Yeah, I'm on the roll, baby... By the end of the next week I have to lose another two or three. It takes longer at the beginning - about 2-3 days - until your body starts losing weight. No matter what diet you are on, it always happens like this.
What did I do to lose weight? Very little exercise (one hour daily walk though) but I gave up meat and chicken. I have started this about two weeks ago. I am not starving myself in any way. I am having enough food and I am still drinking plenty of water.
I never eat white bread - once a month maybe, when I cannot find rye bread in a place and I need bread, that is the only moment when I have white bread. I haven't had chocolate really, but I did have lots of cereal bars with chocolate from Nestle Fitness. One bar has about 95 calories and it's delicious.
I had lots of fruits - cherries and mango and apples. I have not calculated calories. I ate at 9pm but nothing heavy. I even had one hot chocolate a day.
But not eating meat or chicken helped my digestion.
I wish I had lost more, honestly. The things is that I want to lose faster since summer is here and I want to go to the seaside. On the other hand, I dislike any kind of diets. I like losing weight in my own way.
So I lost around three pounds, maybe a bit more, but also helped by my period that came and passed. First level in losing weight is losing weight from the tummy, a bit from the whole body and from the breasts, and the least from the legs and butt. Which sux... But, given that I work in front of a computer all day long at work, I am not suprised.
Anyway, I've changed my diet completely since last week - I gave up meat and chicken entirely. I do have fish now and then though, for the proteins. So if at work I had previously ordered mashed potatoes with salad and some chicken, I did not touch the chicken. I had though every day a small glass of milk with chocolate, because my energy was low, but the entire day the number of calories was low enough to cause me to lose weight.
I was a lacto-vegetarian before, and not for reasons that I don't like meat or I want to lose weight. I didn't become a vegetarian because I had embraced yoga or something. I was a vegetarian because I loved animals.
However, some time during my vegetarian days, I started having strong muscular cramps. I didn't see the connection back then; later on I found out that in order to build muscle (and keep your muscles working properly), you need proteins.
The richest sourse of proteins is meat. Eggs, cheese, milk are also rich animal sources for proteins and I was having a lot of all of them. However, I still had pains.
Now I have decided to eliminate any meat and chicken from my diet, but keep the seafood and the fish for obvious reasons. Will I be able to last? I don't know. The idea is not to think about favorite dishes when you try to do this. I am not thinking about Chinese food or about spaghetti and meatballs or about ham or spiced dried salami. Of course, there is always tofu and soya 'meat'... Not the same, but it's good that we have them.
My biggest concern is keeping a high protein intake. So, we can find proteins in:
eggs;
milk;
soya milk;
tofu;
yogurt;
cheese;
fish.
Basically, anything that comes from an animal conteins proteins.
The richest natural sources of proteins are:
dried beans;
lentils;
peas;
nuts of any kind.
The problem with nuts is that they are also very high in fat, so I would be careful if I were you. They are healthy in small quantities and can help you lose weight, but lose the balance and you will put on pounds like crazy. Been there, done that.
Losing weight and staying healthy is easy, when you care. Forget famishing yourself: there are other ways.
Since I was 15 I've been obsessed with healthy diets, losing weight, sports, and everything included. I read books after books and I collected articles on staying fit and healthy. Even now, 12 years later, I am still reading everything I find on the subject.
I will share with you, step by step, everything I know. Free advice.
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