Mart-Mari Breedt

Mart-Mari Breedt is in Rustenburg gebore en dra van kleins af ’n liefde
vir stories en die geskrewe woord. Haar motivering om te skryf spruit uit
die oortuiging dat eerlike ervarings en reguit woorde ander kan
aanmoedig om hul eie struikelblokke te oorkom. Sy hou daarvan om
motiverende en lewensgetroue verhale te lees en te skryf – stories wat
hoop bring, maar ook die realiteit van volgehoue inspanning wys.
Buite haar skryfwerk is sy ’n toegewyde hardloper wat glo dat die pad na
sukses, of dit nou op papier of op die pad is, deur volharding, dissipline
en ’n gesonde ingesteldheid gebou word. Haar persoonlike reis van
fiksheid en gesondheid gee haar baie van die insigte wat sy met haar
lesers deel, en sy hoop dat haar woorde en ervarings ander sal inspireer
om aan te hou – selfs wanneer dit moeilik raak. In haar skaars vrye tyd,
as mamma van vier, geniet sy dit om te hekel, kook, bak en skets.

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My first marathon training

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(From the author of “Eighty Kilos of Shame”)
Running is hard.
42,2 km is far.
For most runners running 42,2 km is a bucket list event. For Mart-Mari Breedt it was as well. This 41 year old software engineer, author and mother of four had already achieved a lot in her life: She lost 80 kg, became a runner, and authored and published her memoir. She loves writing and running and embraces the gifts that overcoming obesity has brought her. It is now time for her next goal: Running a marathon. Mart-Mari’s story might appear to be about her journey to the marathon finishing line – it is not. It is about how she made her way to the start line. She only realized this herself the day before race day.
42,2 km is far. 0 km is sometimes further.

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FC Tagtig kilos se skuldlas
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Tagtig kilos se skuldlas

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“Een keer ’n vettie, altyd ’n vettie.” Nè? Na ’n hele lewe as ’n vetsugtige persoon, het Mart-Mari Breedt, ’n sagteware-ingenieur en ma van vier, net meer as tagtig kilogram verloor. Haar hardkoppige weiering om te aanvaar dat sy maar net weer haar gewig gaan optel, saam met ’n besef dat sy nie vir die res van haar lewe die skaal obsessief kan dophou nie, het gemaak dat Mart-Mari begin skryf het oor haar gewig se instandhouding en uitdagings. Haar skrywery het gelei tot ’n introspektiewe reis waartydens sy baie diep in haar psige moes gaan grawe en baie seer en ou emosies in die gesig moes staar. Op haar reis het sy haar opregte self ontdek, wat nog al die tyd begrawe was in ’n skuldlas van tagtig kilogram.

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Eighty kilos of shame

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“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.
In her dazzling debut memoir, Mart-Mari asks hard to answer questions: Can you recover from obesity? Is it possible to maintain a weight loss of eighty kilograms?

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