A group of five friends went for a 10 km walk on the beach to enjoy the ocean breeze and watch the sunset when a new friend joined them. He had just returned home after living in the US for eight years and settled in Mombasa.
“To be honest, I struggled with the walk. After a few steps, I was already gasping for breath, panting, and sweating profusely. I gassed out several times, and my heart was beating so hard that it felt like it could come out through my mouth. I weighed 105 kilos at the time, and I knew without a doubt that my body weight was weighing me down,” 45-year-old Mwenda Thuranira tells BDLife.
