It is always horrific to find out that your partner has been unfaithful and betrayed your trust. For Lisseth Exposito, 25, from Northfleet, Kent however, this became a new opportunity to press a reset button on her life.
The young woman started gaining weight during her first pregnancy when she and her husband, Jose, would eat full English Breakfasts, Mcdonald’s, and other unhealthy meals. While Jose was lucky enough to not gain weight, Lisseth quickly did. From then on, Jose began to lack in affection and emotionally abused her by constantly calling her “fat,” leaving Lisseth stressed and depressed.
“I’d catch Jose looking at me in disgust. As I ate my dinner on the sofa, I’d hear him mutter ‘fat girl,’ as crumbs bounced off my belly,” Lisseth noted in her interview with the Daily Mail. “It started with little digs, but soon it was cruel jibes. I was desperate to be the curvaceous hourglass girl he had fallen for, but I had no willpower or self-esteem to diet.” She also continued to say, “Jose wouldn’t show me any affection and food became even more of a friend,” she said. “The words made my stomach flip and I hit an all-time low. Food became the only thing to give me a moment of happiness. I was eating around 4,000 calories a day.”
When she found a string of text messages to another woman and confronted him, he had the audacity to blame her weight.
“I got hold of his phone and found myself scrolling through texts, and hundreds of incriminating texts littered his inbox. I felt disgusted, but something changed in me. When his key turned in the door that evening I pounced and told him what I’d found,” she continued to say to the Daily Mail. “He didn’t deny it and told me it was my fault as I was so fat. He told me I’d always be ugly. I was devastated, but determined. This man would never hurt me again.”
She then decided to file for a divorce and start a new phase of her life. While doctors recommended gastric bypass for her, she decided to do everything naturally by changing her eating and dieting habits. The weight quickly began to fall off.
She eventually dropped 126 pounds!
Jose quickly saw her transformation. He then tried to get back together with her.
“Every weekend, Jose would pick up Lissmar and do a double take as he looked at me. Then one Friday he told me I was looking hot,” she said. “I closed the door on him. I would never let him back in my life. I am a role model to my daughter and I proved him wrong.”
The new transformation has brought a new life for Lisseth, who is free from emotional abuse and healthier than ever. We’re sure with her new confidence she will continue to be a great role model for her daughter.
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Source: Daily Mail
