A WEIGHT OFF ME!
FOR many years food was a crutch to Desiree Pienaar, a way to deal with life’s stresses and strains. “I was addicted to food. It was a comfort,” she says.
The single mom of two recalls grabbing food from KFC after her night shift ended, then buying an extra meal to indulge in at home.
Once she arrived at her house in Ravensmead, Cape Town, where she lives with her mom and kids, she’d eat her mom’s leftovers, then on her way back to work the next evening she’d buy a burger meal at McDonald’s.
“I ate throughout my night shift,” she tells YOU.
She’d also eat hot chips
