Body & Soul Gym Deloraine

About

Tamsyn Stock Stafford, owner of Body & Soul Gym Deloraine

Tamsyn

Tamsyn is the owner and creator of Body & Soul Gym. She established the gym in 2019 with the view to offering her clients a safe and nurturing gym environment, where they can become the best version of themselves. Tamsyn decided to use the catch-phrase ‘Be the change’ for her business, which she modified from Gandhi’s ‘Be the change you wish to see in the world’. She feels that people are inspired by others achieving their best, and wishes this for the whole community. Tamsyn currently instructs Pilates, Pilates Circuit, Circuit, Zumba, HIIT/Tabata, Pumped! and Yogalates.

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How I Started

My health journey began as a child. Having a very health-conscious mother, I was raised on curried lentils and steamed vegetables. Junk food was totally foreign to me until I was 6! Despite my upbringing, I succumbed to overeating as an adult. After having my third child, I gained a substantial amount of weight.

By the time I was 38, I weighed 86.5 kg which, at 165 cm. tall, is not a healthy weight. More importantly, I was very unhappy with my body and myself. My self-esteem was extremely low, and I desperately needed help. Some may call it luck, others divine intervention, but I – quite by accident – stumbled upon a book that completely changed my attitude towards myself and life in general.

This book gave me everything I needed to make the move to contact a fitness trainer friend who put me on a gruelling but effective weight-loss program. I lost 26 kg in 6 months!

The weight-loss program was tough, but the real test is keeping it off. I have managed to maintain my weight, give or take a couple of kilos, other than when I became pregnant with my fourth child.

Working as a qualified fitness instructor has allowed me to help myself and other people in my community. These make me, rather, unique as a health care professional.

I believe that, during my transformation, something ‘clicked’ in me – allowing me to see myself differently, love everything about myself, and accept the good and the bad. I thank my body on a regular basis for what it has achieved and what it will achieve. Also, I have found peace within to allow me to live a healthy lifestyle.

Now, I wish to give this wonderful gift to others through Body & Soul Gym.

Body & Soul Gym is a fitness studio and naturopathic clinic with the aim of helping people heal both physically and emotionally by providing shifts in consciousness, a greater understanding of health, and how to achieve small but substantial changes to lifestyle, diet, and physical activity.

My studio is also ‘just a gym’ for those who what to come in and do their own program. I have a comprehensive range of weights and equipment suitable, even, for the serious bodybuilder or fitness fanatic.