My love of health and fitness started with my own health issues in my 20s following a party lifestyle that finally took it’s toll. I saw a nutritional therapist and took up ashtanga yoga and salsa dancing (because ‘typical exercise’ didn’t interest me at all!). Feeling like a new woman I decided to retrain as a nutritional therapist so I could help others and practiced this for 8 years until I had children. I also became a Zumba instructor in 2010. Since then I feel like I’ve gone through another huge transition. This time, becoming a ‘geriatric’ mother who has been through IVF and straight into peri menopause. Exercise and a healthy diet have now become absolute essentials for me. I am determined to keep myself well for myself and my kids and to thrive, not just survive.