Mandalaya H.

PROGRAM
Lifestyle

TESTIMONIAL
I started working with Emi exactly one year ago. I had worked with BIN before leading up to competition, with good results, but this time I came back with a different perspective. During the spring I had gone from being a full duty firefighter, competing in multisport, and living a very active life to being promoted to fire chief and with that comes a desk and daytime. And the kilos and decline of mental health. I came to Emi with my dysphoria linked to being nonbinary, and trying to balance that with my new not that active lifestyle. So during this year we have worked on habits. First was a couple of weeks just balancing my eating at way higher calories then I thought was realistic in the beginning, but after a while I came to appreciate it. It was nice to feel full and find how to fuel my days. We focused only on hitting proteins and calories, and after a while carbs and fats ended up at about the same every day, but I didn’t put much thought in it. I had a rough year battling my mental health, private issues, dysphoria, work, and then covid hit and you know: life. But we continued, just kept swimming through it all, just creating good habits with my eating and figuring out how I have time to train now and what I want to do.

And guess what; after a long couple of months things started to happen. The weight is slowly coming off. My dysphoria is still here, but I can handle it, my mental health is better and so on.

it has been nice to have a coach that understands what it is like to not fit in the gender norm and what that sometimes does to your head. It has been nice to have a balanced coach that has seen what has been working and that made me trust the process and not stress about that “nothing is happening” feeling. It has been nice to have a coach that understands habits and how that works with mental health.

it has been a good year and I do recommend everyone to work with BIN in general and Emi specially if you are one of us. The queers that are trying to find their space in a weird world.