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Going for gold! How Libby Trickett lost 23kgs in 10 months

The Olympian is already back to her pre-pregnancy weight after welcoming her darling daughter Poppy in August.
Libby Trickett

On Thursday, Libby Trickett announced via Instagram that she had already reached her pre-pregnancy weight, just 10 months after welcoming her beautiful daughter.

Sharing a snap of her standing atop a set of scales that read 69.2kg, the proud mum wrote: “10 months and 23kilos later – I’m back at my pre-pregnancy weight!”

You go, girl!

“I’m most proud of the fact that I was in love with my body through all of its changes and was comfortable in it again months ago,” she went on.

“I didn’t lose it all because I worked out constantly (I can barely even say it was consistently!) but I listened to my body, gave it what it needed and enjoyed myself along the way.”

“I finally have a healthy relationship with food and I only hope I can pass that onto my little girl.”

Since welcoming her “fierce” baby girl, the proud mama shared a sweet yet candid comparison pic, dedicated to all the new mums out there – detailing the reality of being a parent.

“This flashback fail pretty much sums up the last 9 months of motherhood for me.”

“In the first photo at 37 weeks pregnant on our babymoon, you have such peaceful and excited expectations of the time ahead with your new baby. Second picture… Well that speaks for itself.”

The new mum gave her fans a candid look into her life as a new mummy.

“Poppy is vibrant, fierce, intense and just a little bit nutty.”

“The last 9 months have been some of my most challenging – I constantly question what I’m doing and how I’m doing it and I constantly question whether I can do it or whether I am enough for her,” she went on.

Check out how Libby got back into shape in the video player below!

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“But I am doing it and I am enough and gee whizzles it’s hard but I wouldn’t want it any other way!! Big shout out to all mums who are doing it. This is a reminder that you are enough xx”

Last year, Australia’s golden girl and her husband Luke announced on Instagram that they’d welcomed a beautiful baby girl into the world.

“Luke and I are so thrilled to announce that our little girl, Poppy Frances Trickett arrived into the world (a couple of weeks early!) on the 31st of August at 9.23pm!”

She added: “She weighed 2.98kg and was 51cm long. We can’t believe how lucky and blessed we are to have this gorgeous little being in our lives! We are so in love and beyond happy! X”

The proud parents are absolutely besotted with their little girl!

Luke and Libby announced their pregnancy in March this year, just months after it was revealed that the pair suffered a tragic miscarriage.

The 30-year-old confessed to The Sunday Telegraph at the time: “Luke dealt with it in a far more logical and reasonable way but it really knocked me around.”

Before continuing: “I was only eight weeks pregnant but you don’t realise how attached you become to the prospect of motherhood in that time.”

The former Dancing with the Stars contestant also quipped that the feeling of becoming a mum is, “a thousand times greater than I felt for swimming.”

“I adore this intense little serious soul as crazy as she is and I am bloody loving getting to know her.”

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