Lisa Bergsma

Founder

Lisa is the mother of sweet nocturnal baby Olivia and superhero loving toddler Max. She has been passionate about health and fitness all her life and her mission is to help as many other mums as possible to live a healthy and happy life.

“After having a son that woke up every 45 minutes for 2 years, I was so tired that I didn’t have the energy to make my own healthy food anymore. I began snacking on whatever was convenient, especially sweet things to give me an instant sugar high. I knew that missing out on essential nutrients was making me feel even worse. And I was most concerned about what effect it was having on my son who I was breastfeeding. After extensive searching for a program to help me, I could only find complicated recipe-based programs. They all required a huge amount of time to source ingredients, let alone to cook. I was so exhausted from the sleepless nights that even navigating the websites was confusing and overwhelming.

When I started looking at traditional meal replacement shakes I found that most of them were full of chemicals or affected your hormones. Definitely not suitable for breastfeeding! So I decided to create a program and shake to help busy mums just like me. I wanted to create the program and shake I had been searching for to help mums enduring the same difficulties. In conjunction with a team of experts, I developed In Shape Mummy to help mums take control of their health and weight during this demanding time in their lives.

My second baby, Livy, currently wakes up every two hours and I'm still breastfeeding her so this program is just what I personally use to help keep me in shape and stay sane!"

Lisa is an adventure lover who trekked to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa and to Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal. She was also an avid skydiver having jumped out of a plane skydiving over 150 times before becoming a mum. She has combined her love of walking with her passion for adventure to show other mums how fun exercise can be with a series of virtual walking challenges through exciting destinations around the world. Lisa has found walking to be the perfect exercise with a baby. Her son Max has always loved going in the pram or carrier every day. Now Max has baby sister Livy to join him on Lisa’s daily walks.