I LOST 71 kilos to save a stranger!

Looking at the scales, I sighed knowing I’d been here before.

I would lose 30 kilos but then I’d stall. It was hard to keep motivated.

Over the years, I’d diet hard to get to this same point but then I’d give up, putting the kilos all back on.

Not this time, I thought.

This time really did feel different. A few months earlier, my 14-year-old daughter, Mackenzie, had shown me a photograph she’d taken. It showed the same 136-kilo me I saw