Contents
Personal experience: how I lost 15 kg without denying myself anything
The Wday.ru journalist talked about how she overcame excess weight in five months without starving or killing herself in the gym …
We must start with the fact that I have always loved to eat deliciously. Salads and fruits did not inspire me, but a burger or crispy fries! .. For this I was ready to sell my soul. Yes, yes, and mayonnaise for me, please pour it over.
Until the age of 25, my body endured all this in silence, and at 26 … it was like setting off a time bomb: I began to creep by leaps and bounds.
I celebrated my 27th birthday in the weight of 77 kilograms. I didn’t notice it right away, but at some point, middle-aged women in the subway began to give way to me.
“Sit down, child,” the ladies turned to me. – We all were once in this position … “
“In what other position? – I was surprised to myself, but sat down on the vacant seat, thanks for the courtesy. Oh yes! They thought I was pregnant! “
The abdomen with the first breast size turned into almost the most protruding part of the body. Since appearance in a person is not the main thing, for some time I simply turned a blind eye to the problem, but then there was a trip to the sea. On that vacation, I never took off my tunic. So I sat on the beach and looked enviously at women of 40-45 years old, who looked like girls, and thought: “How did it happen that I turned into a” hippo “swollen with fat?”
The turning point was February 20, 2018. At work it was necessary to urgently send a fresh photo. And she simply did not appear … At some point, without realizing it, I stopped taking pictures, buying new things and taking care of myself. Food overshadowed all pleasures, turned into a cult … It was as if I was shaken. I decided that I urgently needed to lose weight!
March: no sweets and starchy foods
The first thing I gave up was sweet! And not only chocolate, but also all kinds of poppy buns, cakes, and even a cracker with coffee turned out to be forbidden for me … It was not difficult, because I did not particularly like desserts before. But parting with flour became flour. The first week, sitting on a diet of fish, buckwheat and vegetable soups, I literally climbed the wall. I really wanted to cook spaghetti and sprinkle it with Parmesan, swallow a couple of burgers in the park and … But you never know more goodies exist in the world ?!
I wanted to boil spaghetti and sprinkle them with cheese so that I literally climbed on the wall!
I was not starving. I ate as much as I wanted. But only healthy food. As a result, my breakfast consisted of porridge or cottage cheese. For lunch, rice or buckwheat with fish, well, and allowed myself a light soup for dinner.
The only thing in which I did not limit myself in any way was fruits and vegetables. And I drank at least four liters of water a day.
For the first month, 5 kilograms went away, and by the end of April I already weighed 70.
Before I started losing weight, I loved to laugh that the most bulging part of me is my stomach. … And I was sincerely surprised at stories like: I eat three khachapuri for the night and eat a pie, but everything is superfluous in the chest, but in the ass. These are the witches, I thought! … No, tell me, is it true there are such magical women who have flour, fat, and sweetness in the chest or from cola swaying buttocks? … Yesterday at night I allowed myself rolls with my friends … I thought that it would come to my stomach again and stir up the unloading on buckwheat today! But no, fortunately at least the rolls passed without a trace. In general, I wonder what kind of fasting days do you arrange? Since I’m still a beginner in losing weight, buckwheat prevails. #the loss of weight
Posted by Kristina Desyatova (@krisdes)
The first kilograms went away quickly and easily. I barely had time to rejoice and buy new clothes! But then the weight is measured. Maybe because I still ignored sports or my body dropped the ballast and did not intend to lose weight further (in April, when it was snowing for a minute in Moscow).
But I was in a belligerent mood. Since only coffee was left out of a non-healthy lifestyle, the beloved lavender raff was the first to go home. And then cappuccino and latte.
The problem of transforming from a “hippopotamus” into a “slender doe” was resolved. The weight crawled down again, but why did no one tell me that losing weight would entail such an annoying nuisance as the desire to sleep all the time ?! The thought of taking a nap on the table at my working computer visited me almost every hour. The smell of freshly brewed coffee from every coffee shop attracted me so much that I wanted to kill for it. And one day I fell out. I went to the pastry shop, ordered a large croissant and coffee. “I will eat you and I won’t blink an eye!” – I thought, paying for the yummy at the checkout. When I brought the purchase to the table, it seemed that my hands were shaking. But willpower (I must have it iron!) And common sense won over desire. Both the coffee and the croissant remained on the table. And I left. I was very proud of myself that day.
I lost the habit of coffee in about three weeks – not without an assistant. It was good green tea. The drink both invigorated and gave me taste pleasure. No wonder they say that it takes 21 days to get rid of the habit. This rule worked perfectly for me!
By the end of May, the total weight dropped was 12 kilograms. Weighed about 65 kilograms. On the one hand, this is still a lot, on the other – with an increase of 175 centimeters, I already fit into the so-called tables of the ratio of height and weight.
The portions have shrunk by themselves. No, I still didn’t go hungry. I just started to gorge on less food.
I didn’t even think about sweet and coffee, but I was drawn to crispy baguettes with double strength. I dreamed of them at night, invitingly “smiled” from the windows, now and then caught my eye.
In addition, I wanted some kind of “forbidden” in my healthy lifestyle diet so much that in the evenings they began to slip either processed cheese or crab sticks. Although before that I did not suffer from love for chemical products.
I wanted “forbidden” items in my healthy lifestyle so much that I fell for processed cheese and crab sticks
And so I fell into a baguette.
“It’s better to have black bread with bran than to kill your body with eshkami,” I reasoned. And even once a week I allowed myself durum wheat spaghetti. What for? Probably because the realization has already come that this is not a diet, but a new way of life and thoughts.
By the fourth month, I realized that healthy food can be delicious. In addition, all this time I so often distracted myself from snacking with new books, trips out of town and coming up with all sorts of hobbies that I got involved, and food somehow faded into the background by itself.
July: food is no longer a cult!
Having lost weight, I again fell in love with being photographed …
At the very beginning of my weight loss, a friend (who, by the way, also went on a diet!) Said: “A woman experiences pleasure in one of two cases: when she looks naked at herself in the mirror or when she eats!”
So it didn’t work for me … Now I weigh 62 kilograms and I’m almost happy with myself! Any trip to the store is a joy – I calmly fit into things of size “M”, and in social networks I was even somehow accused of Photoshop. Like, legs cannot be so slender and long at the same time …
But at the same time, I still love to eat and enjoy food. No, fatty burger and fries are no longer my ideal. But I learned how to cook fantastic stuffed peppers, make eggplants and green tea cocktails with strawberries for a snack …
I don’t think my figure is perfect, but I don’t want to become fit babies.
I learned how to cook fantastic stuffed peppers, make eggplants and green tea cocktails with strawberries for a snack …
“Do you really like all this?” Another friend of mine recently asked. I thought about this question so much that I even bought myself a ciabatta with cheese and potatoes in oil. Like, I’ll delight myself! In the end, I didn’t eat even half.
Do I want to lose weight further? I am not sure. All the same, phyto-babies, counting calories from morning to evening, I can’t see myself … Yes, and killing myself because of every extra kilogram still seems to me delirium. I have reached a weight with which I am comfortable living. I did it without heavy dieting, stress and sports, which, to be honest, I dislike a little. I feel much more confident and a little happier. I smile a lot, travel and … wear a spectacular red swimsuit on the beach!