Chrissie Swan breaks down in tears as she reveals how walking 10km a day changed her life

Chrissie Swan got incredibly emotional in a recent interview when she spoke about how daily walks have changed her life. 

The TV and radio personality, 49, lost a reported 90kg in the past three years, but the reason she loves walking isn’t for its weight loss benefits.  

Speaking on The Imperfects podcast, a teary Chrissy said walking has changed her life because it allows her to destress and sort out problems in her mind while looking at nature and getting fresh air. 

Four years ago, she decided to make a few lifestyle changes, and moving her body more was one of them.  

‘I was 45 and I went, I reckon I’m halfway to dying,’ she said.

‘Am I happy with this going on? Am I happy with who I am with other people, am I happy with who I am for me? What do I want to change?

‘And then I started to walk  and I get emotional thinking about it because walking has absolutely changed my life.’

The radio presenter said whenever anything is troubling her, she gets out and walks and uses that time to clear her mind.   

‘Every day I walk, if there’s anything troubling me,’ she said. 

‘I am so in tune and if something feels wrong I say, “I’m going to walk on it” and sometimes that takes an hour and sometimes it takes 10km every day for a month, but I always get the answer.’

Chrissie has drastically transformed her physique since the start of Covid lockdowns, citing a new diet, daily walks and sobriety as the secrets to her slim-down.

After dropping a reported 90kg since 2020, she briefly touched on her weight loss in an interview with The Australian Women’s Weekly last year.

She said the ‘enormous’ lifestyle changes she’d made over the previous 12 months had improved her life in so many ways.

‘I’m not going to talk about the size of my a**e,’ she said.

‘I’m not going to tell you what I eat in a day. Because I’ve read those stories and they make me feel bad about myself.’

However, she did confirm Melbourne’s lengthy Covid lockdowns were the catalyst for her health and fitness kick.

‘We couldn’t go out to dinner, we couldn’t go to a friend’s house, they couldn’t come to us, we couldn’t go outside five kilometres,’ she said.

‘All we could do was walk, and so that’s what I did.’

In another interview with the Herald Sun, Chrissie said she felt amazing and had never been happier as she approached 50.

‘I have never been happier or more centred. It is actually great and I don’t think you can feel that way until you have done the years. I wouldn’t be 20 for quids,’ she said.