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Creating a Movement
Britt McGrath Helps
People Achieve
Healthy Bodies —
and a Healthy
Self-image
BY JOSEPH BEDNAR
[email protected]
Fitness, Britt McGrath makes it clear what she
In her bio on the website of My Health Matters
thinks of ‘diet culture.’
“I have been on a decades-long journey of
learning to look at my body for everything it is,
rather than everything it is not. And through years of
certifications, training, and actual hands-on work, I’ve
found my purpose. I’ve found my worth again,” she
wrote. “And that is to help other people who have had
similar histories as mine give diet culture and all of
its toxic friends a huge middle finger — to finally start
living our lives in ways that do not revolve around how
our bodies look, but rather everything else life has to
offer.”
Now in her sixth year of helping a growing roster
of clients make fitness and wellness work for them,
she believes in that philosophy even more.
In short, too many people have been let down by a
fitness and diet industry that puts too much emphasis
on weight numbers and body shape, and have grown
up in a society that overly focuses on the way they
look, and places all the value on that, McGrath told
BusinessWest during a broad conversation at her
Hadley fitness studio.
“For as long as I can remember, I always fixated
on my body. I was an athlete for many years, and I felt
strong, but once I stopped playing, that’s when my eat-
ing disorders started happening because I didn’t know
how to control my body anymore,” she said. “And over
the years, as I started healing my own body image, I
started making more connections with other people
speaking out and letting me know they’ve also experi-
enced that.”
My Health Matters contains many trappings of a
traditional gym — weights, circuit training, boxing,
group classes, personal training, and much more —
but with a few key differences, from a lack of mirrors
to a deliberate de-emphasis on number of pounds lost.
Instead, fitness plans are individualized to each mem-
ber’s needs, goals, and body type, with an emphasis
Britt McGrath opened
the Hadley studio of
My Health Matters
Fitness in late 2023.
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