How Casey Donovan lost 36kg
<p>In 2004, 16-year-old high school student Casey Donovan wowed the nation and took home the crown as the winner of <em>Australian Idol </em>season two.</p>
<p>Now, Casey Donovan has revealed that she has lost 36kg since January this year and is now the same as weight as when she won the national singing competition.</p>
<p>In an interview with <em>Woman’s Day</em>, Casey Donovan revealed that she had to swap her favourite fast food meals with a high-protein diet to achieve her results.</p>
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<p>Casey’s weight loss started when she appeared on reality TV show <em>I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!. </em></p>
<p>The 29-year-old singer lost 17kg while appearing on the show, where contestants lived off daily rations of 25 grams of oats, 45 grams of beans, 50 grams of rice, 200 grams of vegetables and two tablespoons of oil.</p>
<p>“I didn’t expect [to lose] 17kg, I was maybe thinking five or eight,” she told Sydney Confidential at the end of the series.</p>
<p>“I’m happy. I’m never confident about weight, it is something that I don’t like to stand on scales.”</p>
<p>Casey was excited to continue her weight loss journey after the show.</p>
<p>“I would like to continue on, you know, kind of eating clean and not going back to old habits. “Although I am happy and confident in my own skin now, I would like to feel how it is to be happy and confident in a new skin and with a new look on life.”</p>
<p>However, when Casey returned to normal life after the jungle, she gained 7kg in six weeks due to regularly eating McDonald’s and drinking alcohol.</p>
<p>Casey then saw that she was slipping into her old ways and got serious about getting her weight under 100kg.</p>
<p>“I could see myself making all the same mistakes and I knew I had to do something,” she told <em>Woman’s Day</em>.</p>
<p>Her determination saw her lose a further 19kg, which makes her total weight loss since January a total of 36kg.</p>
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<p>Casey says she owes her weight loss to Facebook weight loss program WLCW (Weight Loss Coaching Works).</p>
<p>She swapped her favourite fast food meals for a high-protein diet and walks 15,000 steps a day.</p>
<p>Casey walks 5,000 steps before breakfast and will sometimes walk for 90 minutes at night to reach her goal steps.</p>
<p>Casey says the weight is still coming off.</p>
<p>“I’m certainly not finished yet. I realise it’s time to increase my exercise.</p>
<p>“I can’t remember the last time I bought a size 18 pair of jeans,” Donovan told the magazine.</p>
<p>Now Casey feels more confident with her new physique and hopes to find romance.</p>
<p>“I’d love to meet someone,” she said.</p>
