This text is not just a weight loss story, it is a collection of honest observations and conclusions that I made during my transformation. I hope my thoughts will be useful for those who also seek changes in their lives, informs Ukr.Media.
By regularly working out with a trainer in the gym, cycling and counting my BAC (calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates), I lost 15 kg. And since before that I went through a serious and long experience (bulimia, anorexia, overeating, pills, guilt, setbacks, shame and the “accordion” from 42 to 78 kg), I think it is important to share my story with the world.
What did I understand after going through this path?
1. In the hall, everyone doesn't give a damn about you, everyone is busy with themselves, and that's great.
2. Training is more boring than exciting.
It's the stubborn monotonous repetition of the same thing. Dozens. Hundreds. Thousands of times. Day after day, week after week — for years. It's sweat and messy hair. And it doesn't look like the pictures on Instagram. That's why… ⤵️
3. Any variety you can afford here is important.
New music, exciting audiobooks, clothes — all of this helps me a lot.
4. Lack of sleep affects the result less than I thought.
Expectation: It will be excruciatingly difficult to train on sleep-deprived days. Reality: It's just a little harder to train on those days.
5. In fact, everyone suffers, both fat and thin. It's just that the former suffer at the mirror, in the fitting room and over their photos, the latter suffer in the gym and over their plate.
6. The only reason people lose weight is a calorie deficit.
7. You can eat at night.
8. You can drink soda, cow's milk, and coffee, eat gluten, sugar, yeast, fast food, and even lard. If you count calories.
9. Whatever your eating plan is called: paleo, the plate method, intermittent fasting, it doesn't matter at all – if you consume more than you expend, you will gain weight.
10. When you're fat, neither nails with eyelashes nor shopping help you love and accept yourself. When you're thin, you like yourself in the simplest three-kopeck no-name dress. In a torn T-shirt. In a potato sack. Or without it. And that's why…⤵️
11. “Building” a beautiful body is the most profitable, most effective, and most efficient solution for those who care about looking good.
12. It is impossible to lose weight only in the shoulders or only in the buttocks. Accordingly, exercises like “burn fat on the stomach” or “remove fat from the hips” are nonsense. The body loses weight more or less evenly, although different areas transform at slightly different speeds.
13. The only place that can be reduced locally at home is the stomach, and the only way to do it is with a vacuum.
14. Any part can be enlarged locally — if, of course, it consists of muscles. Accordingly, with physical education you can pump up your buttocks, but not add volume to your breasts.
15. From a psychological and long-term perspective, undereating is more dangerous than overeating. Balance is strategically important.
16. It is possible to learn strength training techniques from videos on the Internet. Yes, it requires discipline and motivation.
17. A slim body is not a particularly time-consuming project, because the task of “eating less” does not require too many special actions. But a sporty body takes up very serious time resources, it's not “5 minutes a day” or even 20.
18. You can drink as much water as you want. But to understand how much you want, it often takes experimentation.
19. All my reflection on the subject of self-love, all my self-examination and questions about it, all my hypotheses, arguments, methods, pains, attempts, failures, guilt boil down to one word – discipline. Everything closes at this point. Discipline is all I know about self-love.
20. Training gives you experience that is applicable in almost all areas.
They are a case study that serious results are not achieved through spurts, feats, or a five-year plan in two years, but through persistent, regular, simple actions.
21. You can go to the gym with your children. You just put them in a corner with coloring books and cartoons and do as much as they can.
22. Just an observation: my husband's attitude didn't change at all with changes in my weight.
“Seventy kg? I love it. 58? I love it again.” But the relationship between us changed because of me, because at 58 kg I am happier and more confident, everyone is more pleasant to deal with.
The trainer, by the way, says that this is more of an exception, because a lot of women go to the gym with the task of “getting his attention, avoiding a divorce” and even, God forbid, “winning over their mistress.”
23. Sports are the most powerful blow to consumption that I know of.
This is unprecedented self-sufficiency and savings on cosmetics, cosmetologists, nutritionists, psychologists, makeup artists, stylists, rags and trends, on restaurants, photographers and their retouching. On doctors and medicines.
Athletic, slim people are the most inconvenient shoppers in the world. I would even say that physical education is for those who want to stop deceiving themselves. Sport is a song of minimalism.
24. The brain reacts to the word “muscles” with associations with aesthetics. But I think we should rise above this context and finally understand that muscles are much, much more than just one of the parameters of appearance. Because hundreds of studies suggest that they are more of an internal medicine than just a “relief press”. It's more about quality of life and longevity than about the image.
25. It turned out that feeling physically strong for the first time was very… cool.
26. The greatest folly is trying to play sports to please someone, to earn their approval.
Sorry, but no one needs this at all except you.
27. When I get tired from training, I often imagine a zombie apocalypse in which my husband and I need a lot of physical strength to save the children – it's funny, but it works for me.
28. Healthy food often looks ugly.
Half of my plates are unevenly cut pieces of meat, lumpy buckwheat, sticky pasta, a piece of bread torn from a bun, and piled high with random vegetables. It's delicious, but, to put it mildly, it doesn't look like an Instagram photo.
Джерело: ukr.media
