I lost 15 pounds over 10 weeks and had lots of fun doing it.
First of all my eating change dramatically. It was never anything serious like calculating how many calories, protein, calcium etc i take in, nothing serious like that. All i did is try to eat 2-3 fresh meals a day and have like 2-3 snacks a day. The big difference was that my meals where very separate, forexample if i was gonna eat chicken, then i would take chicken and take a bunch of vegetables and greens added to it and that would be a meal. For any other meal just subsitute chicken with whatever (potatoes, pasta, fish etc.) I would NEVER mix something like meat and pasta together, it would all be separate with veggies added to it. Some people say you are supposed to balance every meal with protein, calcium and carbs but i never did because if you mix them then it takes longer to digest. Now for snacks, i would have something like grapes, yogurt, apple, banana, watermelon, orange instead of like cookies or chocolate. Also i stopped eating white bread and was only eating either rye, multigrain or usually wholewheat bread. So you can see that i wasn't going anything serious on watching what i eat, just healthy food and all separate from one another to give it time to digest. For drinking, it would be orange juice, ice tea and lots of water, rarely rarely pop.
Now second part was the fitness part of it. This is where i actually had lots of fun. A lot of people go on treadmills or jogging outside for cardio, which gets really boring and tiring. What i did is i played lots and lots of soccer. Yes i would play 4-5 times a week ranging 2-5 hours each time in the evenings, but it was really fun because i was doing what i enjoy the most. And it wasn't even intense soccer, just regular pickup games where you run if you want to or walk if you need a bit of a break. Gym workouts, i did 3 workouts per week, they were really light, easy, just 4 different exercises that would work on as many body parts as possible and almost no ab workouts expect the ones integrated into regular weightlifting. Too me about 25-30 minutes of gym workout each time.
So i did these two things for about 10 weeks, the results are:
1. I'm much better at soccer
2. I'm fitter than ever
3. I feel lighter, better and more confident than ever.
4. I lost 15 pounds
5. 4-5 people told me i look different when they saw me in school after summer
6. bunch of people didn't even recognize me
7. And the main thing is that the small layers on hips that i had, are almost completely gone, my face is way skinnier than it used to be, muscles got much better outline and you can actually finally see my abs instead of just smooth stomach.
So you can see that i didn't go all hardcore into this, just change what i eat and played lots of soccer to lose all that weight, the benefits are definietly great. Oh and one main thing, take a dump as much as possible.
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