Amy Kemp

Growing up, I was always the bigger kid. Other kids never had a problem with letting me know this! Those comments from kids don’t just disappear when you become an adult. They become your inner critic.

For years I thought my battle was with food or exercise. Looking back, it wasn’t. My biggest battle was with that voice in my head telling me I wasn’t capable, that I’d eventually fail, and that it was somehow safer to sabotage myself than risk succeeding.

The interesting thing is that I’d actually lost weight before. More than once. What I’d never managed to do was keep it off, because I had never dealt with the reason I kept going backwards.

That’s where Vision changed my life.

The trainers didn’t just teach me how to exercise or eat well. They helped me rebuild my confidence, challenge my thinking and prove to myself, week after week, that success isn’t about perfection. It’s about consistency.

There have been injuries, stressful periods, three busy boys to care for, work, caring for family and every excuse life can throw at you. But instead of giving up when life wasn’t perfect, I learnt to simply keep showing up.

Today my goal isn’t “How much weight can I lose?” It’s “How strong can I become?”

That mindset has taken me further than I ever imagined. I’ve lifted weights I once thought were impossible, completed 2 half marathons, competed in 2 Sutherland to surfs and even joined the Aquinas Colts Over 30s rugby league tag team. A few years ago I wouldn’t have believed any of that was possible.

The biggest transformation isn’t what people see in my before and after photos. It’s the voice inside my head. The inner critic that used to tell me I couldn’t has slowly been replaced with someone who believes she can.

Vision helped me build that person from the inside out, and for the first time, I genuinely believe this change is forever.