a month that tackles the emotional side to eating. I cannot overstate how successful this has been. I’ve been with Katie now for 3 months and my weight-loss has been steady and I am literally 10lbs from the BIG GOAL I set out to myself all those years ago! I can’t believe some days that I am so close to my finish line. The transformation is not just physical, in fact, I’d say the biggest transformation has been emotional. I can’t believe that this transformation has happened in such a short space of time with Katie, but it has. I actually like… no I actually care about myself now. I say kind things to myself. I forgive myself for days when I slip up – I’m only human and part of being human is that we are perfectly imperfect and make mistakes. But part of being a kind and compassionate human is that we forgive ourselves, we do our best to learn, to improve and that we do this with kindness and self-compassion. I feel so much more resilient than I ever have. I’m in a place of calm – a place of serenity that I haven’t experienced in years and YEARS.
Through Katie’s weekly reflections I’ve started to appreciate different aspects of being in my own skin. I appreciate a once loathed part of my body; my c-section fold and its stretch-marks. I now look at it from a totally different perspective.
Physically I have more energy now than I have had in a long while. I feel sexy and attractive – although I’m so happy, I’m not looking for a partner, like I was a few years ago.
Kate has also helped me to exercise self-forgiveness.
I cannot recommend Katie enough – her plan has transformed not only my weight, but my total mindset; who I am as a mother, how I respond to stress at work – and my world is filled with light and happiness now.
It might feel like a sizeable lump sum of money that you are paying for her plan, but based on all those sliming world subs, the stomach injections and the shakes I’ve wasted my money on over the years and their total lack of results.. this is by far the best money I have ever spent on anything. EVER!!!