My story as a man on a diet has started long time ago. When I was a kid I wasn't a chubby boy, I have pictures of me at 10 and I was a skinny boy. Then puberty came and from the age of 12 I started gaining weight as fast as lightning. As you may have heard a lot of time in your life most of the time it is a psycological issue. A lot of people react by eating every times they are not happy. I was and I still am one of this person. During my teenage years I've been very close and, even if I playied basketball and several other sports since when I was 6, I used to eat every time I was disappointed or depressed about something. Little issues seems as big as mountains when you are a teenager, we all know that. I've never been obese, but I've always had 5/10 kgs extras since then, because my mind got stuck with the eating reaction. Sports litterally saved my life from obesity and diets helped me out to feel better with myself. Yes, but how long for? The first "food regime" that I followed was a very bad homemade one. I was 19 and I had just broke up with my girlfriend at that time, so I decided to react in a different way this time, I decided to lose weight, a lot of weight, and as quick as I could do. I'm italian and as you know our main course is pasta, sometimes we have pasta for lunch and dinner, but this had to stop. I quit pasta, but that was not enough, I decided to cut also all the other carbohydrates. Do not feed the beast! I wanted to kill the fat guy by starvation but I didn't know what I was doing.
In the beginning I was eating lots of proteins and veggies and I was losing weight very quickly, but I was never satisfied, first week 7 kgs down. "Not enough!".
The extreme starvation (I wasn't even eating decent portions of meat) was not enough, so I went insane. No carbs and no meat, just veggies and fruit. My friends used to call it "The apple diet", and it's one of the most stupid things I've done in my life.
I felt really weak, very close to faint everytime I stood up from a chair or my bed in the morning. One week I just had tomatoes and carrots and my skin became orange. My parents were trying to make me stop, but I had a target: kill the fat and sad guy. I was happy because the body scale was giving me good news everytime I stepped on it. A kilo per day for the first 3 weeks! But I was getting sick.
After two months I've passed from 130 kgs to 90. I felt great, but I was an idiot. What saved me that time was the trip to L.A where my parents decided to send me, maybe also to save me from that insanity. The result of the insane regime was -40kgs, a decent look and a mind close to insanity. And I hadn't kill the beast, I just made it angrier and hungrier.
After this first experience with diet (more starvation) with ups and downs I've reached a new maximum in terms of weight at the age of 29, 145 kgs. Exactly 10 years after that stupid idea.
So it was time for another (less) stupid idea, the "Sushi diet". Last year I've been eating sushi everyday, because I consider it a complete meal. It does have carbs (rice), prots (fish) and vitamins (veggies). Result: 50 kgs lost in one year. My weight was 95 kgs and I wasn't feeling weak or else, I subscribed a gym and I stopped eating sushi everyday (my wallet lost alot of weight too).
The problem is that after a while I've stopped the gym, started to eat fast food craps and gained 10 kgs. Scared by that and conscious of the risks to get fat again I decided to follow a proper diet, a diet that could help me to lose the extra kilos and help me to keep a good relationship with the food also after that. So one week ago I've started the Dukan diet. I've lost 7kgs 'till now and I've decided to start a diary about this diet, so I can monitorise the progress.
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