In the previous article, we talked about the Ducan diet and why it is highly desirable not to use this diet.

In this article, we will talk about the so-called LCHF diet, or rather, about the LCHF diet, because there are certain varieties (milder and more strict diet options).

But before we talk about LCHF, there is an important issue to be discussed about fats.

What makes us fat

“People get fat because they eat fatty foods” – this statement is already devil knows how many years. And there is some kind of common common logic in this: you eat fats, so they turn into fat. True, at the same time, folk wisdom does not explain what carbohydrates are converted into. In coal and water, or what? And what do proteins turn into – the whites of the eyes, or what? Well, it sounds the same, right?

In addition, if you follow this logic, then when you eat red tomatoes, you will blush. And when you eat green apples, you will turn green. When you eat fish, your gills should grow, when you eat herbs and greens, you should start to hum, and when you eat vegetables, your brain activity should stop – you will turn into a “vegetable”. Well, right, isn’t the logic exactly the same?

So, in fact, it is not fats at all that are responsible for the deposition of fat in the body, but primarily easily digestible (they are “simple”, they are “fast”) carbohydrates: sugar, fructose, sweets, baked goods.

Actually, even just a sharp reduction (or even better – a complete rejection) in your diet of easily digestible carbohydrates can already lead to the fact that you will noticeably lose weight. I know a lot of people who gradually lost ten or even twenty kilograms simply by giving up sugar, pastries, sweets, white bread and a noticeable restriction on fruit consumption (all modern fruits have a lot of fructose, that is, easily digestible carbohydrates).

Well, hello, you say, how can you give up sugar if, we quote another “popular wisdom”, sugar is very necessary for the brain!

This cute folk idiocy “sugar is very necessary for the brain to work” is terribly popular, and it is even repeated in articles published in seemingly decent magazines. And it is often repeated by people throwing five tablespoons of sugar into a cup of tea, for whom even the very fact of having at least some kind of brain in their head raises serious doubts.

So, my dears. No sugar, if by it we mean ordinary sucrose extracted from cane or beets, is not only unnecessary for the brain to function, but also dangerous: during the use of sucrose, the sugar level in a person’s blood rises sharply, this is dangerous for blood vessels and, accordingly, the brain and internal organs. And where can you quickly remove excess sugar? Yes, in fat, of course, in fat reserves.

The brain really needs glucose for normal functioning, but it is quietly synthesized by the body from various, including non-carbohydrate, products in the process of gluconeogenesis.

So do not worry, even if you completely stop consuming sugar and sugar-containing foods, nothing will happen to your brain: if it worked fine, it will work fine.

And think for yourself. But mankind learned to extract sugar not so long ago, somewhere only a thousand years ago. Instead, they used honey, raisins, fruits (fruits, by the way, then contained significantly less easily digestible carbohydrates), and in general, the consumption of simple carbohydrates was many orders of magnitude less than in modern life. And what, they were all fools? And then, when they began to extract sucrose from cane, beets, sorghum or beans, suddenly they grew wiser? Yes, something is somehow not noticeable, so that everyone has grown wiser.

Meanwhile, human nutrition at the modern level of development of the food industry contains such a wild amount of sugar that our ancestors never dreamed of. And okay, there are also well-known sources of sugar – all kinds of sweet soda, pastries, jams, and so on. But now they put sugar in literally everything! Bread is full of sugar (especially in white), all sorts of sauces are almost always with sugar, sugar is constantly shoved into yoghurts, into canned vegetables, into sausages, and so on and so forth.

When I got diabetes and began to carefully read the composition of the products on the label in stores, I found out that it is rather difficult to find a product that does not contain sugar. And if with natural products – meat, fish, vegetables – everything is still okay, then just some semi-finished product or ready-made product – everything is in sugar.

So why, one wonders, be surprised that humanity is rapidly gaining weight and that almost half of the population is overweight?

However, we were carried away into some kind of sugars, but we are actually talking about fats, let’s return to them.

Another stereotype about fat is that fatty foods are unhealthy because they lead to heart disease. Moreover, this stereotype was supported for a long time by various specialists.

However, recent research has rehabilitated fats! Because there is no proven link between saturated fat – meat, lard, cream, butter – and heart disease.

In the same way, modern research has shown the utter groundlessness and even harmfulness of the war on cholesterol that people, under the influence of the calls of doctors, waged in the last century. It turned out that cholesterol can be “good” or “bad”, that “good” cholesterol, on the contrary, reduces the symptoms of atherosclerosis, and that the so-called “bad” cholesterol also prolongs life after 60 years at an increased level.

Well, now we can talk about the LCHF diet.

LCHF diet

What is LCHF? This is Low Carbon High Fat, meaning low carbohydrates, high fats.

The LCHF diet is based on two basic principles that we have already discussed above.

1. The old notions that people get fat from fatty foods are wrong. Digestible carbohydrates (also called “empty carbohydrates”) have an order of magnitude more impact on fat storage than fat.
2. The old notions that high fat intake can lead to cardiovascular disease are also wrong, and they have been debunked for a decade.

Accordingly, the LCHF diet calls for the consumption of as little carbohydrates as possible, and does not introduce any restrictions, except for the usual reasonable ones, in terms of proteins, fats and fiber. And this, in general, sounds quite logical. This is how our ancestors ate for hundreds of thousands of years, until they began to grow wheat, potatoes and rice, and then they also learned how to extract sugar from cane or beets – and away we go!

The essence of the LCHF diet can be described very simply: we do not consume sugar, we do not consume easily digestible carbohydrates, we consume carbohydrate and starch products at the very minimum, and the basis of nutrition is made up of natural products rich in proteins, fats, fiber, minerals and vitamins.

Such nutrition is not only quite useful, but also, unlike easily digestible carbohydrates, it satisfies the appetite well and for a long time, so that a person simply does not need to eat a lot.

Actually, the very famous “Mediterranean Diet”, which is considered one of the healthiest in the world and thanks to which the inhabitants of the Mediterranean region are in good health and live a long time, in many components, in general, is quite consistent with the provisions of the LCHF diet: meat, fish (including fatty varieties), seafood, natural fats (the basis of the bases is olive oil, an excellent source of monounsaturated fatty acids necessary for the body), a variety of fresh vegetables and fruits, grain bread, red wine, consumed in moderation.

In the LCHF diet, the ratio of proteins, fats, and carbohydrates in the standard version (there are several modifications of it) is something like this (given on the LCHF.ru website ):

A gram of fat provides almost 2.5 times more calories than a gram of protein or carbohydrates, so a person gets satiated faster with fatty foods, while reducing the risk of overeating.

You will find detailed recommendations on LCHF nutrition on the Russian-language website of this diet , but everything is quite simple there.

Keto diets

With very low levels of carbohydrates in the diet and high levels of proteins and fats, the human body can enter a state called ketosis – this is when the liver converts fat into fatty acids and ketone bodies. These bodies go to the brain and are used as a source of energy. In a state of ketosis, a person loses weight quite quickly, because the body is actively processing subcutaneous adipose tissue. (Actually, something similar happens in diabetic ketoacidosis, only there the nature is completely different.)

Keto diets that use this effect are actively used by athletes, especially bodybuilders, but the safety of such diets is in question and there are many contraindications.

From the outside, such diets look very peculiar – you need to eat a lot of fat in order to quickly lose weight – but at the same time they only once again confirm the fact that a person is not getting fat from fat.

The LCHF diets argue that with this type of diet, you especially do not need to monitor the amount of calories consumed. Like, when you practically do not consume fast-digesting carbohydrates and severely limit the use of carbohydrates as such, then you will lose weight even if you start going over your ceiling of kilocalories.

By the way, adherents of the LCHF diet generally consider the calculation of kilocalories a terrible delusion, because, they say, kilocalories obtained from harmful sugar is one thing, and from noble fat is another thing. And on their website there is even a history of the experiment of one guy who, on the LCHF diet, went through the daily norm of kilocalories by half and still did not get fat, but let me not believe this story, especially if the guy had noticeable excess weight and he drove it on the LCHF diet.

But in general, I have a completely positive attitude to the LCHF diet itself, moreover, as for a diabetic, it is simply necessary for me in general. But this diet, as well as the statements of LCHF adherents, should be treated with a reasonable degree of doubt, because even on this diet without following certain principles, you may not achieve the desired result.

The developers of this diet themselves understand that, no matter how they find fault with the calorie counting system and claim that on the LCHF diet, you can not control the amount of food consumed at all (they use a vague term – “to saturation”), in most cases it is so will not work. It’s just that if a person knows how to limit the amount of food consumed and understands well what, how much and when you can eat, and what, how much and when not, then it will work for him, and even if you strictly adhere to the principles of the LCHF diet, but for lunch and dinner, beat a kilogram steak with a heap of vegetables and a handful of olives (all highly recommended), and snacking on a whole avocado with a handful of nuts twice a day (all also from the permitted and recommended), then the hell with two you will be able to lose weight.

Everything should work in a complex, and there are many subtle points. What we will talk about in the next articles.

But one thing can already be learned with all the inexorable evidence: sugar, sugar-containing foods and fast-digesting carbohydrates will have to be abandoned in any case, otherwise you may not even dream of losing weight. Another thing is that very often it is completely not enough just to give up sugar and fast-digesting carbohydrates, alas. But this is a solvable problem.

Well, in order to close the topic of various methods leading to weight loss (or complete bringing in shape), we need to talk about two approaches: weight loss clinics and surgical methods.

Slimming clinics

I heard a lot about clinics for weight loss in the old Soviet times. We had a good acquaintance of the family – a very overweight lady who periodically went to such a clinic, because the doctors told her that if she didn’t lose weight, she would risk dying soon enough from a heart attack (unfortunately, she has a heart naughty, but you can’t blame him for it – the lady was such, as they say, “in the body” that no heart could bear).

The lady hated these clinics with all her heart, and it was with great difficulty that they drove her there through the efforts of the whole family and family friends, but from her I knew how it all worked in Soviet times. Apparently, this was a concentration-type weight-loss clinic: the clients of the clinic (not to say – “guests”) were put on food with a level of somewhere between 700-800 kilocalories per day, and they also did not take much steam with food: black bread, boiled meat, cabbage, beets (for some reason), liquid broth and buckwheat porridge (for some reason). All – in the corresponding negligible quantities, and these unfortunate fascists also fed the unfortunate only three times a day, so that they went through all the circles of hell there.

Of course, on such a diet, people dropped five, seven and even ten kilos in a week, experiencing tremendous mental and physical suffering, then the happy ones returned to the family and there they ate to the previous level literally in the same week, if not faster.

What is the meaning of such bullying, I did not understand at all, because it was obvious that such clinics did not lead to any normal result, and the lady ended up getting more and more gorged.

Once she even ended up in the newest experimental clinic, where, in addition to food sadism, strictly scientific experiments flourished – also in the spirit of an enlightened concentration camp. They tried to wean the unfortunate fat men from any harmful food with the help of electric shocks. Picked up some kind of eclair – get such a non-acidic discharge. Grabbed a cupcake – another discharge. I tried to have time to put chocolate candy in my mouth – discharge, discharge, another discharge. I do not know, however, where these electrodes were attached to them, she did not tell. Hopefully not genitals after all.

By the way, after that she really developed a disgust for eclairs and she switched exclusively to biscuit cakes. 

All sorts of weight loss clinics around the world were quite common (especially in developed countries), and are now very common. I have sometimes come across descriptions of such clinics in fiction. I remember that Mario Puzo’s excellent novel Let the Fools Die described a clinic in North Carolina in which patients were put on a strict rice diet and exercise, promising them to lose at least five to seven kilos a week.

In another book I read about the famous clinic in which patients were put on a kefir-curd diet. I also heard about a clinic that exclusively practiced a raw food diet. And so on.

Some time ago I started consulting with a lady who is a professional and very knowledgeable dietitian. I wanted to know if I had come to the right conclusions on my own, if I had fallen into some dangerous heresy that terrifies the world of nutritional science. It turned out that he did not fall, that he drew completely correct conclusions, but that is not the point now.

I told her about that famous clinic from North Carolina, where patients were tortured with a rice diet, but they lost five, seven, or even ten kilos a week.

– Do I understand correctly, – I asked the lady-nutritionist, – that this is the most classic mono-diet?

– Yes, that’s right, this is a mono-diet.

– Do I understand correctly that this is a thing in any distant future, not only meaningless, but also very harmful, because a person on a mono-diet, firstly, experiences serious suffering, and secondly, is losing weight at a dangerous rate, and thirdly, after returning to a normal diet, will he very quickly pick up everything that he lost, and at the same time, most likely, will get even more fat?

– Yes, that’s right, – answered the lady.

– But how then can these people call such an institution a clinic, and call themselves doctors? I asked naively. – It’s just a divorce of the unfortunate fat men.

“Of course, a divorce,” the lady replied. “But this is pure business, nothing personal. Look. You rent somewhere near Moscow some boarding house with a gym and a dining room, designed for a hundred people. Calling yourself “Dr. Exler’s Weight Loss Clinic” sounds solid, by the way. You give an advertisement: “To lose five to ten kilos in just a week.” Cost – well, for the same week – five hundred dollars. In two weeks – seven hundred and fifty. You buy a ton of rice for two kopecks. You hire staff – but even students, you don’t need any qualifications right away, and any woman Klasha can cook boiled rice in marketable quantities, who for the same money will also wash dishes. You advertise on your blog, of course, at the moment you recruit a hundred people, bring them to the boarding house. There you feed them only rice, show them movies on TV and drive them to the gym twice a day – let them have fun themselves, the simulators are there. Well, splurge on some prettier coach to keep the ladies happy. Well, that’s all – you raise $ 50 thousand in a week, the expenses will be about $ 5 thousand. Well, well, for $ 10 thousand, if you pay a lot to the coach. In a month you raise under $ 180 thousand, in a year – about two lemons in dollars. Okay, do you? you show movies on TV and drive them to the gym twice a day – let them have fun themselves, the simulators are there. Well, splurge on some prettier coach to keep the ladies happy. Well, that’s all – you raise $ 50 thousand in a week, the expenses will be about $ 5 thousand. Well, well, for $ 10 thousand, if you pay a lot to the coach. In a month you raise under $ 180 thousand, in a year – about two lemons in dollars. Okay, do you? you show movies on TV and drive them to the gym twice a day – let them have fun themselves, the simulators are there. Well, splurge on some prettier coach to keep the ladies happy. Well, that’s all – you raise $ 50 thousand in a week, the expenses will be about $ 5 thousand. Well, well, for $ 10,000 if you pay a lot to the coach. In a month you raise under $ 180 thousand, in a year – about two lemons in dollars. Okay, do you? $ 10 thousand if you pay a lot to the coach. In a month you raise under $ 180 thousand, in a year – about two lemons in dollars. Okay, do you? $ 10 thousand if you pay a lot to the coach. In a month you raise under $ 180 thousand, in a year – about two lemons in dollars. Okay, do you?

“Stop,” I said, “but this has nothing to do with medicine or nutrition. It’s more of a divorce for suckers. More precisely, this is the divorce of suckers. More precisely, the divorce of the unfortunate fat men.

– Of course, a divorce, – answered the lady nutritionist. – But two lemons a year. Would you like two lemons a year?

“I don’t want to,” I replied, “the divorces of fatty fatties are not my topic. This is bestiality, in my opinion.

“Well, that’s why you’re not a millionaire,” said the nutritionist lady quite rightly. “And these guys from North Carolina are probably millionaires. Like the owners of many other similar clinics, where “To lose five to ten kilos in just a week” and some kind of mono-diet. Actually, they are all the most harmful. And serious money is made just on this – “five to ten kilos per week.” Fast results. Who will pay you $ 500 per kilo a week? Nobody. But for five to ten kilos – they will pay. And this is just a mono diet. Well, and even before the heap of the gym to torment them – just so they don’t get bored.

In general, yes, all this is logical. Therefore, such clinics have existed, exist and will continue to exist. Well, how not to put on a few hundred or thousands of dollars’ worth of fat fat woman? And that for them it is both meaningless and harmful – well, who cares at all?

However, it should be noted here that there are also quite normal clinics that help people lose weight and get in shape. And everything is clear and understandable there: first, the patient undergoes a full examination in order to find out the state of his health, then the basic principles are explained in detail, the appropriate dietary regimen is selected for him and how to act. After that, the patient already at home fulfills the prescriptions that he received there, and periodically shows himself to the doctor who leads him in order to control his condition and get some tips and adjustments. If such a clinic employs good professional nutritionists and they are not bought on the vine by all sorts of herbalife and magic pills of the Chinese doctor Sun Won, then this approach is both correct and correct, and certainly not too expensive. Because really, when you don’t promise “five to ten kilos a week”, you won’t take a lot of money for it. But on the other hand, the conscience of a nutritionist is clear, and people really help to get in shape.

Surgical methods

Maestro, cut your march!
Bulgakov. Master and Margarita

As it turned out, it is not only the march that can be cut back. You can also cut your stomach.

There are and have been practicing for quite a long time various methods of intervention in the body, leading to weight loss. Indications for certain methods are usually prescribed in accordance with the body mass index (BMI), which is calculated as the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters. Well, that is, roughly speaking, from the level of excess weight.

Ballooning

The simplest method, which is not an operation, is the same gastric balloon , which was actively advertised on the Web some time ago.

The patient first undergoes gastroscopy in order to identify diseases in which the balloon cannot be used, after which an empty balloon, rolled into a tube, is inserted into his stomach. The balloon is then filled with 500 ml of water. Disconnect the tube from the balloon – and that’s it, the process is over.

The scheme of action is extremely simple: the balloon occupies a significant part of the stomach, therefore, a person simply physically cannot eat much. Plus, the balloon constantly stimulates the saturation receptors (it tells them: the stomach is full, gentlemen, tell your owner-hostess that you can no longer eat), which are located in the upper part of the stomach, where the balloon is placed, so the person almost does not experience hunger.

By the way, immediately after installing the balloon, the body tries to inform its owner that something is wrong. A person experiences all sorts of unpleasant sensations, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and other delights. But gradually the body adapts to the balloon and the discomfort disappears.

How it works? In principle, it works well – a person, of course, is losing weight, his body simply has nowhere to go: it will not be possible to eat much, and there is really no appetite.

So what’s the problem? The main problem is that this is not a lifetime recipe at all. A foreign body cannot be kept in the stomach forever; after a maximum of six months, the balloon will have to be removed. And what will happen to a man who has lost a lot of weight, who can now devour an elephant and who has finally returned to a brutal appetite? That’s right, it will go full in a couple of months with terrible force, which usually happens.

Hole in the right side

A more advanced method, which is usually shown for people with a higher BMI (40 to 50), is a gastric band, or as I call it, the hole in the right side. You can’t whistle with this hole, but nevertheless.

What is the essence of the method? A special ring (gastric band) is placed on the upper part of the stomach just below the esophagus. This operation is done using laparoscopy, that is, without incisions, but through small punctures. At first, the ring practically does not compress the stomach – it should take about two months for the stomach to adapt.

After two months, the doctor injects about five milliliters of liquid into the ring through a special port (a hole in the right side).

At the same time, the ring contracts and noticeably reduces the gap between the upper and lower parts of the stomach. The upper part of the stomach above the ring has a volume of only fifteen to twenty milliliters, that is, roughly speaking, it is a tablespoon of soup.

And what happens when this happens? A person gets a feeling of fullness very quickly, and at the same time he eats very little, accordingly, he loses weight. Moreover, this person is going, for example, to go on vacation to Spain or Italy. And how to go to Spain or Italy and not be able to eat Spanish-Italian goodies? So, the question is solved. A person comes to the doctor, he, through a hole in his right side, pumps out the liquid from the ring, the person goes to Spain-Italy and eats there in three throats. He comes back, goes to the doctor, who pumps liquid through the hole in his right side – that’s it, we are losing weight again.

The method, by the way, is very popular in the world, I had several friends doing this operation and, in general, they were quite happy with the result – well, in the sense that they eventually regained normal weight. Moreover, the operation itself is laparoscopic, after it you recover very quickly, the integrity of the walls of the gastrointestinal tract is not disturbed and the method is completely reversible, that is, at any time you can remove the ring altogether and the anatomy of the gastrointestinal tract is completely restored.

What are the disadvantages? Although it was laparoscopic, it was an operation, a foreign body in the body, a hole in the right side. Also, for the entire period of the ring, there is a special diet: you can not mix solid food and liquid. Yes, yes, because the liquid erodes solid food, it slips into the lower part of the stomach, and that’s it – you want to eat. So drink only before meals and at the earliest an hour after meals. But it doesn’t suit everyone – for example, it doesn’t suit me.

Well, it’s clear that you don’t go through your whole life with a ring, after losing weight you will take it off, and then what? It is known that – hello, new kilograms, how long have I seen you!

Gastric bypass

Serious surgery, indicated for very overweight people. There are several different options, but one of the main ones is the so-called Roux-en-Y bypass. The essence of this operation is that a so-called “small stomach” with a volume of 20 to 50 ml is created, and then a loop of the small intestine is sutured to this “small stomach”.

Well, you know, like a plumber takes one gut from a pipe and connects it to another hole.

Here on the diagram it is clearly visible – before and after the operation.

That is, after the operation, food goes according to the principle “We pass, citizens, we pass, we do not stay anywhere”. And purely physically, a person cannot eat a lot – the “small stomach” has a volume of only twenty milliliters. And what interesting sensations a person gets if he eats one teaspoon more than fits in this ventricle, and cannot be conveyed, they described it to me in all the details.

It works very well – from the point of view that a person returns to normal weight in about a year. For example, in the United States, such operations are done about two hundred thousand a year. They are also very popular in Europe, and in Russia too. Although wealthy people travel to Europe, the United States or Israel to do similar operations.

I personally know several people who have done similar operations and have come to normal weight from specific obesity. They told me in detail about all the peculiarities of life after such an operation.

General features of life after intervention in the stomach

What do people who have done any of the above tricks (gastric balloon, hole in the right side, gastric bypass) say? (By the way, there are other methods with similar action, but these are the main ones.)

All these people said that they had to go through very strong psychological and physical tests. And they all reacted to it in different ways. Some were so determined and motivated to get in shape that the inability to eat as much as you want, and any troubles at the slightest excess of the amount of food did not take them out of the rut. But the other first months of the new diet were recalled as, I quote, “it was a specific hell, just hell.”

And there, depending on the method, there are still all sorts of serious restrictions on the type of food. For example, with a stomach ring, as I was told by survivors of this case, you can only eat hot liquid food. Or just dry food, which you just have to wash down, as everything quickly and cheerfully runs back. You can’t drink cold either – the stomach pushes out. Certain types of food (including necessary ones) the stomachs of these people simply refused to accept, even when ground.

(According to one lady, “For the first two months I vomited three times a day,” I apologize for such naturalistic details.)

And many of them began to experience problems from a lack of trace elements and vitamins. This, of course, can be compensated in a certain way, but nevertheless.

Well, almost all of them talked about serious moral suffering when they understood that you cannot eat as much as you want, you cannot eat what you want and what you love, and they also all described their very unpleasant sensations at the slightest excess of the possible amount of food.

However, as the old saying goes, “no pain, no result!” It’s better to go through very unpleasant sensations, but return to normal weight and normal life, than to remain fat with all the ensuing problems, illnesses and the threat of death.

Such methods have helped, help and will help a large number of people who could not cope on their own, so everyone must decide for himself whether he will go for such a surgical method or not. (Well, note that almost all of these operations are very expensive.)

But I continue to insist that it is quite possible to cope on your own without any balloons, holes in the right side and surgical manipulations with the stomach.

From the next issue, we will already start talking about the specific techniques that should be used.

As we said in the last issue , the second stage that the aspirant to lose weight comes to is the choice of diet. Meanwhile, there are thousands of different diets in the world. Or even tens and hundreds of thousands. However, despite the apparent variety, these diets (along with dietary patterns) can be broken down into a very small number of groups.

Group # 1 – Calorie Counting

Strictly speaking, this is not even a diet, because there may not be any restrictions on food – only in quantity. It all works very simply: with the help of special tables or simple programs, you determine what maximum calorie content of food you should consume during the day in order to start losing weight at the desired rate. Next, you use the calorie tables or using simple programs to calculate your daily menu, after which you start eating, adhering to this menu, and most importantly, the amount (weight) of a particular dish.

On the one hand, calorie counting is a simple, visual and indicative tool for assessing what you eat as food and how certain physical activities will affect the process of losing weight, however, when the whole nutrition system is replaced by the “calorie counting” tool , with the help of which you need to get in shape, here you often get a complete zilch. Although, as a tool, counting calories is a very important thing and for the vast majority of cases it is simply necessary. But precisely as a tool.

I, reading all sorts of forums on weight loss and studying what users write about these or those systems, just wondered how some people manage to pervert certain types of weight loss methods. For example, about the calorie counting system a hundred times I came across statements from the series: “Oh, girls, I was so hungry almost all day, so I was so hungry, but in the evening I was able to allow myself to eat a piece of cake.” She was so hungry all day, so hungry. I suffered in inescapable melancholy. But in the evening, she beat her body with nimble, like a sperm, high-calorie carbohydrates that would cause her insulin burst, a temporary attack of irrepressible energy, as a result of which she might even wash the dishes, and then these carbohydrates will quickly and freely settle in her fat layer. And, interestingly, after this, after a short time, the body will again require a lot of insulin (and cho, in the evening it was so good) and the lovely lady will again want to EAT. Moreover, not to eat, namely to EAT, because easily digestible carbohydrates are so harmful that, on the one hand, they give a short-term feeling of satiety, but then after them the feeling of hunger reappears quite quickly, and at that, atrocious.

Well, why do you need to sit on such “diets”? This is not only pointless, but also specifically harmful.

Also, I often saw joyful letters on the forums about how people discovered the “Mini concentration camp for quick weight loss” diet, where daily food is limited to fascist and completely inhuman 600-800 kilocalories per day. People, gnashing their teeth, sit on such a diet, lose two or three pounds a week and think that all this is good, all this is correct, you just need to be patient – and then the end is near.

Well, the end is not the end, but in a hospital on such a “diet” to please – just spit, get some serious diseases – just spit, and after this diet, after a short time, a person will quickly become fat, and even more than ever – here I am ready to bet on anything: I can even put my beloved pet on the line – I mean my computer.

But even when people nevertheless approach the calorie-restricted diet more responsibly – they do not go to extremes, they keep the recommended rate of weight loss, choose the right foods and their ratios – unfortunately, without fulfilling several other conditions, a large number of these people, having reached the desired weight, then after a while they are again eaten away. Because they stop looking after themselves, they stop controlling themselves. And this cannot be avoided: if you were once fat (fatty) and managed to return to normal weight, then the body will still remember those sweet years when it made such wonderful fat reserves and was so freely nourished so that it would have these reserves could save and multiply.

I, of course, do not and cannot have accurate statistics, however, of all my friends-acquaintances who happily lost weight according to the calorie counting system (I repeat once again: as an assessment tool, the calorie counting system is very effective and often absolutely necessary), then they were again consumed ALL. In general, everything. My sample is, of course, completely unrepresentative, but this is just a small private observation. Moreover, the maximum retention period for the result was about a couple of years, and the rest, as a rule, were gradually eroded again in just a year.

And note that when you are losing weight, almost all of your friends and acquaintances will happily note out loud that you are losing weight, and when you start to get fat again, everyone will be silent about it. Out of delicacy. And you, if you cease to control yourself, will not notice that you are getting fat again – just as you did not notice it, getting fat the very first time.

Group number 2 – mono-diets

A terribly popular type of diet among lovely ladies, because it captivates them with its simplicity and speed of the result. Whether he bribes them with the simplicity of acquiring problems with the stomach, pancreas, liver, skin, as well as the complete lack of results in any way in the long term – I do not know, but, apparently, it bribes, because these diets are very popular and are constantly discussed.

What is their essence? Yes, the fact that you are left with only one main product for consumption, and in this case it does not matter at all which one: rice, kefir, buckwheat, cabbage, carrots, chicken or apples.

What is the mechanism of action here? Yes, you know which one: you deprive the body of a balanced diet and at the same time overfeed it with one single product. Naturally, the body has to draw resources to obtain energy from pre-stored reserves, but where does it go? And you really do lose weight very quickly – by 4-7 kilograms per week.

What are the downsides? Yes in everything! There are no advantages at all. Firstly, to sit, for example, a week only on rice, buckwheat or cabbage – this is really very, very difficult. Even one day to sit on rice, buckwheat or cabbage is already a test for the psyche. And already a day on kefir or cottage cheese … I tried it once: I can only say that within a radius of five hundred meters from me all living beings were in terrible danger, it’s good only that I felt such a breakdown that I was not able to drag me to window machine gun to shoot everyone in the rags.

But a day is still here and there, in fact, a day on a mono-diet will not create any special problems and this can be considered simply as a “fasting day” – a thing, in general, even useful.

But 5-7 days or even more – such a huge imbalance in the diet leads to a wide variety of troubles, and constant diarrhea (a faithful companion of a kefir or curd diet) is not the worst thing. There is also anemia (oat and apple mono diets), gallstones, decreased hemoglobin and constipation (rice), skin problems (kefir), dietary hepatitis (carrot) and other entertainment.

Even the chocolate mono diet is popular with some lovely ladies and honorable gentlemen. Although it would seem! But no, there is one, quite famous: chocolate and coffee, coffee and chocolate. Because it’s delicious, and cool, and you really lose weight quickly. In a separate form, without other products, it gives an absolutely amazing blow to the central nervous system, liver and pancreas, and if you sit in this madhouse for a week, you can lose weight perfectly to insulin-dependent diabetes: this is an effective and very short way to achieve this bright goal.

What do mono diets give besides troubles and health problems? Nothing at all. A short-term rapid weight loss is a strong blow to the body, weight also decreases due to muscle tissue, and, of course, the weight will return quite rapidly and, as always in such cases, with excess. Moreover, after mono-diets, the body stores fat much more actively than before them, precisely due to stress.

Also, long-term (over three days) mono-diets are always accompanied by poor health, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, may be accompanied by bouts of aggression or, conversely, complete apathy, so my advice to you: if your spouse (husband) began to get involved in mono-diets, collect you your little things and dump for this time to live with a friend or just in a hotel, you will be more whole.

Otherwise, come home from work like this, and there your wife is on a cabbage diet for the third day. Raw cabbage – a thing like this: she, being in a stomach in splendid isolation, creates there a small adorable “Gazprom”, and how all this “gorgeous” affects the mood – and can not convey! So, not only does the spouse burn the lid of the piano with her gaze, and not only does she arrange concerts that will make you remember the PMS scandals as minutes of serene happiness, but also during the showdown, she will constantly poke around, making the atmosphere in the house hard to tolerate during in every sense.

And what are you laughing at? Do you think men on mono-diets behave somehow differently? Yes, there in general it can reach, if not to self-harm (I know one courageous person who, during a kefir diet, tried to eat his finger – he really wanted meat), then even to tectonic breaks in furniture – easily, this happened more than once.

No, don’t get me wrong, for situations where, for some reason, people with more or less correct weight need to lose a few pounds, this is completely normal: to sit on a mono-diet for a couple of days and quickly achieve the desired result. Why, for example, the names of professions are often found among mono-diets – for example, “Jockey diet”, “Model’s diet” and so on. These are their purely professional things, it works great for them.

Somehow I had the opportunity to get acquainted with how the most real fashion model eats. Honestly! Then I could not sleep for two nights: I kept jumping out of bed, running to the refrigerator, opening the door and caressing the stocks of such wonderful and so tempting food with my eyes. And I didn’t even have a romance with this photo model: how can you start an affair with a man who eats two boiled Brussels sprouts for lunch, and yogurt and an apple for dinner? When I looked at her food, hungry faints immediately began. 

But when a fat woman (fat man) sits on a mono-diet for a long time and she (he) is quite seriously going to bring herself into shape with such a madhouse, then you need to immediately call the telephone operator. Oh, the orderlies should be called, not the telephone operator. Or spouse (wife) to move out of the house. No, it’s selfish. You better tie her (him) and read a book about the correct ways to lose weight, and do not untie (and do not feed) until she (he) makes a terrible oath that he will not get involved with these mono-diets under any circumstances. Did you agree? Otherwise, I warned you, just write it down.

Group number 3 – intricate

In fact, this is a subsection of certain variations of mono-diets, which are very fond of publishing in all sorts of glossy women’s magazines called “Larisa Dolina’s Diet”, “Alla Pugacheva’s Diet”, “Alena Apina’s Diet” and so on, while the real Dolina-Pugacheva-Apin These diets, of course, do not have the slightest relation, and they themselves lost weight either according to Dukan, or according to Atkins, or they took a personal trainer, and he lost them so much, so lost weight …

And here there are both combined mono-diets, which are noticeably less harmful in comparison with rigid mono-diets, and all sorts of intricate diets with a combination of ordinary days with mono-days – such diets are designed for long-term use.

What is the essence of the combined mono diet? Yes, we just take seven relatively diverse options for mono-diets – fruits, proteins, dairy products, vegetables, cereals – and for each of them we allocate one day a week.

For example, here is the “Summer Diet of the Cat Bagel”:

• Monday – only apples or pears.
• Tuesday – only boiled chicken without fat and without skin (no skin, children, this is very important).
• Wednesday – fresh vegetables, boiled vegetables (pureed).
• Thursday – hello, white toilet friend: all day only kefir, drinking low-fat yogurt and low-fat cottage cheese; it is better not to leave the house and stay at first base, and if you use low-fat yogurt and cottage cheese, then it is better not to leave the toilet at all – it is irrelevant.
• Friday – fresh vegetables, boiled vegetables (pureed).
• Saturday – porridge (oatmeal, buckwheat, rice).
• Sunday – vegetables and fruits.

Not a single more or less normal man on such a diet will not even make it to Thursday, but women can stand it quite well – at least one week. In this case, you will lose three or four kilos, and without much damage to the body, but with a serious shock to the psyche. And all this, of course, is completely useless for fat men, this works normally only for women who have gained three or four kilos from their normal weight and cannot fit into their favorite dress – yes, this is a quick and completely reliable way. But only for such cases.

What are fancy diets? This is just the “Diet of Larisa Dolina” or “Diet of Irina Otieva”. Everything is the same there, but not every day. That is, for example, one day eat everything as usual, and the next day – on kefir. Then everything is as usual, and the next day – only vegetables. And so on. For special intricacy, instead of just “vegetables” they can write “only mashed beets” or “finely chopped zucchini stewed for half an hour in the light of the full moon”, and then, as you understand, with this abstract “vegetables” there will be less confidence in the miraculous diet from “Larissa Dolina”.

Do these fancy diets help you lose weight? Yes, of course, fasting days will certainly lead to the fact that your weight will decrease. But if on the rest of the days you eat exactly the same as on those serene days when you were over-eaten, the effect will even be negative, because the days of mono-diets are serious tests for the psyche.

Group No. 4 – separate meals

We owe this extremely fascinating, albeit completely unscientific idiot to the American charlatan Herbert Shelton, who, like the wonderful electrical fitter-healer Gennady Malakhov, did not have any medical education, but was actively involved in all sorts of naturopathies, chiropractors, heliotherapy, raw food diet, fasting and other dendrotherapy …

(In an epic voice.) Even as a child, Herbert Shelton, his most respectable mother, declared: “Truly I tell you, Hera, never eat pickles with milk, because they DO NOT COMBINE.” At first, Herbert did not take mother’s words seriously and once ate a pickle with a glass of milk. And when it RAPED, Herbert realized that mother was absolutely right.

Later, when Herbert graduated from the American School of Naturopathy and received his doctorate in naturopathic literature (he successfully treated it by fasting), the future great political scientist thought that if, that means, pickles with milk are not combined, then, it means, there may be other products , which – this – this – also do not match!

Herbert secretly guessed that foods are made up of proteins, fats and carbohydrates, as well as other, less significant components. But what if it’s hard for the body to process, you know, protein and fat at the same time? After all, if a normal sexually mature man simultaneously takes a blonde and a brunette in bed, then what will come of it? One little bit of it will come of it, especially since Herbert reflected in the early twentieth century, when sexual practices were not very common.

The blonde is in her hour, Herbert said, the brunette is hers. And the redhead, by which he meant carbohydrates, is also its own hour, completely different.

Well, the body does not know how, Herbert argued, boldly opposing millions of years of human development, to successfully process mixed food. One has only to load mixed food into the body, as some enzymes will begin to fight with others, and as a result – fermentation, decay, intoxication and increased gas production. Humanity farts too much, Herbert argued, and it farts because of a mixed diet.

And what is the natural conclusion from this? The food should be separate. You can’t have a cucumber with milk – no way, just write it down! Carbohydrates are not allowed with acid. Proteins are not allowed with carbohydrates. Even two different protein products – absolutely impossible, they will fight in the stomach. Fats cannot be combined with proteins. (Fans of rib-eye steaks, by the way, several times ambushed Shelton, but he was a smart guy and, with the help of apitherapy, sent hordes of hungry bees to opponents.) You can’t starch with sugar. Melons and watermelons can only be eaten separately, and then three days without even looking at other food!

Rib eye steak

Anyway, Herbert argued, a monotrophic raw food diet is our everything! We consume only one plant product at a time, and without any processing! Do you know how interesting it will smell from you? It will smell very interesting, that’s the whole point! Even the wind will sway you. But you will die healthy if you don’t blow it away with the wind earlier.

Dr. Shelton knew that humans are naturally weak and subject to many temptations. That there are literally few real monotrophs among them. And that others want to eat a wide variety of foods, including processed foods. Well, idiots, what to take from them?

And since Dr. Shelton wanted to help all people, even idiots (especially since they paid well for it), he developed a separate food system, where he clearly described what was allowed and what was not. He compiled a “food compatibility table” based on the careful results of analyzing his inflamed imagination, and further on this table could be used to design a wide variety of diets, which is still being done by numerous followers of this system.

I once learned about the system of separate feeding thanks to one girl. Friends introduced me to her, we started dating – going to the cinema, now and then, and at some point I invited her to dinner. The times were hungry – Soviet and student, so I could not offer ram saddles with truffles, so the menu for a romantic dinner consisted of boiled chicken eggs stuffed with cheese and mayonnaise (a fashionable dish in those days) and fried chicken legs with potatoes.

A sweet girl, seeing the dishes on the table, immediately announced that it was impossible to eat all this by definition, after which she gave me a short two-hour lecture about the great scientist Herbert Shelton and the principles of separate nutrition. And all the sex on that romantic evening was just that I had a brain with this quack system.

I remember that it all ended badly: I starved to the point of sheer brutality, and then briefly but energetically told the girl everything I thought about her, about this damn Shelton and his moronic system. Then the girl left my house forever, and I ate the cooled potatoes with chicken legs, growling with pleasure, like a cave bear.

All sorts of real doctors and scientists have tried many times to explain that the pancreas simultaneously secretes various digestive enzymes, completely regardless of whether the food taken is proteins, fats and carbohydrates, that different enzymes, contrary to the assertions of the venerable charlatan, do not inhibit each other at all, which is separate nutrition is not only unhealthy, but in some cases it is harmful that food as such can contain both proteins, fats, and carbohydrates (or some of these combinations) at the same time, that there is no “separate digestion” that “discovered” Shelton doesn’t exist at all, but it was all to no avail.

Of course, scientists also carried out purely practical experiments, as is always done in cases when it is necessary to confirm or refute a theory. Two groups of people with similar data and similar overweight were taken, and for a certain period (these experiments were carried out many times, and the duration was different) one group received a standard balanced diet with a restriction on calories, and the other received separate meals according to the Shelton method with the same calorie restriction.

As a result of the experiment, it turned out that the separate feeding scheme itself had no effect either on the process of losing weight, or on the condition of the patients, or on the indicators of sugar, cholesterol, insulin, and so on.

So why does the split power scheme still work, and why does it still have hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of fans? Yes, because the diets that are for this diet are low-calorie, contain natural products and it is forbidden to use any fast-digesting carbohydrates there. That is, people are offered a completely correct and healthy diet leading to weight loss, coloring it with all this crap about the “incompatibility” of some products for the imaginary significance. (Note, I will not argue with the fact that pickles with milk are still better not to use, here the honorable charlatan’s mother was absolutely right.)

Separate meals

If you take the “Separate Food Diet” and follow it, while not at all steaming with “compatibility”, then you will lose weight quite normally. It is exactly the same as if you follow this diet, reverently avoiding the blasphemous combination of legumes with meat and eggs and potatoes.

That’s all you need to know about the split power system.

Yes, and the last one on this topic. Supporters of the theory of separate feeding separately emphasize that Herbert Shelton lived to be 90 years old. They say that only the theory of separate feeding allowed him to live for so long. Well, my dears, if you follow this logic, then you need to immediately start smoking, drinking liters of alcohol, taking a wide variety of drugs and eating hell knows what to live to at least 73 years old, like the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, who is the public with incredible amazement discovers every morning completely alive and already drunk in the morning.

Group number 5 – do not eat after six

Why did I single it out as a separate group, when “do not eat after six” is never a diet, but is simply a certain principle of nutrition? Because this cute idiocy is terribly popular. “Losing weight is very simple: it is enough not to eat after six” – this phrase has probably heard each of you, and many times. You probably had a lot of acquaintances who “did not eat after six” for some time.

I remember that I learned about this charming scheme at one of the student parties. We ate salad Olivier, ate sausage and chicken navels, drank vodka and “Arbatskoye semi-sweet”. And suddenly, on the opposite side of the table, I noticed a classmate Lena, who did not touch anything, and on her face she had an expression from the series “I just ate five lemons in vinegar.”

– What’s with her? – I asked my then friend, with whom I came to the party.

– Shhhhhhh, – answered the friend, – do not pay attention: Helen is losing weight and does not eat after six. 

– Then why doesn’t she drink, – I asked, – since she doesn’t eat?

“She’s afraid,” the friend replied, “that the alcohol will break loose and eat something.

At the same time, my friend could not answer the question, to the devil Lenka generally came to the party, since she “does not eat after six” and spoils everyone’s mood with her feisty face. (You will forgive me for putting it this way, but I am by birth a simple country boy, so I was not shy in expressions both then and now.)

I personally know people who “haven’t eaten after six.” I didn’t even eat once myself after six. More precisely, from six to ten. At ten, I already fought my way to the refrigerator, which my wife defended at a serious risk to her life: it was she who encouraged me to “not eat after six” and she believed that she had to hold me back. I am happy to report that nothing came of it: I still broke through, and she was forced to retreat when she saw that I began to gnaw at the door of my iron friend.

Almost everyone has gone through this. Some even managed to survive for a week. Individual individuals – almost a month. Have they managed to lose weight? Not everything, but if you don’t eat after six (and also after five, after seven, or after eight), you can really lose some weight. However, the majority could not do this. A completely classic scheme: a beautiful fat man who decided “not to eat after six”, at five hours forty-five minutes sits down to eat in three throats in order to be able to hold out and “not eat after six.” He still won’t hold out, and even if he holds out – well, what the hell is that all about? Fuck doing some blatant idiocy

But “don’t eat after six” is a very stable thing. After all, all you need to do is “not eat after six” – and you will lose weight, as this cute folk cretinism says.

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Well, now we have come to the most demanded, the most popular and quite working group of diets under the code name “BJU Restriction”. These include diets such as the Ducan diet, the Atkins diet, the LCHF diet (aka Swedish), and so on and so forth. We will talk about them next time, and we will also answer the question why some of these super popular diets (it is better for the evil old Dukan to start smoking nervously) is better not to use.

The number of obese people has more than doubled since 1980. In 2014, 39 percent of adults over eighteen years of age were overweight and 13 percent were obese. in this blog we cover what is this section.

Many of these people know that they need to lose weight. Doctors even tell some of them that if they do not bring their weight back to normal, they risk dying pretty quickly.>

It would seem that there is one simple and one hundred percent reliable way to lose weight: “EAT LESS!” And everyone knows very well about this tool. Nevertheless, literally a few manage to lose weight to their norm, and again not to get fat.

Why? Why is it so hard to just eat less? Yes, for many reasons. If everything were so simple, then people would get rid of alcoholism, using the magic “drink less”. Or “don’t drink alcohol at all.” Because it’s very simple to say. And to do it is very difficult. For some, it is almost impossible, at least without special supportive therapy.

Despite the seeming simplicity of the process of losing weight, it usually takes a long time – it may even be several years – before an overweight person finds such an approach to nutrition (and lifestyle) that will allow him to return to his normal weight. and keep this weight.

Although it would seem that there are many diets around (including “magic”), pharmacies offer a variety of weight loss drugs (including “magic”), bookstores are full of publications dedicated to weight loss (including “unique techniques”), and fat around – full.

I will say right away that I was exactly the same fat fat man. At the peak of my physical shapelessness, I weighed 114 kilograms with a height of 1 meter 75 centimeters (I was over 40 kilograms overweight), I was terribly pleased with myself and did not even think about losing any weight.

And this is a normal situation in fact. For a while the fat man (and, of course, the fat woman) does not think about the fact that he is a fat man. It seems to him that everything is fine, that he is a “fat and handsome guy”. And it seems to her that she is “what a lovely little donkey.”

Under the influence of some circumstances, you start to think about the fact that something is wrong with your weight and what needs to be done with it. After all, a fat man is not just a state of the body. This is a state of the brain. It would seem: how can you bring yourself to such a condition (more precisely, substandard), because every day you saw in the mirror what you are turning into? Nevertheless, he did not stop eating tons of muffins, did not stop sitting in front of the TV with a bowl of chips and a pile of fruits, didn’t stop whipping Coca-Cola in liters and leading a lifestyle in which the ass is rapidly approaching the size of the chair, right?

These are all brains, they need to be adjusted. And they are adjusted either under the influence of acquired (here the word “good” is somehow inappropriate, but they just say so) diseases that almost necessarily accompany obesity, or under the influence of suddenly awakened feelings for someone, or under the influence of someone who will correct your brains and tell you the right path, because there are hundreds and hundreds of paths here, and only a few of them are correct.

So, when a fat man suddenly realizes that he, in fact, really needs to get in shape, he usually goes through several traditional stages.

The first stage – he hopes that all this will happen by itself. Well, as if by magic. After all, he decided to lose weight, which means that the body received a command and now has to carry it out. A fat man can even solemnly buy an exercise bike and start spinning it. Five minutes without load. In Week.

After a couple of months, he will notice that, generally speaking, nothing is happening. And it should not happen, because he did not change the diet at all. He is waiting for a miracle. He expects the body to obey the command. And although our organism is an extremely complex biological mechanism, it does not know how to carry out such stupid commands. With him you have to act in a completely different way.

Then the fat man begins to be interested in magic means. You know, the miraculous cartilage of the Kremlin shark, the electronic pill of the Brezhnev Politburo, Chinese powder, Vietnamese pills and the Angolan extract from the thyroid gland of a female dragon from Komodo Island.

All these are terribly expensive drugs that, like an expensive placebo, calm the patient much better than a cheap placebo, but they definitely do not lose weight – except, however, in cases when this rubbish unidentified by science causes severe diarrhea, and here you really are losing weight. Not for long.

Next comes the search for magic diets. But the fat man usually does not look for easy ways. He needs something interesting and innovative. For example, blood test diet. Or a DNA test diet. Or a diet for the analysis of the iris of the eye. Well, you know, the main thing here is to analyze something of yours for two hundred dollars, so that later you will receive an ingenious recommendation from the series “You are not allowed to eat green apples, yellow bananas and red tomatoes.” The diet is called “Traffic Light” and leads, of course, to amazing results: you spent two hundred dollars, but the weight in front of the traffic light did not even think to stop.

After that, the stage finally comes when the fat man realizes that the belly and triple chins will not dissolve by itself, that magic pills or magic diets do not exist in nature, so you will have to really go on some kind of normal diet.

There will be many questions with this too. Because it is not very clear which diet is considered normal. The known diets as such are all normal in their own way and at the same time abnormal. Most of them, on the one hand, lead to the desired result in the form of weight loss, however, as a rule, they give the fat man mental and physical suffering, so he doesn’t have enough fuse for long and it all ends with the fact that at the moment of the crisis the fat man breaks his mouth tightly locked refrigerator doors and integrates itself with all the edible products that are stored there, including a cake, a box of pastries, a pork knuckle and two loaves of already slightly stale, but so delicious bread. And – everything rushed back,

And here you have to go a rather long way, until, finally, you learn for yourself some very important basic principles, until you find a diet scheme that suits you personally, which would not cause moral and physical suffering and, as a result, would allow you to get in shape and keep this wonderful state.

Personally, this process took me three (!) Years. Yes, I’m a brake, I agree. But I know people who have been fighting this way for five to seven years – with very variable success. And they repeatedly step on the old rake, which I also stepped on repeatedly.

But it finally dawned on me. At some point, everything lined up into a clear and harmonious system, and this should be a system, and not just some kind of diet. I worked out very important principles for myself, and this was not collected anywhere, for example, in one book, although the principles themselves, in general, are not a secret at all.

Well, in the end, I decided to write a series of articles on how to bring myself to my senses and do it quickly, comfortably, efficiently, and most importantly – in this “feeling” I already have to stay, not to return to the old terrible state.

Why would you step on multiple rakes, right? Why would you waste several years on something that can be done in just a few months?

Take advantage of my experience and do not repeat my mistakes – and you will succeed one hundred percent!

The next series of articles will focus on the next important steps that you must go through.

1. Motivation.

Everything comes from the head. You must decide for yourself to start the process of getting rid of the fat cocoon. And there are things that you definitely need to know in order to be able to make the appropriate decision.

2. Charlatan methods of losing weight.

You definitely need to know about them, you definitely need to talk about them. So that you do not have any illusions and so that you do not give your money to any crooks and do not waste your time.

3. Working types of diets.

We will take a closer look at the types of diets that work, their pros and cons, and most importantly, we’ll talk about how to select the appropriate diet for your case.

4. How to save the result.

One of the main problems of any diet is how not to go full afterwards. How to save the result. There are ways, we will talk about it.

I plan to publish about twenty articles on this topic, which will then be combined into one edition. These articles do not fit into any section of my site, so I made a separate section for them and thought for a long time what to call it. “Healthy Lifestyle” – well, well, worn out, and I do not like this term. “Losing weight” – this is the name of the section in the menu, but for the title I would like something brighter.

Well, in the end I came up with an excellent, as I think, title for the section:

Dr. Hood’s Magic Diet

This name is good because almost none of its words have anything to do with what I will talk about in my articles. There will be no talk of any “magic”, we will talk about “diets”, but I am not going to create any of my own diet (I myself used a combination of two well-known nutrition and control schemes), I am not any “doctor” I remember my only rank was lieutenant in reserve), well, I’m not Hood, but Exler. By the way, “Hood” is not at all from the verb “lose weight”, it is from the English hood , a hood. Which also has nothing to do with the topic under discussion.

On the other hand, why should people be misled? Let’s name the section:

Losing weight is easy

It’s really simple. Especially if you do everything right. And what is right – we will talk about this.

TO Each of us is familiar with the situation when, being adherents of a healthy lifestyle, we condemn this or that person for the fact that he, for example, smokes, consumes alcohol, fried food, and so on. Unfortunately, we are less and less concerned with spiritual health – our own, our neighbor, the society of which we are a part … As a result, modern society is increasingly degrading, more and more violence, deception occurs, people hurt each other and are less likely to turn to it Attention.

Of course, physical health is very important, but it can bring much more benefits in conjunction with spiritual health. Having started to lead a healthy lifestyle in this way, we, undoubtedly, contribute to the recovery of our world, our society. That is why the concept of “healthy lifestyle” is very multifaceted, and which of these facets to pay the most attention to is the personal choice of each person.

A healthy lifestyle as such is formed at several levels:

• Social. We must pay tribute, today there is an active promotion of healthy lifestyle.
• Infrastructure. This is a very broad level: the governments of developed countries are trying to control the ecological situation, change the living conditions for the better, and so on.
• Personal. At this level, each individual person defines his motives, values ​​and organizes his own life.

Thus, the rules of a healthy lifestyle are divided into standard and individual ones.

Basic rules of healthy lifestyle

Let’s take a closer look at the basic / generally accepted rules of a healthy lifestyle. So this:

1. Refusal from any addictions: alcohol, smoking, any drugs and so on.
2. Compliance with the daily routine, first of all, it concerns sleep and wakefulness at the appropriate time.
3. Balanced diet.
4. Frequent walks in the fresh air.
5. Regular physical activity.
6. A positive attitude towards any situation.

As already mentioned, each person supplements this list of rules independently, relying on those goals that he himself identified as priorities.

Obviously, the list of these rules lacks the aspect of satisfaction. What is satisfaction, and is it so important for the health of our body? The concept of satisfaction is also multifaceted, this is the state of a person, being in which he is satisfied with his work, his family, his life in general. This is a kind of inner harmony, losing which, we become nervous, irritable, lose control over ourselves and our way of life, and in this case, what kind of healthy lifestyle can we talk about? Therefore, we can conclude that maintaining internal balance and following your own desires, your nature and your inner “I” is one of the most important rules of a healthy lifestyle.

Once we come to the decision to lead a healthy lifestyle, we begin to look for an activity that will help us maintain our physical health. Ideally, these are activities that will help us improve not only physically, but also spiritually. If you have already come to this realization, then yoga practice is perfect.

Regular yoga sessions reveal to us many rules for a healthy lifestyle, the existence of which many did not even suspect.

10 rules of healthy lifestyle

If we consider healthy lifestyles through the prism of yoga teachings, then the set of generally accepted rules becomes much wider:

#1

Completely eliminate any substances that cloud our minds. Oddly enough, many people tend to drink alcohol in small quantities “for health”: this is an illusion. The same applies to smoking: in many countries smoking of tobacco and other substances of plant origin is also allowed, moreover, these substances are positioned as a natural way of relaxation. Starting to practice yoga, you will learn to relax and concentrate, using only the capabilities of your own body and mind.

#2

Define a daily routine for yourself and stick to it. You need to learn how to rest: for this you need to listen to yourself and understand how much time you need to get enough sleep; 7-8 hours of sleep is generally accepted, but you may need 4-5 hours. Dedicate hours in the early morning to meditation and asana practice so that you can come to inner balance before starting the work day and thus maintain the ability to control yourself and your life.

#3

Eat properly and in a balanced way. Food is an extremely important aspect of our life: it is able to support the vital functions of our body, and, on the other hand, unhealthy diet destroys our health and even our karma. Vegetarianism- this is the nutritional system that cleanses our body, saturates it with useful substances. It should be noted that the rejection of meat is the first step towards the purification of our karma, according to the laws of which, by causing pain to other living beings (since eating animal meat is equivalent to killing them), we contribute to the return of this negative energy to ourselves. Avoid fatty foods, all types of soda, give preference to low-fat dairy products, cereals, purified water, vegetables, fruits and herbs. Eat small meals no later than 2-3 hours before bedtime. At least once a week, arrange fasting days for yourself and cleanse the body through fasting. Practice complete cleansing techniques twice a year.

#4

Work your body regularly. Regular active yoga classes are the best fit , regardless of whether they are classes in a gym with a mentor or at home on their own. Daily practice of asanas helps to maintain a healthy mind in our body. At the same time, the work of the joints, spine, as well as internal organs and all systems of our body is normalized.

#5

To be in nature more often. Try to regularly retire in the clean air, look for harmony and answers within yourself, put your thoughts in order. Only through unity with his nature can a person come to balance within himself.

#6

Maintain a positive attitude and resist stressful situations. Yoga teaches us never to despair or panic. Through many asanas and pranayama, we learn to calm our mind and thus maintain a positive attitude.

#7

Analyze everything that happens. Start with the fact that you need to analyze any of your situations: at the end of the day, analyze how it went, what you could not have done, and what, on the contrary, needed to be done, what should have been paid more attention. Over time, you will learn to analyze your life in a global sense – such analysis can ultimately prevent many mistakes.

#8

Work on what’s going on inside yourself. Without spiritual health, it is impossible to lead a healthy lifestyle . Of course, work on ourselves is much more difficult than on our body, however, having mastered it, we become wiser, stop giving unnecessary reactions to anyone, and as a result we prolong our life and acquire (along with inner beauty) external beauty.

#9

Know your body through awareness of yourself. This is perhaps the most important rule of a healthy lifestyle; that is why it is the most difficult to follow. To know yourself means to realize the limitless possibilities of your body, to understand that you are capable of much. Engage in self-development in both a physical and spiritual sense. Eliminate any manifestations of envy, desire to lie, and so on in yourself.

It should be noted that all these rules are interrelated; some of them are difficult to follow, however, with the support of yoga teachings, you will understand that there are no unattainable goals. And the last thing: never feel sorry for yourself and do not invent unnecessary problems and illnesses for yourself; remember that thought is material!

Peanut butter is an extremely common food product in the world. True, it is common in countries such as the United States and some European countries, but this does not make it less valuable. Perhaps after this article, peanut butter will have more fans in our country, especially after we consider it in more detail and analyze all the pros and cons of this product.

To understand what peanut butter is, you need to familiarize yourself with the process of its production. Then it will become clear what the benefits and harms of this product are.

Peanut paste: What is it and how is it produced

Peanut butter is a product made from peanuts.

The manufacturing process is pretty straightforward. Peanuts are fried, cooled, peeled, and then crushed to a pasty consistency. After that, maple syrup, salt and vegetable oil are added to the product. That’s it, peanut butter is ready to eat.

It is because of the pasty nature of the product that it is more correct to call it exactly peanut butter, and not peanut butter. But, as already mentioned, both names exist. Therefore, in the article we will use them alternately.

Peanut paste: Product benefits

Peanut butter is as good (and bad) as the good (or bad) peanuts.

Recently, an article was written about the beneficial properties of peanuts, therefore, in order not to repeat myself, I refer readers to it.

However, peanut butter is not exactly the same as pure peanuts. The whole difference is precisely in the pastyness of the product, from which new useful properties of the product arise, which are not mentioned in the article about peanuts. Consider them as well:

1. Peanut butter is extremely easy to consume. If you eat 50-100 gr. peanut is a rather daunting task, it is extremely easy to eat the same amount of peanut butter. At the same time, the body will receive the same amount of useful nutrients as when eating peanuts.
2. Peanut butter is a great option for a quick breakfast. Lack of time often pushes us to completely abandon breakfast. At best, breakfast will consist of a cup of tea with a sandwich. But it is enough just to replace a regular sandwich with a sandwich made from healthy bread with whole grain, thickly spread with peanut butter, as the nutritional value of such a breakfast is significantly increased.
3. Peanut butter is great for filling, even in small amounts. The total calorie content is 100 gr. peanut butter is approaching 600 kcal, so even a couple of spoons can drown out the feeling of hunger for a long time.
4. You can take peanut butter with you for a snack. Peanut butter is usually packed in plastic jars of 300-500 gr. This allows you to easily put the jar in the most ordinary bag and periodically eat 1-2 tablespoons of the product. And there will be no hunger, and the body will receive a portion of useful components.
5. Peanut butter is used by bodybuilders during periods of weight gain. Therefore, underweight people trying to gain weight should pay close attention to this product. Unless, of course, there are no contraindications.

Contraindications to the use of peanut butter

Eating peanut butter can cause various kinds of harm to some people.

• People who are overweight should either completely stop eating peanut butter or closely monitor the total calorie intake. After all, peanut butter is an extremely high-calorie product.
• Peanut butter, like peanuts themselves, can cause serious allergies. This is especially true for children – lovers of peanut butter. At the first sign of hives, when suddenly the whole body begins to itch, you should call a doctor and completely stop eating peanuts in any form.
• Despite the large amount of protein, you should eat other foods that contain complete protein. After all, peanuts contain a lot of protein, but they are inferior due to the limiting amino acid lysine.
• Peanut butter is great for building muscle, including by increasing the production of nitric oxide in the body, which dilates blood vessels. But if you have problems with varicose veins, you should stop using peanut butter.
• Finally, peanut butter is quite expensive. A jar of peanut butter can cost as much as a pound of meat.

Conclusion: Peanut butter can be eaten with benefit if there are no contraindications to such use. And if financial conditions in the family allow.

Gastritis is a disease that brings with it acute abdominal pains, days spent in hospital, unpleasant procedures, and … a diet for years to come. It is simply impossible to cure this disease in 2-3 weeks, but the chronic form will remain for life, for which it is chronic. The correct diet, in this case, becomes not only an obligatory part of treatment, but also a way of life. What can be eaten, what is prohibited, what are the basic dietary rules for gastritis, the menu – all this will be discussed below.

 “Table number 1” – during an exacerbation and during treatment

This option is usually prescribed for gastric and duodenal ulcers. But indications for diet table number 1 can be acute and chronic gastritis during the first months of treatment.

The main principle of this food system is the consumption of cooked mashed or steamed food. Objectives: to reduce inflammation of the gastric mucosa and duodenum, normalize secretion, reduce mechanical, thermal and chemical activity.

Features and rules of diet number 1:

• food only boiled and steamed;
• the predominance of grated products, soups, mashed potatoes;
• lack of rough products (raw vegetables, fruits, meat);
• fractional meals – 5-7 times a day;
• complete rejection of fried, fatty, spicy, salty foods.

In more detail, the food rules and products that are allowed and prohibited for use are best considered separately by category.

Bread, flour products

Almost everything from this group of products will have to be abandoned. All that is allowed is yesterday’s white bread, bran bread or crackers and dry biscuit. But you will have to refuse fresh flour products, including baked goods. Rye bread, puff pasta and pasta are also banned.

Cereals and legumes

You can eat porridge made from rice, oatmeal, semolina and buckwheat. Boil them in milk or water to a viscous or semi-viscous consistency. Millet, pearl barley, barley and wheat cereals, legumes, beans are strictly prohibited.

Soups

Soups are also part of the diet, thinner ones with chopped (preferably grated) vegetables and soft meat or fish are best suited. Ideal, these are mashed soups.

You can’t eat:

• broths, both meat and fish (for soups, the meat is first boiled, and only then added to the dish);
• soups with mushrooms, peas and beans;
• various cabbage soup, okroshka, borscht, heavy and fatty soups.

Vegetables and fruits

Vegetables and fruits are allowed, mostly boiled or steamed. In small quantities, it is allowed to use non-thermally processed fruits and berries, for example, applesauce. But the vast majority of raw fruits cannot be eaten, because they have a coarse fibrous structure and are more difficult to digest.

From vegetables, in the form of mashed potatoes and puddings, root vegetables such as beets and carrots, as well as potatoes and cauliflower are allowed. A small amount of parsley and dill is allowed from greens, but sorrel, onion and spinach cannot be consumed.

With gastritis, you must abandon:

• white cabbage and radish;
• cucumbers;
• raw fruits (especially apples, which have a dense fibrous structure, it is better to bake them or make them like puree before eating);
• citrus fruits;
• all sour berries.

You can eat bananas, but in very limited quantities. This is especially important for problems with the intestines (more specifically, with constipation).

Meat products, fish, and eggs

The first step is to abandon all coarse and fatty options for meat and meat products: lamb, fatty beef, pork, and also exclude veins and skin. The most acceptable options are lean poultry (chicken, turkey), rabbit and veal. All meat is best used in the form of meatballs, meatballs, etc., of course, boiled or steamed.

Lean fish without skin is an excellent choice. Besides boiling and steaming, you can try baking in foil. But salted and smoked fish will have to be excluded from the diet. The ban also includes canned fish, as well as sausages, sausages, bacon and smoked meats.

Eggs are only suitable boiled soft-boiled or as steamed omelets. But you will have to give up hard-boiled and fried eggs. The daily norm of this product is no more than 2 pieces.

Dairy

No less strict diet for gastritis and dairy products. So spicy and salty cheeses, as well as anything with high acidity, are prohibited. You can calmly drink milk, but the choice of kefir, yogurt and cottage cheese must be approached very carefully. They should always be fresh and non-acidic. Sour cream can be included in the diet, but to a very limited extent.

Sweet and drinks

Sweets are allowed:

• dry biscuit;
• berries and fruits: baked or in the form of compotes, jelly and mashed potatoes (in fact, this has already been said);
• honey, sugar, marmalade and candy.

All other sweet options (not included in the list) are prohibited. An exception can still be made by biscuits in very small quantities.

From drinks, you can safely use weak teas, coffee with milk, compotes, jelly, cocoa. You can not drink strong tea and coffee, soda and alcohol. You need to be careful with juices – they can increase acidity or become an irritant to the mucous membrane.

Sample menu for “Table number 1”

For diet number one, the menu should be designed for 5-7 meals. Below are several options for each meal. They can be alternated, grouped and supplemented, because this is not a strict list (for 6 meals), but only a template (to know what to start from). Therefore, feel free to change the menu, but using only approved products. Feel free to choose the drinks yourself.

1. Breakfast : 2 egg omelette (steamed); rice or semolina milk porridge; oatmeal.
2. Second breakfast : applesauce; baked berries; several biscuit cookies.
3. Lunch : light vegetable soup with finely chopped meat; steamed fish with rice porridge; mashed potatoes with steam cutlets.
4. Afternoon snack : jelly with breadcrumbs; cocoa with marshmallow or marshmallow.
5. Dinner : steamed meat (chicken, turkey, rabbit); boiled vegetables; meatballs with mashed potatoes.
6. Second dinner (2-3 hours before bedtime): kefir, cottage cheese or yogurt; banana; applesauce.

Diet for the period after the main treatment

This refers to the rules of nutrition, which must be adhered to at all times. Table number 1 is suitable for treatment in the first 3-5 months, after this period the dietary rules may be less strict. But sticking to a diet is still necessary, especially with chronic gastritis. Eating disorders and overdoing with “harmful” foods will lead to a second exacerbation.

After the main treatment, you can take diet number 1 as a basis and make some changes to it. For example, cereals can be cooked not only viscous or semi-viscous, but also crumbly. In addition to boiled or steamed food, you can diversify your diet with oven-baked dishes.

You can include more fruits and vegetables in your diet and consume them whole. It can be apples and pears (and not only in mashed potatoes, it will be even healthier to eat them whole), cucumbers, tomatoes and even citrus fruits.

The main thing to remember are a few rules: no spicy, salty, fried and smoked. And also exclude fatty foods from the diet.

Most people do not calculate their daily diet in any way. The main two reasons for this are unwillingness and ignorance. Few can immediately estimate the total value and calorie content of the product used. Moreover, when you do not know how much protein, fat, carbohydrates, and calories you need per day. Today we will try to bring a little clarity to the concept of a daily diet.

The first thing we’ll look at is how many calories you need per day.

Nutritionists recommend adhering to an average daily rate of 2500 Kcal. In this case, our body will receive the necessary amount of energy and nutrients to perform normal, physically uncomplicated activities. The same people who are engaged in hard physical work need to increase the amount of calories and nutrients consumed. Otherwise, the body will lack energy and building material, it will lose weight, volume, endurance and strength.

Now let’s find out how much protein you need per day.

The recommended rate is 100 g of protein per day, which equals approximately 410 Kcal. Decrease below this level will lead to muscular dystrophy, or at least to muscle tissue weakness. Excessive protein per day unnecessarily (hard work, exercise, etc.) can lead to an increase in blood homocysteine ​​levels.

The next important point is to determine how much fat you need per day.

Those who believe that fat should not be contained in the diet at all would be completely wrong. Firstly, it is almost impossible because all foods, even fruits, and vegetables contain some amount of fat. Secondly, fat is necessary for the body for lipid metabolism (replacement of fats) and cell construction within the body (fat is involved in the construction of cell membranes).

So, it is advisable to consume animal fat no more than 60 g per day, which in calories equals 540 Kcal (fat is more caloric than proteins and carbohydrates since 1 g of fat contains 9.3 Kcal). Besides, the body simply needs vegetable fats, such as Omega 3 fatty acids. If they are eaten separately from animal fats, then they will not be processed into human fat (vegetable fats have a completely different composition than animals). About 30 g of vegetable fats will provide the body with useful substances, but will not increase the caloric content of the diet. Therefore, the total calories from 60 g of animal fats and 30 g of vegetable fats will be 540 Kcal.

The last thing to figure out is how many carbs you need per day.

It is believed that 370 g of carbohydrates per day will be sufficient. The calorie content of carbohydrates is the same as for proteins – 4.1 Kcal per 1 g. The total is 1530 Kcal. The body always needs carbohydrates the most, because they provide us with energy.

However, there is one “but” here. Very often we overeat just carbohydrates (sneakers, sweets, buns, gingerbread cookies, tea-coffee with sugar, condensed milk, and much more). But the liver only holds about 90-100 grams of carbohydrates at a time. The rest of the grams eaten in one meal is converted to fat. Even if we eat a daily norm of 370 g of carbohydrates, but for one meal there will be more than 90-100 g of them, then we will inevitably gain extra grams. In this regard, the moment of competent distribution of carbohydrates by meals throughout the day remains very important.

Adhering to the stated amount of nutrients and calorie content of the daily diet (as well as the amount of carbohydrates per meal), you can achieve considerable success in the fight against excess weight. Namely: do not gain excess weight. Unfortunately, what has already been collected must be discarded by reducing the daily calorie intake.

Wow, how many people immediately fell for this headline. Really, they think, someone will tell you that being fat is not only bad, but also good ?! And indeed: despite the fact that fatty-bbws do not think about their condition until a certain point, they still understand latently that being fat is bad. Firstly, all sorts of doctors are constantly telling them about this. Secondly, they are often reminded of this by others, especially friends and relatives.

Fat men are terribly angry at this. Internally, they understand that doctors, friends and relatives, perhaps, are really right and they, fatty fatties, should not have gotten so fed up, but, on the other hand, what is their dog business? !! This is my body, the fat man thinks, what I want with him is what I do. I want to be fat – and I will be fat, trample it all with a mammoth.

Besides, these doctors – they are assholes, all as one! Today they say one thing, tomorrow another, the day after tomorrow a third. For several decades, they screamed that in no case should you eat fatty, that you need to monitor cholesterol, that fatty foods increase weight, increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases, and so on and so forth!

And now they say that, according to the latest research, it is not fats that lead to weight gain, but easily digestible carbohydrates and that it is not fatty foods that cause cardiovascular diseases, but the excess weight of the person himself. Forgive us, good people, these doctors and excellent academicians say, we were wrong. You can eat fatty stuff, we allow it. But do not eat carbohydrates, we do not allow.

So maybe tomorrow they will tell you that being fat is actually good? That they were wrong. That not being overweight causes cardiovascular diseases, but, for example, some small gene. A tiny gene, like that scorpion gene that they planted on either wheat or corn, and they definitely planted it on many mother-in-law on the planet.

Vaughn and Exler writes that being fat is good, you have to go and read. Probably the latest scientific research has shown that overweight people have … However, stop, he also has this section called “Weight Loss”, so he will prove that being fat is good, and then he will tell you how to lose weight? Oh they fool our brother, oh they fool!

Yes, dear friends, they make a fool of your and our brother. Because there are no considerations for being fat. I couldn’t think of anything even for starters, although I thought about this for a long time.

Stage image

However, no, stop! There is one consideration, there is! You can be fat if it matches your stage image. That’s for sure! After all, there are many fat people in life, right? And in cinema and theater, which reflect our lives, someone should play fat men? It’s not the same for the actor to put pillows under his clothes, and it will look unnatural.

Try to imagine thin, for example, Alexander Semchev. Or Mamuka Kikayleshvili, the kingdom of heaven to him. Or John Goodman. Or the House of de Luis. Or Wayne Knight. Stage image, there’s no going anywhere!

Lyrical digression. I remember that in 1999, during a tour along the coast, Ilya Oleinikov and Yuri Stoyanov performed in Sochi-Lazarevsky. We invited them after the concert to have dinner in our restaurant. At dinner, Oleinikov refused fried potatoes and leaned on green salads. Ilyusha is losing weight, losing weight, Stoyanov explained to us, who just leaned on potatoes, and fried chicken, and everything else.

“And I can’t lose weight,” Stoyanov said and explained why. It turns out that he wears special cut trousers for the performance – they have a belt in the navel area. If the belly sticks out noticeably, then the trousers on such a belly look funny, the viewer, as Stoyanov said, laughs. It is worth losing weight, the belly disappears, the figure with such trousers does not look funny, but ridiculous, the viewer does not laugh. And we, Stoyanov said, dipping a few slices of fried potatoes in a bowl of mayonnaise, we do everything for the viewer.

So if for you completeness is part of the stage image, then everyone is free, close this section and never come here again: you can, you sacrifice yourself in the name of art, deep respect for you in particular and art in general.

And now let’s continue for those for whom completeness is not part of the stage image.

About yourself beloved

The brain is constructed in such a way that it diligently protects a person from psychological stress. This, on the one hand, is good, but, on the other hand, it leads to the fact that we completely do not notice how we launch ourselves. If they suddenly showed me a hundred and fifteen kilograms (phew, barely pronounced), I would have been shocked, turned gray with grief and, God forbid, had a heart attack.

But I got to this record weight in just a couple of years.

Look – seventy kilograms, size 44.

And in less than two years – about one hundred and ten, 52nd size.

Of course, we notice and celebrate the changes that are happening to us. But since this happens rather slowly, we have time to get used to these changes and they – up to a certain point, of course – somehow do not bother us.

We even flaunt it: I really called myself “a fat and handsome guy”, although only the first half of the phrase was correct there.

Useless

Nobody has the right to tell a fat man that he is a fat man. It is rude, unethical, intolerant and generally offensive. And I still think so: in my life I won’t tell a fat man (especially a fat woman) to his face that he is a fat man. What, ask, reasons? By the way, it is far from being rude, unethical, intolerant, and generally offensive. From completely different considerations, namely because it is devil-to-go! Completely useless! The reaction to such a statement, I remember very well, is a sharp rejection: “And what a dog business is yours”, “I do what I want with myself”, “Wouldn’t you go, you know where”, ” “, and so on.

And the fat man, in general, is absolutely right. This is not your dog’s business. This is his own business. And it is useless for him to say something until the moment when it comes to himself. And it can come slowly, and maybe quickly. This can happen under the influence of some circumstances, or it can come without special external circumstances, if the head itself works well. After all, a fat man (fat woman) understands perfectly well that being fat is bad. He may be fat, but by no means a fool.

Purely physiologically, excess weight for a person is a completely unnatural state. And even at a time when a tribe of ancient people filled up a mammoth and gorged itself to the dump in reserve, everyone was well aware that this “reserve” would be enough for a maximum of one day. And no matter how much you eat this meat, in a day you will be specifically hungry.

And in hunger, as many said, the fat men died just the first, and not the last. They used to eat a lot, and when they were drastically deprived of food, it was wild stress for the body.

You may not admit to strangers, but you will have to admit to yourself that carrying extra weight on yourself is really hard. How much excess weight did you gain there? Thirty-two kilos? Lift two pounds of weights, walk with them all day. Of course, this is not a very correct analogy: firstly, you will add two more poods to your extra two poods, and secondly, the body gets used to excess weight gradually, so the adaptation process is relatively painless.

But in fact, you have to carry two poods on yourself. And, what is unpleasant, absolutely useless two pounds. Moreover, two poods are specifically harmful. And all this must be fed, watered, maintained. Two homeless people, two homeless people have settled in your house, they smell bad, look bad, don’t do a damn thing, pollute your apartment, and you still have to feed and water them and take them to the toilet.

What is the difference from your extra two pounds? None. Useless fat, disfiguring your figure, and you need to feed it all, and still carry on yourself all the time.

The heart works with a constant extra load, other organs work with a constant extra load, but what happens from an excessive load? That’s right, breakage. Sometimes such, after which the mechanism cannot be restored. So is the organism.

The pressure is constantly high and does not go well, without shortness of breath you cannot walk even a hundred meters, and even climbing two flights of stairs is an impossible task at all. And what do you like to live like this?

This cannot happen to me

It is always natural for a person to reassure himself with a very stupid phrase: “Well, this cannot happen to me.” With everyone – maybe, but with him – he cannot. And when experts say that being overweight is a serious factor contributing to diabetes, almost all fat people think that this does not apply to them. In Russia, according to some sources, about ten million (!) People suffer from diabetes, but I certainly won’t get into these statistics, Zhirnyuk thinks.

At one time I thought, I certainly won’t get into this statistics. Because what about me? I am not so overweight either. Only thirty extra pounds – two pounds, two bright stories. What is diabetes-schmiabetic? Diabetes was invented by panties, I said proudly, eating my adored charlotte and washing it with rivers of divinely sweet and effervescent drink called Coca-Cola.

Lose weight? Why lose weight? Panties invented to lose weight, I said. Besides, there is a God in heaven. He will think of something. Not that I strongly believed in him, but they say he helps not only those who believe in him, but others too. I’ll lose weight by myself, I thought. Someday it will happen.

Oddly enough, it really happened as if by magic. They showed me a real miracle: in a few months I lost twenty-five kilograms, while not changing anything in my lifestyle and in my diet. And he also boasted about this to his relatives, who for some reason were not happy, but said that there was nothing good about it, this is clearly a consequence of some kind of disease. Well, they did not believe in a divine miracle.

Just think, I said lightly, it must be some kind of garbage like gastritis or hay fever. Let’s cure, I believe in our medicine.

When – to some extent by accident – they checked in, they found out that I happily joined ten million people because I had developed diabetes. The most real, real. With which, as it turned out, I have already passed about a year. And fast weight loss is just one of the complications of diabetes, when, due to metabolic disorders, muscles and adipose tissue begin to become a source of energy and are actively burned by the body. Here’s a wonderful miracle for you, grandmother. And, by the way, diabetes, as the unforgettable Faina Georgievna said, is not sugar!

So why wait for diabetes in order to lose weight as a result of the fact that something went wrong in the body and he began to eat himself? Moreover, the appearance of diabetes will not necessarily be accompanied by weight loss, and maybe quite the opposite. And acquired diabetes in any case will then remain with you forever, because it is not treated, but only compensated, and efforts for this compensation will have to be spent an order of magnitude more than just losing weight without any diabetes.

Fat-fat man all the time is accompanied by a variety of inconveniences, about which people with normal weight have no idea. In addition to shortness of breath and the inability to move normally, there is also sweating, drowsiness, rapid fatigue (of course, you get tired when you carry two extra pounds on yourself, and who does not get tired here?) the opportunity to see his intimate places, except in the mirror, and with specific obesity, he cannot see them even in the mirror, so he has to wait for intimate places, having taken a selfie, to send him a photo by e-mail.

Personal choice

And one more important point. No matter how the fat fat man swaggers, no matter how he calls himself a glorious bun or a wonderful donkey, deep down he hates his current state. He understands perfectly well that somewhere inside this – let’s be honest – a rather unpleasant-looking shell is a smart, thin, ironic and beautiful person, but he is hidden under these flabby bodies.

Do you know why relatives, friends, and even acquaintances still ask the question: “Why are you so fat?” Because, unlike any unpleasant and dangerous chronic diseases, the fact that a person is fat is only his own fault. This is his personal choice.

Nobody will ask a question from the series: “Why is it that you have such a strong allergy to nuts?” Because if a person has a severe allergy to nuts, getting this disease was not his conscious choice, and he almost cannot control the cure for this disease.

But becoming fat and staying in this state is exclusively a factor of the free will of this particular person. Because nobody forces you to become fat, nobody forces you to stay fat. If you stay that way, this is your conscious choice.

This is something like a minor mental disorder: a person is well aware of all the serious disadvantages of his condition, but does not want to do anything about it. Although it certainly can. This is not done once or twice, it requires some effort and some self-discipline, but this is not a Newton binomial and not cutting with a jigsaw on metal.

Talking about “I have a disease that prevents me from losing weight” – they are exclusively for idiots. If you have thyroid disease, as it was said in one movie, then stop eating thyroids. There is a vanishingly small number of diseases that will not allow a fat person to lose weight if they change their lifestyle and diet accordingly. So all this, as it was its own choice, remains the same. Even with significant metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, you can always get in shape. Yes, it will be more difficult to do, but it is nevertheless quite possible.

However, we will not blame the fat men for everything, otherwise we have completely kicked them. In fact, most of them simply do not have the necessary information about how they can wake themselves up quickly enough and relatively comfortable. We will talk about this in the next issues.