Anne joined RNT because she wanted to live, not just “get fit”.

For years, her life had been shaped around illness, medication schedules, exhaustion, and uncertainty about how she’d feel from one day to the next.

At 48, Anne was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, pre-diabetic, and she had been living with Lyme disease for 18 years.

By the time she reached her late 50s, her reality looked like:

• Constant fatigue
• Long days built around medication
• Regular hospital infusions
• Fear of flare-ups
• Worry about what her health would look like as she got older

All she was thinking about was whether this was going to be the rest of her life.

“I was tired all the time. The medication made me exhausted.”

Crohn’s disease shaped how she planned her days, her energy, and her confidence in her own body.

Infusion days meant sitting in a hospital chair for hours…

Only to go home and sit again, too exhausted to do anything else.

Doctors’ appointments were routine and medical procedures were expected.

Fatigue was her everyday.

Like many people managing chronic illness, Anne had quietly accepted that this was “just how it is now”.

But something inside her resisted that story.

The Doubts That Almost Stopped Her

When Anne first looked at RNT, she hesitated because she didn’t believe she belonged in it.

She worried about whether she was too old or whether the group was “too elite” for someone managing multiple health conditions

Those doubts are familiar to many people later in life.

Is it too late for me?
Will this actually work for someone with my health history?
What if I can’t keep up?

But then she came back to the same thought:

If not now… when?

And if she didn’t invest in her health now, what would the next decade look like?

So she committed.

Rebuilding Health

With the support of her Coach Oliver and the RNT community, Anne didn’t just “exercise more” or “eat better”.

She learned how to:

• train in a way that supported her health
• fuel her body instead of fighting it
• manage fatigue instead of being ruled by it
• build consistency without burning herself out

Most importantly, she stopped seeing her body as fragile.

She started seeing it as something she could work with, not fear.

“It has changed my life drastically. To see where I’ve come so far is beyond my imagination.”

Anne describes her progress as beyond her imagination.

Over the course of her journey, Anne dropped roughly 46lb while rebuilding a healthier, more sustainable life.

She stopped living in constant medical anxiety.

“I don’t worry about going to the doctor’s office anymore. I don’t worry about medical procedures.”

Health wasn’t something constantly happening to her anymore, because she had agency again.

The Moment That Proved Everything Had Changed

Two weeks after her daughter’s wedding, Anne did something she never would have imagined possible years earlier.

She walked 13 kilometres across the Confederation Bridge, from Prince Edward Island to New Brunswick.

The day after a major life event.

At an age where many people are told to “slow down,” with a history of Crohn’s disease, Lyme disease, and long-term fatigue, this was proof that her future didn’t have to revolve around illness.

“I found the key to success is a healthy lifestyle.”

Freedom from the old fears

Perhaps the most powerful part of Anne’s story is what she no longer worries about.

She no longer dreads infusion days, coming home too exhausted to live her life and planning everything around illness.

“I found the missing piece of the puzzle.”

Anne’s story matters because it challenges a damaging belief that serious health change is only for the young, or the already-fit.

Anne started with chronic illness, fatigue, fear, and doubt.

But she proved that it is never too late to reclaim your health, not just to exist.

But to walk into the next chapter of life stronger, freer, and more alive than you ever thought possible.