Wanna lose weight? Here's the best advise I can give you 🐘🌸
First of all, stand in front of the mirror and look at your reflection. Ask yourself a question “Do I like what I see? Am I healthy?” and answer honestly. If the answers are both “yes” then you can stop reading cause reading it would just waste your time. Go and have fun, live the best life you can, do what you love.
However, if you answered “no” to at least one of those questions, keep on reading.
You don’t like the reflection in the mirror, do you? You want to lose weight, get rid of all the fat covering you but you can’t. You are trapped inside your own body. You want to escape but there is no way out. You’ve been trying to lose weight but you can’t succeed. It’s too difficult. You binge. You stop losing weight and give up. You have to start over again. Am I right? Well, if yes, then I gotta tell you something. IT’S COMPLETELY OKAY TO FAIL. As long as you pick yourself up and fix it.
Look, nobody is perfect and you have to admit it. Although, we all want to be as close to “perfect” as possible. It’s normal.
You wanna be the best you can be. You wanna be good enough. But remember, never change FOR SOMEBODY. Change FOR YOURSELF.
If somebody tells you to change, that means that they’re not worth it. Would you really want to look better to make some fake people like you more? Would you? You shouldn’t. It’s not how you meet true friends for life or your second half. Not this way…
Okay, so now we’re at the point where you want to lose weight for yourself. That’s completely okay and I’m here to help you with that.
Let’s start with motivation. It’s the most crucial thing.
MOTIVATION 🚵🏽
You don’t need to have tons of photos of underweight girls saved on every single device you have. Or a head full of catchy quotes like “hungry to bed, hungry to rise makes a girl a smaller size”. It’s not helping. Trust me. I’ve figured it out myself. We need a stronger motivation.
Have you ever seen Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban? Harry learnt a spell that was supposed to get rid of the dementors (the creatures that take all of the happiness away; symbolise depression). Harry had to think of the nicest memory he had. The strongest one. Then he had to say Expecto Patronum and the patronus appeared but it’s not the point now.
He needed a strong thought to push him. This is what we need. Something strong.
🗒🖋Now I want you to take a pen and a piece of paper. Go ahead, take it and keep on reading.
Do you have something to write? Okay. Now I want you to think for a longer time. Think why you want to lose weight. What you want to achieve. Think of all those reasons.
To prove somebody wrong?
To feel more comfortable?
So you could do something and your weight is an obstacle now?
Note it all. In details. Tiny details. Make it stronger so your charm will work, so your patronus will show up. 🦄
You can have it written on a piece of paper and read it every time you need to or you can note it on your wrist. Whatever works for you is good. Now look at yourself in the mirror and imagine yourself standing there skinnier in a few months time. Stand there and try to see it until you succeed.
So now that we have a patronus, our guard, we can go further.
❗️NOTE: some people lose weight faster and some do it slower.
‼️And one more note before we get into it. Don’t weight yourself daily. Most of the change you see is water weight. Not fat. We don’t loose it that quick. Try to do it not more often than twice a week. And don’t give up if you gain weight or stay at the same point. Just shake it off and keep working.
So now we’re getting to the concrete.
Think, do you eat healthy? Do you eat the right amounts? Do you even eat right foods?
I know what you think. “Ugh, healthy eating, eating 1200 calories daily etc.“😩🙇🏻
Well, you’re wrong. I’m not gonna tell you the exact amounts of calories you should eat so if that’s what you’ve been waiting for, sorry.
🌸 All I wanna say is that if you eat healthy it’s easier. Let’s take a bar of chocolate as an example. It has around 400-500 calories. If you eat it all does it make you feel full?
A bar of chocolate has around 450 kcal in 100 grams. And let’s take for example a cucumber. 12 kcal in 100 grams. There are many many other things I can give as an example but let’s work with chocolate and cucumber.
Now, do it or imagine doing it. Take 2 identical plates, put 100 grams of chocolate on one plate and 100 grams of cucumber on the second one. Or else. Put 500 calories of chocolate on one plate and 500 calories of cucumber on the second plate. Do it or imagine. You get the point now? I hope so.
🌸 Next thing with sweets (or candy, however you call it). Did you know that it slows down your metabolism? And do you know how much time does your metabolism need to increase after sweets? I will tell you. It’s 3 days. It basically means that if you are now eating chocolate, your metabolism will increase in 3 days but that’s only if you won’t eat any more sweets. It’s a long lasting effect, isn’t it?
🌸 So basically I’d advice to avoid sugar at all. No sweets, no sugar added to tea or coffee, no sweet drinks or pies. It just slows down your metabolism. If you need a sweet tea, use honey, it’s much healthier.
🌸 Another important thing is fibre. It cleans your intestines. Long story short, your digestive system is healthier and gets the “leftovers” out quicker and you lose weight. Oatmeal has a lot of it. Various seeds do too. A porridge in the morning is a good idea.
🌸 Is cinnamon good with weight loss?
Yes, it is.
Have you ever tried eating cinnamon? Well, it’s not a nice experience. It absorbs all the water from your mouth. However, once you eat it, it does so with the water weight too. Cinnamon and lemon tell your body to not store water. Apparently, if you eat a teaspoon of cinnamon in the morning, it helps to get rid of water weight. But I gotta tell you that it’s awful. Try and eat it with yogurt or something, it’s what I did.
🌸 Speaking of yogurts. Do not eat flavoured yogurt. It’s full of sugar. Choose natural yogurts and buy some berries, seeds, whatever you like, and add it to the yogurt. It tasted even better.
🌸 Drinks. Drink water, water and water once again. It has endless benefits for your body to drink around 2-3 l of water every day. Your skin gets shinier and healthier, so do your hair, it gets rid of your water weight (our bodies store water like camels🐫🐪, once we have the constant access to water and our organism knows it, it gets rid of the extra water that is not needed). Water also makes you feel fuller and has no calories.
I know that some people just can’t get used to drinking water. Start with adding lemon juice. Don’t drink flavoured water. One bottle he the same amount of calories as a SNICKERS. It’s not a small number, believe me or check for yourself. Clear water. This is your best friend from now on.
🌸 Do not ever skip breakfast. After half an hour after you wake up your body turns on the “survivor mode” so it basically stores calories to help you survive. Sorry. Evolution’s fault, not mine. If you’re not hungry just take a bite of something. And if it’s something hot it’s even better. It turns on your digestive system and it works better than with cold food.
🌸 Don’t eat 4 hours before you go to sleep. Your organism needs some time to digest everything and when you’re asleep it kinda turns off and all the food there is stays in your intestines and they absorb as many calories from that as possible.
🌸 Note what you eat. And count calories. It sometimes stops you from eating more when you see that you’ve already eaten a certain number of calories.
🌸 Don’t be afraid of working out. Muscle mass won’t come within a day. And it you don’t want the muscle mass, try doing cardio, like for example running; it also helps with your posture.
Stretch daily. It’s also exercise.
🌸 Set yourself goals!
To run 30 minutes without stopping.
To get to …lbs by the end of the month.
Reward yourself if you reach a goal. But not with food. You’re not a dog to be rewarded with food. Get yourself new earrings, go out with friends, buy yourself a new T-shirt. Whatever you like ☺️
And now the most important thing.
🌸 Don’t ever give up or think you can’t do it. Don’t tell yourself “I’m fat”. Tell “I will be skinny”. Try to be positive. Don’t think about food constantly, find something that makes you happy and do it. Do whatever makes you happy. Don’t let any obstacles stop you. Show yourself how strong you can be by getting over all of those difficulties you will stumble upon. You are strong enough to do it. You decided to change and read the whole post so far. You really want it and you can do it.
🌸🎀 If you want any help, advice, whatever, just a person to talk to, feel free to inbox me. I am there to help you.
Now take a deep breath, straighten your back, smile and say goodbye to all of those things that bring you down. From now on you’re not the person who feels like a failure. You are the new you who’s working to be the best she can!
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To the new, happy and confident you 🍸
