When I saw this topic, I was just smiling where I was. My husband had always said something that kept me thinking and would make me relent in the one thing I had in mind to change in my body if I had the opportunity.
When my husband came to seek my hands in marriage, I was so tiny, and he had never, for once, told me the kind of woman he had wanted. Although he came for me just because of who I was, I guess.
I was just not the way I was, and I embrace that nature and stature. I just wish life could change backward so that I can go back to that same stature and the same way my husband had seen me for the first time.
One fateful day, I had to tell my husband, “Honey! I want to reduce my stature. I think I'm getting fatter.”.
He just laughed and did not say a word. After a week, I went to the market to buy some foodstuffs to refill my shop. I saw some limes. I did not hesitate to buy it. When I got home, I squeezed the limes inside a bottle and started drinking it. For about two days, my husband did not see the lime with me. Four days later, I asked him to boil some water for me to drink very early in the morning. He did boil some water for me, and I drank it alongside the lime water. When he saw me drinking in the line, he said, “Dear! You will just try; you can't reduce any more, as this is the kind of stature I wanted in a girl. Now that you are like this, it's my prayer.”.
This statement alone got me annoyed. I was angry and was calling him the enemy of progress. Truly, the more I took the lime water, the fatter I became. I was just fed up with myself.
I have seen people taking lime water as well as warm water every day and taking it as early as possible daily. They were reduced from their initial look to a palatable stature. This gave me some eagerness to continue with it. I had to continue with this act for some days. I had to weigh myself and discovered that I was adding up instead of subtracting. Likewise, I did not relent but tried several of these acts for several days, weeks, and months, and yet, the outcome was nothing to write home about.
Not only that, but I called my husband and said to him, “Please, Honey! I will cook your favorite food for you. Just reverse your statement that will reduce after taking the lime.”. He was just smiling and replied, “I love you the way you are, and nothing can change that. Just go and cook my favorite food for me.”.
This statement got me crazy yet again, but then I'm the kind of person he had wanted, and I can't change this fact.
One day, I went out to visit one of my relatives in Lagos, and she said, “You have reduced a lot.”
I was 100% sure that she was teasing me. I smiled and said to her, “Are you teasing me?”
She said she was so sure of what she was saying. I was so excited to have heard that statement for the first time. I stayed with her for four days with my kids, after which we returned home. When we got home, my husband said, “I need to thank your sister for taking good care of you.”. I was like, “What the hell are you saying?”
He said I have increased in size more than before. I had to call my elder sister to ask her if she was teasing me for saying I was reducing, but she said something that weighed me down. “The first time I saw you, you looked reduced, but later I discovered that my eyes were just deceiving me," she said.
I was unhappy, but then I had to accept defeat. I guess what I was longing for would not be possible. So why am I stressing myself out? People have tried the several methods I have taken, and the results were wonderful, but mine was quite different, and now I have given up. I think I have to manage it the way I am.
I still ask my husband this question: “When you married me, I was slim. Why did you go for my type when you know you love fat women?”
He did not wait a minute before replying to me, “I was very sure you would become the way you are.”. What a good response!
To be candid, the only thing I would change is my stature.
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