Gold Coast nurse's 50kg transformation after feeling like a 'hypocrite'
A formerly obese nurse who felt like a hypocrite when giving healthy lifestyle advice has lost 50kg after paying $12,000 for surgery.
Kira Morrison, 31, from the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, tipped the scales at 127kg during her life-long battle with obesity until she decided that enough was enough and opted for gastric bypass surgery.
Kira, a former trauma nurse, says she spent her previous career helping people get healthy and saw a multitude of overweight patients and told them they needed to lose weight but always felt like a hypocrite because of being obese herself.
“When I was a trauma nurse I was always telling people to lose weight which when you’re 20-stone looks very hypocritical,” she said.
After turning to the $12,000 procedure she has been able to keep the weight off by controlling her eating, regularly exercising.
Today, she liked to joke to her husband that he must be happy now he has a “hot wife”.
Ms Morrison, who is now a cosmetic injector nurse, said: “I always hated the fact that I was a health professional that couldn’t look after myself in the same way I would advise people to at work.
“Being overweight has always been a massive struggle for me, it started when I was a teenager and just got progressively worse every year,” she explained.
“The very worst part of being overweight is being the fat person in every group, it alienates you to feel like an outsider and always being judged as a binge eater.
As well as affecting her personal life, she felt her weight was detracting from her professional credibility as well.
“Sometimes I would be sitting at work talking to someone who was overweight and telling them the risks of remaining the weight they are and I just knew they would be wondering why I don’t take my own advice,” she said.
Ms Morrison struggled with her weight until she was 27. She was active and didn’t live off takeaway food but admits her portion sizes were too big.
“I would have bigger portions than what I would call a ‘normal’ size and that just became habitual,” she said.
After deciding that she was sick of being the “fat one in the group”, she made the decision to have a gastric bypass which cost $12,000.
“It was quite a scary thing to do because no matter how safe something is an operation is always a worry, but I knew I had to do it,” she said.
Ms Morrison then spent 10 months at the gym and eating a low-carb diet which enabled her to lose 50kgs in less than a year.
With a new look has come a new career and a renewed vigour for life.
“Since my weight loss I have changed not just my lifestyle and diet, but my career too, I used to be a nurse and now I work in beauty,” she exclaimed.
“If someone told me four years ago I would end up working in the beauty industry I would have laughed at them, but here I am, and it feels amazing.”
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