Weight Watchers Australia - March 2018

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After struggling through the heartache

of trying to have another baby, Fiona

McWilliam was determined she’d celebrate

her 40th birthday feeling fabulous.

My time to

shine!

BEFORE

FIONA

MCWILLIAM

AGE

40

HEIGHT

160cm

LOCATION

Orangeville,

NSW

START WEIGHT

82.9kg

WEIGHT NOW

61kg

WEIGHT LOST

21.9kg

TIME TAKEN

12 months

HOW

Group

Coaching with

Marie Elliott in

Mount Annan,

NSW

FIONA’S TOP TIP
Bin all scraps
of food.
“Otherwise the
temptation is
there and those
bites that you
never track
come back to
haunt you.”

F

iona had always been

a cheerful, chatty

person, but as she

approached 40 her sunny

personality dimmed.

Already mum to a gorgeous

toddler, Kody, Fiona was

struggling after miscarrying

three times since his birth.

“I was always the bright,

bubbly, silly one, and made this

a trait of mine to compensate

for being the biggest,” Fiona

says. “But after losing three

babies in two years, I was in

a real hole. I was so down.

That bright bubbly person

had disappeared.

“With being overweight my

whole life, combined with the

miscarriages, I’d become sad

and quiet and cranky. I used

to shy away and not go out

and I just disappeared into

the background.

“I didn’t like any part of me,

really. I had the most beautiful

little boy – he was blossoming

and I was just missing it. I was

thinking, ‘I should be doing

stuff with him, I should be

having a great time.’”

Fiona says she had put

on weight with every

pregnancy, including Kody’s,

as she would eat more at first

when she was pregnant, and

then later to comfort herself

in the heartbreak that followed.

At almost 83kg she felt

miserable, but knew she

needed to make a change so

she could be the best mum

possible for Kody.

“So after that third

miscarriage, I went, ‘That’s it,

I’m done with having another

baby for now.’ I just needed to

fix myself so the rest of my life

could come together,” she says.

“I knew Marie Elliott was

the most amazing Weight

Watchers Coach. I walked back

in her door, two to three weeks

after the last miscarriage

and said, ‘I’m here, I’m

doing it for me. I’m

turning 40 – this is my >

Already a mum to Kody, Fiona

longed to give her son a sibling

• but a series of miscarriages
  sent her spiralling into
  depression.