My entire life I’ve been overweight.
As a baby, as a child, as a teenager and so on.
Food calmed me down as a baby, so people just kept giving it to me. This lead to a really unhealthy relationship with food. I used it as a coping mechanism when I felt strong emotions. As a teenager or young adult, my lowest weight was 70 Kg. I am 165 cm tall (roughly 5’ 5”)
I was 90Kg before I went on a crazy regime to drop down to 70Kg.
I went back home to visit family (I was maybe 14/15)
My aunt put me on a crazy diet of about 400 calories a day, 3 hours of cardio a day, and drank 6 litres of water (1 litre before and after each meal).
This was probably the toughest thing I had ever gone through. But I was so happy with the results and that I lost 20 Kg in 6 weeks
Summertime came to an end and it was time to go back to school.
There was no way I was able to keep up that diet, I did my best trying to eat less but due to the stress my body went through during these drastic changes, I gained all the weight back and more.
fast forward to 20 years old, about 110-115 Kg I go on the Keto diet and lose weight effortlessly, Drop down to 95 Kg.
I succeeded doing the Keto diet because my mother prepared my meals for me. She was so motivated and said she would prepare new meals every day. It kept things interesting. Once my husband moved to Canada a few months later, I was on my own. No way in hell was I going to spend all that time and money eating a completely separate diet from my husband. I tried it for a while, found myself falling off the boat and bingeing on sugary foods which would make me feel aweful.
My entire life I had been looking for diets to lose weight and looking at crazy exercises to lose weight.
I was so desperate to look normal. To feel good naked and to feel like I could actually seduce my husband once in a while with my body instead of asking him to turn of the lights.
I wanted results fast. By trying and failing these crash diets, years went by and nothing changed.
But I finally realized that out of everything that I had tried to lose weight, there was one thing I didnt try.
Balance.
I never tried eating normal amounts of food, mixing that with regular exercise, actually drinking more than 500ml of water every couple of days (Yea, I NEVER drank water its gross lol)
I needed a healthy lifestyle, So that’s what i’m giving myself.
I’m not very far into it, but I already feel so relaxed. I’m not in a rush. I know that it will take at least one year before I’m where I need to be. Somehow it’s comforting. One year of small healthy habits beats the countless months of failure.
This is sustainable
I am so stoked.
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