How and Why I lost weight. (40 pounds in 1.5 years)

As much as we want to look good, in the long run, the pressure is just too much to bare. And sometimes the need to look good and the habitual tendency of being familiar to good compliments will send us into depression.
"If you were thin, I would have gone out with you." He spoke boldly on my face. I am a bold and confident woman, of cause that makes it a habit for people to speak their minds openly the same way I do. That statement did hurt me, it's the reason I haven't forgotten the statement, but surely have forgiven that person for hurting me on that particular day.
It could have been the reason to lose weight, but well, I had been on the journey to loosing weight for 3 years by then (2011 to then 2014). And at that point instead of shedding some I was gaining some daily.
I had lost the purpose of life, so I was wasting it away. A little ice cream every other night. A packet of sweets every other week. Without forgetting soda every other hour. I replaced food with soda and was lazy to eat any good food. These habits went on for a while until one day, I had coffee and my heart beats shooted up the roof but with no avail of pumping oxygen through my lungs. So then I realised at age 18, I had high blood pressure! The disease would have triggered the need to lose weight, but It didn't. 
I did not like how I looked, I loved myself, I truly did, I slept half the day and treated myself to sweet and faty foods and hated life because I didn't know what the fuzz was all about.

So what truly made the donkey fall?

"Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who  is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s".
I Corinthians 6:19‭-‬20 NKJV

Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”
Isaiah 43:7 NKJV

For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11:36 NKJV

I FOUND PURPOSE IN LIFE. I found a purpose bigger than looking good and staying healthy. Looking good or being healthy were not an end to themselves, they became a means to an end. The end being to give my creator and Father all the glory and honour he deserves. While both reasons are good enough to make me run a mile (I have been there before), what truly made the "IT" for me was finding the reason to why I was here. Why I had air in my lungs, blood in my vessels, bones and flesh. Why I had LIFE.
And with that I submitted to God and his will, including his will on what I should and shouldn't eat.
So I did manage to cut down the sugar, the oil and I am now measuring my food with a balance of all nutrient essentials. I concentrate on eating everything basic, basic starch like boiled or grilled cassava, sweet potatoes and pumkins. Raw vegetables and a lot of fruits without forgeting unpasteurized milk. Water is an essential and working out this body to make it vibrant and have its metabolism up and running.
A few of the foods I eat are far from sweet, trust me I sometimes dread the foods (raw lady fingers or raw bell pappers) I have to eat for my health and this beautiful temple of the Holy Ghost. Grateful it's all turning out great. I have managed to maintain a good weight for a long time, going to 3 years now. I feel good and I have learnt that "We don't live to eat, we eat to live. And it's important to build good food habits and it takes time."
Someone might say, one and a half year is a long time, and yes it took me a while. I believe that loosing weight is not truly about weight itself rather than discovering oneself and dealing with the issues and habit that cause weight gain.
For some and many women, it may be stress levels.  It is proven that long term stress lowers metabolism especially in women.
And for some like me, bad food habits have to be broken and completely replaced with good food habits. Going on a 30 day diet and extreme work out will help you lose weight but it will take a miracle to help you maintain that weight.
Bad food habits may be a result of self indulgence behaviour, lack of purpose in life or the basic which is lack of discipline, which may extend to other areas of your life. For it is true that if you can be disciplines with food and words, you have mastered all other things patterning to life!.
So before you take on that 30 day challenge. Challenge yourself to know why you are over weight. Overweight is the symptom, a purpose-less, joyless, hurting or broken soul and spirit is the disease. Eliminate the disease and the symptoms will eventually disappear. Good luck.