Hello, my friends,
This time I will write about dieting and why it did not worked for me!
So that is my photo before and after:
Before, is just after having my second child and in weight of 136 pounds
After, that is now in weight of 114 pounds!
With no dieting and killing myself with too much sport.
Diets don’t work! Relly! All my life I was struggling with my weight (in fact I did not had any problem, just in my head, I guess) I have wrote about me trying to lose weight before and, that it lead me to ortorexia and bulimia.
I have tried so many different diets, you cannot imagine: eating just barley or eating just one egg and two apples a day..horrible! The minimum weight I had was 105 pounds, and I looked like teenager! I liked it, but it lasted just a little time, because all your pounds lose on a diets come back with the “friends”. I tried to exhaust myself with the jogging, doing 9 miles a day..everyday!
All this battle made me sick physically and mentally!
Physically: hurt knees, pain in a back , problems with heart, and joints; I had so much pain, I had to eat painkillers every day, killing my liver..
Mentally: endless stress, depression about seeing couple of pound on the scale in the morning (crazy beach); stressing so much, that I had to take untidepressants..(drug addict)!
And it just about this f…ng couple of pounds. At that time, I had a child as well, putting my body through more stress. After having my second child.. I switched my mind! I started to learn about nutrition! Not yellow pages with diets, but serious researches on that subject!
Collecting the information, I understand more and more, that the food is not enemy!
I DON’T HAVE TO FEEL GUILT about eating! Never!
That is how it goes, when you just let yourself to eat every time you are hungry, not counting calories, not thinking about what combination of products to take..your mind start to feel happiness and freedom!
It does not mean I eat sweets, chocolate and burgers all the time, no.. I do love chocolate and have it really every day, but in small amounts, not eating kilograms of it.
I do try to eat healthy, but healthy means buying products on the local markets, grown by my grandparents, free-range chicken eggs, veggies and fruits without GMO and other chemistry!
That was a hard step to take, my mid was protesting! How can I eat what I want?!!!
But..day after day, letting myself free, I learned (no…still learning) how to listen to my body, listen and appreciate it needs and do what it deserves!
Treating myself with love, not with humiliation, beating myself for something was eaten or run not done, that what I want! That what I do now! I lost this pounds just loving myself.
I feel happy about myself, even till having my mummy tummy!
Love,
Margarita
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