The first time I ever experienced a significant amount of weight loss was during my first year in the university. I remember going home after my first year and my mom looking at me, feeling sorry for me as if I had told her I had contacted a terminal illness. My dad on the other hand reacted the way most African fathers would, he had asked my mom to stop feeling sorry for me because it was only normal for me to look that way seeing how it was my first time to leave home and care for myself.
I remember being shy to leave the house for like a week but then I returned back to school and one of my goals was to look better than I was when I left home. So I started to work hard and invested most of my earning on food. I wasn't exactly eating specific food just to get fat, I was just enjoying myself, eating whatever it was I wanted to eat.
During my Industrial training, I had refused to go home and remained back at school and seeing how I wasn't doing much (there was no more school stress) and was eating a lot, it didn't take long for the results to start showing and before I knew what was happening, my friends started commenting on my weight gain.
I won't lie, it felt good because it was exactly what I wanted. But occasionally I would notice them throwing in some shade and kinda insulting my weight gain which was funny because I wasn't fat, I was just way bigger that I used to look, which was a good thing because I used to be very slim.
I finally traveled back home after about a year and six months and I remember everyone at home looking at me like they haven't seen me in ages. Of course they all commented on my weight gain but it was the good kinda comment. My dad even teased me, saying that all I went to school to do was eat and nothing more. It felt really good finally getting the kind of compliments I wanted from my family about my weight and I'm happy I look way better than I used to do.
And now the plan is to go register for a gym and shape this whole body into something magnificent. Unfortunately I just haven't made up my mind yet.
Did the whole process teach me anything? I think the answer would be no and that is because, to me it wasn't really a process because I didn't see it as that. I didn't get thin on purpose and I didn't really focus on adding weight to add weight, I just got a job and spent majority of my earning on food at the time and that all just kinda paid off.
So I guess if there's one thing that I learnt, it is that food is really expensive.
Lol.