The Biggest Loses Munnalita is a woman with a very particular mission!
When Munnalita Kyrimis and her husband John were designing their dream home she insisted on five
bedrooms! Which she intended filling with four children!
Coming from a big Greek Family shes always dreamed of having a family of her own! says the vivacious
hairdresser from Mt Gambier South Australia.
Munnalita and John were friends before becoming a couple in 2000 when she returned from France a trim
75kilos and brimming with confidence, who credited eight months of personal training with her brother
for helping her to shift 40kg of excess weight that plagued her from highschool!
WHen the couple tied the knot in 2002 Munnalita was desperate to start a family but John wanted to enjoy
their honey moon period and finish their home, so over the next two years Munnalita piled on the weight and had
ballooned to 118kg...then trying for a year for a family in earnest and still she hadnt conceived!
Being obessed Munnalita was always checking the calender and doing ovulation tests and then she was referred to
and IVF clinic due to ovulation problems, devestated to know what the problem was she also knew there would be a
solution!
But it wasnt going to be simple she was told to lose weight and slim down to between 80 - 90 kilos as the more
overewight you are the lower the odds are of falling pregnant!
Also the risk of general anaesthetic during IVF treatment!
In support her husband John also had weight prooblems, joined Munnalita on a strict portion controlled program
and they both lost 30 - 35kilos in six months!
But once started on IVF medication , one of the side effects was increased appetite and weight gain!
Sadly after 6 IVF cycles she failed to become pregant and while drs saw no definate reason why they suggested
weight might be the factor!
Munnalita took comfort the only way she knew through food, by July 2006 she was the heaviest she had ever been
at 127kg the strain putting pressure on the marriage as her and John were arguing all the time!
Then one night the ad come on for the biggest loer and Munnalita knew she had to act as she had spent her life
blaming weight for everything and had now had enough so she filled out the application for a certainty she would be
on the show!
While pounding the treadmill and surviving the shows greulling challenges she has one single goal in her sights
getting her body BABY READY!, since appearing on Loser she is now a trim 85kilos and feels like a different person
gone from a size 26 to a size 12 but most importantly she has started to realise the emotional reasons she overate
and now has started to love herself!
Once the show is over Munnalita is clear she wante another round of IVF and this time is confident but she also has
accepted if we cant conceive we will adopt and the dream house of Munnalita and John will be filled with happy and loved
children!
