Saturday 11 May 2013

THE GENESIS

I'd always been the fattest of all. The fattest in class, the fattest of all my friends, the fattest in d family, THE FATTEST EVERYWHERE! I didn't think it was possible for me to lose weight so I convinced myself that I was always going to be fat and that there was nothing I could do about it. I got comfortable and relaxed. Then I grew fatter. I knew I was fat but I didn't know what I weighed, I never checked my weight. I had people telling me that even though I was fat that I was pretty. That I was big all over and even and wasn't shapeless and blablabla. Hmm...
I checked my weight for the first time in 2007. I'd gone to the hospital for some medical tests for school stuff and of course they had to get my statistics 1st. I climbed the scale and it was a whooping 118kg. The nurse screamed. She told me that at my age I shouldn't weigh that much. She talked for almost an hour and gave me some weightloss tips. The minute I left the hospital I forgot everything she said. And I kept adding weight. I got bigger and bigger and bigger.
In september 2012 I ran into a friend I hadn't seen for a long time. He was surprised at how fat I'd become and told me I had to lose weight because I was at risk of type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, osteoarthritis and so on. He told me about his girlfriend who had just died and that she was as big as I was. That she was healthy when he travelled for just one week and that by the time he got back she was dead, heart attack. Being a medical doctor he sounded like he really knew what he was talking about and he scared me shitless.  That was my "ahaa moment". I went to a nearby pharmacy to check my BP and sugar level. My sugar was normal but my BP was really high. It scared me more. On my way home I drove into a ditch, to show you how scared I was (I didn't want to die, at least not yet). I usually take that road but on that day I didn't notice the ditch. The next day I checked my weight and it was 145kg. For the first time in my life I decided that I was going to lose weight but I didn't know how to go about it. Someone told me about BIOSLIFE SLIM supplement. She told me it was going to help me lose weight, that a friend of hers had lost some weight using the supplement. At that time I was broke but I knew I had to do something about my weight so I bought the supplement. After paying for the supplement I had less than 10k left to live on. I read online reviews of the supplement and realized that I had to exercise too. That if I didn't the supplement wouldn't work. As much as I hated the idea of exercising I knew I wouldn't be happy if after spending most of the money I had I didn't lose weight. So I joined a gym and began working out.
I was surfing the net looking for weightloss tips when I found a beautiful online weightloss forum for Nigerians, www.africanweightloss.com
I joined the forum and got a lot of information on weightloss. I learned that I could lose weight just by eating right and exercising and not using any supplement. I read the success stories on the forum and was motivated. The greatest motivation came from a member of the forum Natachy. She has lost more than 70kg. She was 140kg but is presently 67kg (her story is for another day). Anyways, I took it from there and so far I've lost about 40kg. In my subsequent posts you'll get to know how I did it. One love.

10 comments:

  1. love it gal......................

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  2. Keep it up sweetheart! Your determination will see you through.

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  3. Very inspirational.

    Follow my weightloss journey, food, fitness on www.hotpotnaija@blogspot.co.uk

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  4. Wow!!! I'm inspired, I really need it, after having my babies I feel ashamed to view myself in the mirror.

    You have a fan here. D-Diva

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  5. wowee,kudos Udo...keep going

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