‘The journey has now become more about my health than my actual weight; the scale is no longer part of it.’
When she was younger, 41-year-old Annelise Kleinhans from Port Elizabeth developed an unhealthy relationship with food, often turning to it for comfort in stressful times. ‘I was never a skinny girl as a teenager,’ she says. ‘I picked up some bad habits early on because I went through a difficult time: my parents divorced when I was quite young and then my father passed away when I was 14, so it was a challenging time.’
Annelise continued to struggle with her weight well into her mid-twenties, and would easily fall into old snacking habits when life became hard. ‘Both my husband and I have a
