It took a reflection in the fitting room mirror...

I found myself lost in my thoughts, thoughts of how different my life would be if I was a few sizes smaller. I am usually okay with my body; I just have random days where I am super depressed. Those days usually follow after being called off on my eating habits or being made to feel FAT. 

My relatives are dispersed all over the country, so we hardly get together. When we do, it is usually at funerals, weddings, and parties, and even then, not everybody shows up. So there I was, actually looking slimmer than I have in years, an aunt who hasn’t seen me in years walks up to me. She starts off with a hug and a kiss, which, by the way, I hate. You never know what virus’s people have and they just go around kissing people. After greeting me, she went on to say how fat I have become.

My whole adult life I have stomached such comments, even though, in my head, I would answer them with “well, have you seen your ugly face” and “yes, because I eat good food”.

As annoying as my relatives can get, it still hasn’t been motivation enough for me to try harder. Until recently, when I went shopping for clothes. I swear, those mirrors in the fitting rooms are made different, because I saw my stomach in a way I have never seen it before. I stood in there for a good 10 minutes staring at my reflection, shocked more than disgusted. Self-hate and self-bashing doesn’t help, but maybe, this is the wakeup call I needed TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT MY HEALTH.

Her story

I am a "big-boned" girl naturally. I fell pregnant in my second year of varsity, at the age of 20. I gained more weight during my pregnancy. After i gave birth, i went through post-natal depression which affected my appetite. All i could stomach was porridge and rooibos tea. I wore a waist-trainer to reduce my stomach and breast-fed for two months. Still going through post-natal depression, i returned to varsity to continue my studies. I started drinking and smoking a lot, more than i ate. i gradually started losing weight. I went from a size 40 to 34.

- *Anonymous

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Weight loss poison

When a friend of mine lost a traumendous amount of weight, i obviously wanted to try whatever she was using and doing, except going to the gym. I am not a fan of the gym. She then recomended this bottle. It has no name and no ingridients on the label. I was sceptical at first, but seeing that she was fine, i tried it.
It has a bitter taste and did supress my appitite for the first week. After the first bottle my appitite escalated. I suppose my body did not recieve it the same way as my friends.

I call it weighloss poison because, although it worked wonders for my friend, we do not have any idea what is in this bottle. That is dangerous and i advice people NOT to use it.