I spent a significant part of my adult life on all kinds of diets. Kefir, cottage cheese, protein, fruit and others, and others, and others... I stopped doing it one day, but not because I reached the cherished mass, which I always dreamed of.
One morning, being on a certain day ("day" and "bottom" are equivalent here) of the next diet, I woke up, went to the bathroom and... lost consciousness. I woke up in about an hour. There was a small red puddle on the floor, which was left behind by my split eyebrow. She lay for an hour on the tiled floor and, completely exhausted, barely forced herself to get up. The head is heavy, the legs and arms do not obey. I went and ate a cheese sandwich, washed down with sweet tea.
Fighting hunger = fighting yourself
Many years have passed since then. I didn't go on such diets anymore, because it scared me terribly. All these hunger strikes are not a focus on harmony, this is not even the main thing. This is a struggle with oneself, a challenge to oneself, testing oneself for strength and coolness. She could, and I can? Is it weak for me? Well, and illiteracy, of course.
A friend of mine told me that once she felt so disgusted with looking at herself in the mirror that she stopped eating. I consumed a jar of yogurt and a bottle of diet cola "0 calories" a day. Has lost 20 kg. Has been treated for an eating disorder with varying success.
Another friend of mine sat on one dry unsalted buckwheat for 2 months, sometimes indulging herself in the form of a juicy tomato. She was losing weight for her birthday, which coincided with the beginning of summer and the beach season. Minus 15 kg were also famously celebrated according to all birthday traditions. The holiday ended with a set of 03 and a couple of days under a drip.
There are so many wonderful celebrity diets on the Internet, with the help of which they lose 10 kg in 2 weeks, 20 kg in a month... I read the forums and am horrified. Women share their experience, write: “I’ve been on this diet for 3 days, I can’t take it any longer, my head is spinning, the weakness is terrible, when should the result be? I don't notice anything. " And I feel scared for them and feel sorry for them, although I am not empathetic.
Simple truths
I gave up these senseless and dangerous undertakings and at the same time realized simple truths.
To lose weight, you need to eat. Otherwise, the body will rise up and send powerful troops against its own master. On the other hand, you can have a pizza romance, like Julia Roberts' heroine in Eat Pray Love, but it's better not to see each other every day.
Mono-diets on only cucumbers or buckwheat, on products of red or green color - this is trash and illiteracy from the 90s, which to this day live in the minds of Russian hostesses. Many people seriously believe that there are certain foods that burn fat! Eat and lose weight. You put it in your mouth, and it crawls into your fat belly and drowns the fat, adjusting your body to the size of a swimsuit bought at a sale.
The main condition for losing weight is calorie balance. The calories that came in should go away. And take your fellows with you. No magic. Professionals speak about it. Women prove this from their own experience. But many continue to think that all this is too simple.
It seems that walking is too light physical activity for weight loss. Well, this does not happen! It is necessary to reel in jogging circles around the stadium, drenched in sweat, panting not from tenderness, as in the song, but from shortness of breath, and there are only cherry tomatoes on a lettuce leaf.
The extra 20 kg does not settle on the hips in a week, they will not leave them in a week. You cannot throw off something that has been eating for months and years, in a week or a month, because no one has canceled the laws of physics.
But food isn't just about calories, it's about pleasure. And problems begin when the pleasure of eating is the only available joy in life. Praise and punishment, replacements for love and salvation from loneliness.
The starting point in losing weight is building relationships with yourself, loving yourself and making friends. And you can't do anything wrong to a good friend.
© Alexandra Krasnova
