22/07/2025
My fat is hereditary, i was born fat by two fat parents. I'm not using this as an excuse or as reason why i got to this stage. I never had any control over my weight when i was born and till i got married. Thank God i married a very slim man who only have eyes for fat ladies 😂.
On a more serious note, when people ask " how did you leave yourself to get this big" it sounds somehow to me, because it makes me start checking " was there anytime in my life that i was once slim"? I never had a slim moment all my life. I use to be a big baby, fat toddler that it took me almost two years to walk because of my weight.
From nursery to primary school, high School and my university days, I'm always the biggest and atimes tallest too in all my classes.
I'm writing this online on the Internet many people here knows me from one time of my life to the other, anyone that have ever seen me once slim can please call me out.
Amaka is my name, A Nigerian living in Nigeria where many of us believe that if you are fat, God created you to be a fat person, we all can not be slim. My parents were semi literate and knows no better about how to control fat even when it's hereditary. This topic is not taught in schools either, neither was there any awareness of it as at 1990ies when i was in my teen years.
I was already weighing 120kg when i was in my SSS3. And still, never heard of anything like " weight loss or weight loss journey". That's not a thing in Nigeria where i reside. Only few that have traveled to the western countries and some others knows. Losing weight and how to lose weight has little awareness then.
I got to know about anything that sounds like weight loss journey here on Facebook. I know you all know how old Facebook is and I'm not among the early users. Still, one can't find any organized structure for weight loss. Nothing like a weight loss centre.
But today there is lots of weight loss awareness and lots of gym around.
So, how did i wait till now according to many of you, please can you now help me to answer that question because honestly i don't have any answer to it in a simple sentence.
