Why wasn't there the desired result?
Like many, I went to the gym. I studied for three hours: the first hour was aerobic exercise in group training, the second hour was a lesson with a trainer in the gym, and the third hour was dancing or stretching. I ate as much as the trainer told me. Only later did I realize that I wasn’t eating enough, which is why I was constantly breaking down. In the end, I lost only five kilograms, but I was squeezed like a lemon.
After some time, she became pregnant with her second child. Due to toxicosis, I did not adhere to any nutritional recommendations, and in the sixth month of pregnancy, our family had to move to another city due to military operations in our native city. Total stress.
Kate Middleton
The Princess of Cambridge was never skinny, but she was not overweight either. Although last year she dramatically lost a couple of sizes. There were rumors that this was all due to problems in the family, but Kate insisted that regular exercise and balanced meals four times a day were to blame. And, of course, the children, who do not let her relax for a minute: thanks to them, she is constantly on the move.
What was my second attempt?
I once found a Wowbody page on the social network with recommendations for women who want to lose weight. I started sticking to them. I trained every day. I got up at five o’clock in the morning to go for a run while everyone was sleeping, or went to the gym in the evening for an hour. When my husband was on a business trip, I studied at home (I found different complexes on the Internet). These were workouts for all muscle groups. Yes, sometimes I wanted to give up and give up everything, but the desire to find a beautiful body was stronger. Then I completed a weight loss program from Anita Lutsenko and Yulia Bogdan (online), during which I adjusted my diet and lost another eight kilograms.
Eva, who lost 27 kilograms
The girl had problems with excess weight from childhood. Because of this, in adolescence she began to develop complexes. Eva did not put up with this; she tried a large number of different diets, but the weight did not go away at all.
An unexpected gift of fate for her was a job at a beauty and health center, where the girl learned about the system of proper nutrition. She became seriously interested in this diet until she found out about her pregnancy.
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Eva had to give up her dreams of a beautiful figure and start taking care of the health of her unborn child. After giving birth, the girl weighed 89 kilograms.
Proper nutrition and regular visits to the gym helped her tone her body. Thanks to hard training, Eva’s weight dropped to 62 kilograms. And at the same time, muscle mass was added to it, which the girl is very proud of.
If a person has lost weight and achieved such a physique thanks to intensive work on himself, then this is truly a reason for pride.
What have I changed in my diet?
My diet became this: breakfast, snack, lunch and dinner. I drank a sufficient amount of clean water, removed “food waste” from my life, and for six months did not eat anything sweet at all, except for one teaspoon of honey and fruit. Vegetables (about 600 grams per day) became the basis of the diet; healthy proteins, fats (60 grams per day) and carbohydrates were added. I didn't go on a diet and never skipped a major meal. She carried containers of food with her everywhere (even when picking up her child from school). Regime and discipline are very important here to speed up the metabolism.
I realized that a common mistake in the fight against excess weight is eating the same food every day. The breakdowns stopped when I started eating a varied diet, adhering to the weight loss program menu. Many dishes and flavor combinations became a discovery for me: I fell in love with broccoli, lentils and tuna.
Kelly (-50 kg)
photo: @projectkellyy
The girl decided to change herself and her life after she saw herself in the photo on the left. A proper diet and frequent workouts in the gym helped her achieve impressive results - Kelly lost as much as 50 kilograms. Her story has become an inspiring example for many girls with whom she now shares recipes and exercises for losing weight.
How has my life changed after losing weight?
Now I weigh 51.5 kilograms and am completely happy with my body. I changed my profession: I trained as a gym trainer at the Fitness Academy, a group program trainer, and Pilates. I’ve been working as a trainer for three years now and keep myself in shape.
My basic principles of a healthy lifestyle: sports six times a week (not strenuous workouts), enough water per day, three main meals + one snack, 90% of the diet is healthy food and 10% is unhealthy.
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The inconvenient truth about PP
Fit girls on Instagram, pumped-up trainers in a fitness club, glossy magazines and Malysheva on TV tell us that fat kills.
You need to eat small portions, but often and always low-fat foods, and shaping with aerobics at least 3 times a week. I'm not against sports, but the heresy about small, frequent and low-fat meals infuriates me.
A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth - Joseph Goebbels, German politician, Reich Minister
This quote is spot on!
Do you want to know the whole truth about traditional healthy nutrition that no nutritionist or trainer will tell you? Then read carefully >>>
At the heart of all health recommendations, nutrition comes first. Create a calorie deficit, limit fats and rev up your metabolism.
YES, indeed, a calorie deficit as a dietary strategy works great in any type of diet. This is a fundamental law of physics - the law of conservation of energy. You can read about this in this article
But supporters of PP, apparently, are completely divorced from the knowledge of the biochemical processes occurring in our body, so that they so sacredly believe in the power of frequent eating oatmeal pancakes and low-fat cottage cheese with chicken breast in matters of maintaining weight and maintaining health.
It is possible to lose weight on PP, but in conditions of constant snacking, you will have to constantly monitor the calorie content of your diet (count calories), and we cannot reduce them to zero, even on 1200 kcal it is very difficult for the average person to live.. therefore, in order to compensate for what was eaten by 1600- 1800, and God forbid 2000 kcal - you have to go to the gym and work it out. And now you are trapped: physically, psychologically and emotionally. Life is not life, but eternal struggle and pain. And fatigue, and a feeling of guilt that I’m such a wuss...
YES God bless him with the weight... I'm talking about the global - about HEALTH! Let's delve a little deeper into the biochemistry of the processes, since I mentioned them.
All our food consists of macronutrients: proteins, fats, carbohydrates. In the digestive tract, food is broken down into simpler compounds. Proteins to amino acids, fats to glycerol and fatty acids, and carbohydrates to monosaccharides (glucose).
Glucose, as we all know, is the main source of energy for the cells of the body and brain. But it can only get inside the cell with the help of insulin. And this was a very important moment. Remember this word!
Insulin is a hormone that not only delivers glucose-energy into cells, but also promotes the accumulation of fat. Nature provided us with this wise mechanism to ensure the survival of humanity as a species.
In ancient times, we did not have access to food 24/7 and all year round. The food was seasonal: in the green season - berries, plants, fruits, honey. That is, carbohydrates. During the white season, when everything is hidden under the snow - the meat and fat of killed animals. That is, proteins and fats.
And by eating carbohydrate foods, which produce insulin and keep its high level for another 2.5-3 hours, with the help of this mechanism, a person created a fatty layer under his skin - a supply of nutrients for the winter. Yes, it was due to carbohydrates that fat accumulated under the skin, and not from fatty foods.
Now we live in an era of abundance and no one dies of hunger anymore. But the hormones of modern humans work exactly the same way as those of our ancestors tens of thousands of years ago, but the conditions have changed...
And the diet that is recommended to us as correct, every 2-3 hours, eating and snacking with something “healthy” - carbohydrates (apple, fruit yogurt, dried fruit) does not leave us a chance to reduce insulin to basic levels.
IT CONSTANTLY stays HIGH because we are constantly eating! As a result, it is very difficult to lose weight, high insulin drags everything and drags it into the pantries. Yes, God be with him, with weight, but with constantly high insulin, another pathological condition develops - insulin insensitivity or insulin resistance. And with it, obesity begins to progress like a snowball, which from just a cosmetic defect becomes a metabolic syndrome dangerous to health. A precursor to cardiovascular accidents, diabetes, liver hepatosis, joint problems and a bunch of other complications.
But this is about health. And not a single nutritionist or trainer will say that frequent and small meals are the cause of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome.
Are you gaining weight? Just follow a diet, don't eat fatty foods and move more! - here is the standard answer.
And now about fat phobia, which affects most doctors, nutritionists and fitness experts diagnosed with PP of the brain.
I will tell you where doctors’ fears come from in the final part of this article, and this will be the icing on the cake
