Nollywood actress, Ifeoma Okeke has shared an experience which led her to begin a journey on weight loss.
According to her, it took the news about the death of a friend who was to heavy to be lifted when she had an attack was what brought her to the realization that she had to work on her size.
She explained that the death of the friend knocked reality into her mind that she had to do something so as not to go thr same way.
Ifeoma Okeke said, “When I heard the news of her death, I immediately rushed to her house, where her neighbours narrated the horrible story of how they were struggling to bring her out of the house, while she was gasping for breath.
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“At that point, something just struck my head that if I am sick now, how would people bring me out of the house?
“You know there’s this realization point. I have never felt my weight before. It has never bothered me in my life. I can stand from now till tomorrow I won’t feel it. I can do anything, I am that flexible with myself.
“They said it was a struggle to drag her from upstairs to downstairs. They couldn’t force her inside the car. They had to dump her at the back of a Hilux jeep. I just felt that if she were to be a slim person, she could have had a chance of surviving.
“I have been sick and I know how it feels when you have to gasp for breath. But nothing brought me to that point of self-realization. And it’s only you that can tell yourself the truth.
“Even after her death, I tried to shake it off, but indirectly people insult obese ones. I just woke up one day and said to myself, it’s time I do something about my size,” Ifeoma Okeke said.
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