Ilse, an HR professional who lives in Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal, credits her transformation to the late Dr André Postma, a general practitioner with a special interest in obesity and weight management.
In 2020, she weighed 126 kg and had a number of health issues. ‘I went for all sorts of tests,’ she says. Eventually, we found out that my thyroid was the culprit and I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s disease. As a result of it, I had high cholesterol. I was also menopausal and prediabetic.’
It also explained why her weight had always been difficult to manage. She was referred to an endocrinologist, who told her she was a candidate for
