Twice through CARE — and the version that finally fit her life.

Victoria first did CARE in 2021, after her second pregnancy. She was carrying more than 20 kg from the birth. She wanted more than a meal plan — she wanted a team. Doing it alone felt impossible.

Three months later she was 13 kg lighter and walked out feeling like she finally understood her body. Then life. War. A new pregnancy. The progress unravelled.

When she came back in 2024, she didn’t want a script. She had two small children, an unforgiving schedule, and zero appetite for being told to weigh out 4 oz of chicken. The team built around her instead of around the protocol.

Instead of strict calorie counting, she photographed her plates. Her nutritionist read the photos, gave feedback, adjusted. Instead of forcing breakfast-lunch-dinner, she ran two anchor meals — breakfast and lunch — and a substantial snack at five. Strength training two or three times a week. Easy running as her thinking time, not as a calorie burn.

The single biggest lesson, both times, was about protein. Not the amount she had read on Instagram — the amount her actual body needed at her actual weight, distributed across her actual day. Once that was right, hunger stopped being the engine of her food decisions.

First round (2021): −13 kg over three months. Second round (2024): −8 kg over three months. The part she’s most proud of: another −15 kg over the months that followed, on her own, because the system was now hers.

The runs got longer. The training got heavier. The plates stayed photographable.

Victoria’s message back to women considering the programme is simple. The right plan after childbirth is the one that actually fits you — not an instruction manual. The team’s job is to adjust the method to your real life, not to ask you to bend your life around the method.