Despite Nala's best efforts, she found losing weight as difficult as she'd found gaining at first. She was as active as ever, but since she had stretched her stomach out while gaining the extra weight she was already carrying, and she found it difficult to resist eating. She tried to convince herself that her increased portions were no big deal, since she was exercising again, but while working out slowed her gain, it didn't stop it entirely, and as she got fatter, she started exercising less and less.

Since she was also eating more and more, her weight loss plan was not working at all. Her stomach hung down farther than ever, pushing her fat thighs into a bow-legged waddle, and her back fat was starting to hang over her legs and tail a little. And none of that was helped by the sheer volume of food that was usually laying around the den. While the pride as a whole didn't know how much weight she'd gained, they certainly knew about Kiara, and so food was constantly left for the immobile princess, and even when Nala went to specifically get a small meal, she ended up eating a lot more than she intended.

After one of these binges, as she swallowed the last of a big eland, Nala felt too heavy to get up--she had a long way to go before she became immobile, but all the meat in her stomach was certainly weighing her down. And what was worse, she still felt hungry!