I am super passionate about health now, but I haven’t always been so healthy. In fact, in my life before babies I was quite the opposite. 

I was a serial yo-yo dieter and a chocoholic. I used binge on chocolate and junk, and then I would go on all kinds of crazy eating and exercise regimes to shed the weight I’d put on… and this “yo-yo” cycle would continue. I did everything from starving myself, to eating a “yogurt only” diet to exercising like crazy.

I used to be so bloated all the time (so much so that it looked like I was pregnant!) and I had the worst stomach pains. I felt so tired and terrible.  I found out it was dairy and lactose that was the culprit.  Apparently, lactose intolerance is common in mums and often goes undiagnosed.

But then… everything changed when…

I gave birth to my first beautiful baby. I wanted desperately to lose the weight I’d put on in pregnancy. But I also was worried about impacting my milk supply as I wanted to give my baby the best. I was worried my milk supply would dry up if I went back to a crazy diet.

I was constantly exhausted from the sleepless nights. I now know if someone claims they’re ‘tired’ and they haven’t had a baby… they don’t know what “tired” is!

Plus, my postnatal physiotherapist told me that strenuous exercise after child birth can cause a prolapse and that really scared me!

I was so distressed and couldn’t see a way out. Never in my life had I felt so out of control. I felt like a physical and mental wreck. I felt like a walking zombie from the sleep deprivation.

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Maybe you’re still struggling with these problems?

I was a physical and mental wreck! How did I overcome it?

I was not prepared to wave the white flag and surrender to the "babies change your body forever" mentality. 

So I set out on a mission to read everything that I could get my hands on I could about weight loss and breastfeeding.

I looked into books, magazines, google, and weight loss plans. You name it, I took it in. But nothing I read, listened to or watched seemed understand the challenges that real breastfeeding mums face.

Firstly, as breastfeeding mums we can’t starve ourselves on one of those supermodel starvation diets you see in the magazines. If we did, our milk supply would dry up. And we’d have even less energy to cope with raising our little ones.

When you’re breastfeeding, your baby is depending on you for 100% of their nutrition. Diets that cut out major food groups are a definite “no-no”. We need extra nutrients to support our milk supply and precious baby’s development.

In an ideal world, we’d all spend hours cooking organic gourmet healthy meals and go to the gym every day. But, when you have a new baby, who has the time or energy for that?!

And after busy days and sleepless nights we don’t have the energy for extensive cooking, exhaustive boot camp style workouts or have time to go to the gym.

I thought the existing supplements might be a convenient answer but when I looked at weight loss shakes and products in the supermarket, I found that they were packed full of sugar, artificial nasties, gluten, soy hormones, dairy/whey and the list of allergens and nasties goes on. I was so worried that these nasties would get passed on to my precious baby through my breast milk.

So, I went out and searched all over Australia to find the leading experts in women’s health and postnatal weight loss to create a healthy solution for breastfeeding mums just like me.

These experts were also real mums, so they understood the real challenges that we mums face.

I was so passionate about finding a solution to this big problem that I put my house on the line to fund it.

Cheers To Your Success!