Davina, a 37-year-old mother who was a self-confessed 'secret eater', weighed 121kg and wore a size 24 dress. She had suffered kidney damage as a baby and was diagnosed with reflux nephropathy - a condition where urine flows backwards from the bladder into the kidneys - but she never considered herself to be an obese child.
When she was taken to the hospital because of a kidney problem, Davina saw on her medical records that she had been diagnosed as clinically obese. Davina had applied to undergo medical surgery, but sadly, it was denied.
"I knew I had always been big, but I'd been up and down to different degrees of overweight, and I never considered myself an obese child," she says. Davina admits she had some bad eating habits including eating buttery toast and sausage sandwiches, along with other high carb foods.
Davina confesses she had a lot of struggle from restraining herself from eating sandwiches. If not with a meal, she simply snacks them on them by adding a lot of cheese. In fact, she can sometimes eat a block of cheese on her own. She was informed by the doctor that she would be needing kidney transplant, and that's when she knew she needed to change.
After being denied surgery in order to lose the pounds, Davina was told to lose weight through exercise. Davina downloaded a weight-loss app and gradually began cutting down on eating lots of bread and sandwiches until she was avoiding it completely.
Instead of cheese, she's now snacking on fruit, cereal bars and nuts. Davina also avoids heavy meals, instead opting for salads and vegetable curry with cauliflower rice; thus cutting down on her carbohydrate intake.
Davina said that she would not want to experience dialysis in her life and may it come as late as possible. Even though she doesn't know what is around of her life's corner, she is willing to keep and maintain the things that she has control right now, her body.
And now that she is fit enough to undergo kidney transplant, after losing over half of her body weight and decreasing down to a lean size 8, feels it is very important that other people know that losing weight is not impossible.
Davina stated that she feels frustrated when other people feel the same way as she did back then, that they can't lose weight. She believes it is possible because she has already done it. if she can do it, everyone can do it.
