{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Becoming Lucy","title":"I LOST 51 KILOS: Motherhood, Body Image & Pretty Privilege","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6324,"description":"What happens when you lose 51kg… but your weight is only one part of the story?\n\nIn this episode of Becoming Lucy, we sit down with Vic for a brilliantly honest conversation about weight loss, motherhood, body image, identity, business, confidence and what happens when you finally start making some room for yourself.\n\nVic became a mum at just 19 and, like so many women, spent years being everything to everybody else — a mum, a partner, working, building a business with husband Mark and keeping family life moving.\n\nSomewhere amongst all of that, it became very easy to put herself at the bottom of the list.\n\nWe go right back to childhood and the comments and experiences that helped shape Vic’s relationship with her body, through motherhood, relationships and family life, to the moment she decided something needed to change.\n\nThat journey eventually led to an incredible 51kg weight loss — but this conversation goes far beyond a number on the scales.\n\nWe talk honestly about motivation, discipline and accountability, why maintaining a completely different lifestyle can be harder than losing the weight in the first place, and the mental adjustment that has to happen when your body changes dramatically.\n\nAnd then there’s something we don’t always like admitting…\n\nDo people treat you differently when you’re thinner?\n\nVic opens up about her experiences of pretty privilege, changes in the way people respond to her and the complicated feelings that can come with suddenly receiving attention or treatment you weren’t given before.\n\nWe also get into the conversations surrounding weight-loss jabs versus the gym, fad diets, exercise and personal accountability — and why there isn’t always one simple answer when it comes to somebody else’s body or health journey.\n\nAway from weight loss, we talk about building a business alongside Mark, putting parts of your life online, dealing with social media backlash and other people’s opinions, creating boundaries between work and home and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GuSfZ5U_EMZfpa4Gn3hDD4e3-WqB3IQdq7dcFX40AuE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xNDBm/ZTMyYTkzYTQ1ZWQ2/YTczN2ZkNWFmZDNi/ZDJkMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}