Moving on up
When Lisa Fong turned up at the school drop-off in her activewear, the other school mums would ask if she’d been at the gym. When she told them she’d just been exercising at home, she was met with disbelief: how did she fit it in among the demands of parenting? With four boys – Rico, eight, Louis, six, Carlos, four, and Teina, two – Lisa, 36, had no time to go to the gym. Instead, five times a week she’d set her boys up with snacks and water and while they sat watching, she’d work out for 20 minutes.
“It was the one thing I could do for myself and it would make me feel so much more positive. It made me feel like I wasn’t just this mum struggling and getting torn in millions of ways,” she says.
