Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG fitness podcast. I am very excited today because I am going to use this episode to announce our new commit six slash ESG fitness coach. She has been working with Ruth for a while and as usual with coaches we head

hunted her and asked her if she had one joined the team and I'm very excited to say that she said

that she would. She's also done E IQ nutrition and has a ton of both personal and professional

experience with Perry and postmenopausal women,

which is about 80% of our client base. So I am very excited to welcome you to the team. Tony,

how are you? I'm good. Thank you, Emma. Yeah, very excited to be here. Good. All right. So tell us a bit about your background your journey

let us get to know you a little bit and then what got you into coaching um so i became a personal

trainer um it was just prior to covid actually that i started my training. And the reason being is because my fitness

journey has been very long. I started the gym when I was about 20, loved it, but very much went

down a route of extreme exercising. It led me on to quite a unhealthy way. I had secondary aminoria, I think you pronounce it,

and disordered eating around that. So it then became, I'd associated exercise and eating in quite a

negative way. And to be honest, this stayed with me

right up until probably I had my children. And I just, although I wouldn't recommend that as a

strategy for getting over this to have a family. But I just thought, you know, this has got to

stop. And I really had that motivation to look after

myself and then I had the children. So I'm missing out big chunks here, but ultimately after I had

Frey and my last child, I then knew that I had to change. I went in a very different direction,

you know, I started working out from home a lot more,

started to really get into mindfulness around eating and understand where this came from my

behaviour. But I think the point I want to make here, this, you know, I don't want to go on

waffle on too much, but I recognised that I knew all the ways to lose weight and I'd already got that and

I still wasn't happy. It still wasn't fulfilled. There's much more to losing weight and being

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