How I started my weight loss journey.

I did not decide to lose weight on my own, though I tried couple of times with my sisters but could stop enjoying my plates of rice. When I try, it failed so I continued eating my rice. What can I lose as long as I can buy clothes that fit then that’s perfect. The amazing thing about being big is that you never realise that you are continuously putting on the pounds to kg and to stones but your dress size keeps going up. In my mind that’s okay but was it helping? NO. you keep telling yourself that size doesn’t matter but let’s face it, for health
purposes it matters.

 Like I said, I did not plan on losing weight. It was ending 2010, i went on a vacation at a whooping jean size 24/26. My mum saw me and she was really really really displeased seeing me. Well like me, I couldn’t be bothered; as long as it’s my body then everyone else should mind their business. My mum kept making fun of my size, trying to see if I will get angry and maybe try losing some weight. But that didn’t help because it didn’t make me sad or uncomfortable, all i did was laugh at her jokes. She was surprise that nothing anyone said could get me to lose weight. I can remember telling her it’s in the gene; she agreed but asked me to try doing something about it. I told her I will think about it which I never did and she didn’t give up on me. One faithful morning, after morning devotion she called me and said to  me “pee pee, can you do me a favour, (in my mind, I was like: what again this time) I asked her "what"?. She said promise me you will at least try, I said try what. She said just promise me, I was like okay, I promise I will at least try. Then she handed me a piece of paper with a meal plan and for good 20 minutes I was still staring at the paper. I asked her “who on earth eats like this”. She started laughing. She said, that's how you will eat  for the next one month and then I looked at it again. In the entire 7 day meal plan I only had to eat rice once and guess what, it was 4 tablespoon of it. I felt beaten but I was only going to try it out for a month.

That morning, she made me breakfast. A dry toasted wheat bread with tomatoes, I nearly cried but I had one month in my mind. The next thing, she got me skipping rope and lectured me on how effective it is. I was big but not lazy to move around. The first day, I did 500 skips and wow, i felt great. Then the following day she added more workouts for me and made me breakfast, lunch and dinner. She made it a point of duty that I drank up to 5liters of water daily, 1 to 2 litres early morning. Oh I didn’t tell you guys that the scale was never my friend. We were enemies but that faithful morning I knew that a bridge is being built to close the gap, i could not longer run away from weighing myself. It was that day that I knew I weighed almost 140kg. But after a month trial of the meal plan, I was down 7kg. I saw changes, my jeans were lose and I was loving it so I decided to continue the journey to losing more weight. My family and the wonderful man in my life has been supporting me through this journey.  It was time for me to seriously put my mind and body to it in achieving my goal, i didn't feel like i have to be pushed again, but i was willing to do whatever it takes and how ever long it will take. I then understood that i had a lot of weight to loss and what I had to do to lose weight, 30 days later I was 4kg more lighter added to the 7kg making it 12kg total. if you have tried losing weight before, you will understand how hard it is to lose just 1kg. I felt so great and motivated to continue to a better lifestyle. This is how I started my journey to losing weight and am still at it. In my coming posts, I will let you into some steps I took in getting to where I am and what am doing to get to my goal.