The 31-year-old began gaining weight in her late teenagers and early 20s. At the time she was surviving on her own having actually simply left home and confesses she established poor consuming routines.
“I was just eating anything quick I could throw in the oven,” Jodie, who is from the Wirral, said.
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“And in the daytime it was constantly a Subway for lunch, a McDonalds or a Greggs to reclaim to my desk. My weight approached slowly over a couple of years, however I simply buried my head.”
Jodie’s diet plan left her having a hard time to suit her clothing, however she remained in rejection about her weight-loss, rather blaming ‘rubbish sizing’.
She included: “I’d inform myself Primark sizing was rubbish that’s why I required a larger one, or I’d desire something to feel a bit looser so I’d get a measure. Before you understand it you’re in Simply Be searching in the 20/22 area.”
But then one Christmas as she was preparing for a night out, things lastly capped and Jodie was left in tears on her bed room flooring. This was the minute she understood things needed to alter.
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“I was sitting with all my gowns expanded around me and none fitted. I simply rested on the flooring in between them all and wept my eyes out.
“I believed, how have I permitted myself to get this huge? I was so unpleasant, I didn’t wish to remain in any pictures, I didn’t wish to do anything or head out. I’m normally actually outbound, the life and soul of the celebration, and I’d stopped being any of that.
“I simply wished to conceal in the background all the time. That was when I believed, I don’t wish to be this individual any longer. I require to do something.”
Inspired by a previous associate on social networks, Jodie chose to attempt Muy Thai Boxing at a fitness center in Liverpool.
“On the very first day I strolled into a fitness center loaded with males, there wasn’t another lady in sight, and I was horrified. They’d all been doing Thai boxing for many years, I was this 17 stone lady and I believed, what am I doing here?”
After her very first session in January 2014, Jodie got the Thai boxing bug. She went from doing 2 sessions a week to 4, then began including PTs with Dockside Fitness owner James.
She said: “I’d do a PT at 6am, get a shower and go to work, get back at 5pm for another PT and then classes started at 6pm. That was my life for two years.”
As her physical fitness enhanced, the very first stone and a half dropped off and when her weight-loss plateaued, seeing a nutritional expert to stabilize her diet plan assisted her lose another 3 stones. Keen to handle her very first battle, Jodie did an online degree in sports and workout nutrition so she might customize her food to her training sessions.
Having when weighed 106kg, she had her very first Thai boxing contest at 59kg in 2016 in Birkenhead and stopped her challenger in the 3rd round.
Within her very first year of competitors, she won all 5 battles, going on to complete in the most significant programs in the nation and increasing through the ranks to number 3 in the UK.
In March 2020 she was midway through a battle camp to challenge for the world title when Covid hit and, with contact sports among the last to return to typical, she lost almost 2 years of high-level training.
Instead, Jodie – who has actually now lost over 7st – chose to concentrate on training, and in January in 2015 she moved from her previous profession in freight forwarding to end up being a partner in the health club where she trains.
“Women members easily outnumber men now and I get quite a lot of more plus-sized girls coming to classes,” said Jodie. “They feel more comfortable around me because they know I’ve been there.”
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