How to lose weight correctly (14 photos)

How I lost excess weight A long time ago, more precisely in 2003, right on January 1, somewhere in the evening, I once again decided to lose weight. It was cold, hungover and generally difficult. I remember trying to tie my shoelaces for about 10 minutes until I realized that I was wearing shoes without laces. This was the last straw. I got hung up, ate something heavily, pushed the plate away, slammed my fist on the table and decided to lose weight.

The desire to lose weight was objectively correct for a young and successful manager, 26 years old, weighing more than 150 kilograms, divorced. By that time, the therapist at a cool insurance clinic had already prescribed many medications for hypertension, a joint specialist - for joints, an ophthalmologist was constantly increasing some numbers in prescriptions that were impossible to see without glasses and adding more and more incomprehensible terms. The “beauty and health” item in my budget was constantly increasing, mainly at the expense of “health”.

This is what I looked like when I made the decision:

In mid-January, I signed up for Planet Fitness on Pravdy Street. This club captivated me with its swimming pool, gym, and abundance of young and successful women dressed in sportswear. Although mostly, of course, a considerable corporate discount. I only remember that on my first visit I was not able to climb onto most of the exercise machines, but showed good results in displacing water from the pool. I remember a questionnaire in which in the “sports achievements” column I indicated something like “I did 5 pull-ups, one of which was successful.” I remember the round eyes of ALL the men in the locker room. I think after looking at me, their attendance at the fitness club has improved significantly.

I immediately bought scales, weighed myself (the electronic scales showing a maximum of 150 malfunctioned, they reported an overload and asked the second one to get off) and happily celebrated this with a light beer. At that time, my evening beer consumption rate was about 3 liters. Although I bought 7 cans each, this is not relevant to the matter.

By that time, I already knew for sure that in any difficult task you need either motivation or a specially assigned person with a machine gun (perfect motivation). When, somewhere in the spring, the clock began to show some numbers uncertainly, but I argued with my brother and several other people who came to hand that I would lose weight. Naturally, he bet a substantial (for me) amount of money.

I even went to Egypt with joy:

The most amazing thing is that he even glued a girl there. I don’t understand how I managed to do this - I wouldn’t have given it to myself..

And the process began... By spring, I was already admiring a figure like 143 kilograms. But it didn’t work lower. I wanted to eat more, but I drank no less beer. Somehow I didn’t think about the connection between food, alcohol and excess weight. After all, I go to the gym, isn’t it? When I weighed myself in June and found the old familiar number 143 on the scales, I wanted to quit... going to the gym.

But I didn’t give up trying to play sports! I even went on a kayaking trip once. I remember how I had to pull the kayak onto myself, and then finish assembling:

But what they say is true - whoever seeks will always find. He will find what he is looking for or just some adventure on his ass. I was lucky - my co-worker Nikita, appreciating my ordeals, told and showed me a man who (by the way!) had recently successfully lost weight, without really straining himself. Another day or two and the treasured phone is in my pocket.

This phone call did not leave me indifferent. Firstly, I heard a new term “psychocorrection of excess weight”, which I had not even suspected about before. Secondly, I was shocked by the information that alcohol and weight loss are incompatible. But I didn’t want to lose the argument, so I had to agree to everything. Although the date of the event itself had to be postponed a little (otherwise at my own birthday I would have had to look at the invited guests with sad and understanding eyes):

In August 2003, I came to an “excess weight correction group”, which was held in a rented school building in Novokosino by a group of doctors (a psychotherapist, a hypnotherapist and a psychologist, if my memory serves me correctly). Now they have opened the Eviyan psychotherapeutic center, rented their own premises, but then it was funny... School, old chairs, a crazy number of very fat women and only two fat men (me and another). And to the heap - a medical examination of everyone who came to lose weight. Tough! We spent 2 or 3 nights there and part of Saturday and Sunday. It was reminiscent of shamanism. What surprised me most was that after a sleepless night I didn’t feel like sleeping at all.

From the height of the knowledge acquired since then, I present the whole essence of the method. This is an introduction to a resourceful state, accelerating metabolism, taking clients out of their “comfort zone” and helping them set goals. Everything is harmless and essentially accessible to any organized person without outside help. During the process, a lot of important and necessary information was given: how the body works, how to distinguish appetite from hunger, how not to limit yourself in food. The rules for losing excess weight were quite simple (let me point out only the basics):

Define the goal. And define it correctly.

Count the calorie content of what you eat and ensure that the daily calorie content is within your personal range

Weigh yourself daily

Don't drink alcohol

Get the most out of life

In short, the method helped me. After that, following the rules, I began to rapidly lose excess weight, although not everything was so simple... For several thousand years, no one has come up with anything more effective for losing excess weight than eating less and moving more. Actually, this is roughly what I did between 150 and 90 kilograms. All 10 months. Moreover, not allowing yourself to move too much and energetically, and also not allowing yourself to eat too little.

It was difficult to cope with the desire to eat something tasty or drink something awesome. Only understanding the reason for this desire helped.

People can easily change their weight. But only by changing themselves will they be able to live at the weight that is more suitable for them, the new ones. Otherwise, they get fatter again. It's easier there. Everything is familiar there. And here we have to learn to live again. I feel like I've lived several lives between two different numbers on the scale. And in each I was different. And it was cool!

Your closest circle of friends - relatives, friends and work colleagues - perceives your changes the hardest. They can be understood...
Every day I weighed myself in the morning and ate less, but more often (after about a couple of days this no longer bothers me at all). I counted the calories of what I ate. I had a calorie range of 860-1260 calories. About half a man's daily requirement. For comparison, this is 2-3 large sandwiches from McDonald's. As it turned out, with such a calorie content you can eat a lot. Sometimes you had to eat chocolate, reaching the lower limit.

Learned a lot about food. For example, did you know that if you fry a piece of chicken in vegetable oil, its calorie content will increase by 3! times? And at the same time, what would the body do without one teaspoon of this oil (or other similar fats) per day? And that 100 grams of nuts are equal in calorie content to 500 grams of meat? By the way, an understanding emerged as to whether the body wants to take a certain product or not. Unexpectedly, it turned out that I am not interested in baked goods, just like pork (in any form except barbecue). And mayonnaise, despite its high calorie content, is appreciated by my body. :) I was glad to discover that if you eat low-calorie dishes in restaurants, it turns out to be cheap and very tasty.

In general, just two weeks after the start of active weight loss, I already began to change.

This photo was taken when I weighed 136 kilograms:

The results achieved impressed me and I decided to allow myself what I had long dreamed of - buy a bicycle and ride it through the forest (all my life I have had Elk Island next to my home with wonderful paths suitable for both cycling and hard trials ):

The kilograms came off easily and naturally. I would even say INDEPENDENTLY. The body itself lost weight, tightened the skin itself. My function was simple - to give myself a loved one to sleep, eat vitamins, provide the necessary and sufficient amount of energy, and not poison him with alcohol. Any positive emotions helped a lot. Sometimes it seems to me that they contain some kind of calorie content that is never stored in fat. :)

But as the kilograms went away, new desires and new opportunities arose. Not all desires could be satisfied, and not all opportunities could be taken advantage of.

For example, in the morning I got on the scales, saw 128 kilograms, and was happy. He went out into the street, met the girl’s eyes, and saw interest in them. But he didn’t approach, didn’t get acquainted, didn’t take advantage of the opportunity - the unconscious immediately kicks in. Questions begin to appear - “Or maybe he doesn’t care?” More often it looked like this - the more weight was lost, the more I wanted to eat. And I also wanted to drink. Life often gave the opportunity to suffer:

At some point I found myself at a dead end. Actually, I was there quite a long time ago, but I was able to realize it only after shedding a lot of unnecessary things. I realized that something was preventing me from developing, working productively and relaxing more pleasantly. It was I who reached the limit in losing excess weight, beyond which I was already a somewhat different me, through whose eyes I could look at the situation. The weight would have been lost further... the process would have continued, but under pressure. Not BY YOURSELF.

Personal growth training, conducted by the same people who helped me start losing excess weight, turned out to be very helpful. Actually, there is nothing noticeable about the availability of such training - if many are faced with adaptation problems, then why not help? This training helped me a lot. Before this training, the value of psychotherapy was very low for me. Especially collective. :) The technology of this training is simple - people gather under the supervision and with the help of specialists, using holotropic breathing and psychotherapeutic techniques (different, depending on the situation) and everyone solves their problem. For some reason it works... HZKNR, in short. And only after it I realized how inert the world and the people in it are. Until you kick them, they won’t fly. Everyone likes to do nothing, not change and not change. And I'm the same. Still. :( But I learned to kick myself sometimes.

In short, he helped me a lot. Those who worked with me at that moment felt the difference very much. Especially the bosses. ;)

I got rid of a couple of obsessive and useless fears and some other bullshit. And he went to Egypt for a vacation. And I lost weight, it feels like right during the flight on the plane:

But I became a corporate legend. Well, not for the entire beloved striped corporation, which is now spread over almost all regions of the Russian Federation, but for several of its directorates. They say that at their former jobs they still tell recovered employees - shouldn’t you start analyzing the business processes of our directorate? :) Although they’ve probably forgotten by now..

According to the bet, I had a clear date by which I had to weigh 100 kg. To help me lose weight, I started walking to work almost from the very beginning. This was greatly helped by the fact that due to morning traffic jams on Rostokinsky Proezd, I got from VDNKh to Sokolniki in 1 hour by car and 45 minutes on foot. Frankly speaking, sometimes I was lucky and I managed to get there in 10 minutes, but this was at the level of statistical error. In addition, a daily walk through Sokolniki Park allowed me to think about a lot and kept me in great shape.

However, the dead line was approaching tirelessly, and I had to lose something like 2 kg. In honor of this case, I urgently sold my car (fortunately, I was going to buy another one with the money I won + proceeds from the sale of the car) and began to move only on foot. Considering that I haven’t gotten out of the driver’s seat for 7 years, this was a powerful move.

In short, I won the bet. And when I won, I allowed myself to relax a little. And more than once. But then he corrected himself and behaved correctly again. As psychotherapists put it, he flirted with being overweight. I don’t know how and with whom I flirted, but I had to rewrite my goals. I have achieved many of them, and some have even exceeded them. The only thing I agreed with myself was to allow myself to relax once a month, but without fanaticism:

In short - I did it. And on June 20, 2005 (exactly 10 months later) I began to weigh exactly 90 kg. I didn’t take a picture of myself at that moment, but there are photos taken a little later:

Or this one, made for some regular project.

That's how I lost my weight. I consider it successful (I consider my weight to be normal from 92 to 96 kg, depending on the temperature, type of load, etc.). It was difficult in some places, lousy at others. But I think that the main thing cannot be found in these photographs, but the main thing is that I have opportunities. So different. And using some of them, I stopped working for anyone, nevertheless increasing my income. Spinning the way I want. Of course, I was lucky in many ways. But the biggest problem is that I would not have accepted this luck before. I would simply refuse. Because it would be easier that way.

And now I’m writing this so that I don’t forget. And then a year ago I relaxed a lot (like on nerves), I gained as much as 110 kilograms. And now, when I have just a little bit left to lose to normal, I want not to stop there (we’re not talking about weight).

In September of this year, I learned one topic that could truly change my whole life. Again. For the better. So you're lucky. All you have to do is take your hands out of your pockets, take a couple of steps and...

Attention! I categorically do not recommend using the methods outlined in this text for losing excess weight without the help of specialists and without receiving complete information from them.