Shannon Courtenay
Rudderless, running wild and 32kg over her current fighting weight, Shannon Courtenay remembers excusing herself midway through her first boxercise class six years ago on the pretence of needing the loo. “I was hungover,” she recalls. “I was so unfit and I just couldn’t wait for the hour to be up. I told the instructor I was going out for a wee but I actually went out for a cigarette and got sick.”