At 19 years old I weighed 240 lb with almost no muscle. I was overweight, weak, and constantly sick — not the kind of sick where you take a week off and bounce back, but the kind that just lives in you. Gut issues that made it hard to eat like a normal person. No energy. Brain fog. Moods I couldn't control. I looked bad and I felt worse. I didn't feel confident, I didn't feel capable, and I had no real idea what was actually wrong or how to fix it.
What I didn't have was guidance. Not real guidance — not from someone who could explain the reasoning behind what they were telling me to do. So I went and found it myself. I spent months going deep: reading, studying, testing everything on my own body. Training, nutrition, gut health, sleep, recovery, hormones — all of it. Not surface-level stuff. The actual science of how the human body works and what it responds to.
Within a year and a half I'd lost 80 lb. But I wasn't done — because the goal was never just to be lighter. I kept going. I built real muscle, dialled in my nutrition around performance, and eventually landed at 210 lb lean and strong. The same number on paper tells two completely different stories: 240 lb with no muscle, and 210 lb shredded. That's what a real body recomposition looks like. But the physical change was only part of it. The constant sickness went away. My gut healed. My energy stabilised. My mind sharpened. Everything about how I moved through the world changed when I stopped feeling like my own body was working against me.
Here's what I figured out through all of it: the aesthetic is a byproduct. The body follows when you fix everything underneath it — your gut, your sleep, your relationship with food, your energy systems, your stress response. People who chase the look first and ignore the health usually end up burning out, breaking down, or losing everything they built. I've seen it. I've felt it. The people who build something lasting do it by getting genuinely healthy first, and letting the body follow.
"I don't coach people to look good. I coach people to be healthy — and when you're truly healthy, looking good is just what happens."
That's the standard I hold myself to, and it's the standard I hold every client to. Not just hitting a number on the scale or getting a certain look by a certain date — but actually fixing the things that are making you feel like you're running at 60%. Gut health, brain function, energy, sleep, hormones, body composition. All of it, together. That's what I want for every person I work with — the same transformation I went through. The full one.
I'm a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and a mindbodygreen Certified Nutritionist — and everything I've learned formally has been sharpened by having lived it. When I work with someone, I'm not just writing a plan. I'm solving a problem I know intimately. I know what works, I know why it works, and I know how to make it work inside your actual life.