What I did to lose fat pounds

I’m writing on a topic that is very close to me right now, as I am going through a very stressful time in my life.

I’ve experienced it before. When the stress piles up, the pounds of fat that had melted away so easily before would come rushing back with a vengeance.

Taking a good look at myself, I decided that I am not going to let that happen this time and see what steps I could take to keep the weight off. The most obvious was beer. When in times of stress or depression, I tend to go out much more often than normal. Being in a happy social atmosphere helps with stress and sadness, but the presence of beer, almost always accompanied by some kind of snack, makes this a nightmare from a weight loss perspective.

The diet I have been following doesn’t really have any allowances for frequent drinking and eating out, so I decided to go back to an old friend.

ATKINS

I’ve spent the past week or so doing basically the maintenance phase of atkins. While I can’t have beer, it does allow distilled alcohols, and doesn’t restrict meat or cheese. So I’ve been ‘dieting’ at a Japanese izakaya a lot lately.

Japanese Izakaya

I’m happy to say that while I’m not losing any weight, I haven’t started going up either, which is also important for long term weight loss.

I have no real data to show you on this one, but I wanted to take a second and talk about mentality while dieting.

Sometimes when I was trying to lose weight, I was being overly negative. I HATED the fat. I Hated those extra inches on my waist. I Hated myself basically.

When you diet with a mindset that you hate yourself and your body, you tend to (at least in my experience) go overboard to the point that you are aost punishing yourself.

When you try to lose fat by starving yourself, the weight loss won’t be sustainable.