Five women came to Supra Human wanting to change their bodies. They had goals to lose weight, build muscle, feel comfortable in their clothes again, improve their overall health, and to finally see the results they had spent years trying to create on their own.
When Kara Miller, Jessica Giles, Theresa Deyhle, Christina Danley, and Breonna Reding sat down with their coaches to talk about their transformations, the conversation quickly became about something much bigger than their bodies. Behind every physical result was another story about learning to trust themselves, navigating seasons that didn’t go according to plan, and discovering what happens when taking care of yourself stops being optional.
These are their stories.
Kara Miller: Learning To Put Herself Back On The List
Kara had been active for most of her life. She lifted weights as early as high school, did Orangetheory before her wedding and through her first pregnancy, and later turned back to running when gyms closed during COVID. With a medical and scientific background, she understood the basics of nutrition and energy balance. She had even tried calculating and tracking her own macros.
But knowing what to do was not the same as having the space to do it.
Marriage, motherhood and a demanding career had slowly crowded Kara out of her own life.
“You just kind of get lost in life,” she said. By the time she found Supra Human, she felt like she had been living in survival mode. “All I wanted was to kind of get my body back.”
What coaching gave her at first was relief from having to solve one more problem herself.
“Knowing that someone’s going to be there to devise the nutrition, devise the workout plan and hold you accountable, that was huge for me,” Kara said. “Taking away the mental effort and then also the accountability factor was a definite game changer.”
Her coach, Britt, recognized quickly that the physical goal was only part of it.
“The bigger opportunity was helping her learn how to put herself back on her own priority list,” Britt said.
Kara was capable of doing almost anything she was asked to do. The harder lesson was learning that she did not have to do everything perfectly to succeed.
Then, almost exactly as Kara finished her fat-loss phase, life changed dramatically. She and her husband separated.
The structure that had carried her through fat loss suddenly collided with grief, stress, and a completely different emotional reality. Kara began recognizing emotional eating patterns and, instead of hiding them, told
Britt what was happening.
“If I didn’t have Britt, I definitely would have completely rebounded,” Kara said.
They stopped treating food as the entire problem and began looking at what was happening before the food. Kara was dealing with overwhelming stress, lack of sleep, and emotional triggers that led to her needing to soothe what she was feeling. She experimented with walks, pre-logging food, pausing before acting on an impulse, and eventually breathwork, which became a tool she now uses regularly to regulate stress.
Nearly two years into coaching, Britt says their relationship looks completely different. Kara is no longer simply waiting for instructions. They problem-solve together.
And Kara sees herself differently, too.
“I identify now as a fit person,” she said.
Her routines have become part of daily life, and her young children are watching. They ask about healthy foods. They want to be active. They see their mother train, walk, and take care of herself.
The woman who once disappeared somewhere inside the demands of life is now showing her children what it looks like to make your needs a priority.
That transformation was recognized in a way Kara never expected. At SHX 2025, she was named Supra Human Woman of the Year, an honor that represented far more than a physical result.
By then, Kara’s story was no longer simply about getting her body back. She had moved through one of the hardest seasons of her life without abandoning herself, learned to navigate imperfection without allowing it to become failure, and continued showing up even when the circumstances around her changed completely.
The woman standing on that stage was not the same woman who once avoided being in photos with her children. She had become someone who could trust herself through the hard parts, not just the successful ones. Being named Supra Human Woman of the Year was recognition of that entire journey. The physical change, certainly, but even more so the resilience, honesty, and growth that happened behind it.
Jessica Giles: Learning To Trust Herself
For Jessica, the decision to change began with her health.
She had been living with type 2 diabetes and taking medication for roughly eight years, but her A1C continued moving in the wrong direction. When her doctor discussed starting a GLP-1, Jessica began researching what else she needed to support her health, including protein and strength training.
“I just knew I needed support,” she said.
Jessica started Supra Human at 213 pounds. Trust in her coach wasn’t the problem. Her uncertainty was much closer to home.
“I trusted Allee immediately,” Jessica said. “It was me that I didn’t trust.”
Allee remembers that in the beginning, almost everything around nutrition felt overwhelming for Jessica. Planning meals, knowing what to eat, and figuring out how to fit it into her life were too much to change at once. So, instead of overhauling her entire life at once, they began with what Jessica could realistically execute and built from there.
Then Jessica broke through 200 pounds.
They celebrated. She lost another ten pounds. Then another. Eventually, Jessica reached 122 pounds, a 91-pound change from where she began.
The most important coaching happened outside those milestones.
When work became overwhelming, Jessica told Allee that she felt like she couldn’t fit everything in. Instead of asking Jessica to push harder, Allee shortened her workouts from 45 minutes to 30. The plan changed because Jessica’s life required it.
That trust eventually reached far beyond training. When Jessica decided she needed to leave a relationship, Allee was the first person she told. She asked her coach to help hold her accountable to the decision.
Over time, the woman who once needed Allee to tell her exactly what to do became someone who arrived with her own plan.
“At first, it was more Jessica asking me, ‘Allee, what do I do? How do I do it? What is the game plan?’” Allee said. “Now she’s telling me exactly what she is going to do and how she’s going to show up.”
For Jessica, the deepest change has been learning that prioritizing herself is not selfish or negotiable.
“It was a massive identity shift for me to prioritize myself,” she said. “It changed every way I look at everything.”
Her transformation can be measured in 91 pounds. But Jessica measures it another way now.
She has become “someone who believes in themself, someone who keeps my commitments to myself.”
Theresa Deyhle: Learning To Let Go Of Old Limits
For years, Theresa still thought of herself as the athlete she had been in high school.
Then she had three children. Life filled with work, family, and everything that tends to happen between adolescence and adulthood. One day, determined to tap back into that old version of herself, she got on a treadmill expecting to knock out a mile.
Reality arrived quickly.
“I was like, ‘What the hell? My mile time sucked. I can’t run like I used to. What’s happened to me?’”
Theresa had always exercised and considered herself a healthy eater, but she could never quite lose the belly fat or create the definition she wanted. When she joined Supra Human, the request to her coach Emmy was straightforward.
“Get this belly fat off of me. What do I need to do?”
Emmy quickly realized Theresa had no shortage of ambition. She wanted to lose body fat, build her glutes and abs and, almost casually, mentioned she also planned to complete a brutal 100-mile cycling event.
“For her, I think it was compartmentalizing and saying, ‘Okay, we’re going to focus on one goal at a time,’” Emmy said.
Theresa also carried an old number around with her: 128 pounds. It was what she remembered weighing in high school, and after years of watching her weight slowly climb, she had become convinced her body simply would not go below it.
“I told Emmy, ‘I don’t think you’re going to be able to get me below 128. It just never happens.’”
Eventually, Theresa reached 128 and stalled there long enough for the old belief to come roaring back. She kept following the plan anyway. Then the plateau broke.
“That was a big confidence boost for me,” she said. “That’s where I knew, okay, the program works.”
What happened next surprised her just as much.
Theresa loved moving into a muscle-building phase. She loved eating more and getting stronger. But eventually, during a trip to Hawaii, she decided she no longer liked how she felt and told Emmy she wanted to change direction.
She expected her coach to give her the answer. Emmy kept giving the decision back.
“What do you want to do?”
That initially frustrated Theresa. Eventually, she understood the point.
“At the end of the day, as clients, we really are in control of what we want to do, and our coaches are there to guide us,” she said.
That autonomy now follows Theresa everywhere. Emmy says she has gone from needing direction to confidently navigating travel and making decisions herself. Her husband eventually joined Supra Human, and the habits Theresa began building for herself have spread through her family and even into her circle of friends.
When asked to finish the sentence, The woman I am becoming is someone who…, Theresa needed only a few words.
“I am someone who can have it all.”
Christina Danley: Learning That Progress Does Not Require Perfection
Christina came into Supra Human as a runner, even though running was no longer producing the results she wanted.
When her coach Greta told her to stop running, Christina had questions. But she had also made a decision when she joined Supra Human that if she was going to work with an expert, she was going to trust her.
“All I had to do was show up and execute,” Christina said.
Within the first several weeks, that trust began paying off. But Greta was already paying attention to something deeper. Christina was an “A-plus student,” the kind of client who wanted to check every box and execute exactly as asked.
Greta knew that could become its own obstacle.
“I wanted to make sure that she knew that we weren’t chasing perfection,” Greta said. “If she just showed up to the best of her ability every single day, that was going to be enough.”
That lesson became especially important after fat loss.
Christina found the transition into maintenance and muscle building harder than she expected. After becoming accustomed to pursuing one clear outcome, moving into a phase where the scale and her body might change in a different direction was mentally challenging. There were days she did not execute perfectly and didn’t want to admit it.
But when she did, Greta didn’t respond with disappointment.
“She always met me with grace,” Christina said. “She helped coach me through that very gently.”
That grace did something important. It gave Christina room to be honest instead of performing for her coach. Slowly, the goal stopped being perfect execution and became understanding herself well enough to keep moving forward when execution was imperfect.
Greta can now hear that confidence in the way Christina communicates.
“She’s not as dependent on me,” she said. “She’s actually become a lot more confident.”
Instead of always asking what to do, Christina often arrives having already identified the problem and a possible solution.
At the end of the conversation, Christina described the woman she sees emerging from the process as someone who trusts herself, knows she can do hard things, keeps promises to herself, and can “give myself grace when things aren’t perfect.”
It’s a different kind of discipline than perfection. And ultimately, a much more sustainable one.
Breonna Reding: Learning That She’s Worth The Investment
Breonna Reding came to Supra Human very familiar with fitness.
She had been a bodybuilder before having children. She owned businesses, worked as a chiropractor, and knew how to train. But over the years, she noticed herself increasingly going through the motions. A workout would get modified because she didn’t feel like doing a movement. Nutrition would change with her mood. More training began to feel like the answer until she was convincing herself she needed five or six hour-long workouts every week.
Eventually, the combination of motherhood, businesses, and life caught up with her.
“I hit this wall by myself,” Breonna said. “I’m too tired. I don’t have the time. I’m a mom. I’ve got kids. I’ve got businesses. It’s too much.”
When she joined Supra Human and Kelli began coaching her, she immediately understood that adding more to Breonna’s life was not the answer. Breonna already had enough on her plate.
“More on your plate isn’t always better,” Kelli said.
Her job was to create something Breonna could execute inside the life she actually had, not build another demanding routine on top of it.
Kelli also recognized something more personal. Breonna was accustomed to giving to everyone around her before herself.
“This was her first investment in herself,” Kelli said.
Breonna loved handing over some of the mental load.
“I don’t have to come up with a plan. I don’t have to come up with a macro breakdown. I just do what I’m told,” she said. “It was like a weight lifted off my shoulders.”
Later, moving from fat loss into muscle building introduced a different challenge. Breonna told Kelli there was a specific number on the scale she was afraid to see again after working so hard to get below it.
“If I go above that number, I know mentally it’s going to mess with me,” she told her.
Kelli listened and built the muscle-building phase around that reality. Breonna was able to add muscle without ignoring the psychological side of what the process meant to her.
Today, Kelly says Breonna has become proactive. When something starts slipping, she does not wait for it to become a bigger problem. She reaches out and they solve it together.
The change has followed her home, too. Breonna’s husband joined Supra Human after watching her journey, and she says the discipline she has developed for herself now influences the way she follows through with her children and the intentionality they are building into their family.
“My biggest thing has been discipline for myself,” she said. “Not relying on motivation alone.”
When asked who she is becoming, Breonna described a woman who is “disciplined, shows up, and is not afraid to set high standards for myself.”
For someone who spent years showing up for everyone else, learning to direct that same standard inward may be the most important transformation of all.
The Transformation Behind The Picture
Each of these women has a physical transformation worth celebrating. But their stories also prove that the deepest part of change rarely fits inside a before-and-after photo.
It’s about Kara learning that one painful season does not have to erase everything she built before it. Jessica discovered that she can become someone she trusts. Theresa realized she has more control over her body and her life than an old number ever suggested. Christina replaced perfection with self-trust and grace. Breonna finally gave herself the same commitment she had spent years giving everyone else.
The body changes are visible. The ability to navigate life differently is so much deeper.
If you’ve been waiting for the right time to put yourself back on the list, this can be it. You don’t have to have everything figured out, and you don’t have to feel completely ready. You just have to decide that the next chapter gets to look different.
This is your time to make your comeback, and to become the woman you know you are still capable of being.
