Stephanie Rices dramatic body transformation

FORMER Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice has opened up about her body struggles on Instagram, posting pictures she said show the “transformation” in her mindset.

The three-time gold winner at the Beijing 2008 Olympics posted a side-by-side picture of herself from 2014 and now, saying she wanted to “help lift others out of mentally tough times.”

“This picture, to me, not only highlights the changes in my body, but the massive transformation to my mindset,” she wrote.

“This first picture was taken in 2014 when I was living in America. I was exercising daily, following programs & eating healthy vegan foods. I felt like I was doing everything right ... so why was my body not responding?

“I was continually beating myself up for not being good enough, comparing myself to everyone else and my swimming days of being super fit & believing that I wouldn’t be happy until I lost weight.”

The five-time world record breaker said she was frustrated with putting in effort and not seeing results, but “flash forward to now” and her mind has changed.

“What I know FOR SURE is that my body was never going to respond to all the external effort I was putting in UNTIL I changed the way I thought about myself.”

“No change you make on the outside (like losing weight) will last unless you change your mindset.

“So I started to feel into my body every day and ask “what would best serve me today?” I stopped putting rules on everything, like “if I don’t exercise today then I can’t have desert”.

“Instead I just let myself off the hook and change my mindset from depriving and forcing myself to things, to allowing myself to have and do what I wanted.

She said by allowing herself the “mental freedom” to not have to workout, she became more motivated and lost her cravings.

“This feeling of inner peace is what transformed my body,” she said, adding that she has created a “Magical Mentoring Program” to help people change their bodies.

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