Last night's Operation Transformation saw our youngest leader Maireád miss her target – again. After last week's great weigh-in, the twenty-two-year-old seemed to lose her will-power once again as she passed up the chance to join a community organised walk and let her parents go without her.
Maireád lost just half a pound at her weigh in and the Operation Transformation experts began to feel frustrated at her lack of commitment to the programme.
Dr Ciara Kelly was especially disappointed as she said:
I don’t think you’re taking advantage of the opportunity you’ve been given to be a leader on Operation Transformation but my greatest disappointment, and I was quite shocked actually, was to see your community organise a walk and you, the leader, didn’t bother to turn up for it.
"Your parents went and did the walk with the community and you stayed home and watched TV and it struck me as showing nothing but indifference to your followers and the community that was supporting you. I’ve never seen a leader do that before. I’ve never seen it.”
Maireád blames a jam-packed schedule of work and study for her exhaustion and says that she "physically couldn’t go" on the walk. Eventually, host Kathryn Thomas stepped in to remind Maireád why she joined the show in the first place and tried to encourage Maireád to push past the exhaustion and keep up with her exercise plan.
“Every time you don’t feel like putting your runners on, and every time that you feel tired, you have got to push through that because you will only change if you change.”
In the end, Maireád promised to give her plan a hundred and ten percent this week.
“My target for next week is three pounds so as of this week I’m on a running plan so I’m going to give that 110%, I’m going to tick all the boxes. I’m not going to leave any room for error.”
Maireád Redmond:
Current Weight: 15st 10 lbs / 100.4 kg
Target for next week: 3 lbs / 1.4 kg
Total weight loss to date: 8.5lbs / 3.9kg
Operation Transformation airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 8.30pm on RTÉ One. Follow the OT plan at www.rte.ie/ot. The Ray D’Arcy Show on RTÉ Radio 1 is the radio home for Operation Transformation.
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