I entered a competition on Facebook and thought nothing more about it....

To say it has changed my life is an understatement....

As I sat aimlessly scrolling through Facebook one day over the summer I came across a Facebook competition that Clarke Fitness were doing. Me being me I decided to enter just because I have never won anything in my life.

To be honest I never thought anymore about it. Once I got tagged in the Clarke Fitness Live video draw a feeling of nervous excitement came over me. I knew I was massively over weight and unfit. This was the perfect opportunity for me to put things right. But I started to back track and put up these barriers of how this could not work for me. I nearly talked myself out of doing it. Only for friends and family members making me contact Conor I don't think I would have went through with it.

After a painstakingly few hours I dropped Conor a PM and he came back to me for me to call him.

Upon speaking to him he reassured me I could do this. I told him that I always quit things like this and I would not complete. He told me he would make sure I completed it. You know what he was right. I completed 58 out of the 60 sessions. This is something that I thought I would never be able to do. I proved myself wrong thats for sure.

In some ways this program has been a life saver for me. When I think about it I was overweight , unfit and I was unable to solve the problem I was drowning in. It was my lack of understanding of the whole are of training and nutrition. All the we thoughts kept creeping in saying quit ,quit.

Even now to sit and look at the photos on the opposite page its amazing to see my own personal transformation both inside and out.

This program has been a life changing experience for me its completed transformed and educated me.

Life now is looking good and this was just the beginning for me and I'm looking forward to continuing on. I have made friends for life and the bonus ball is I'm a lot fitter and healthier. If your out there and you putting things of thinking you can't d it , contact Clarke Fitness and I can assure you won't regret it.

I have to say although at times I wanted to quit , I never did because Conor and the team wouldn't let me. The offer great one 2 one support and they take time to really focus on their members. The atmosphere in the gym is awesome and the craic is always good. It's not one of these real serious places people go to train.

You go do your training and then have fun as well.

Throughout the program although I did lose a massive amount of fat. I struggled to see the changes that everyone else were seeing. I was told on countless occasions how well I looked, but for some reason I couldn't see it.

Don't get me wrong I felt great and I knew that the program was working. I just realised I was being too hard on myself. The moment I knew it was working or when I realised I had done well was when my son turned around and said he was so proud of me. This totally made all the hard work and dedication worth it.