Weight Gain Murder
My older sister Jenny and I both gained weight easily, so our mother made the decision that we could eat nothing but the diet meals she made.
I followed her rules as best I could. I did not even dare drink an extra drop of water. But when I stepped on the scale a month later, I weighed three hundred pounds.
I rushed into Jenny's room and found her in a tight dress posing in front of the mirror. She smiled at me. "Shannon, does this dress look good on me?"
Then, I saw the number on her scale. I could hardly believe it. She was down to ninety pounds.
I suspected something was wrong with Mom's diet meals, so I watched everything she did, from buying groceries to cooking. As soon as my meal was ready, I carried it straight to my room so that no one could do anything with it.
Another month passed, and my weight climbed to five hundred pounds. Stretch marks covered my body, and my blood pressure reached two hundred.
I lost my job because of my weight, my boyfriend dumped me without warning, and my health problems tortured me. I fell into deep despair.
I refused to eat Mom's meals anymore and demanded that they take me to the hospital for gastric sleeve surgery.
By then, I weighed eight hundred pounds. I had severe hypertension, high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and advanced heart failure.
On the second day after the surgery, I died at home from a severe infection.
When I opened my eyes again, I had regressed to the day Mom first started making our meals…