How to lose those extra pounds: a cheat sheet for losing weight. Why we get fat and how to throw off those extra pounds

How to lose pounds

Excess weight is classified not only as a cosmetic defect, but as a disease that needs to be treated, as modern medicine claims. Extra pounds do not have the best effect on the work of the whole organism and on the course of many diseases.

Overweight is one of the main factors that increases the risk of premature death, since obesity is likely to develop a whole group of diseases. For example, such as: diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, some types of cancer.

The same experts leading the study of obesity confirm that with a decrease in weight by a few extra pounds the risk of these diseases, as well as mortality decreases tenfold.

For example, if an obese patient from 100 kilograms drops at least 10 extra, then the risk of premature death is reduced by 20-25%. That is, with the loss of every extra kilogram a person gives himself a chance to extend his own life.

Agree, this is a weighty enough argument to start the fight against this ailment. However, too much zeal of patients in the fight against extra pounds does not always lead to good results.

After all, not every person realizes that methods of treating excess weight should be sought not in advertised preparations, and not in an abrupt refusal of food, but in specialized clinics. And that is why such attempts to lose weight lead to the fact that the hated kilograms come back again. According to statistics, only 20% of obese patients can save reduced body weight.

What are these experiments in the fight against obesity?

Wave-like jumps in body weight have a very negative effect on human health. And instead of helping yourself, to lose some weight and pounds, a person only aggravates the situation and gets new trouble.

Particularly adversely such weight drops affect the immune system. So there is nothing surprising in the fact that people trying to lose weight on their own, often suffer from colds.

In order not to force your body in this way, it is better to lose even not good health by asking for help from specialists. Only a specialist will help realize the goal set by the patient. By the way, these goals are not only about getting into your favorite dress.

The important thing is to give yourself health. How to lose weight? In order to properly lose those extra pounds, factors such as initial body weight, age, type of obesity, cardiovascular condition, the presence of chronic diseases, genetic predisposition, endocrine disorders in the body are taken into account.

The treatment of obesity with excess weight should consist of a whole complex of procedures. This diet, exercise and effective methods that have passed clinical trials that will work as ancillary, and really help to lose weight.

The most gentle way of treatment is without surgical intervention (however, there are such cases when you simply cannot do without it). Treatment with an intragastric balloon is one of the most effective non-surgical methods.

More often this method is recommended for patients who weigh 80-120 kg. The loss of overweight with this method of treatment can vary from 3-4 to several tens of kilograms, and on average, according to our data, patients lose about a third of overweight.

Another way to properly lose pounds - cleansing the intestines.

Surely many, trying to lose weight, carried out cleansing the intestines with herbs. Moreover, various herbs are often used for this, which have a diuretic and laxative effect.

I remember the case, as one patient, having heard enough that if you remove the "excess" fluid from the body, you can become a slim beauty. Having decided that the excess fluid can be easily removed with the help of diuretic drugs, she took them. However, she was unaware that diuretic drugs wash out potassium from the body, which is detrimental to the work of the heart.

That is why in medical practice it is customary to combine potassium preparations with diuretic drugs. The girl dropped not only a couple of extra pounds, but also undermined health. Today she lives on a disability benefit with a rather serious heart disease.

One of the easiest, but professional way to cleanse the intestines without enemas - hydrocolonotherapy, which is used in the clinic. When cleansing the body in this way, toxic products are removed from the body and no longer disturb the metabolism.

During colon hydrotherapy, it is possible to wash the entire colon. Moreover, the saprophytic flora necessary for the organism is not washed out. Fecal masses, accumulating for a long time, are derived for several procedures. Removal of slag accumulations that violate normal peristalsis leads to the restoration of the natural intestinal motor activity.

You sit on diets, until the seventh sweat pyzhishsya in the gym, and the result all the time you get some kind of unstable, temporary. Only you start to drop, when all of a sudden - for no reason at all - oops - and the old kilograms are back! Why is that? Is overweight - a struggle for life? Are you not destined one day to just relax and enjoy life, instead of spending all your time and energy on body shaping with frenzy? Of course not! Once you picked up this book, it means that you are ready to change. And if it is ready, it means that you will change very soon. But if you don’t want temporary changes for the better, you have to stop eliminating the symptoms all the time and try to find out the cause. The problem with most girls is that they spend too much precious time fighting extra pounds, instead of once and for all eliminating the reason for their constant occurrence. So let's try to find out why you have extra weight or, more correctly, why do you need extra weight?

Rule number 1Who is to blame and what to do?

Most of us are used to starting solving any problem by finding the culprits. Have a fight with your husband? Of course, it's his fault! Did not pass the quarterly report on time? So this is all because of colleagues jerks! And who, I wonder, is to blame for your excess weight?

Many girls love to look for people and circumstances guilty of extra pounds. For example, my girlfriend Tanya put forward an amusing theory that only men are always to blame for women's extra pounds! “Well, look, Vova kept me up all the time, and I had to lock myself in the kitchen to somehow let off steam and calm down,” said Tanya. “It's no wonder that I pounced on the fridge and after each of our quarrels I gained five extra pounds.” - “Wait a minute, and Tolik? - I asked, - he was just an angel, and you never argued, but you added even more after him than after the troublemaker Vova ”. Tanya chuckled indignantly: “So who does not know that girls are getting stout from too good and calm life. Tolik himself is to blame for not giving me a reason to worry, it is not surprising that from such a peaceful, problem-free life I was blown away. ” In fact, finding the guilty is always the easiest!

Interestingly, who made you a big one? Unfair fate? Are your parents with their stupid genes? Damn donuts with their countless calories? No no and one more time no!

“I know it’s my fault that I’m so fat,” says my friend Lyuba, “I have no willpower. I miss classes at the fitness club and generally do not try enough. If I really wanted, I could certainly be slim. " Do you think she is right? And no! Blaming yourself is also rather pointless and even harmful occupation. Guilt can provoke a variety of diseases. But it does not contribute to weight loss. Let's try to figure out who actually decides whether you are thin or full?

Probably, from the school biology course you remember that our body and brain are inseparably connected. The body affects the psyche and the state of mind, and the state of mind, in turn, affects the body. For example, you take valerian, that is, you affect the body, and the nervous system calms down. And vice versa. Our mind and brain can easily influence the body. But, unfortunately, we do it so wrongly that we do more harm than good.

There are many people in the world who are able to regulate their temperature and pressure themselves without resorting to medication. They simply give their body a command: to lower the heat, and their temperature really drops to the desired level of 36.6. This is not magic. This is a simple ability to control your body. Well, I can just ask my body to lose weight up to fifty kilograms, and it will lose weight, you ask? I will answer something like this.

Theoretically, this is possible, and every woman can make herself the figure of her dreams simply by using the power of thought. But in practice this, of course, must be learned. Learn to think positively, learn to develop the power of thought, learn to control yourself and your life. Is it possible? Yes, definitely. It requires great effort, desire, patience, self-confidence and optimism. But no supernatural abilities or super-talents are needed here!

So that you have no doubt that the brain can affect the human body, I will give an illustrative example. In psychology, this is called the "log effect over the abyss." Put a thin log on the floor. Can you walk through it without falling? For sure! And with ease. Now imagine the same log over the bottomless abyss. Would you agree to go through it just as easily now? Not? But the log is the same. What has changed? Your attitude. There was fear. There was a thought: I can fall and break to death. And this thought, in turn, cannot but affect your body without disturbing your balance. Thus, if you try to walk along a log over a precipice, you will most likely fall, although you did this exercise on the ground with ease. Here's a good example of how your brain affects your body. Now the most pressing question is: how to streamline this influence, how to take it under control?

Rule number 2What goes around comes around

I wonder how you can "sow" those extra pounds? Eating buns, cheesecakes. But, excuse me, a bunch of thin ones eats the same buns, cheesecakes in unlimited quantities and for some reason does not grow stout. So maybe it is something else?

If you are fuller than the delusional anorexic podium standard, and you feel uncomfortable, if you consider yourself a fat one, then you involuntarily begin to think like a fat lady. It is these thoughts, to a much greater extent than all the harmful calorie food, contribute to your excess weight. You mentally "sow" your extra pounds, it is not surprising that in practice you reap them in the form of unnecessary centimeters at the waist. What is the difference between the way of thinking of a slim girl and the way of thinking full?

Sitting at the dinner table, a slim girl experiences only the pleasure of delicious food and eats with joy, not counting the calories. Most slender girls have no idea how many calories a french fries contain and how many calories you can consume so as not to get overweight. And this ignorance does not prevent them from remaining thin. Full girls often, sitting down at the table, have feelings, torments of conscience and guilt. It seems to you that you commit a crime when you drink cappuccino with chocolate or order a pizza. You think that you are not worthy to eat something more nutritious than a green salad. You sure you can't afford it. The criminal eating of fast food is not accompanied by pleasure in your style: “Mmm, I love McDonald’s, but with remorse of conscience:“ Well, that's it, now I’m definitely swimming with fat. ” Thinking this way, you, firstly, deprive yourself of pleasure (And why then have sweet (spicy) high-calorie food, etc., food, if not for pleasure?), And secondly, give your body a negative command: “Swim , swim fat, swim fat ". And your body has nothing left but to execute this command. And believe me, the indication of your subconscious will be implemented much faster than the result of yoga, aerobics and diets.

So try to start by thinking like a slim girl. You need to learn how to do it now. Otherwise, even if you lose weight to the parameters of Kate Moss, but at the same time you will reproach yourself for every piece eaten and constantly fear that the kilograms will return, you will not only not enjoy your slim body, but will also ruin your nervous system. After all, you want to get the result once and for all, and not constantly starve yourself, just not to gain weight. Then do not eliminate signs of completeness. Focus on eliminating the cause of your fullness, then the signs will no longer appear. And the reason for the excess weight is that we ourselves reap what we have sown.

Rule number 3Kilograms ordered?

What nonsense, perhaps, you think. How could I order myself to be complete? I, on the contrary, really dream of losing weight. How could I sow myself the opposite of my dreams?

In fact, often we get not what we want. The only question is, why does this happen? The fact is that sometimes, when uttering some words, we make a reservation, for example, we say: “How cool is your bag”, instead of saying: “How cool is the bag”. This is also called a reservations by Freud, when we involuntarily pronounce not what we wanted, but what we actually thought. Even in antiquity there was such a thing as "nakarkat" or "trouble to click." So, kilograms can also be clicked. And surely you are doing this very actively, just you don’t realize it and don’t notice it. Here are examples of typical situations in which you can attract extra weight to yourself:

1. When you come to the store, you ask: “Tell me, do you have clothes for full (fat) big ones?” I wonder why you call yourself fat? Does it somehow cheer you up? Or in some fantastic way helps to lose weight? Rather, on the contrary, you give yourself the installation: I am complete. And your body obediently realizes it. Instead, ask the sellers to show you the clothes for girls "with a non-standard figure", "uncommon (luxurious) forms" or, at worst, just say your size. Do not be afraid that they laugh at you. If the seller is adequate, he will only admire your worldview, and if not ... well, the doctor does not take offense at the patients.

2. For complacency, you are engaged in auto-training, repeating many times: “I am not fat, I am not thick, I am not thick”. Actually, auto-training is a good thing. That's just to do it right! Our brain does not perceive the negative particle "not." And therefore you unwittingly program yourself for the exact opposite result: “I’m fat, I’m fat”. It is better to replace a negative statement with a positive one: “I am slim, I am beautiful, etc.”

In short, to give yourself the wrong installation and heading for weight gain is actually very easy. Watch your thoughts carefully. As soon as you catch the “high-calorie thought” about your fullness, immediately replace it with the opposite, positive, so as not to give a thought to gain material embodiment in extra pounds.

Rule number 4Favorable business!

It would seem that in excess weight is a bunch of shortcomings and not a single advantage. And yet, in any, even the most negative phenomenon, you can find your positive sides ...

And what benefits do you get from being overweight? Perhaps this question will seem to you senseless and stupid. Like, what can I get from this? But if you are trying to lose weight all the time, and your body resists it vehemently, then there must be some special reason. Now you already know that your body and your weight are controlled by your brain. And since your brain, in spite of your efforts, does not allow you to lose weight, it means that it has some special reason for this. Surely your brain wishes you well and tries to protect you from something. That's just what? Ask yourself the question: what benefits do I get while remaining complete?

In fact, the options can be quite a lot. For example:

1. I can relax and do nothing. There is everything that got in any quantities. Lying on the couch in front of the TV. If I lose weight, I will have to apply a lot of strength to keep fit. And in general, my whole life will have to be changed, including gyms, loads, etc. In it, can I ruin my whole life for a fig? It is better to give up on everything and eat another great pie.

2. I will become thin, the men will immediately begin to perceive me as a sexual object, and I want to be appreciated as a person. To not considered skinny fool!

3. In fact, I want to love me the way I am! Enough of these empty aspirations for an unattainable ideal. I want to be loved not for slender legs, but for the fact that I am exactly what I am now, with all the advantages and disadvantages.

4. I will become slim and beautiful, I will immediately receive increased male attention. Love-carrot, novels, relationships. It seems to be desirable, but on the other hand - it is so strained! Guys all traitors, goats. Change, throw, mock. Than to endure such pain, it is better to remain pyshkoy and regale in your pleasure than I want. Unlike men, donuts will never betray you!

This is not a complete list of reasons why you, in the depths of your soul, may not want to part with kilograms. This desire is unconscious, because to understand it is not so simple. If you can’t determine your subconscious benefits from completeness yourself, contact a psychotherapist who will help you to figure it out.

Rule number 5Humiliated and offended

Children’s psychological traumas are adored to be written in all books and articles of popular psychology, but almost no one mentions that childhood trauma can cause overweight.

An outstanding psychologist Liz Burbo identified and described the five most common types of psychological trauma that prevent a person from being himself and living a full harmonious life. One of these injuries - “humiliated” - can just entail such physical consequences as fullness and overweight.

You most likely have a “humiliated” injury if:

- your figure resembles a ball or bun. That is, you have a round face, plump arms, legs, and a rounded body with short stature;

- you are often ashamed of yourself or others, afraid to cause shame;

- you know your needs, but do not listen to them;

- you charge yourself a lot (as a rule, other people's problems);

- deep down you are afraid of freedom, because you associate it with incontinence, and you are always afraid to overstep the bounds of what is permitted;

- Replace sex with food;

- suffer from back pains, shoulders, throat.

If several signs coincide, be aware that you have a “humiliated” injury. A particularly important feature, from the point of view of Liz Burbo, is physique. According to her theory, the body is the main and most faithful barometer of our inner world outlook and state of mind. A person with a “humiliated” injury is usually covered by a “masochist” mask. Shedding on ketchup or hot chocolate, such a person usually guiltily says: “What a clumsy (fat, awkward) I am”, etc. In the next chapters we will tell you about how to overcome the injury of the “humiliated”, and with it and your excess weight.

Rule number 6Around traitors

Another psychological trauma that can result in extra pounds on the body is the trauma of betrayal.

This injury is received in childhood, and is usually inflicted by the parent of the opposite sex. However, do not blame the father. It is possible that he did not want to betray you, moreover, perhaps he did not even do anything reprehensible. Just some of his deed did not meet your expectations, and you regarded it as a betrayal. Liz Burbo also described this phenomenon in her book “Five injuries that prevent you from being yourself.” A girl who has experienced some kind of betrayal from her father (perhaps a very insignificant one, which has not even been deposited in her memory), subsequently faces something like this all her life. Every regular her man destroys her trust or does not meet her expectations.

You have a devotional injury if:

- you have a strong, powerful body, with wide, heavy hips and tummy wheel. If in general your figure is quite proportional, but the lower part: belly, waist and hips are heavy and stout, then this is your case.

- you have a keen and insightful look;

- you often say the following words and phrases: “I can,” “I myself!”, “I knew it,” “trust me (rely on me)”;

- you consider yourself responsible and strong and nevertheless do not hold back or hardly keep your promises;

- you are impatient and intolerant, consider yourself right and strive to convince everyone of this;

- strive to control everything and everyone around at all costs;

- possibly suffer from disorders of the digestive system.

Again, the surest sign of the trauma of betrayal you have is a specific physique with a heavy bottom. The sweeter your belly and the wider your hips, the more pronounced the trauma of betrayal.

For people with such an injury is characteristic mask controller. This is an obsessive desire to follow everything that happens, to keep under his supervision not only all his relatives and not very people, but also life, the elements, in a word, everything, everything, everything! According to the theory of Liz Burbo, if you heal this emotional trauma, then within one or two years all her physical signs, including obesity at the waist and hips, will go away without any additional effort. How to deal with the trauma of betrayal, we will explain in the following chapters, but for now just try to think and find out if this injury is inherent to you and whether it could have caused your “weight experiences”.

Rule number 7Never for anything

The best way to get something is to hate this thing with all your heart and soul. If you once used to make statements like: “I hate fat people,” don't be surprised that you have now joined their ranks.

Forms of hostility are different. And your rejection of the fullness could be expressed as you like. Maybe you looked back in surprise after full women and thought: “What a horror! How can you run yourself like that. ” Or condemned those who ate a lot: “That’s a glutton! They do not take care of themselves and their food at all. ” Or even solemnly swore to herself: "I will never become like this."

But, as the name of one of the James Bond films says: "Never say never." And today, for some reason, you yourself turned out to be in the place of the very people whom you disliked, condemned, criticized. What is it? Sophisticated punishment? No, just a lesson! You should know that beauty has many forms and incarnations. And you need to take it in any. By the way, accepting does not mean meekly agreeing: yes, now I understand that being full is great, and I agree to remain so until the end of my life. Not! To accept is only to not judge! All people are different, but for mental and physical health we need to learn to live in harmony with any people: fat, thin, giants, short ones.

And one more little secret: when you condemn someone, you actually condemn yourself. Many talented psychologists wrote about this. For example, Louise Hay. But you must have noticed the effect of this law in your life. Conduct an experiment: remember who and when you criticized strongly for something?

For example, I myself terribly criticized one insanely talented girl, who easily entered Gnesinka. With a stunning voice, she almost did not prepare. And in general she was one of those not the most hardworking people who nevertheless achieve everything effortlessly. I tried her for laziness. “How is it,” I thought, “because if life has endowed you with talent, you have to work harder to prove that you are worthy! You have to develop your talent, and not just use his presence. ” Pretty soon, I realized that I was doing the same. I use my talent with might and main, while doing little for its development and strengthening. So, looking into yourself, you will understand that you get what you reject and deny with all your soul.

And your fullness can be the result of just such a condemnation and denial. We will give more detailed recommendations on how to get rid of this shortcoming in further chapters, but for now only two simple tips. Throw out categorical words from your vocabulary: everything, always, never, no one, etc. For example: all men are traitors, all fat people are lazy, I will never leave to eat fast food, etc.

And seeing a complete person on the street, instead of a negative one: “What a fat one! I understand that I am plump, but this is already a complete nightmare, it’s about to burst like a ball! ”- tell yourself:“ Beauty has many different forms and embodiments, and I gladly accept them all! ”Or:“ Everything is known in comparing, against the background of this man, I just look like a top model, how great it is that he met in my way and raised my spirits. ”

Rule number 8Everything is relative

Probably, you have repeatedly heard a well-known saying: what we have, do not store, lose, cry. And what does this have to do with completeness, you ask.

Oddly enough, the most immediate. After all, everything is relative, and weight as well. Perhaps, once the weight in 66 kg seemed too big to you, but now you weigh 80 and remember the happy days with anguish, when weighed only 66!

Our body is designed in such a way that it does not favor criticism too much. Especially self-criticism. If a girl in front of a mirror meticulously examines the folds in her waist and complains about the extra ten kilograms that you can’t lose, the body can react to such offensive words and thoughts just the opposite: gain another twenty kilograms so that you understand that everything was not so bad

However, this is not all. If with a weight of eighty kilograms you again continue to complain about life and offend your body with words like: “a fat woman, a freak, a fat cow”, do not hesitate, the body will again be heard, and you will weigh even more. And this will be repeated until you learn the lesson. And what's the lesson, you ask? And the fact that it is time for girls to learn to appreciate what they have, now. Suppose you have excess weight.

Suppose you are going to reset it. Start by thanking your body for weighing only eighty kilos, not one hundred and eighty. Think that there are people in the world that are much fatter than you, and charge yourself with optimism. If, after a long diet or hard training, you dropped “only” five (ten), fifteen kilograms, when you were counting on a more substantial result, in no case should you blame your body. Thank him for losing weight. Rejoice at any result now. This joy and gratitude actually help you in forming a beautiful figure much more than the most difficult exercises.

Rule number 9Women's troubles

What could be nicer than male attention and self-desire consciousness? It turns out that not every girl wants to be the object of male lust. In order to avoid the status of the object of male sexual fantasies, many girls unconsciously go to the strangest measures ...

For example, weight gain! Of course, few of the girls consciously say to themselves: “I don’t want these dirty males to have some dirty fantasies about me, I’d rather have fast food, I’ll become fat and unwanted, and even then no one wants me.” But such installations are often kept at an unconscious level.

Sometimes men's lust, lustful looks and vulgar courtesy are for the girl something nasty, dirty, repulsive. To tolerate sexual harassment or just frivolous jokes for such a girl is a real stress, it is here that her subconscious comes to her aid. The body begins to actively look for ways to get rid of stress in the form of obsessive male attention and quickly finds such a way, tossing those extra pounds to the girl, which, in terms of her peace of mind, are not even superfluous. After all, they protect it from men's lust, and therefore, do a useful thing. In this case, it is very difficult to part with such “killers”.

My friend Olga was one of those happy girls that all men love for her cheerful kind temper. She was always extremely lucky with the good guys. But, despite the increased male attention, Olga was in no hurry to part with virginity. She had an old-fashioned dream: to lose her innocence on her first wedding night with that beloved and sole prince. So it happened! Rather, partly, because in the “magical, first night,” the beloved prince turned into a hungry, rude male who got up completely indecent, on Olgin's view, things. In short, intimate life is not set.

Olga hasn't been interested in sex since then. But since she was very pretty, she herself continued to look like a tasty morsel for horny men. After a while, Olga began to recover quickly. It would seem that there was no connection between these two facts. And yet ... All the diets and exercises did not give Olga the desired result. Even liposuction helped for a short while. After some time, Olya finally gave up and abandoned attempts to lose weight. A year later, she was at the reception at the psychotherapist. The reason for the appeal was a nervous breakdown and severe depression. But in the process of communication, it turned out that Olgin's weight problems have their roots not in the calories consumed, but in the head. The psychotherapist began to work with Olgina's sexuality, and as her intimate life and attitude toward sex was getting better, her figure also improved. So if you find yourself in a similar situation, it is better not to delay the campaign with a psychotherapist. Because solving such serious problems on your own is very difficult.

Rule number 10My weight is my wealth

There are many means of dealing with life. Among them, both traditional, for example, watching comedies, intimate conversations with a girlfriend, and non-traditional: a glass of vodka, frantic shopping or gluttony orgy.

Yes, everyone is looking for a suitable way to deal with stress. Eating pies, cookies and chocolates is undoubtedly one of the most popular! What is there Xanax and Valium! We girls have their tranquilizers, more calorie, but more delicious. If you are in stressful situations, for example, during a session at the university, or quarreling with your husband, or checking from tax, you suddenly have two to three times more than usual, then this is undoubtedly your case.

In this case, the food serves as a kind of sedative for you; it “protects” you from the complexities of life. Rather, it seems so to you. The problem with overeating is only that over time you need a large and large portion in order to find the desired state of peace and tranquility. In the same way as an alcoholic needs a large and large dose of alcohol to feel at least something.

For example, one of my closest friends, a mannequin by profession, is so afraid of flying planes that she chews something all the way. She eats her lunch, then begins to destroy her strategic supplies. And so the whole flight continues. Well, even when you need to fly close, and if it is a flight to Bali or the Caribbean?

In short, in order to get rid of the habit of overeating during stress, you must also give up the benefits of such a lifestyle. You must come up with other alternative ways to deal with stress and learn to look for relief in something else.

Personally, I can recommend aromatherapy. She is super effective and very pleasant. Plus benefits for looks and health! Buy yourself a few different essential oils or make an aromamedallion. For example, tea tree oil helps to cope with hysteria and anxiety, mint banishes fears and invigorates, if you feel broken, orange improves your mood and contributes to the disappearance of cellulite. In a word, do not wait until you stop getting into the pants, change your bad habit of seizing the stress on something more useful and less caloric!

Rule number 11I require satisfaction

Can a dozen of cheesecakes replace stormy sex? And how can you achieve simple female happiness without having a lover, a beloved career or expensive clothes?

There is such a curious thing in our mysterious organism as a pleasure center. No, this is not an erogenous zone. It is rather a kind of sensor that determines when and how much pleasure our body received. It captures and stores information about all, all, all of our pleasant sensations. The only technical flaw, and perhaps, on the contrary, the advantage of this very center of pleasure lies in the fact that it absolutely does not understand where this very pleasure came from. He does not care! Did you have a fantastic orgasm, or did you get a lush compliment, or bought a super dress, or ate pizza. He, the main thing, to fix the fact of receiving pleasure, and on its source the center absolutely does not care.

Thus, if you are chronically deprived of intimate pleasures, or the joys of shopping, or dope romance, your body will urgently demand compensation. And very often, food that you begin to absorb in unlimited quantities becomes an excellent compensation. If you rarely indulge yourself with new clothes, fragrant bathrooms, intimate connections, do not be surprised that your appetite is getting more and more, and the waist is correspondingly wider and wider. The pleasure center will certainly try to plug all the “gaps”, and therefore, if you don’t give him a suitable opportunity for this, he will have nothing left but to go the simplest way and get all the norm of pleasure with food. Do you have any idea how this will affect your figure? So another common reason for your completeness may be that you don't love enough and indulge yourself.

It may seem to you that you did not deserve a new dress, or a compliment, or a good orgasm. But the girl who truly loves herself, knows that she was born for joy and pleasure, and therefore she does not hesitate to give herself this pleasure by any available means. Try to please your pleasure center with something other than chocolate croissants, and you will be amazed how quickly you lose the desire to overeat.

Rule number 12At any price

Can the frantic pursuit of a goal become the main obstacle to its implementation? Yes! Sometimes unhealthy obsession on losing weight can be the main cause of the emergence of more and more new pounds.

Having a goal is great! And if, in addition to some desired goal, you still have the willpower sufficient to accomplish it, this is altogether wonderful! But what if your goal from a pleasant dream turns into an obsession for you? People who are interested in only one single purpose in life, called fanatics. And if your whole life consists entirely of fierce struggle with excess weight, then this is hardly good. A person obsessed with a certain idea rarely achieves what he wants. As so, you ask, no wonder they say that "if you want something very strongly, it will come true." That's it! It is very different to want and rave about a certain idea. You are very passionate about losing weight if:

1. You often dream of your new figure and all those wonderful outfits you can climb into, while experiencing only positive emotions.

2. Taking some steps towards your goal, you are full of optimism. For example: “I will sign up for oriental dances, I dreamed about it all my life, I can lose weight, and at the same time learn to dance belly dance. Men will be delighted with me! ”

3. Every time, seeing the slightest results that brought you closer to your goal, you sincerely and excitedly rejoice.

The obsession and insanity in losing weight has completely different symptoms.

1. You are starving almost to fainting, telling yourself at the same time that “the end justifies the means” and that “for the sake of a slim figure you are ready for anything!”.

2. You are very worried about this and often cry, complaining about an unfair fate.

3. You postpone all pleasures for later, often starting sentences with the phrase “That's when I lose weight ...”. “That's when I lose weight, then I'll go on a date with that cute guy from the marketing department,” “That's when I will lose weight, then I will have sex,” and so on.

4. You are deeply convinced that as long as you have not lost weight, your life has not really begun. And you also think that without a slender figure of happiness in life there is not and can not be!

This is a very dangerous way of thinking. Such an obsession indicates that you do not know how to appreciate what you have, and this is fraught. This phenomenon has been described by famous psychologists. For example, Alexander Sviyash writes in his super-popular books how dangerous it is to idealize his goal. After all, if you live with the installation: I will not be happy until I lose weight - life and your body will have a great temptation to prove to you the opposite. You must understand that you can be happy now. Moreover, it is necessary. At least, in women's magazines do not get tired of writing that joy hormones accelerate metabolism and break down fats. And laughter is one of the oldest ways to lose weight, in contrast to the sour mine, which has not made anyone any slimmer or happier.

Rule number 13Confusion in Ideals

Most people believe they know what they want. In fact, dreams, too, are false, and ideals confused.

For example, the dream of losing weight! It would seem quite logical, normal and even very common dream. In fact, behind the obvious and obvious desire of a slim figure, there can be a mass of incredible secret motifs. For example, you want to lose weight, to improve your personal life, or to be more relaxed in sex, or to get married, or to work as a fashion model. And so on. Yes, but everything is connected, you say.

By no means! In fact, love and weight are not connected in any way! Is that in your mind! Do you think that by becoming thin as a stick, you will immediately find the man of your dreams, who will fall in love with you madly. C'mon! Do you really think so? Is not the desire to accept you for who you are, is not one of the mandatory requirements for the man of your dreams? You know, to be thin and be loved (desired), married - this is not the same thing.

You can become skinny, like Paris Hilton, but at the same time be lonely and useless. So more precisely, formulate your desires. Do you want to get married, and make a wish - I want to get married. If you want to improve the sex life qualitatively, then work on your sex life, not on your weight! What is the use of suffering, starving, torturing yourself with physical exertion, if the result is not what you expected, and not one that will make you happy?

If you doubt that thinness is not a synonym for personal happiness, then read the secular gossip and biographies of famous Hollywood actresses. Try to find at least one top model with a successful personal life. Naomi Campbell, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears - they were all once on the lists of the most beautiful women in the world, and they are all alone.

So do not be shy about dreaming about love! Make yourself a man who will accept and love you for who you are. Look for a prince who will not be embarrassed by your kilos, and the centimeters on his hips will not seem to him to be superfluous. Is the admiring shine of men's eyes and the words of love in your address less pleasant dream than the desire to have a wasp waist? In a word, once again carefully consider what you need and more pleasant.

Rule number 14Say why?

They say it is easier to find yourself when you know the signs! To whom should you turn in search of your “I” and your true desires, aspirations, goals? To a psychologist? For a friend? To the fortuneteller? No, to itself and your subconscious!

So we brought you the most basic psychological reasons for which you can gain weight. Already found one or more? Congratulations! Being aware of the cause of the problem and having enough courage to look her straight in the eye is half the battle! Now you can easily find a way to eliminate this cause, which serves as a source of extra pounds and extra experiences. And if you still think that all of the above has nothing to do with you, that your metabolism is to blame (heredity, poor ecology, or your own laziness)? Or maybe you're still ready to believe that the source of your excess weight is not in donuts and chocolates, but in your head? But you still do not understand what exactly the cause or reasons prevent you from finding the figure of your dreams. Then you have nothing left but to turn to your subconscious for an answer!

I hope from the institute psychology courses you know what the subconscious is. Imagine an iceberg, what is above water is our consciousness, that is, what we are aware of, remember, know for sure (for example, you know that you have blue eyes, that you like to watch “House-2” and hate manna porridge). The fact that an iceberg is under water is our subconscious, there is some hidden information about ourselves (our true feelings, desires, answers to the most difficult and incredible questions). Among these answers for sure there is an answer to the question of why you are overweight. It only remains to receive this answer and make it aware. But how? How do we dive in and see the hidden part of the iceberg?

One of the most effective ways is, of course, hypnosis. However, if you want to understand yourself, there is a more accessible means: meditation. For this, lay down as comfortably as possible, relax, close your eyes. Make sure that you do not lie in a "closed pose", that is, hands and feet should not intersect. Breathe deeply and evenly. Address yourself out loud or to yourself. Ask: "My dear subconscious, tell me, why do I need extra pounds?" Or: "Why can not I lose weight?" Do not think deliberately. Let your thoughts soar freely. The first one that comes to your mind is the right one. No matter how ridiculous it may seem to you at first, do not discard it, on the contrary, try to remember it better or even write it down. After you think it over carefully, you will be convinced that there is a reasonable grain in it. And much will become clearer. You can ask all sorts of questions to your subconscious mind again and again until your curiosity is finally satisfied.

Extra pounds - this problem worries both women and men. Periodically, we try to eat less, sit on complex diets and hope to find magical exercises, performing which once a week, we will look our best! Weigh each one - another way to keep weight under control.

Barbara Brody, a journalist and columnist for the online publication Prevention, decided to check it out on her own experience. She stood on the scales every day for a month - and this is what came of it.

« Although my weight can be called "normal", but it is far from perfect. Of course, I have no illusions about my model appearance, but it would be nice to lose a few pounds of weight. And, it seems, it is not so much, but I would feel so much lighter and better! I understand that over time, you need to get used to age, but not to weight, so I feel that I am approaching a certain trait that I don’t want to step over. I do not want to be in the category of people who are overweight. And point».

Do you have a plan?

« If I lost a few extra pounds, I would only be happy. And it would be much more pleasant to go to the beach! And I would go shopping without a shudder, without worrying about the fact that the shirt might be too tight over the stomach, and the zipper on the jeans would not fit on the hips. Okay, here I have a whole list of amenities for which you should lose a couple of kilograms. Of course, I could eat more plant food, drink more water and ... But I do not want to do that! And I came up with a plan for myself. Within a month, every morning I will stand on the scales and weighBarbara Brody voiced her perspectives.

« Until that time, I was weighed periodically, not regularly, so I didn’t have to deal with the sensations that you experience, contemplating the figure on the scale board. I thought, if I weigh every day, I can focus on the actual figure, on my weight, and keep it in my head constantly throughout the day.". Experts say that people who weigh themselves every day tend to lose weight. Barbara decided to check whether this is true, assuming that maybe she would eat less, do exercises and her extra pounds would just melt in the air. That's what really happened.

"I realized that my weight is much more than I expected"

« The weight issue didn't bother me. I often convinced myself that my weight was stable, but every time I was on the scale I cried out in surprise. Therefore, when I once again weigh in, I was traditionally unpleasantly surprised by the figure that exceeded my expectations by one and a half kilograms! ”  Sometimes it seems to us that we remember our weight with an accuracy of one gram, and it seems that it does not change for weeks, months. Everyday weighing shows us a real picture. And it does not always coincide with the expected.

“I understood that“ fat days ”and“ thin days ”do not always depend on weight”

« I have always had days when I could not look at myself in the mirror and everything, whatever I put on, terribly filled me. But there were days when a beautiful slender stranger looked at me from the mirror! And I always thought that the days in which I felt “fat” or “thin” depended directly on my weight, but it turned out that it wasn’t". When weighed every day, you can draw some conclusions: you can feel a slight swelling and heaviness, but when you are normal, and you can be light and weightless on sensations, but the scales will tell you that there are extra pounds.

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"I was shocked by how quickly my weight changes"

Probably, we all heard about the "floating weight"? It may be that one day we can’t hold back a cry of horror, because we recovered by 3 kilograms, and the next day we sigh with relief, because the figure was normalized in a magical way. And, as experience has shown, kilograms just jump up and down, regardless of fat accumulation. " At first, I thought that my weight (the extra pounds that showed scales) appeared because fat accumulated in my body, but it turned out that today I can weigh more, and tomorrow or the next day again the same amount. I'm used to it.».

"The weight issue has always influenced my mood"

« When my weight was a kilo less, I was in a good mood! When a couple extra pounds were added, I was annoyed and was in a depressed mood"- Barbara shares her impressions -" but this in no way affected my motivation, unfortunately. When I suddenly lost a kilogram, I simply said to myself: “Well, that's great! I can afford another cookie and don’t worry today, ”when the weights indicator was moving up, I just reassured:“ It's okay, you will never become thin again, Barbara!»

"The extra kilos did not go away"

« Probably, you already understood that already, if you have read this far. My weight jumped up and down for a month, and as a result, by the end of my experiment, I weighed 1 kg more than when I started. I suspect that I did not have enough motivation, and even a clearer plan for losing weight. Maybe after a while I will give myself a second chance.».

If you are overweight, and finally decided to get rid of extra pounds, then you are interested in how to quickly lose those extra pounds. This program is suitable for women aged 23-40 years. It should be noted that a sharp decrease in weight can lead to serious consequences, so nursing mothers are not recommended to adhere to this program, since the restriction in food can lead to loss of milk.

First you need to determine the cause of extra pounds. It may be:

• Bad food.
• Lack of movement.
• Diseases.
• Genetic location.

If the cause of overweight is a disease or genetic predisposition, then you should follow a diet developed by doctors, taking into account the diagnosis of the disease. Fast is possible only if you follow the advice faithfully and regularly.

Exercises for quick weight loss

Most modern women lead an inactive lifestyle. Therefore, calories are not spent. The most effective way to lose weight is exercise.

Exercise number 1

Pushups are effective exercises for getting rid of extra pounds. During its execution, you can sweat well. In addition, almost all muscle groups are involved.

Exercise number 2

Jumping rope is undoubtedly an effective exercise for weight loss in the abdomen, buttocks and thighs. It is recommended to perform the exercise for at least 15 minutes a day. If at the beginning such a load is large, then 15 minutes can be divided into three sets of 5 minutes each.

Exercise number 3

Nutrition for quick weight loss

It has long been known that you can quickly lose those extra pounds only with a balanced and proper diet. It should be noted that restrictions on food and fasting can lead to rapid weight loss, but will harm your health. Therefore, in compliance with any diet, it is necessary to eat rationally, as well as follow a few rules:

• The last meal should be no later than 18:00.
• Limit the consumption of foods containing large amounts of carbohydrates, leave only fruit.
• Consume a minimum of fat (olive, vegetable oil, mayonnaise, pork, dairy products).
• Eat more foods that contain large amounts of protein.
• Refuse from fried and salty food.
• Take the right amount of vitamins and minerals. They are necessary for normal digestion.
• Eat more fruits and vegetables.

Follow these rules, be engaged and in the first week you can lose up to 2 kilograms of excess weight. The main thing to overcome their laziness and engage themselves. All in your hands!

Eat porridge with scrambled eggs for breakfast, meat with porridge for lunch, and fish with vegetables for dinner. Between meals, snack on fruits and nuts, and more - drink a bunch of dietary supplements. We argue for anything, how to lose those extra pounds did not become clearer. And you are sitting right now, and you think that this is another article about how to live correctly and about things that do not work. In fact, any activity that increases the consumption of calories, and any way to control the diet, which can bring it into a healthy frame, will bring benefits. Are you afraid of the word "any"? In practice, each person is looking for and finds his own approaches to a healthy lifestyle.

How to lose extra pounds effortlessly

The main “effort” that absolutely anyone needs to do is to find half an hour a day for physical education classes and about the same amount for cutting meat, vegetables, and unfolding ready-made food in containers. But what kind of physical education, and what kind of containers, you already sat out on a good hundred diets, and remade a bunch of home workout programs? And, if you're still reading this, nothing worked. In fact, the best solution is to forget all previous experience. If it didn’t work, then you simply couldn’t create a calorie deficit for quite a long time to lose weight for it. And it’s not worthwhile to arrange a tragedy with ashes and “For what!” Shouting from it. Do not also think that you have a special metabolism, very slow or "lazy".

The first thing to do when deciding to lose weight is to take tests for thyroid hormones, sex hormones, and visit the endocrinologist with their results. It will forever relieve from emotional distress about genetics, metabolism, and other things. When you learn that everything is fine, but if you just give up those tasty buns, the process will go much easier.

In addition, it would be nice to go through a full medical examination, to find out whether you can perform the jumping and power load, in what volumes it is better to do cardio, and whether there are no contraindications to performing certain exercises or eating any foods.

After receiving the results, it remains only to draw up a program to lose weight, and follow it.

Who will need help

Usually everyone is told that losing weight is easier with a nutritionist and trainer. But it is easier here only if:

• a nutritionist and a trainer are really specialists with education, work experience and an understanding of human physiology and anatomy, and not just successfully shaking 10 kg of girls from Instagram, who now send out 1,200 kcal diets to everyone;
• a person is mentally prepared to pay for both training and nutrition control. Believe me, no one needs to do charity work and solve your problems for nothing. Do not want to pay? Most likely, they will send you a sample program with a hundred or two of berpie and other jumps, and a 1200-1500 calorie diet with products, half of which are unrealistic to buy in your city;
• you really need control, and you need to put the technique. If you have everything in order with equipment and self-control, the same money can be spent on high-quality food and a subscription to the hall, in which it will be pleasant to train

By purchasing the services of specialists, you "subscribe" to precisely control and advice, be morally prepared for this. Help is always required for beginners who have never tried to eat more balanced, and have not trained. They need to set up a basic exercise technique, and literally teach them how to make correct breakfasts, lunches and dinners for themselves, and not just send some ready-made set of recommendations.

How to lose extra pounds: proper nutrition

The concept of "proper nutrition" is interpreted as soon as possible. Someone spends whole days in disputes, whether it is possible to eat pasta on proper nutrition, or it should be limited only to buckwheat. Someone regularly looks through all the pages with the "right recipes", and prepares pickles, but ... The real proper nutrition for losing weight is:

• use only simple natural products. Think of buckwheat, which should be cooked, and not about flakes from it for steaming with boiling water. Choose chicken to bake in the oven, rather than semi-finished chicken to defrost in the microwave;
• supplement only simple natural spices. Salt, a small amount of pepper, herbs and garlic is enough. You do not need special “zero calories” sauces, and other expensive and intrusively advertised products;
• counting calories, protein, fat and carbohydrates in the diet. There is usually a mass of disputes and disturbances, but the energy from the “right” food can also lead to weight gain, or make you be fuller than you want. So calories have to be counted anyway;
• adequate calorie deficit calculation. For healthy weight loss, we take 1, 5 g of protein per 1 kg of body weight, 1 g of fat and 3 g of carbohydrates. We count carbohydrates by the “residual principle”. Per day "malnutrition" is allowed a maximum of 300 kcal from the daily energy requirement. It is quite simple to reduce this quantity, having got rid of sugar in dishes and drinks, and from the habit of seizing with sweets all meals.

Important: You will not lose weight faster if you completely eliminate porridge, bread, fruit and other sources of carbohydrates from your diet. You will simply make your plateau and breakdowns more frequent. Therefore, 120-200 g of cereal for breakfast and lunch - this is the necessary minimum for almost any person.

Why can not we exclude carbohydrates, and lose weight "very quickly"? Because it will cause the adaptation of the body and cause it to lower the rate of metabolic reactions. Long-term low-carbohydrate diets negatively affect the state of the thyroid gland, and contribute to the reduction of energy expenditure at rest. Consequently, we do not exclude complex carbohydrates. What should be discarded is a heap of sugar in dishes and products.

How to make a menu for the week for weight loss

It is common practice to purchase food 2 times a week, and the same frequency of cooking.

For convenience, you can buy food according to the following principle:

• 1-3 kg of chicken fillet, the same amount of white fish fillet, and about a kilogram of lean beef fillet;
• 10-20 eggs, 1-3 containers with cottage cheese, as many jars of unsweetened yogurt, if you eat it;
• 1 to 4 kg of green vegetables, or non-starchy vegetables such as zucchini and squash with pumpkin;
• a bottle of cold pressed vegetable oil (if necessary);
• seeds, nuts, dried fruits - 1 package;
• 1-2 kg of any fruit you like;
• if desired - potatoes, sweet potatoes, pasta;
• 1-3 packs of different cereals;
• packaging of high-quality green tea, and coffee to be brewed, and not dissolved in a little water

This scheme is enough for any shopping, vary the types of meat, fish and cereals, so as not to get bored. We need to prepare as simply as possible - we bake meat, fish and other sources of protein in the oven in a bag or foil, or stew with vegetables and a minimum of butter, boil the cereals in advance, and put all this in containers. The amount of food per day will prompt the calculation of calories for weight loss, made in any application for counting calories.

Physical activity

It all depends on the goals and needs. Ideally, you need to conduct 3 strength training for all muscle groups in a week, and increase domestic activity so that you can take about 10-12 thousand steps by walking. This will keep the optimal metabolic rate, make the muscles stronger, the figure - taut. Those who perform strength exercises are “blown away” in volumes faster than those who are simply limited to walking, jogging and cycling.

Is it possible to lose weight without training at all? Theoretically yes, no problem. But usually you don’t need to do that at all - the skin is hanging, muscles are not toned and stretch marks haven’t added physical attractiveness to anyone.

Correctly organize strength training will help the following cheat sheet:

• always choose multistack exercises. You have to squat, do deadlift, bench press and standing, and block pull for the back, or pull up, and not do, for example, converting the arms in the simulator, bending the legs in the simulator, and spreading the arms in the slope. Multi-joint exercises can increase calorie consumption without any additional cardio. They work the muscles in the way that nature provides, and make us stronger, and our posture and body posture - more correct;
• try to do not too much isolating, no more than 1-2 for each muscle group;
• do not forget that training should be dynamic, do not rest more than 2 minutes between sets. On the other hand, if you can rest less between sets, it is worth considering how effective the training is, in principle, perhaps you are taking on too light weight.

In principle, this should be enough for normal weight loss. Many people today choose alternatives - do interval aerobic-strength training, perform only exercises from yoga or Pilates and run, or even completely limit their activities to any one gymnastics without burdens. This, too, can be done if muscle mass is not a priority, and you just need to lose weight and stay healthy.