"You don't eat huge amounts when you are at the restaurants, and then in between you’d be practicing cooking so you are picking but you aren't eating big quantities," she reveals.
Unfortunately the weight loss was not permanent for the Port Pirie local though.
“I lost 5 kilos and felt great but then I put it all back on again,” she laughs.
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