Fitness Stop
The trainer helping clients
LOSE WEIGHT AND FIND THEIR BEST LIVES
Personal trainer and nutritionist Fatema Juma, who runs Dar es Salaam fitness studio Fitness Stop, has helped hundreds of people worldwide lose life-changing amounts of weight through her tailored workouts and meal plans. Her success stories include model and former Miss Tanzania Jihan Dimack, who credits Fatema with getting her in the shape of her life. Mark Edwards talks to Fatema about her fitness journey while Jihan reveals the Fitness Stop regime of kickboxing and eating clean that has primed her body and mind.
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hen Fitness Stop clients celebrate the weight loss and new-found energy and confidence that has come as a result of following its bespoke food plans and fitness regimes, there is no-one happier than the fitness studio’s founder, Fatema Juma. She knows how much it means to them because she has experienced those same struggles with weight and self-esteem. In fact, one of Fatema’s biggest weight loss successes is her own. She has lost 35kg and been, in her words, “completely transformed” over the course of her own fitness and nutrition journey.
It is hard to believe of the trim, toned 26-year-old who leads the group Fitness Stop exercise classes with such energy, but Fatema says as a teenager she was “on the heavy side” and it was a constant source of misery to her. The struggles with her weight were especially galling for someone who was interested in sports and nutrition from an early age. At school she was active, excelling at basketball, and so disciplined in healthy habits she was the one her school friends would go to for tips on “eating certain fruits or how to keep their skin clear”. Frustration at her failure to shift the weight hit a peak when she
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