New mum drops 30 kilos in dramatic transformation to bodybuilder on This Time Next Year

TWO years after giving birth to her son, this mum struggled to shake the post-pregnancy weight. But then she set an incredible goal that changed her life.

TWO years after giving birth to her son, Alysha Frigo struggled to shake the post-pregnancy weight.

But then the 36-year-old Victorian mum set an incredible goal. Not only was she going to lose the weight, she was going to compete in a bodybuilding competition.

“I really want to change my body and my life,” she told Karl Stefanovic on Channel Nine’s This Time Next Year.

“I’m a mum and I put on a lot of weight post having my son, so I just thought, ‘Now’s a good time to get fit and have a good challenge’.

“As a mum I thought I’d be back to pre-baby weight (by now), so to still be carrying an extra 30 kilos is really hard. I think your time is very scarce and when you do have time it’s not spent on you.”

‘Your time is scarce’ ... Alysha faces the challenges of being a new mum.

So Frigo set her goal — with the deadline of 12 months.

She detailed the training schedule she would undertake over the year: training with weights four times a week and maintaining her two cardio sessions a week. She planned on increasing the cardio as the competition drew closer.

While the mum-of-one would still be time poor, she decided she just had to find a way.

“I’ll just have to find a few hours, taking him (the baby) in the pram, going for a walk when he’s sleeping. Get up a bit earlier. Just make the time,” she said.

Alysha strikes a pose with Karl Stefanovic.

After one year of hard work and dedicated training, Frigo returned to the show for the big reveal. In that time, she had lost 30 kilos.

She admitted she “hadn’t quite” competed in a bodybuilding competition yet — but was about to the following week.

She deemed the mission a success.

Before and after ... Alysha shows off her transformation one year later.

After gruelling training, the mum-of-one shows off her 30kg weight loss.

“It’s a work in progress. This is my first competition and I’ll compete all the way through probably until July,” she said.

“In terms of kilos it’s over 30 kilos that I’ve lost in the last year.”

Asked how much she cared about winning the competition, she explained the task was more about accepting herself.

“I know that I’m being judged by everybody that will see it — but it’s about me being the best 36-year-old, post-pregnancy Alysha that I can be,” she said.

“Really, you want to do well but it doesn’t matter on the day — I’ve won just by stepping up on stage.”

This Time Next Year continues next Monday at 8.40pm on Nine.

‘I’ve won just by stepping up on stage’ ... Alysha reaches her goal.

Originally published as New mum drops 30 kilos in dramatic transformation to bodybuilder on This Time Next Year