Lean with Lesley: ‘The more you move your body, the more the mind will follow’

With September standing in as ‘the new January,’ Mary Cate Smith signs up for a Lean with Lesley training session to see if she can develop and maintain a healthier relationship with working out

Lesley Giltinan of Lean with Leslie puts journalist Mary Cate Smith through her paces at a personal training session at her home gym in Rochestown. Picture Chani Anderson

It is hard for me to hear that I’m technically overweight because for most of my teenager years, I was chronically underweight. I obsessed about every calorie I ate and purged when I overate.