One of nine girls, 33-year-old Trisha Lewis grew up on a dairy farm in County Limerick. She studied Professional Cookery in CIT and for 13 years worked as the executive head chef of Jacobs on the Mall. In 2017 Trisha weighed in for a gastric bypass. She was 27 stone. She later cancelled the bypass, and then in 2018 she tipped the scales at 26 stone. At 25 stone, Trisha made the decision to document her weight-loss journey in the most public way possible by starting an Instagram page. She now has 187,000 followers on her Instagram account, @trishas.transformation. She lovingly calls them her Transformers and with their support and encouragement, and through her own determination and self-belief, she is now eight stone lighter.