“Life is going pretty good,” says Sharla. Since finishing her X-Weighted journey, she has managed to keep off most of the fifty pounds that she lost. “I’m not as regimented as I was with fitness, but still a lot more active than before X-Weighted,” she says, adding that she does between three and seven hours a week of fitness a week. “Exercising for sixteen hours a week like I did on the show meant I didn’t have a life,” she says.

Sharla says that keeping the weight off is hard, especially when it comes to restricting her food intake. “My eating habits are still really good, I have slip ups every now and again because you can’t be regimented all the time,” she says, “I learned that in order to keep my shape, I need to have more exercise in my life.”

To keep in shape, Sharla still rides her bike lots and enjoyed doing the boxing she started on X-Weighted, until she injured her knee last year lifting her daughter Toni. After a year of physio, Sharla is eager to step back in the ring and start boxing again. “Because the injury limited my ability to exercise, I had to be pretty strict on my diet during that year to maintain my weight,” she says.

Toni is eighteen and has graduated from high-school, and is starting college this fall. Sydney is now twelve, just going in to grade seven. Sharla says that both girls have come a long way in terms of their eating. “Sydney is still pretty picky but we’ve managed to get her eating some vegetables, it's easier now that she is becoming a woman and is a little more conscientious about her weight and her looks,” says Sharla.

Toni has lost some weight and has been doing what she can to get fit in the wheelchair, at school she had been doing some light weight training and she has been taking healthier lunches to school. “Toni is excited and nervous about starting college, it’s a whole new life and transition in to adulthood,” says Sharla.

Losing so much weight on her X-Weighted journey was a life altering experience for Sharla. “I’ve always had to do everything for Toni. I had her when I was seventeen, so all my adult life has been about fighting for her and looking after my kids. Until the show, I’d never really done anything for me,” she says.

November 2009