SINGAPORE - Mrs Mogi Cardon never fails to turn heads whenever she arrives at her condominium pool in her bikini.
With her glowing skin, glossy hair and toned physique, the Mongolian-born housewife, 42, can pass off as the poster girl of a health campaign.
But it was not always like this, says the mother of three who came to Singapore in 1996 with her Belgian husband and is now a permanent resident.
She has always been slim, but started exercising in earnest only when she turned 30 because she noticed her metabolism was slowing down and her muscles lacked tone.
Like most other women, she put on weight during each of her pregnancies - about 10kg for her first child, 11kg for her second and 14kg for her third. Her children are now 21, eight and six.
She shed the baby weight easily the first time, but took six months to a year to regain her shape after her subsequent pregnancies.
"I was flabby for quite some time after my second and third pregnancies, but I never went on any diet. I focused on exercise."
Mrs Cardon, whose husband is the chief executive of a logistics company, does not take any supplements or protein shakes either.
"I exercise, I eat healthy, I do everything in moderation. I don't spend anything more than what any other person does on his or her food."
Instead, she makes it a point never to skip a meal and has two snacks in between her three daily meals. She loves fish, greens and fruits, so all three make up a big part of her diet.
Breakfast is usually oatmeal or cereal with full-cream milk and fruit. She has a snack of fruit or crackers at about 11am, followed by lunch at 1pm.
She takes another snack at 4pm, usually wheat crackers, and tries to have dinner with her two daughters at about 7pm. Her son, the eldest child, is studying in Australia.
She likes a glass of red wine and a bit of dark chocolate to round off the night.
She has developed her own exercise routine based on various YouTube fitness videos and what she has learnt from the years she spent in the gym.
She works out four to five days a week at the gym in Hillcrest Arcadia condominium, where she lives.
At 1.61m tall and weighing 47kg, she often surprises other gym users by lifting weights of up to 10kg.
She also does jumping lunges, squats, push-ups, pull-ups and weight training.
"My workout is intense, short and never more than 50 minutes. People tend to over-exercise or they do the wrong type of exercise, which is why they do not see results sometimes," she says.
"You need to focus and do the right exercise at the right intensity."
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