Charlotte Walker

Charlotte is in her thirties and lives in London. She works long hours as a Personal Assistant.

Why did you work with Ben, what were your goals and what had you tried before?

My story is quite simple really. I have been yo-yo dieting for years. When I first joined Fitness First Ben took me through my induction.

After making slow to little progress on my own I decided that for my birthday I wanted to sort myself out. I therefore decided to get a personal trainer. Ben was the obvious choice.

My goal was to lose weight, or rather inches as Ben advised me to focus on, and keep them off.

How did you find the experience?

I loved our training sessions together. Initially we sat down, worked out my goals and I filled in the metabolic typing questionnaire. Ben then sent it off and the results came back pretty quickly.

I was rather surprised by what foods did and did not agree with me. Anyway, I went on a week's elimination diet, cutting out alcohol (very difficult! hehe), grains, carbs, red meat and the like, just to see what affected me and what didn't.

I have to say that at the end of that week, I'd shed quite a few pounds and felt very alive and full of energy. I then went onto following my "good, bad and occasional" food list and Ben gave me some suggested menus.

In the exercise sessions we worked really hard and I quickly improved in both fitness and strength. We also did some EFT in the sessions which helped me too.

What results did you get?

I have definitely seen results, as have my friends and family! I've had quite a few very positive comments about my decreasing size.

As Ben had advised me, the scales didn't change that much but the inches have dropped off. I am very much on the road to a slimmer, fitter, happier me! I am currently two dress sizes smaller than when I started.

A second, very important benefit is that my back pain has reduced so much so that it does not affect me in every day life anymore. This was worth the price of the training in itself!

“I am very much on the road to a slimmer, fitter and happier me!
I am two dress sizes down and now free from back pain"