TIME FOR CHANGE! - OCTOBER 2008

Lyzette Botha
Weight Watchers Member

I am a member of the Piet Retief group. In December 2007 I went to my parents for Christmas and could hardly fit into the clothes I had bought a week before. I gave birth to my lastborn in March 2007 and did not really care what I looked like until December.

January 2008 I decided it is now time for me to change. I weighed in at 100.4kg the first day and thought that this is going to be easy as I am so big. But guess what it is not always. I made a friend at my group. We call each other weighing buddies and when things are going well we congratulate each other but if things are not so good we scold and then support and motivate each other for the coming week.

What makes me happy at this stage is that the people in town are giving me compliments and my children tell me that I look good when I come out of the room in the mornings. My daughter was so happy when she could give me a hug and her arms could fit around my waist we both started crying.

The only thing I can tell people is to remember that you need to change your mindset and the life change will come automaticly. 

I enjoy weighing 19 kg less and can not wait for the others to go down. It is happening slower than what it use to but I will continue until I get there because I’m doing it for me and my family.