"I was a bottle of Coke a day person," she explained.
"When I first turned up to work I would always have my bag of lollies, my bag of chips, a packet of biscuits and my Coke and then I'd be sitting down all night answering phones."
But she had one big motivating factor to change.
"My grandchildren - so I could be around for them… now I can run around with them and all sorts of stuff, carry them around now, because I couldn't do it before."
She took up exercise, ate healthily, and in just eight weeks she reversed her type 2 diabetes, which she'd had for 15 years. She's now back to prediabetes levels having lost 20kg and four dress sizes.