Moral My husband told me that I had to lose weight after giving birth or “I would have no choice but leave me.” After losing 85 pounds, the “romantic night at the hotel” I planned left him pale.

Sometimes I lost a kilo in a week. Other times, the scale marked the same number for three weeks in a row.

Ryan always looked interested.

“How much is it now?” he asked me on a Saturday when I left the bathroom.

“Eleven pounds.”

He smiled. “See? It wasn’t that hard.”

Another week,