SO I LO 60K
Before Kylie Hay fell pregnant with her son, the young mum was always healthy, fit and active. The 40-year-old from Victoria would fluctuate between 60 and 70kg, but her second pregnancy really put the strain on her body.
“I ended up getting to 128 kilos with that pregnancy,” Kylie admits to New Idea.
“I didn’t have any conditions, I just ate and ate and didn’t stop eating, as well as drinking sugary drinks.”
Kylie remembers walking out of the hospital with her newborn baby boy. She weighed in at 117kg, and instead of basking in the glow of new motherhood, she quickly fell into a deep depression.
“When I walked out of the hospital at 117 kilos, I was severely depressed and worried about my health as I could potentially have a heart attack, as this condition runs in my family,” she says.
When she should have been running around with her baby son and older daughter, Kylie would feed her despair with unhealthy and high-fat food.
“I was unable to fit into shoes and I would wear thongs all the time. I was
very unfit and not very active at all,” Kylie admits. “I had very bad feet at the time with all cracks due to the weight that I was carrying. Being only 5 ft 2 [157cm], I was a monster. I was a ticking time bomb for death.”
The disability job coach would even sneak takeaway food before dinner after nibbling on junk food all day.
Kylie confesses it was an addiction – just like any other – she simply couldn’t shake.
“It’s an addiction. Eating food is the same as any other addiction out there. All you think about all the time is the next meal or what else could you eat. Your mind tricks you