OH! Magazine - Australian Version June 2014 (Australian Version) | Page 7

( OH WOW! )

having a cigarette. He walked up
idea what I was getting
to the door with the film crew and
myself into’, she says of her
I just freaked out’, recalls Sharon.
training. ‘During the first
In three months Sharon shed
month I was waddling like I
30kg and then an additional 10kg
was pregnant, but as I got
after she returned home, in the
fitter and my muscles
lead up to the show’s finale. ‘There
adjusted I actually started to
was a point in the show where I
feel good.’
Sharon says that her
was really scared about how I
Biggest
Loser
trainer,
would cope when I got home; but I
Commando, made a huge
just switched straight in to it. It’s
impact
on
her
been really easy actually.’
transformation. ‘He taught
So how does someone cope
me how to live my life again.
with undergoing such a huge
He taught me a lot about
emotional
and
physical
self-discipline, of which I
transformation under the nation’s
had none. He taught me to
gaze? ‘At the start I was really
worry
about
myself
scared as to what people would
sometimes, rather than
think of me, especially people
everybody else and that it
seeing me in my underwear. But I
was okay to do that.’
thought by putting my journey
Having maintained her
out there for everyone to see, is
‘The whole positive lifestyle thing,
new weight for more than
saying that I’m just like everyone
I think everybody should live it.’
eight months now, there’s
else and so anyone can do this’,
definitely no going back. ‘I
Sharon explains.
have a personal trainer at
Those who watch The Biggest
the YMCA two nights a week, where I do a lot of strength training
Loser know that it’s no easy ride and contestants work extremely
and the rest of the week I do an hour of cardio a night.’
hard, both emotionally and physically, to achieve results. The
Sharon says that her old self would always be the first to give
trainers mean business and it’s about breaking bad habits and
up, but now she’s the first to sign up to a new fitness program,
sometimes their spirit, to get you to the other side. Sharon says
the first to the top of a hill when walking with her family, and
that they sometimes trained up to eight hours a day and ate a
whatever it is, she applies her new motto of ‘no holding back’!
Paleo Diet based on 1,000 to 1,200 calories per day.
So has Sharon’s new positive attitude and healthy habits
Having previously existed on a diet of spaghetti bolognaise
rubbed off on those around her? ‘My husband is a changed man
and lasagne, Sharon struggled to break her food cravings. ‘It
too. He has lost over 20kg as
took me a while to change my habits and adjust to it, but once
everything we eat at home is
I did, I really got it. At the start though, it was challenging just
now heal K