Marion Makepeace is an Alexander Technique teacher and a transformational Life Coach with a practice in Johannesburg, where she lives with her partner Rob. Her early years were spent growing up in Canada but she has lived in South Africa, mainly in Cape Town, for the majority of her adult life and has raised her family there. She has struggled all her life with an eating disorder, swinging between anorexia and compulsive eating since a teenager. Her attempts to ‘eat healthy’ by following the dietary guidelines that have been the given standard for the past 40 years have resulted in her weight progressively ballooning from 50kgs to a whopping 150kgs and her developing a severe case of insulin resistance. This weight gain also resulted in decades of yo-yo dieting and endless attempts to find the ‘right’ way to eat, as well as a great deal of personal anguish. Only since finding her way to Banting, thanks to the awareness generated by Professor Tim Noakes and the publication of the Real Meal Revolution (realmealrevolution.com), has she been able to lose weight steadily and easily, without loss of energy or any sense of deprivation. February 2014 to October 2014
That, combined with the effect on her partner’s health over the past 10 months, has fuelled her determination to find a way to make Banting their permanent lifestyle by expanding the range of recipes available, and developing tasty and practical alternatives to familiar everyday family food. The desire to help make the same positive changes possible for others has been the incentive to make EVERYDAY BANTING happen.
