I gained 12kg that wouldn’t budge, no matter how hard I tried.

I put it down to breastfeeding at first…but even after I stopped, my body didn’t bounce back.

My sleep was broken, my brain was foggy, my moods were all over the place, and I kept doing everything I’d always done because “surely it would kick in eventually.”

Spoiler alert: It didn’t.

What I eventually discovered was that my body had moved into a chronic stress response.

A low-level fight or flight state that was throwing my hormones out of balance and making every symptom worse.

And the harder I pushed with diet and exercise, the more I was actually feeding it.

Once I understood that, and what to do instead, everything clicked.

I lost all 12 kilos while eating more food than I ever had in my life, my sleep improved, my energy returned, and the mood swings stopped altogether.

Finally, I had this steady, calm energy I hadn’t felt in years.

And I did all of it while still eating meals I loved, travelling, exercising in ways that felt good rather than punishing, and enjoying a full and fun social life.

That’s what I now teach other women to do!

In the last 3 years alone, I’ve helped over 280 women aged 35 to 55 lose at least one dress size and feel like their best selves again.

And some of them had been trying to fix this for years before they found me.