How 1 year on The Body Coach app changed our lives

Many people kickstart the year with a similar resolution: to stay healthier and fitter throughout the year.

But committing to a healthy lifestyle and staying active is hard work. It’s not easy to consistently exercise and stick to cooking food at home. Motivation can dip and it can feel tricky to get back on track.

In our latest video series, This Time Will Be Different, we spoke to people who joined The Body Coach app in January 2023 – and who have managed to stick to a healthier lifestyle throughout the past year.

How did they do it? Catch up on the series by watching their videos here.

‘It’s been a miracle in all honesty’

After using The Body Coach app for a year, Taiba Smith, 41, said she’s at the highest level of fitness that she’s ever been.

She had the 40-year check last year which revealed she had high cholesterol and she had to go on statins. “It was a wake-up call that I had to do more for me,” she says.

She joined the app, but admitted that she didn’t think it would work. But being able to fit workouts in at home, around her 3 kids, she realised it was something she could stick to. “I planned to lose 3-4kg, but by the summer I’d lost 7kg,” she says.

“I’m a completely different person now and my cholesterol levels are the lowest they’ve ever been.”

Watch her full story here.

‘I’m living proof you can stick to this’

Claire Jackson, 49, lost 12kg using The Body Coach app in 2024. She’d always exercised and traditionally gone to the gym, but wanted to find something that would stick as she was suffering from perimenopause symptoms: weight gain and brain fog.

As a full-time working mum to two young girls, she loved how she could fit in her workouts around her busy lifestyle. “It needs minimal kit, you can just get in front of the TV and do it,” she says.

“I’m more conscious of what I’m putting into my body after seeing it change and become stronger and fitter, and I’m a better mum because of it.”

She adds: “It’s hard as a busy mum to stick at anything. I’m a year on, and I couldn’t enjoy it more.”

Watch her full story here.

‘I finally learned how to cook’

Laura McQuade signed up to the app one year ago – and says she’s finally learned how to cook.

“I was the ready meal frozen food queen,” she says. “I never really learned how to cook, so I didn’t have those skills and I didn’t pass them on to the kids.”

Now, she says, she cooks with her kids and the app has completely changed her relationship with food and exercise. Now, exercise is part of her routine and she’s created a “gym corner” in her living room.

“Before being on the app, I was totally photophobic, and now I can be okay with the kids taking photos of me because I’ve got body confidence.”

Watch her full story here.

Watch our This Time Will Be Different video series on The Body Coach TV YouTube channel.