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Mart-Mari Breedt is an author, software engineer and happily married mother of four. For the better part of 38 years, she was obese - morbidly obese. But over nearly three years, she had lost 80kg (176 lbs), reaching her goal weight in December 2019.

Soon after reaching her goal weight, she discovered that being and staying thin was not all it promised. With no goal to pursue and solely relying on her strong willpower to pull her through each day, maintaining a massive weight loss became a constant battle between wanting to live freely and not picking up weight. The onset of the COVID pandemic did not help either.

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Eighty Kilos of Shame

The process of losing the emotional weight

“Once a fattie, always a fattie.” Right?

After spending most of her life obese, weighing in at one-hundred-and-sixty-five kilograms (364 lbs) at her heaviest, Mart-Mari Breedt, software engineer and mother of four, lost just over eighty kilograms (176 lbs) in a mammoth battle against the scale. She then found herself in a frightening dilemma: how would she manage to keep the weight off and maintain her massive loss after she had spent her entire life as a morbidly obese person? All she had ever known was how to be fat. Being thin was a new and daunting experience.