It is very easy to gain weight but it has proved to be very hard to lose it. The more you try to lose it, the more you gain. What I have learned in the seven years of trying to lose weight in vain is that it takes discipline and commitment to lose weight that is unhealthy and very persistent.
In 2013 I visited a doctor for a regular normal check-up and he found out that I was overweight by American standard after measuring my height and my weight to what he called Boday Mass index. He advised me to go to the gym and start eating fruits and vegetables, now by then I was only 65kgs and he said my normal weight should be 58kgs to 60kgs according to my height. I obediently obliged, I went to club 5 at Makerere University since it was near me and I paid membership for a month, I started the diet of vegetables that even at the office, my colleagues started calling me a goat for eating vegetables every day. I actually don’t know what went wrong but along the way, I lost it and I couldn’t eat the leafy things anymore, I went to the gym twice a week but relaxing and I developed Ulcers in the process and at the end of the month, my weight had increased to 68kgs, instead of reducing I got sick and increased which demoralized me and I went back to normal food and the next time I visited the doctor my weight had escalated to 76kgs which brought memory loss since there were some unwanted fats near my brain. This was devastating to hear so I went back on my quest to lose weight. I went on an exercise program and it did nothing since I did not lose any weight at all after months of dieting, the only thing I got was severe ulcers that left me hospitalized for two weeks and since then I have been treating ulcers which never seem to get cured and because I have to eat, as I write this my weight now stands at abnormally 82kgs if you think I was obese when I was 65kg, then what am I at 82kgs.??
What I have forgotten to tell you about is the community pressure, weight escalation started while I was in my second year at the university after losing my young sister and my young brother getting imprisoned on the eve of the burial which got me stressed and my escape was KFC chicken and Cafe java’s delicious cakes which calmed my nerves at the time. I had no one to share my problems with except God. And you can imagine how the students reacted when they saw the new me, the staring whenever I am passing through the halls. I HOPE SOMEONE CAN RELATE??, others whispering when I pass by, being a faculty leader and a class representative since my first year at campus made me popular but in the second year, I wished I was invisible. My self-esteem went low, my grades went low and I chose to ignore it all. My then-boyfriend chosevto become indifferent at the worst time in my life during my third year and I thought the world as knew it was over.
BUT GOD, He gave me, my confidence back which I have been riding on up to now, I am happier than I can tell you, despite the fact that my weight kept escalating, I stayed the same person with no stress whatsoever.
Phillippians 4:13 says I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me”, was and is the verse I ride on. It has kept me strong in my weaknesses. Anywho I don’t know how people live without God . If you don’t have a relationship with God today, contact me and I will help you out. It is the best decision you can make. I can’t do anything without telling you about my God, He has been my rock.
Well, ladies and gentlemen today I started a program of Losing weight naturally and I am more than enthusiastic about it. God has been good and He is still good. I will keep you posted on my progress, I am on a 10-day trial. and I am excited.
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