After realising she had let herself go, Melissa made a promise to be the best version of herself. Through healthy eating, she has lost 39kg and transformed her life.
Cradling her three-month-old baby girl, Melissa walked past the floor-length mirror in the hallway and caught a glimpse of her post-partum body . Stopped in her tracks, she didn’t recognise the woman staring back. After the birth of her second child — but primarily aided by a poor diet — she weighed 107kg. “I just thought: ‘Who is this? Wow, I have let myself go’,” Melissa tells 7Life of the moment she realised she was putting her health last. “I had let myself go before I even fell pregnant.
” As Melissa stared at the figure in the mirror, she made a promise — she wanted to be the best version of herself that she could be. And, after just nine months of healthy eating, she has lost a staggering 39kg. “I am now a single mum of two, with two jobs and a mortgage — I am busier than ever,” Melissa says. The mum says a few simple ‘swaps’ in the kitchen have given her not just her dream body, but a better life for her kids. Melissa had lived on a diet of carbohydrates and large meal portions, with takeaway being her go-to. “I went through a rough patch,” she say
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