BEING OVERWEIGHT, THE SHOCKING TRUTH!!

I have seen so many overweight people around.

My friends, colleagues, relatives, acquaintances even my own family. A good many times, I myself have been overweight too but thank god, I must say, I managed to overcome the problem before it got out of control.

Shanna was one of my good friends in my younger days. We were both in the same primary and secondary school together. We parted when we went to different colleges and met again when we started working. That was when I received one of the biggest shocks of my life.

After being away from each other for years I was totally dumbfounded to see my once slim, lithe and petite Shanna turned into one gross, portly, obese Miss Heavyweight. I hugged her and asked "Why Shanna, what happen??" Her curt reply was "Honestly, I do not know"

I could see that she was depressed and sick. She was actually very unwell indeed complaining of frequent headaches and feeling unhealthy, heavy and tired. Being a good friend, I decided then to help her get rid of her bulging fats and misery. We tried almost everything from evening jogs or rather walks, sunday morning cycling, five times up the stairs .. five times down, dancing all night long .. ahem.., sweat out at the park's 'free gym", doubling the efforts on certain days.. just because the George Michael look alike was doing his routine there (hey I was the George Michael era ok!) to fancy strange diets. She had the "off rice" diet, the "green apple in the morning diet", the "just soup" diet, the "no dinner, skip lunch, heavy breakfast" diet, the all protein diet, the end of the month broke diet..heheh .. the more diet regiments she followed the more sickly she became.
And unfortunately, not many kgs were lost. Infact those lost that week, were cruelly back the next!

It did cross our minds to visit the Slimming Centre but after receiving a brief quotation on the phone, we almost jumped through the roof. Well I did not blame the Slimming Centre for estimating such amount, Shanna was a good 90 kg heavy pounder!!! fitted into a 5 footer tall frame. I reckoned it would take almost a year or so to healthily reduce her weight and lots of $$$ commensurating to that!!

As days passed by, Shanna became more and more sickly. She dragged herself to work, had a hard time focussing, frequent bouts of headaches, withdrew and became a bitter introvert. She also flatly refused to socialise. It sadden me to tears to see my good friend transformation because she was unable to handle her weight problem. She became bigger, lazier, more sick than ever and angrier by the day!

And then one day, upon my insistence, we followed some friends to a small village up north away from the city just for a short break. Shanna was as usual grumpy and would not speak to anyone, complaining of being tired and dizzy.

The village was lovely, calm and peaceful, tranquil, away from the noisy suffocating city. We stayed at one of my friends' parents house. After dinner we were all sitting outside at the veranda enjoying the night, full of shiny stars and cool breezy air. Everyone was chatting except Shanna. My friend's mother was a chirpy kindly lady who seemed to have a lot of anecdotes up her sleeve. That was when the subject changed its course and started to focus on obesity. Shanna was very quiet and pissed off, I assumed. Suddenly, the chirpy lady blurted, "Shanna, I know why some people cannot lose weight" even after trying everything... the answer is simple.. it is what is inside you.. there are living creatures there!!"

I jumped... as usual, my mind would take me to witchcraft and voodoos.. blackmagics and ghoules but the chirpy lady further explanation left us in total disbelief. "You know what, you have parasites living in your stomach, feeding on your flesh and blood, making you sick, tired and fat!!" The kindly lady was kind of blunt in disseminating her opinion.

"What creatures?? what parasites???" we echoed. Everyone was on their toes now. "Worms, leeches or something to that effect"... chirpy lady whimpered. We were by now, grossly excited to the point of intrigue! "Really??? So how do one get rid of that??"

"Well... drink water mixed with charcoal ashes" she replied.

"What???" Openmouthed and bewildered, we said aloud almost simultaneously.

Oh well, I am sure no one would like to drink water mixed with charcoal ashes and I do not have any scientific explanation as to how she came to that conclusion. Furthermore charcoal ashes could be poisonous. But being a wise old lady, I am sure she knew what she was talking about. Must be an old wives remedy or something but god forbid, please do not try. She could be joking on that part.

And of course Shanna did not heed the advice and drink water mixed with charcoal ashes, but she did go to the doctor to have a second opinion. The doctor gave her some worms medications. LOL!

We parted again to move on with our lives. It was three years ago, when I received the bad news of Shanna's passing from another friend. Shanna fell in her bathroom one early morning whilst preparing to go to office for work. She had a dizzy spell and blacked out.
I cried all day, I received the news only a week after her passing. Nolstagic memories flooded in my mind on how we went about to lose weight and failed. All the exercises and diets. We tried everything except the water mixed with charcoal ashes!!

After that day I was more determined not to grow fat!!! Being overweight is not only unsightly but also it taxes on our health and agility. There could be many reasons one can grow fat and become overweight but I do not discount the possibility of parasites and "leeches" sucking and feeding on our nutrients!

Recently whilst surfing on the net, I was awed beyond words to discover one of the shocking truths of being overweight!!

The words of the chirpy kindly old lady rang in my brain and my late Shanna's memories rushed back to my mind.

The SHOCKING TRUTH and PROOF are indeed shocking!!!

FIND OUT WHAT I FOUND OUT, here!