AFTER
Biggest Loser Profile
This pre-school teacher from Port Elizabeth is married, with a seven-year-old son, who is the light of her life. “I thrive on progress and I delight on seeing my children grow and learn new concepts,” she says.
The bravest thing she has ever done is skinny-dipping (with her husband, one starry night).
Her favourite food choices are (hold onto your hat), a bed of steaming hot rice, spicy mutton curry, cauliflower with cheese sauce, roast chicken with extra roast potatoes and pumpkin with sugar and cinnamon (of course using the tastiest spices).
She does not care for peas, tinned fish or paw-paws.
One of the most bizarre diets that she has ever followed was the pineapple diet, which meant pineapples, morning noon and night.
“I was so sick on it,” she says. “It was sweet and acidic and my tummy was upset for weeks.”
Just how does she hope her life would change if she reached her desired weight loss? “Oh, I would certainly have more energy.
“I would dance better, be more confident sexually, be more energetic at work and more importantly, I would be able to shop easier.”
She is often embarrassed when people ask her if she is pregnant and once she got into a taxi and the seat broke. I was so shy I just ran away without looking back.
One of the hardest things is to pretend that people’s comments and insults do not hurt.”
Rosemary traces her bad eating habits back to her teenage years, when her parents got divorced. She had to take over cooking and one day, unexpectedly, her father committed suicide.
“I still think of him often, but today I have a fulfilling life with my husband and son and his suicide taught me that no matter what happens or how difficult it is, you have to go on and make a better life for yourself.
“Setbacks have made me strong and I am ready to tackle the challenges this show offers,” she says.
Rosemary's nickname is Rosey.