Real Days With Stacey

Real Days With Stacey Leaner & stronger at 48 than I was at 32 💪
Lost 30kg • Kept it off 10 years
Real gym. Real life. Zero filter 😂
Mum. Early riser. Doing it anyway.

NZ 🇳🇿 • [email protected]

02/06/2026

Day one done. It was actually really lovely. Thank you so much for all the good luck messages — you have no idea how much that meant. 🖤

01/06/2026

Apparently I’m too old to start over. Too old to make it online. Nobody wants to hear from a 48 year old mum from Dunedin.

Today I started a brand new job at 48 with zero retail experience.

Good thing I stopped listening to apparently. 😂🖤

How was YOUR first day at something new? Drop it below 👇

31/05/2026

Someone said to me once — if you’re uncomfortable, you’re probably growing.

I’m starting a new job tomorrow at 48 with zero retail experience.

Uncomfortable as hell. Must be growing. 🖤

Wish me luck legends. I’ll report back. 😂

31/05/2026

Summer body? Nah. I’m training for the long game.

I want to be that 70 year old woman who still moves freely. Still lifts. Still shows up fully for the people she loves. Still lives without limits.

That’s why 4:30am doesn’t feel hard anymore. When your why is big enough, the alarm isn’t the enemy.

What are you training for? 💪🖤

31/05/2026

Something is shifting for women in their 40s. I felt it before I could even explain it.

We spent our whole lives being told to work harder. Say yes more. Keep climbing. And we did. We showed up every single day.

And then somewhere in our 40s we stopped and went — wait. Is this actually what I want?

As a former weight loss coach I watched so many women exhaust themselves doing everything right by everyone else’s rules. And forgetting to ask if any of it actually worked for their life.

Now we’re asking better questions. Does this fit the life I’ve built? Does this leave room for the people I love? Does this leave room for me?

I still want to be strong. I still want to grow. But I also want energy left at the end of the day. I want to feel like myself again.

If you’re a woman in your 40s quietly questioning everything right now — you are not alone. And you are not wrong for wanting more. 💛

Follow me — more real talk every week.

31/05/2026

Love it. Cosy, real, funny. “A barbell that doesn’t judge me” is brilliant. 😄

Facebook:

What’s your love language?

Early mornings. Coffee. Sunrise beach walks. Porridge. And a barbell that doesn’t judge me.

If this is you — hi, we’re the same person. 😂 Happy Sunday legends, hope your week is as cosy as this duvet. 🖤

31/05/2026

When you’re in your 40s and you don’t know if you should start over, speak up, wear the leather skirt, go back to the gym, quit the job, take the job, stop apologising, start believing you’re not too old, or just cry in the car listening to 90s music from when you were 18 and felt like anything was possible —

Hi. I’m Stacey. You’re in the right place. 🖤

If you’re a woman in your 40s who’s done waiting for permission to start living — follow along. I’m here every day and it only gets worse. 😂

30/05/2026

Ten years ago I lost my son.

I looked at my daughter and made a decision. She deserved a mum who had her s**t together.

I wasn’t okay. I wasn’t strong. I was completely broken.

But I got up anyway. I got dressed. I went outside. I took life five minutes at a time. I held onto the tiniest belief that things could be different — even on the days I didn’t believe it at all.

I’m sharing this today because I know some of you are in that place right now. The place where everything feels too heavy and too hard and too much.

You don’t have to do it perfectly. You just have to not quit.

These are the 10 things that got me through. I hope they help someone today. 🤍

29/05/2026

Last year I walked away from a workplace that was breaking me.

Not dramatically. Not with a big speech or a plan. I just… couldn’t stay anymore. The version of me that was showing up there every day wasn’t me. She was exhausted, diminished, and running on empty in a way that had nothing to do with fitness.

I thought I’d be fine quickly. I’m resilient, right? I’ve lost 30kg. I’ve kept it off for 10 years. I get up at 4:30am every single day. I know how to do hard things.

But this was a different kind of hard.

This wasn’t sore muscles or an early alarm. This was healing something you can’t see. And it took longer than I wanted, more stillness than I’m comfortable with, and more grace than I usually allow myself.

So I did what I know how to do. I showed up. To the gym. To the quiet mornings. To the process of putting myself back together — not because I had it figured out, but because movement has always been where I find myself again.

And slowly, it worked.

I’m in a better place now. Not because of what happened to me. Because of what I chose to do after it. I rebuilt. At 48. On my own terms.

Starting over isn’t failure. It’s actually the bravest thing I’ve ever done.

If you’re somewhere in the middle of your own hard season right now — healing something invisible, starting over quietly, wondering if you’re taking too long — you’re not. You’re doing it exactly right.

She showed up. Even then. 💙

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