Guys, you can lose all the excess weight you want to lose, it's all in your head. Let me share my own observations: I've always been quite slim a figure (lousy lightweight bones ...), I used to weigh 77 kilos (171 lbs) max. approximately 6 years ago and I came down to 58 kilos (127 lbs) over the course of 2-3 years, quite involuntarily - no disease, no bulimia, I wasn't aiming for that to happen, nothing literally ... it just happened because I stopped
stuffing myself with food when I wasn't really hungry anymore, merely craving food with full stomach. I'm at 64 kilos (142 lbs) now, probably most fit I ever was in my life (muscles weigh more than fat so additional exercize brough my weight up a bit to the current level where it's holding steady) and as long as I keep eating normally my weight doesn't change at all. I go on fast paced hour-long walks to the nearby hills at least a couple of times a week and that's obviously enough to burn whatever I eat ... and it feels great. I'm absolutely certain
anybody can do it, you just need to set your mind to it.
One thing I have learned to help me differentiate between actually being hungry and merely wanting to get my blood sugar back up was to
drink alot of water when feeling hungry (not the sweetened bottled kind, just plain cool tap water) and to
keep myself occupied. If you're still hungry with stomachfull of water while in the middle of something important to be done, that's the time to eat
If not, the craving will stop in a matter of minutes and only reappear in a couple of hours when you
really need that next meal of the day.
Few additional pointers that worked for me: avoid food that bumps your blood sugar because that results in more craving shortly (in ~30 minutes) when the sugar level drops. East a reasonable mix of proteins (meat), carbos (bread/potatos) and fiber (veggies ... lettuce rocks, as do raw tomatos with some salt ... gotta love the summer
). Eat fish at least once (or twice) per week - barbecued salmon chop is tasty and very healthy (the omega3 acids, vitamine D, minerals, etc. are all good for your health) as are other fish ... whatever you can find fresh locally. Avoid farm-bred meat (beef and pork) if you can, opt for game and paultry bred on small local farms instead if you can. I can stuff myself full with food listed above and not gain any weight over the course of a couple of years. I do eat some pork but keep it at minimum (less than 25% of my meat intake). This being said I'm no puritan, I eat junk food occassionally (pizza once every 10-14 days, I drink a couple of beers per week on a regular basis, sometimes snack potato chips and alike, a chunk of chocolate here and there to treat myself, etc.) but keep it at moderate levels compared to what I used to eat back when I was younger.
Do remember:
it's all in your head. People have been through alot worse than just not getting their next snack when they felt like it ... just think of concentration camps or extreme athletes; if they managed to survive it with no "extra fat stock" around their belly, so will you. Think of it as a challenge - from yourself
to yourself. Only wimps can't handle it, everybody else can overcome the weakling inside them; it's not running a friggin marathon in under 2:20, it's just some common sense rationing your courses and recreation, nothing extreme about it
Set your mind to it and you
will succeed !!!
