From 3,000 Steps to 12,000: How Aneliese Lost 20 Kilos Without a Quick Fix

Life With Danni Duncan · Aug 19, 2026 · 38m

Aneliese was fit, confident, and in the Air Force in her twenties. Then came two kids, a caking business, and in November 2022, a cancer diagnosis. Eighteen months of chemo, surgery and radiation later, she'd beaten it. But what came next was harder than the diagnosis itself.She describes it as climbing straight out of one well into another. The first was cancer, forcing her to fight to survive. The second had no doctors, no urgency, nothing forcing her to move at all, and that's where she got stuck, leaning on wine, then gin, and junk food just to get through the day. Until her husband said…