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This Age-defying Mum Reveals Her Secrets To Staying Healthy

It happened time and time again. People just kept asking Sydney mum-of-two Faye James, 44, how she stayed looking so young and trim.

But it hadn’t always been this way. “In my 20s I didn’t look after my diet,” Faye tells New Idea candidly. “I was a typical student and much to my mum’s despair I would gorge on [fast food], sugary cereals and fizzy drinks.

“I was seriously sleep deprived, flabby and unhappy. I felt awful and I knew I had to take ownership of my health,” the mum explains.

Her aim? To do what many of us make a resolution to achieve every single year: eat a balanced diet with plenty of vegetables and take regular exercise.

Faye started small by firstly ditching bad carbs for good ones, eating at least half a plate of vegetables with each meal and starting the day with her mum’s own recipe for liver detox – a drink of lemon, water and apple cider vinegar.