Update with a photo :)

It has been 2 months since I last posted a comparing picture about my progress, so I decided to update you guys on this. If you follow me on instagram you might have seen it already, but anyway. :) I don't have a picture from the day I started changing my diet, so I am using a selfie from last year, which was taken literally a year ago yesterday. 

This is the picture from the 23rd of July

And this is yesterday, 30th of September

-15.1 kg so far. I would like to lose 25 more, at least. So I am almost halfway through, which feels kinda nice. :) The past couple of weeks I started doing 2 runs a week (almost 8 kilometers each time!), and 1 yoga. At home just now, just started to get the hang of it. I will tell you guys later who I found on youtube who is finally not expecting a full beginner to do the craziest shit on the first try. :D The weather treats me, I can still run outside, and don't even need to have warm gear on, but I am going to need to look into more warmer running clothes for the winter, so if you have any recommendations where to look for them, I would be more than happy.

My diet is still the same, lots of fruits and veggies, trying to eat the whole wheat version of everything, and no sugar. I have the occasional wee cake or a slice of pizza, but everyone needs to treat themselves every once in a while, right? I still write in my food journal daily, so I can check what my body likes or dislikes, how my weight reacts to the food I ate the previous day. It is almost full now, so there is an other reason to go to Paperchase again, yay!

I will try to post more I promise, I just lost the inspiration to write, but that didn't mean I stopped doing what I started, as you see it in the pictures. :)

The "Under 100 Club"

Speaking about weight is a dodgy thing. Most people gets offended when it is brought up. Even in medical situations, when I worked as a midwife trainee and asked women their weight, they felt attacked. But of course it was the most important to know, as if there was any emergency, you need to know the doses of the drugs for her. Anyway. 

I hated scales for a long period of time. They made me face the reality, and I didn't like it. I knew, it would show me a number that would have made me upset, so I just ignored it. Now since I started this lifestyle change, of course I own a scale, and use it regularly. Every time I step on it, I still have that feeling, that I need to get away from it, but it gets less and less intense every day.

Today was the first time, I had a genuine big smile on my face, looking at the screen of the scale. It said 99,5 kg. I can't tell you, when was the last time I was under a 100 kilos, but I am sure it was almost a decade ago. I felt so happy, I just can't even describe it. Gave me such a motivation boost, I just galloped to the kitchen to prepare my fruit bowl for lunch. I know it is still a lot (bare in mind, I am 1.75 meters tall), but I am under a 100! I reached an other milestone, and it just gave me a big boost to go harder and be more motivated.

Update about my running: I reached week 9 with my app, so I am finishing the training this week. Now I run for 30 minutes (still need a 50 meters walk in the middle - gonna write an other post about it, because it annoys me), and I reached 5 kilometres, going for almost 6 now. :) I am also thinking about starting yoga, there is a studio on our street, so it is quite convenient. It is so nice that I actually want to do these things, not just forcing myself into them. Change is really an amazing thing. 

You look great! What is your secret?

I changed my lifestyle 3 months ago now, so of course people started noticing the difference. I am going to be honest with you, it feels quite nice when people notice and compliment. What is funny, when they start asking about my secret. Everyone in the world wants magic. Not the Harry Potter type (of course I want that as well tho!), but the Jabberwocky type. Which will revolutionize the way we do business weighloss. (Let me know in the comments below if you understood the reference. Virtual high five.) Everything seems easier, when there is a secret ingredient you never heard of. That is why you never managed before, because you didn't try the thing. Wether if it is losing weight, or starting your own business, or moving to a different country, there has to be a secret. There has to be something, which makes it easier, and since you don't have that secret, it is not your fault that you never managed before. There has to be a pill, a prayer, a ritual or something. 

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 Well I am sorry to say, there is no spoon secret. If you want to change, and you want your results to last, you just have to work for it. You just have to start eating right, start walking, running, cycling, and believing in yourself. There are some pills and powders and stuff that might work for a short period of time, and can make you feel that you still can eat a large pizza from Dominos and lose weight at the same time, but trust me, they are not good for you. Eating right and working out is good for you. And you will see it in the long run, that it was the right choice. When you eat right and don't make your system do crazy things, your body will transform at its own pace, and it is less likely that you end up with loose skin all over, and you won't look sick during the process. Sometimes, when people do silly things to lose weight (either taking pills or just starving themselves for a couple of weeks), you can see dark circles under their eyes, they don't look healthy at all. I don't feel or look sick. I am comfident even without make up. 

You know what? I might have a secret. My secret is me. And you have yours as well. You just have to find it. It is there, I am sure. Just look for it.