She lost 222 pounds, became a foodie
Akilah Monifa wasn't a foodie until she lost 222 pounds.
The San Francisco-based communications director says she never used to taste her food. She ate mainly to give a dependency.
"I ate a lot of junk, i wasn't mindful about what I ate," Monifa said.
But unlike with alcohol or drugs, where an addict can steer clear of the behavior actually addicted to, she knew she couldn't stop eating. So she decided
instead to halt consuming meals from habit.
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She began with small changes.
She quit diet soda first. On her behalf it turned out a genuine sacrifice.
"I would drink maybe six to eight Diet Cokes a day. I understand people think it's OK to drink because it doesn't have calories, but I realized I never
really been there alone," Monifa said. "I was usually rinsing down a huge bag of chips by it."
So she threw in the towel chips.
From then on she stopped eating the M&Ms, their bright colors always taunting her in the bowl with a woman's desk outside her office door.
The tipping point
At her heaviest, Monifa weighed over 400 pounds. She says there wasn't any one moment when she realized she required to lose weight. The information arrived
small waves.
Her daughter complained she walked too slow.
She couldn't join her friends on rides on the theme park because she exceeded the weight limits.
When she flew she had to utilize a seatbelt extender and also got bumped once from your flight. When she departed the plane the gate agent said he'd input it
in her profile she needed to buy two seats.
Monifa, 57, doesn't know exactly how she placed on the weight zi xiu tang bee pollen . She just knows she gained about 10 to 15 pounds per year when you reach 15.
"I have no idea of when Going thinking, 'Woops, I'm over 200 pounds now,'" Monifa said.
Subconsciously, she may have been avoiding situations where she'd have to confront it.
"I then started telling myself items like, 'I'll never weigh greater than 200 pounds. It became I'll never weigh greater than 250, then 300, then 350. That
became 400," Monifa said.
Her mother, after which her partner, bought her clothes. She stopped weighing herself when she got a chance to 389 pounds. She later realized she had even
stopped looking within the mirror.
"There would have been a window over a department shop, and i also remember seeing someone out of your corner of my eye and thinking 'Who is big fat person
behind me?' It slowly dawned on me. That has been me."