She is hoping to change society's stereotypical perceptions about what a 'fit and healthy' person looks like by showing the world that anyone can embrace exercise, no matter what their shape or size.
Despite Krista's voluptuous physique, the sporting enthusiast, from Toronto, Canada, has bagged a number of awards, even winning her age group in Canada's MultiSport series 2009.
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Krista Henderson, 44, trying to prove to the world that anyone can embrace exercise, no matter what their shape or size
(pictured), completing a half marathon and indoor rowing
Krista began her athletic career in 2004 when her Fitness Director recommended she "train like an athlete", in response to her commitment of living an active and healthy lifestyle,' the website states.
'This advice dramatically shifted Krista away from the diet and exercise mentality, where she constantly felt the need to "fix" herself by solely focusing on losing weight.
'This fresh new approach set Krista on a path of changing the way she lived which resulted in becoming happier and healthier.'
Krista says that the first race she ever took part in was an incredible experience, and helped to fuel her desire to compete in more events.
'The first race I ever did was great - I remember it started and I was in the water laughing uncontrollably, I couldn't believe I was doing it,' she explained.
Krista explained On her website, that her decision to start 'training like an athlete' helped her to focus on leading a healthy, active lifestyle, rather than purely concentrating on losing weight
Krista continued; 'I was in a mind-set to challenge myself and prove to others that just because I am plus-size doesn't mean I'm lazy.
'When people see a plus-size person, they think lazy and unmotivated, but they shouldn't judge - they don't know what else is going on.
'I'm trying to redefine the before and after. I used to be inactive and now I'm the opposite. It's redefining the transformation.
'My body shape has changed and my endurance is much higher - I'm stronger and my stress levels have reduced.
'Weighing less makes it easy but what I have learnt is that by focusing on number of scale it backfires.'
Indeed, just one year after tenacious Krista changed her focus from losing weight, to 'training like an athlete' and hired a coach to increase her fitness, she returned to her first race course and knocked 20 minutes off her time without any weight change.
She added: 'It was amazing to see how the training built up.
'I went from feeling completely dead to doing back to back weekends, in one month I completed three races - it's addictive.
'When I won my age group, it spoke of my endurance as I wasn't the fastest so I had to win it on frequency.
'There's a secret fun to take first place when you don't look the same size as the others around you.'
Krista hopes that her blog will help to unite plus-size athletes and encourage women to look past the traditional beauty standards.
She said: 'It's a weight neutral site so we don't talk about weight, it's just to do with athletics.
'There is a growing group of plus-size athletes. I think there needs to be more diverse bodies, you need to have people of all shapes and size represented.
'Women often feel like they have to fix something, the message I want to get out is that you have everything you need.
'There's nothing wrong with wanting to improve but you can't worry about what people think. Everything you do, you need to do it for yourself.'
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