13/03/2026
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This is Aoife Mooney, a mum from Dublin who lost six stone after struggling with her weight for a number of years.
Now, she has shared how a mindset change transformed her life and helped her lose weight.
“At the time, I was a mam to two kids, twin girls who were six,” Aoife told us. “I know I could say it was for them, but it wasn’t, it was for myself. I was only 28 at the time and I was headed for high cholesterol. I was headed for type two diabetes. I knew myself, with my weight, that I was heading that way. We have a family history with heart health and I knew I had to be here for my kids.”
Aoife had tried her fair share of weight loss programmes and diets in the past, but she decided to give Slimming World a go. She had tried it previously with some success, but had never managed to stick with it.
“I had done it before and I’d lost around two stone,” she recalled. “But I put it all back on and more. But I knew how it worked and I knew I could lose weight with it, I just needed to stick with it. It was familiar to me. At that time, thankfully, weight loss injections and surgery weren’t spoken about as much as they are now and they were not readily available. I knew the Slimming World plan and I knew what I had to do.”
The big difference for Aoife this time around was her mindset: “Someone said to me, ‘Well I can’t do it for you, the only way you can do it is yourself’. I was like, that’s so true. In terms of Slimming World, a friend had also said to me, ‘Why do you go every week, pay your money and then come home and just completely undo everything?’ I was wasting money. I may as well have just ripped a tenner up or thrown it away. That’s what I was doing. I was going through a bit of a rough time as well, and I knew I couldn’t afford to just waste away this money every week. I was just like, ‘Get your act together here’.”
Aoife went on to lose five stone. She then got pregnant and went on to lose another stone after she welcomed her child. All in all, she is down six stone and feels better than ever.
“I have so much more energy,” she said. “My two-year-old is hyper, as any two-year-old is, but if I had him with six stone on me, I wouldn’t be able to run after him. Everything looks healthier.
“When I get my blood tests done, I still hope everything is okay but now I know my blood pressure is grand. I’m not worried about my health.”
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