My Weight Loss Journey

7 years ago I lost 20 kgs in 3 months and met the love of my life!

I have struggled with my weight in the past and I know how painful and frustrating it is. Here is my personal weight loss journey so you know why I’m so passionate about helping you!

On the left is a photo of me at 21. On the right is what I have looked like for the past 7 years. I struggled with my weight for 10 long years from high school until I found out the secret I’d like to share with you.

I guess my weight started to creep on in Highschool, I had never considered myself overweight then but looking back at those old year book photos, I was definitely carrying a fair bit of extra padding!

At 18, I went on my first overseas holiday, to Europe in the winter, and while I was there I became quite partial to a full glass of Baileys Irish Cream, pretty much every night. Adding on the pies, pastries and pastas, and very little exercise and you have a recipe for disaster! By the time I got home I was a squeezing into a size 16 and too scared to weigh myself, I know I was well over 90 kgs. At 22, after returning I was worked in Cafes while studying for my BA in Communication, trying to lose weight, and getting nowhere, despite working out at the gym pretty intensely. ( I was still eating like crap, and way too much food!)

So I thought I should go and work at  a gym, thinking being around all those fit people would help… It didn’t. I learnt some amazing exercise and nutrition skills but still the weight stayed on, that picture on the left was at the Randwick Fitness First gym Christmas party in about 2001.

It wasn’t until I changed my mind that my body changed too. Just 3 years later I went back to work at Fitness First as an NLP therapist and coach. I had been a size 8 and under 60 kgs for over a year. If I can do it, you can too!

Looking back at my old photos now I know I was in a pretty bad state, but I have an optimistic personality, and even then I didn’t really think that there was that much wrong with my life. Luckily, a friend of mine had just completed her coaching & NLP studies and called me up so she could practice on me.

We only did a couple of sessions then, and in that time we resolved and cleared up my thinking about relationships and career, which were my major problems. I found that my emotional state and self-esteem improved instantly, and got better and better as the weeks went on. Suddenly I was seeing things I had never seen before, opportunities came up and I was able to make the best of them.

Over that year my life steadily improved, and I was blown away by the changes that happened in my life, it was almost like magic. I was hooked. I decided I would like to help others as my friend had helped me and I have completed many NLP, Hypnosis and Coaching trainings and certifications since. My thoughts changed as I released more of my own “stuff” from my past and was able to begin to create the life that I really wanted.

I started really following my passions, one of which was music and singing, and while doing that, I met a man who was very different from everyone I used to date.  We became good friends and after a year we began a relationship. He fell in love with me while I was overweight, and when he went away overseas travelling for 3 months, I decided that I was going to become a goddess for him by the time he came back. I discovered the determination and reasons I had been lacking in the past. I was intensely focussed and motivated and I ate really healthily ( though I did not diet!!!), I ran 5 times per week doing HIIT ( high intensity interval training)  for 20 mins and did strength training at the gym 2-3 times per week. My total exercise time would have been no more than 6 hours per week.

I easily burnt fat, and added muscle and slimmed down over 20 kgs by the time he returned. Needless to say he was quite surprised and pleased with my new fitness and size. I only wish I had taken more measurements and photos along the journey to show more of my transformation, I was so embarrassed of my body then and I didn’t know that this would become my path and passion!

My partner and I have been together now for 7 years, we have an incredible relationship, have recently been married. I have stayed the same weight ever since because I have easily maintained my healthy lifestyle. Now, I have an amazingly rewarding career helping women like you  break through their inner barriers to weight loss with my specialist NLP Coaching, I am blessed to enjoy a wonderful life and more confidence and inner peace than ever before.

I know the reason that I was able to finally release that extra weight was because I had let go of my inner ‘fat girl’, It was time for me to change, and because I had let go of my mental barriers and the painful emotional weight with NLP coaching, it was easy for me to do what had been impossible before.

I know that NLP Coaching works! It works where other things fail because it gets to the heart of the problem and enables you to let go of the invisible blocks and barriers. I specialize in working with women who have struggled through all the gimmicks and diet fads and have had enough  of the failure, excuses and emotional pain.

I have dedicated myself to becoming an expert in the skills that will help you to break through your inner mental and emotional barriers so that you too can become slim and stay slim easily! The funny thing is, it doesn’t have to be as hard as you think, it might sound a little cliched, but when you change your mind and shift from the inside out, doing the exercise and healthy eating really does become easy!

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Arts  (Communications & Writing), 2003
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming Master Practitioner, 05
• Time-Line Therapy Master Practitioner, 2005
• Certified Hypnotherapist, 2005
• Theta Healing Practitioner, 2007
• Matrix Therapies Master Practitioner, 2008
• Coaching Genius Meta-Coach Course, 2009
• Self Actualization Meta-Coach Course, 2009
• Associate Certified Meta-Coach, 2009
• Para-Psychology practice Insured, 05 – current
• Kylie Sexton is a Professional Member of the ABNLP 05 – current

Contact me to find out how I can help you to become slim and stay slim.