MBM hot seat with Sophie Burles - Mum of 3 loses13kg

You know that mirror moment when the outfit doesn’t land and the voice in your head gets loud? Sophie knows it, too. She went from late-night grazing and denial to dropping 13 kilos, walking into her wedding with real confidence, and stepping up as a coach for other women—while raising three kids and running a busy life.

We unpack the switch that finally stuck: nutrition first, movement second, noise reduction always. Forget the promise of “ab circuits” and class calorie counts. Sophie shows how a steady calorie deficit, enough protein, daily steps, and simple strength training beat quick fixes every time. She breaks down how she confronted sugar cravings by working upstream—fixing breakfast, planning meals, and building evening rituals that closed the kitchen and calmed the mind. The result wasn’t just a smaller number on the scale; it was a quieter head and a routine she could trust after holidays or hectic weeks.

We also get practical about time. Gym commutes became home sessions with progressive loads, kids and dogs included. Batch cooking turned decisions into defaults. Environment did the heavy lifting, making cooking the easy choice. And as a coach, Sophie offers more than macros; she lends belief. Her clients succeed because they zoom out, track the big trend, and stay consistent when weekly photos don’t scream change. Now, with a foundation built at home, she’s in the gym shaping legs and glutes, aiming for longevity, not perfection.

If you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or convinced your chapter is already written, this conversation gives you the blueprint to start small and keep going. Subscribe, share with someone who needs a nudge, and leave a review to help more people find sustainable change. What’s the one habit you’ll put on repeat this week?

Transcript

Meet Sophie: From Client To Coach

SPEAKER_02 0:02

Okay, we are back, hot seat number two. So today we've got Sophie Bell's aka Sophie Turner Hall. AKA coach Sophie. Because Sophie's now a coach, transforming some of the lovely women on the program, getting them some fantastic results. So I mean, I've coached you for years now. It's been years, isn't it? When did we first imagine start?

SPEAKER_00 0:26

Uh 2024, like January 2024.

SPEAKER_02 0:29

Yeah, so it's been a while. So we did a massive transformation, took a bit of a break, came back for the wedding, got you looking amazing for the wedding. And now kind of maintenance slash tighten up when we essentially need to. When maintenance turns to uh get it a bit too much, uh having a bit too much fun.

SPEAKER_03 0:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:51

So let's start from the very beginning. Take me back if it was January 2024, like January 2024, when you picked up the phone, we had our first call, like where was you at then? You know, like how was you with your body, mentally, like, yeah, what was going on for you back then?

SPEAKER_00 1:16

So I definitely felt lost. Um, I didn't even recognise myself in the mirror at all. Um, I was probably the biggest I'd ever been, but like in complete and utter denial about that. So I wouldn't go and buy a bigger size in clothing because I was like, I know this is not me, this shouldn't be me. But I'm stuck in this rut of eating out of boredom, knowing I need to stop, but not being able to stop. And it was just, yeah, just this crazy cycle. But I was I was miserable, like crying a lot about it. I was very sad.

SPEAKER_02 1:53

I I had this, I had this conversation with client earlier. Um, and

Denial, Dressing Rooms, And Breaking Points

SPEAKER_02 2:00

sometimes what we can do is you can kind of like, you know, you've got this issue in the background, but you can like help yourself ignore it to a certain degree. Yeah. It's like I ignore it, but it's still there. Like, I know I need to deal with it, but it's like I can kind of and women are good with like cover-ups, and you know, when they go out, like wearing the thing that kind of makes them feel good enough to go to the event without feeling like shit, you know. Sometimes it does go completely wrong when you can't find the outfit to suit the body at the time, but that you're always gonna get that reminder, it keeps coming back, yeah, like an event or summer or bikini or wedding or trying to best done and or someone took a picture and seen the back of my arms, and they're the reminders that we kind of forget when you're in that moment where you're just like, you know, you you you get into that denial stage.

SPEAKER_00 2:56

Yeah, I had a lot of people said to me, obviously, after losing that weight, they're like, I didn't even think you had that weight to lose. And I just obviously covered it up really well. And you're right, it was probably the moments where I was in the changing room trying something on, looking at myself in the mirror and thinking, Oh my goodness, who is this person? Um, so yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02 3:16

It's when like I it's it's it's a photo for me.

SPEAKER_00 3:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

Like when I've just been like taking a photo, or sometimes you go in a change room and the lighting's not good. I mean, even when I'm in good shape, like in the change room, the lighting is good and you get a glancey body like fucking hell. It's what I look like in the mirrors of my left, right, and the back. Yeah, there's no escape. Yeah, there's no escaping it. Had you have you had you tried dieting before? Because you hadn't really trained, have you? You wasn't really training.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

No, so obviously, like pre-babies, um, I would do like I'd go to the gym and I can't even remember what they're called. Is it body balance? And there's another one that's like that, um, a bit more of a fast-paced one. Yeah, pump and balance, I would do. Um, that was like obviously pre-kids. Obviously, it was not even in the shape that I'm in now either. I was would would have been bigger then, but just didn't really, it wasn't a problem to me. Um, but yes, after having kids, I tried at home Pilates a little bit and I tried a bit of fasting. But the the obviously the problem is, is my habits didn't change, my diet didn't change. So no matter whatever I tried anyway, it wouldn't have worked because I didn't realise that the main thing that needed to happen was obviously the uh the diet and the habits needed to go.

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Not the training. Yeah, because you think it's a training, but the training to get you really.

SPEAKER_00 4:34

You do. And it's crazy, and I have to say this because I saw this today. I saw a post, it's so misleading. Um, and uh a trainer posting about stomach workouts with a before and after picture doing my thing to look like this. And it's like, but your the stomach workout is not gonna get you that that that stomach. And it's so misleading. And I think that everybody, you know, wanting to lose weight would look at that and think, oh, I want to look like that. But it's not that,

Why Workouts Don’t Outrun A Bad Diet

SPEAKER_00 5:00

it's it's the diet and the habits and the lifestyle change.

SPEAKER_02 5:03

I mean, they used to sell things that weren't around your waist that electrocuted your stomach and you thought it was.

SPEAKER_00 5:08

My mum used to wear.

SPEAKER_02 5:10

Yeah, yeah, there you go. So, like, you I think I've even put one on once, and it's like it just basically a tension machine that women use for pregnancy, you know, like it's literally one of them, and you just you could do that for 10 years and you would get absolutely nowhere. Like, you can run a marathon a day and then finish your marathon with a McDonald's and be the same weight all the way through the year. Yeah, you could train your arse off all day long, but if your nutrition isn't in the right place, you never lose weight. But you can get your nutrition in the right place and not even train, and your body will change. And that's the power of that like bottom bar, like that foundation that people don't understand. Is that if you have that foundation in place, nutrition, and then your steps, and then your training, you're you're absolutely sweet. But people go training first, yeah. So we're getting this idea like Pilates will get you slim, or hitting like high-intensity workouts, like you know, body balance and um body pump back in the day. They used to have the amount of calories that the class burned, yeah. Or body balance burn 700 calories. And I used to think, how can you not burn 700 calories when you know Joanne could be doing it, who's 110 kilos, and Sarah could be doing it who's 50 kilos, like it'd be completely different calories. But it would they were allowed to do that back then. They were allowed to tell you this is this burns more and this burns less, but it's so misleading. Until you really understand what you know, you can do a thousand sit-ups, it won't change your stomach. Why would you think different? You know, you'd see that post and think, Oh my god, sure. Can't we get people to sign up and do that? Yeah, and then when they get in there, they go, Oh, I actually have to eat food. Like, yeah, you have to eat clean. You can't you can do a thousand sit-ups a day, it won't change absolutely anything. Was there a romance for you that like clicked it into gear? Like, was it seeing a transformation? Was it just something yourself? Like, what made you go, you know what? Fucking hell, I need to finally do this.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

I mean, obviously, I've been feeling unhappy in myself for a while. And I used to speak to Caitlin, my sister, a lot on the phone, crying to her about how miserable I was. And she obviously was, you were training her, and she'd always say to me, to be honest, it was Caitlin that really gave me the boost to do it and to like think, okay, enough is enough, I've got to do it. She would always tell me I needed to contact you. And um, you know, I was nervous and scared too. So it did take me a little while to like finally pluck up the courage. But I think it was just seeing how great she looked and really wanting to. I didn't feel like because I was a mum, that this didn't want it that to be the end for me. Do you know what I mean? Like I didn't want it to be like, I'm never gonna look at myself and think I look nice or I'm never gonna have any of that. So yeah, it was probably definitely seeing Caitlin looking incredible. I know she didn't have kids at that point, but it was seeing her training with you, all the positiveness that was coming from that, and like me craving that feeling.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

Yeah, it's difficult, isn't it? Like when you have kids, because you're in a place and you're seeing like women on social media like giving this idea that it's all so easy and so like glamorous, like when you're slim and it's just so easy to be slim, and you kind of like yearn for that feeling, but you just feel so far away from it, where you feel

Triggers, Sugar, And Evening Rituals

SPEAKER_02 8:30

like, oh, maybe because I've had X amount of kids, or maybe because I've had you know three kids, or two more than someone else, that maybe this is just my body. My my you know, you hear a lot of women say, Oh, my stomach can't go to this place because I've had kids, or my you know, this will always be that way. And to a certain degree, you know, when your body goes through pregnancy and goes through different types of birth, there's some things with your body that will stay for the rest of your life, but they are there for a reason, they are there to tell a story of what happened, and no one's body is perfect, and no matter what you see on Instagram that looks like perfection, it's never perfect underneath. It's different, but we yearn for that feeling. But what's what I always think is nice is when someone's looked at someone and gone, they're doing this and I want to do it, and I hope it works for me, and then it's working for them. But not only working for them, like them getting like you know, your transformation is one of the biggest transformations that you know I I I can say I've I've had on the program because the the sheer difference in your body was like yeah, night and day. But before starting, what would you say like the biggest fear was? Like what would did you ever think like, oh, I can't do this part, or I don't know how to do this part. Was there any part of you that feared like coming into the program and and doing it?

SPEAKER_00 9:57

I mean, obviously the main one would be like trusting the process. There was a fear of that, of letting go and just allowing somebody to tell me what to do. Um, there was a fear of the gym, there was a fear of not knowing what I was doing with picking up a weight. I've never picked up, I mean, I picked up a weight in that body balance class or whatever, but it was someone in front of me. So I'd never done anything like that at home myself. There was also a massive fear of giving up sugar. Like sugar was something that I relied on so much. I don't even know why, but it was like out of boredom, eating my feelings, like all these things, but it was such a huge part of my life. And it's almost like saying goodbye to a boyfriend, isn't it? It's like it's got me through some really dark times. Now I've got to let it go. Yeah, so yeah, it was probably all of those things, really. But definitely the sugar part of it was really scary. Like, am I going to be able to be strict enough to never touch, well, not never touch sugar again, but to cut it for a while and have sacrifice.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

Yeah. Yeah, like people think they're addicted to sugar. It's like, but you can't, you're not addicted, you know what's addicted to sugar. If you're addicted to sugar, you'd be in the kitchen in a sugar bag. But there is like how it works is the triggers that lead up to that when you have sugar. It's like, oh, I've had an argument with my other half. I am feeling stressed, I'm gonna have sugar. Oh, the kids have done my heading. But yeah, even that that's the trigger to make the emotional connection with the sugar, but then it leads to before that. Like, why am I hungry? Why am I so annoyed at the minute with the kids, or why have I got no energy right now? And it's normally due like you didn't have breakfast, you didn't have the right breakfast, or you had a croissant and a coffin for breakfast, and then by four o'clock, you're in you know, the the snack cupboard. And people think it's like, oh, I can't quit this. It's like, no, if we work backwards, yeah, fix what's actually starting this whole thing off, sugar then becomes a little bit easier to get rid of. And then you start realizing when you start picking up and having some sugar again, or snacking or eating out, you realize, oh, I'm doing not doing something earlier on in the day. I'm not doing the first thing that I'm not tracking my food, or I've not got my food organized, or I've not planned my day, and it all falls off. And you go back easy.

SPEAKER_00 12:15

I tell you what, I would say probably is is this was my biggest problem was getting my day completely right. Smash my day. It gets to done the put the kids to bed. The house is quiet, I'm in the living room, I'm on

Stillness, Stimulation, And Self-Work

SPEAKER_00 12:30

my own, the box is staring at me, and that's the one thing. It's like I've given so many decisions for everybody else all day, and now I'm going to do that because that makes me feel in my mind a little bit good. But it's it's the evening time that that definitely used to spark that eating, those eating habits for me. So then it's kind of like retraining your mind and you know, almost making an evening ritual of okay, I'm gonna stop that. So I'm gonna close the kitchen, I'm gonna have a bath, I'm gonna have a herbal tea, I'm gonna read a book or journal, I'm gonna do stuff that's gonna make me feel good rather than you know, raiding the snack cupboard that's gonna make me feel shit and I'm gonna feel guilty after.

SPEAKER_02 13:10

100%. I mean, there's so I mean, you could go deep into like the psychological side of like sitting. If you if you sit down when the house is quiet and you feel like you need to pick up your phone, you feel like you need to put the TV on instantly, or you need to go get some sugar, or even like sometimes to even to a certain extent a cup of tea, yeah, it's because you don't like the feeling of sitting there, yeah. And there's thoughts that are potentially creeping in that you want to have something that takes your mind off it. Like even in a bath, you know, we go sit in a bath sometimes. Some people sit in the bath with a phone next to them. Yeah, try to sit in a bath and put your phone in the in the other room, sit in a bath in silence, and then you'll go, Oh shit, what do I do here? You'd be so alien to you. But the more you can do that, that's actually like a a way of meditation. That's actually what you're doing is you're actually fixing the little things that you are thinking about. Like, why am I fucking like this? Oh, what happened today? Or who did my head in? And you start to like do that self-work without even knowing it. When other times it's like just eating sugar. So you could have had an issue that happened in a day. And if you don't have peace to work that stuff out, and you just have sugar, and then you roll on Instagram, that issue is just gone in the back and it's just burning a hole. And then another issue, another issue, and then what happens is like them issues build up end of the month. Someone says the smallest thing and all them issues come to the forefront, and that's the problem with like stimulation, and we've got so much of it now. But in that moments where you feel like, oh, I need sugar, it's like you don't need sugar, you just either bored, you're scared of what's you know, the situation. Some people do it with their partners. Some people will like go for dinner with their partner and they cannot sit there or on holiday or anything like that without having a drink with their partner. And it's because you both need stimulation, because the conversation without alcohol, you won't be at stand. A lot of people do that, and like you'll feel yourself do it very naturally, like any moment where you sit down and go, should we have a drink? Or even some people do it in the evening, like half a bottle of wine. It's because people don't like to get that feeling of like no stimulation.

The 13-Kilo Drop And Wedding Confidence

SPEAKER_02 15:20

It's very hard to quit. I'm terrible with it with like picking up my phone or either like phone to listening to music, to watching TV. It's like I always have to have some stimulation on, and it's it's not good. It's like you really gotta try and retrain your body. Um you've lost how much weight have you lost altogether? It's like 15 kilos, is it?

SPEAKER_00 15:43

No, um 12 to 13, I think.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

13 kilos from from the beginning.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 15:52

So that was over we did that over like what, six months, took a bit of a break, and then we did the other bit for the yes. The wedding. Yeah. How do you let's talk about the wedding? Because that's probably your life as well at the wedding.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

Yes, that really was, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:10

How did you feel in your body then? Like in comparison to where you was in the beginning, like crying all the time about like how you felt about your body. Like, how did you feel then?

SPEAKER_00 16:24

I mean, I just felt really confident. Like I loved myself, if you know what I mean. I felt really happy and like, yeah, it was so nice going from feeling so down about something to then that not being an issue anymore and just feeling so happy and positive about something. Um, yeah, but obviously on my wedding day, like, yeah, in that dress, just the way it fitted my body, it just was yeah, amazing. Such a nice feeling.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

And do you do you still have moments where you dislike your body?

SPEAKER_00 17:03

No, because I've put in so much hard work. I can see, so obviously, over Christmas time, um I obviously allowed myself to have some sugar back in my life, and then I found it really difficult to then switch it back off again. So did obviously have a gain and then go straight back onto my legs. And I start to see points that I'm like, oh, I don't know if I like that, but I would never say that I am at the point, or I don't think I'll ever be at the point where I hate my body again, or like I just I don't even talk negatively to myself like that anymore. I'm like such a different person in that way. Um, I don't think it's good to be negative to yourself anyway, no matter how you look. I think you it's just so unkind. Your body does so much for you. So to be like that in such a negative way, I just think is just not is not good for you. But I yeah, I don't think I'd ever get to the point where I feel like how I felt before

Parenting, Time Hacks, And Home Workouts

SPEAKER_00 18:00

ever, no matter what. Even if I gained two kilos, it's kind of like I just don't feel that way anymore.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

It's a bit like it's a confidence, isn't it? Once you've kind of lost it all, you kind of have the confidence that I know I can. Yeah. In the beginning, it feels like a little bit like I don't know if I can. So there's this fear of like, this is me forever. But when you've kind of lost it, even when you put like a one or two kilos on, you go, you've kind of got that confidence like I just I know what I need to do to put this out the way. It's more than kind of being like, Oh, I've got this whole mountain.

SPEAKER_00 18:31

No, it's an easy fix. I know the formula, I know what works, I know what I have to do, so I can get back there. So it's you know, I can I can afford to have a slip up and have a have like gain a couple of kilos and over Christmas and then come back, you know. I know what to do.

SPEAKER_02 18:45

Yeah. And you're a mum of three. Three ain't easy. Two boys, one girl. Like, I mean how like people with kids, people without kids, this journey is not easy.

SPEAKER_03 19:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:05

Navigating the training, navigating getting steps in, navigating the nutrition, planning, cooking for families, going out with families. Like how do you manage all that?

SPEAKER_00 19:20

Um well, obviously, when I started the program, I looked at it very much as so the same as so many people. Like, I'm never gonna have the time to do this. I have my own business, I have kids, I've got dogs, I've got a house to look after, like, how am I gonna do it? But I wanted it so badly that I just found the time to do it and made it work around, you know, my life. Um, you know, regardless if you have kids or not, it's like there's always going to be something in the way, you know, whether that's you know, you know, you're a busy working woman that works all the time and just doesn't have time to do anything for herself, it's exactly the same as having the kids. Um so yeah, I just it was it was a lot to fit in. I worked out from home because I didn't have the time to go to the gym. Like that was extra like a 30 minutes travel time each way. And to make this work for me, it was like, okay, I'm gonna have to do this at home because I'm saving myself time. Um, you know, sometimes I had I was doing a plank and my six-year-old would be climbing all over me, or I've got the dogs like weaving in and out and smelling me and all the things. It it wasn't great. But I just made I just made it work. Um, you know, and luckily I've got two dogs, so I can take them out for a walk. And also we live with them in all the countryside, so I don't have the temptation like a lot of you have with Uber Eats and just eat because I don't have that here, so it's cook or don't eat, really.

SPEAKER_02 20:49

Yeah, I mean that's quite good though, isn't it? Like I remember when I moved to West London and I picked up Uber, I mean delivery one day.

SPEAKER_03 20:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 20:56

And I realized, oh my god, this is a problem. Like when you've got accessibility

Planning, Batch Cooking, And Environment

SPEAKER_02 21:00

to that food, it's really easy to go.

SPEAKER_03 21:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Let's just do that. It makes it under but when you've got to like your shopping's got to be in the house and you've got to cook, yeah. That just shows you, don't it? Like when you prepare your food, it becomes easier.

SPEAKER_00 21:12

100%. Yeah, preparation is an organization with food is what will save you 100%. You know, whether that's going to the office or working, you know, traveling to work somewhere that's quite far, like prep your food, whether that's going to out to the zoo with the kids for the day, like prep your food. Like you then won't get in a situation where you're like, oh my god, what am I gonna eat? And you grow for something that's like readily available and shit, and you're gonna regret afterwards. Like prepping, I love batch cooking. I don't know if any of you follow me on Instagram, but um, I batched cooked some chicken chipotle chicken yesterday and my dogs ate it, which was fabulous. Um, and I felt like I'd absolutely won the weekend. I was so happy of myself, and then that all came crashing down.

SPEAKER_01 21:54

Oh no, little shit. What did you want to cut again?

SPEAKER_00 21:58

Yeah, so cats had had. Little bit of it, and then I'd gone upstairs, and then he helped himself to a bit more and must have just left it a little bit too close to the edge of the counter. And yeah, um, my youngest dog was like licking it. There was half of it left as well, and I was just like, I can't even save that because I don't know. Her tongue's been all over that.

SPEAKER_01 22:17

Little shit.

SPEAKER_00 22:19

But usually batch cooking saves saves my life.

SPEAKER_02 22:22

That is a treat. Do you think, like, you know, I always think this with time, you know, and how much time we have for our day? Like now being later on in the journey and looking how your day day goes, and like you obviously know how to navigate your day. If you could go back to January before January 24th, do you think it actually takes more time of your week? Like, it would you say it's a fair trade of how much you're thinking about your body compared to how much you have to plan your food? Like, do you feel like busier with your fitness life now, or does it just feel similar to where you were before?

SPEAKER_00 23:01

I mean, I do feel busier with my fitness life because now this has become my job. Yeah. So I and I'm very lucky in this way because for me, you know, being on plan, working out is very much what I need to do anyway to be on plan, um, to be, you know, doing this as a job. Um, so yeah, I do feel like it is I'm thinking about it a lot more, definitely.

SPEAKER_02 23:25

Yeah. And what's different in your life now? Like, how does your life look different to where it was before?

SPEAKER_00 23:38

Fitness wise, mentality-wise, like definitely confidence, it would definitely be confidence all over, like, you know, just feeling like I can get dressed and put something on and not be wanting to hide parts of my body, not wanting to dress like wearing really baggy stuff all the time because I don't like the way I look. Um yeah,

Identity Shift And Everyday Confidence

SPEAKER_00 24:00

it's it it's it was it's life-changing, a life-changing transformation, like life-changing for everything for you know, my mind, not just the way I look on, sorry, not just the scales. Um, yeah, it's definitely the confidence.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

And two more questions. If you could speak to the old Sophie now, the old Sophie that used to bring Caitlin and Cry, what would what would you say to her now?

SPEAKER_00 24:29

I would say that I'm proud of you. I feel like there were so many times where I could have given up, and I'm just really grateful to that Sophie that she didn't give up because now I'm just a different person and so much happier and healthier for you know staying with the program.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

And obviously, you coach the women. So you you know, the reason I because I actually reached out to you to become a coach, uh, because I was like, I just feel because you've done this journey with three kids, and such a big transformation, but not only that, like transformed your confidence, just how you are, like just so much your energy. Like, I I well, how I think about coaching is like, you know, some coaches can get really technical about macros, calories, and all that kind of all that kind of stuff. And that stuff really information right now is available to anyone, like, because you've got AI. You can get information quicker than I can tell you the information. But what some people are looking for, like the old Sophie's looking for, is an energy exchange where like you can go, you know what, I can you can do this and I can bring this out of you, and I can get, you know, I can get this from you. And that's why I pictured it because it's like I really believe like because you've done that journey, like you have an insight that's different. Somehow for me, it's like, yeah, it is you know, it's easy for me. I've been with fitness for 20 years, but for you, like, no, I've

Trust The Process And Coaching Wins

SPEAKER_02 26:00

been on the journey, and I've been on the journey recently, and I'm able to kind of help, help you, show you, and that's the feedback really you get from all your clients is that like your ability to like really care for them. What would you say to someone that's like maybe thinking about starting, scared it won't work for them, scared their lifestyle is too busy. Like, what advice would you give that woman sitting there worried about her weight, worried about her body, but just a bit scared to kind of pull the trigger?

SPEAKER_00 26:34

Well, firstly, just do it for sure. I mean, I just think you just gotta just bite the bullet and go with it. If that's what you want, this is a process and a formula that works. You know, not only have I done it myself, but obviously now coaching so many women through it, I know it it really works. I wasn't just a fluke, like it really works. And, you know, if if if this is what you're craving is to lose weight, to feel confident, to like love yourself, then what have you got to lose then to give it give it a shot?

SPEAKER_02 27:09

Can you believe how much it works with your clients? Does it shock you like sometimes when you see the transformation?

SPEAKER_00 27:16

When I uh yeah, uh my clients have a lot of honestly, I feel like I'm their biggest cheerleader. But when I see the when I see the, you know, when we go from the week to week, and you know, when you grow, do scroll back to the the first photo and you see it compared to the newest one. Oh my god, because week to week sometimes you don't see the change, but always looking from the first to the uh to the current, and yeah, like it it shocks me. But I know it works, and it's just like you've just got to trust the process, trust your coach because they know what they're talking about, they know what they're doing, um, you know, and yeah, just believe that you can do it because you can do it. I did it. So many of people on this call, like people on the program have done it, know that they get the results from the process. It it works.

SPEAKER_02 28:07

And like that week to week, like looking at now, seeing other clients do it, you know, it I see it all the time, but like you've got to zoom out from at the beginning to the end. Doing 12, 13 kilos over a long period of time, like how important is it to zoom out? Because then weeks to week, they don't make much of a difference, do they?

SPEAKER_00 28:27

No. See, but going from my own personal journey, I I feel like I was I was so dedicated to the program that I didn't have really any slip-ups. I think we went out for a pizza one Easter, and that was like the first time I'd done anything like that, or I would go away and I was still very much on plan. I was so driven to just get there and and I sacrificed. So my week to week, there was always something new, whether that was my stomach looking tighter and leaner or you know, my legs coming in a little bit more. But yeah, I mean, 100% I see it with

Zooming Out: Progress Over Perfection

SPEAKER_00 29:00

with my own clients is when you look week to week at progress, um, you know, there's not much change sometimes, and you can think, you know, the scales might be saying something, the photos might not be showing much, and you panic and think it's not working. And it's just like, but you've got to always look at the bigger picture overall. So, yes, the weight might be going up and down a little bit, but there's so many reasons why that is, so many reasons for fluctuation in weight, and you've just got to zoom out. And when you look at the start to finish process, like the weight you started compared to where you are now, the the photo of you when you started compared to where you are now, that's the thing that matters, not the stuff in the middle.

SPEAKER_02 29:38

Yeah, no, I t I totally agree. I think like when you when you see it for yours, like when it happens to yourself, it's happening to you, it's kind of hard to like take away, take in mind that that, but like, you know, now you're a coach as well. I mean, your journey was was like it did go down like literally every week though something, but like you said, you sacrificed an awful lot, like without that. But when you're seeing now all these women and you're seeing them week to week, you realize oh, this journey isn't just linear, it isn't just like one quick down. It's it it takes time, but over a period of time, you go, Oh, this is work. I mean, you know, you'll sometimes send me a client there you're working with and say, Can I look at these results in the email? I go, Fucking hell, like because I've not looked from week to week because you're coaching that person. I look and I look, it's been like a few weeks, and I'll be like, Fucking hell, they've they've changed. And it's so hard to take that away from yourself because it's very you see yourself every single day. Um, but you you have to because if you concentrate on the week to be start watching fucking paint drive, it's 100%, yeah. It really is. Last question what's what's your goal now? I mean, you've lost the weight. Where and how do you feel now? Like, what are you kind of working towards? What's your vision with your body? Like, you know, because obviously you're still learning so much about fitness and stuff like that. Now you've gone from home workouts to the gym, it's always like a new dynamic. But like, in your mind now, like do you look to for for improvements, or do you look to maintain, or do you look to improve, like, improve your lifestyle? Like, what are you kind of what's the the end goal?

SPEAKER_00 31:28

I mean, obviously, the end goal would be to keep this up forever. That's the end goal. I want to always stay this determined and this dedicated to health and fitness. Um, but as you said, obviously going from home workouts to being in the gym, I'm now able to elevate, you know, and lift heavier. Like I was, I didn't have those kind of weights at home. So I was very restricted in what I could do. And yes, it oh, you know, that that time of working out at home, it gave me all of that weight loss. Like that was all just doing it at home.

From Home To Gym: Building Shape

SPEAKER_00 32:00

But now is the time I can change my shape and, you know, really elevate everything to the next level. And that's what I want to do. I mean, my arms and my stomach have always been super tight-toned and lean and like look strong. But my legs and my bum are something that an area that I really want to focus on. But not that's just being pernickety, like, you know, I'm finding something that I want to do. I'm so happy in myself and you know, so confident and love myself now after doing the journey. So that is like the tiniest thing I can think of that I want to do is just like improve my body shape more by going to the gym and lifting heavier.

SPEAKER_02 32:35

And I don't know. I won't try one more question, but I think it's important to come from a mum. What how do you think that it's affected you as being a mum? Do you think there's been a change in you? Do you think there's benefits to like being a fit mom, a healthy mom, a confident mum? Like, where would you say the biggest change in just that one aspect is?

SPEAKER_00 33:02

I mean, having especially the boys, they're very active. And, you know, I didn't really know what I was doing having kids having boys who want to play football and all of that stuff. So definitely being healthy and active has given me so much more energy to run around with them, to play with them, to play football. At the weekend I was playing football. I mean, not that I know what I'm doing, but we try. Um, and but overall, I would say the most important change is showing my kids what being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle looks like. You know, that's not them watching me binge on the sofa with loads of chocolate and sugar and sweets, but it's also not teaching them this is a diet. I don't want them to think that I'm dieting and, you know, that's what you have to do in life to look like this. But I want them to see what a healthy lifestyle looks like. Um, you know, what working out is, you know, I mean, I'm helping my body, my bone density, my muscles, everything. Um, so yeah, I would say,

Fit Motherhood And Modeling Healthy Habits

SPEAKER_00 34:00

I mean, there's so much, so much out there, isn't there, with AI and the way that you're made to bel like believe that you should look like and all of that stuff. And I'm showing my kids that you actually can look like that, but in a really healthy, sustainable way. So I would say that's probably the main, the main thing about doing this as a mum is teaching them lessons, healthy lessons.

SPEAKER_02 34:24

Amazing. Well, so thank you very much. I think that's a good place to uh to end. But yeah, I think your whole journey was, you know, like say you were I've had some big transformations on this program, but your transformation was like so massive and like inspired so many women. Like, there's so many clients in this program that came and have been gone from your transformation. Like it's it's actually ridiculous. Like, there's a few people that like, you know, because you documented the whole thing, yeah. And you can see the journey, like it really helps other moms, other women understand that like where you are right now doesn't need to be your your final chapter.

SPEAKER_00 35:08

No, that's it. It doesn't need to be your final chapter. This is not the end for you. Like, I never imagined I would be 38, three kids, best shape of my absolute life, like better than I looked

Final Reflections And Ongoing Motivation

SPEAKER_00 35:20

when I was 16. Like, never thought that.

SPEAKER_02 35:22

Yeah, but well done.

SPEAKER_00 35:24

Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 35:24

Well done. Let me end it there.

SPEAKER_00 35:26

Thank you.