Navarre’s Stacey Chisholm shed 40 kilograms and gained a limitless amount of confidence.
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Ms Chisholm lost the weight over two years, trimming herself down from 114 to 74kg.
Her weight loss journey started when she joined an online Facebook group, The Healthy Mummy, and then committed to various weight loss challenges.
She was then one of seven Australian mothers who were selected from an online competition to fly to Sydney, tell their stories of triumph and sit for an exclusive photo shoot in nothing but their underwear.
Ms Chisholm said while her weight loss significantly changed her physical appearance she noticed an even bigger change in her mentality.
“I’ve learnt to love myself now and that is how every woman deserves to feel like,” she said.
“I get out and do things now – I get up on the trampoline with my kids and we walk to school every day.
“Before I was just sitting on the couch watching my kids, but now I am the mother that is out there and does stuff with her kids.”
Ms Chisholm said she was “finally happy” after experiencing the dark days of post-natal depression and the burden of an abusive relationship.
I’ve learnt to love myself now and that is how every woman deserves to feel like.
- Stacey Chisolm
“I was called fat and ugly all the time – I used to hate looking at myself in the mirror,” she said.
“But The Healthy Mummy has given me my life back – I feel like a new person and want anyone in a similar situation to know that it is possible to get your life back.”
On top of staying active Ms Chisholm now makes more of an effort to prepare home-cooked meals.
“We were getting takeway food all the time and just eating a lot of junk whereas now I prepare home cooked meals and this has changed me physically and mentally for the better,” she said.
“Even my children have taken up the healthy lifestyle, so it has impacted on all of us in a positive way.”
The Healthy Mummy founder and chief executive Rhian Allen said she was proud of Ms Chisholm and the other mothers’ efforts to achieve their weight loss goals.
“Our focus has always been to empower mums and as well as offering meal and exercise plans,” she said.
“We are so proud of our seven mums so to celebrate their achievements, we wanted to showcase them as they are in different stages of motherhood, this is real, this is what being a woman and a mother looks like, they are not all after the perfect celebrity figure.
“The Healthy Mummy community is there for each other and that has been key to our seven mums incredible health, weight-loss and body confidence success.”