‘As soon as I reach a round number, I struggle to push through. But then I remind myself that this is not where I want to be. I want to be 99 kg: only two digits on the scale.’
Linky Jannetjies has five words to describe life before keto: ‘pain, difficult, unnecessary, insomnia, depression.’ Every weight-loss strategy she had tried was either not sustainable or induced mood swings and anxiety. Apart from everything else, her obesity was causing fertility issues, and among the best positive impacts of her change of lifestyle is that she and her husband now have two daughters, aged 6 and 1.
‘I wasn’t overweight because of hormonal problems or anything like that,’ says Linky, a cardiology and oncology nurse. ‘It was truly because of what I ate. When I wasn’t working, I’d binge
