How did you lose extra weight so nicely?

Losing weight is simple, it’s just not easy.

My transformation.

I had always been a thin person. I was that person who could eat anything, yet never put on any weight. I was also pretty consistent on working out, which actually meant only cardio.

I was not in a habit of watching what I ate, had lot of carbs and processed sugar in my early and mid twenties. Thanks to my metabolism and all the cardio I was putting in, I looked like this.

Then I got pregnant, and this was my evolution

2 months pregnant

9 months pregnant

Overall, I gained 30 kgs. I went from weighing 50 kgs to 80 kgs by the end of my pregnancy.

After Trish was born, a month post-partum I looked like this.

This one is 4 months post-partum

And this is 8 months post-partum

At this point I started my cardio again, but continued with bad eating habits. I was not having enough water and eating a lot of processed food and sugars.

This is me 1 year post-partum

This is when I realized that old ways were not working. My brother has been in weight training for a very long time now, and finally I was ready to take his advice and make a sustainable change to not only look thin, but be healthier.

I started counting my macros, and moved to Pilates and yoga and occasional weight training. I didn’t completely move away from cardio, but reduced it. Additionally, I started watching my water intake and completely removed processed sugars from my foods.

This is me 18 months post-partum

I continued with my exercise and nutrition routine, I feel healthier than ever, I can walk long distances, I have more toned body than I have ever had in my life.

This is me recently, 2 years post-partum

Losing weight is simple, it’s just not easy.

Don't be extreme, be consistent.

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MLB Picks: Who will win the ALCS and NLCS ?

The MLB season is down to the final four teams, battling for an appearance in this season’s World Series. The Yankees and Astros face off in the ALCS and the Nationals and the Cardinals battle in the NLCS.

Washington Nationals versus St. Louis Cardinals

The Nationals are perhaps the hottest team in baseball, coming from nowhere after the first couple of months to storm into the post-season. After taking down the Brewers in the Wild Card game and Dodgers in the Divisional Round, they took game one in the NLCS. They are “burning hot” and +25 on the Power Ranking Indicator. The Cardinals are coming off a series win over the Braves and are +27 and “average down” on the Team Strength Oscillator. Washington has been the more stable team according to the Team Volatility Oscillator at +35 compared to +5 for the Cardinals. If picking the over/under, go with the “over” as both teams have been playing in games trending in that direction.

During the regular season, the teams had nearly identical home records and road records. Head-to-head the Cardinals won five of eight, but the Nationals took three of the last four. Max Scherzer is set to pitch game two versus Adam Wainwright and our site gives the Nationals a 65 percent chance of going up 2-0 in the series. The Cardinals are averaging 4.3 runs per game in the playoffs with an ERA of 2.30 while the Nationals are averaging 3.9 runs and an ERA of 3.43.

Washington is likely to go up 2-0 and if they do, will be difficult for the Cardinals to win the series. The pick is the Nationals to keep the magic going and win in six or seven to advance to the World Series.

New York Yankees versus Houston Astros

The Yankees come in with a somewhat surprising sweep over the Twins in the Divisional Round, while the Astros needed five games to dispose of the Rays.  The Yankees are “burning hot” on the Team Strength Oscillator versus “average up” for the Astros and both teams are at +28 on the Power Ranking Indicator. You might want to pick the “under” in games in this series with the Astros trending farther under the line than the Yankees have been over the line. Both teams have been extremely stable with the Astros are +57 on the Team Volatility Oscillator to the Yankees +45. This means the teams are extremely consistent according to the favorite/underdog status.

Head-to-head this season the Astros took four of the seven games. During the playoffs the Yankees are averaging 7.7 runs per game with a team ERA of 2.33. The Astros averaged 3.8 runs and had an ERA of 3.56 against the Rays.

Houston has been extremely tough at home, going 60-21 in the regular season and the Yankees have been excellent as well, going 57-34. James Paxton is scheduled to pitch the first game for the Yankees and Justin Verlander will go for the Astros. The key to this series will likely be home field advantage. Both teams should be favorites at home. Look for Houston to find a way to win a game or two on the road and hold home field. This could be a seven game series with the Astros advancing.

What is something nobody tells you about weight loss?

I’ve been in a weird sharing mood today so… here we go.

What do the above pictures look like to you? Before and after photos, right? Pretty normal. Obvious weight loss there. About 130lbs, actually. A whole person.

I lost a whole person. Pretty awesome, one would think. Something many people would commend.

These are my before and after photos… Well. Sort of.

But let me add my weight in each photo.

So… yep. In the second photo ^ I am actually the lightest I’ve been, and nearly 10lbs lighter than I am in the last two photos.

What is something no one tells you about weight loss?

The journey may mentally and emotionally f*ck you up.

Excess skin may f*ck you up.

Other people see one thing (the latter two photos) but you see the second photo. You are with you all the time. You see every unflattering angle. Feel every droop in your skin when you sit or lay down. You feel and see all of it.

But you hear the compliments people are paying you. Commending you for your discipline and your effort. Saying that clearly your hard work has paid off. But… has it? You look in the mirror and grapple at the excess skin.

Has your hard work really paid off?

Are these people lying to you?

Phantom Fat Syndrome is one of the worst things I’ve had to deal with.

And I hate it.

Honestly, I don’t know if I can be inspirational right now because I hate what I see so much. I hate what it feels like. I hate looking at it every day. Yeah, one day, sure I can get it removed when I have the money for it, but when? How long am I going to have to live like this? Live with the skin reminder that I used to be over 300 lbs?

People can tell you all they want that you need to love and accept your body for how it looks, and to a degree, you do, but their words in the end don’t really matter. What other people say won’t change how you feel about yourself. People call me pretty, I still think I look ugly. People think I look great, I still feel morbidly obese.

It’s a literal mindf*ck and it makes you feel like sh*t. Then you just seem like a negative Nancy because you can’t seem to take a compliment.

The physical part of losing weight was the easy part. The emotional and mental aspects have been the hardest.

How many times do you need to go to the gym lose weight?

80% of your weight loss results are from nutrition, not exercise!

You are probably going to love this answer…

There is really no need to go to the gym to loser weight. When it comes to weight loss results, 80% of the magic happens within the kitchen. The small 10% (although still significant) happens with activity levels. It’s not essential to train within a gym. You could train outdoors, or even just walk as exercise.

If on the other hand, you want to change the shape of your physique, build muscle mass and really tap into those fat reserves that are driving you mad.. the gym is therefore essential for you.

Our goals are dependent on what will make us happy, and what we want to achieve. Maybe for you it’s sustainable to rely on just food to create the best body composition. For others, they would like muscle mass, to get just that little bit leaner, or would like to build strength and flexibility. We can pick and choose according to our lifestyle.

The decision then is ultimately what you make of it. I cannot tell you what you should do, but I will get into the benefits of using the gym and nutrition to expand your current goal scope. I’ll make it really simple and easy.

5 easy and effective weight loss steps

1. Eat natural food. No more processed and supermarket self foods. This includes biscuits and cakes, even when you think they are healthy protein balls, most likely they are not! Opt for food that derived from frees or out of the ground. The more naturally grown the food is, the better it is for your and your family.
2. Gut health is of importance. The microflora that lives In our gut, plays huge roll in your natural body composition, as well as your long term health. Support your gut by infusing it with pre-biotics as well as pro-biotics. These include green veggies, sauerkraut, root tubers, nuts and berries and fibre. Please feel free to try gutright, as it’s a very popular gut cleansing strategy I’ve every used!
3. Protein with every meal. This includes read meats, fish, poultry and eggs. Protein increases your rate of satiety, as well as creating an environment to increase muscle mass and stop you from losing it. Also, remember that protein taxes the digestive system, meaning it requires ore energy from you to digest the food. This causes a thermal effect.
4. Give grains the flick. Stick to veggies, and don’t go near loaves of bread, pastries of biscuits. Highly processed grains are very easy to overeat, and are filled with sugars and there for, make it really easy for them to eat. Always pick the healthier option, and you can never go wrong.
5. Opt for organic whenever possible . Organic foods tend to have a higher nutritional content. They also help you in the fight to avoid pesticides, estrogen activity and the accumulation of belly fat. Hormones can be detrimental to your body composition. Do ensure that you drink plenty of water on an hourly basis.

Please follow me on social media, as I would love to build a fitness community of like minded individuals. I look forward to connecting with you.

Don’t forget, custom made strength training programs are available. There is nothing more rewarding than coaching people towards achieving their physique goals.

What are the advantages/risks of the keto diet craze?

I’ve lost over 200 pounds on keto, and I did it about 9 years ago before it became a fad, so I can say without a doubt it works and the weight stays off effortlessly if you keep your carbs low.

The advantages of keto are, in a very broad and quick sense:

1. More energy as ketones don’t spike insulin the way glucose does. The constant spike of blood sugar resulting in an insulin spike drives energy boosts and crashes. This process also leads to weight gain, and potentially to type 2 diabetes. In addition, constantly circulating insulin causes systemic inflammation, which puts you at a greater risk for cancer, diabetes, heart disease, gout, PCOS, etc, etc. Keto stops this runaway train by stopping the insulinogenic processes that cause all of it.
2. Ketones suppress ghrelin, the hunger hormone. This makes it easier to simply eat less.
3. Ketones seem to have a neuroprotective quality that interacts favorably with epilepsy, Parkinsons, and other neurological disorders.
4. Once you’ve become fat adapted - that is, the metabolic shift that allows your body to use fat as easily as it uses glucose for fuel - you will get into ketosis faster and easier in the future. This also allows easier mobilization of stored fat for energy which will cause weight loss.
5. Ketosis lowers blood pressure, helps improves fasted blood sugar and can eventually lower A1C, triglycerides, and a host of other blood markers for inflammation and metabolic distress.
6. Keto helps reverse non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by giving the liver a break from processing sugar (particularly fructose) which leads to fat deposits in the liver in the first place. In fact, there are a lot of metabolic diseases that ketosis helps with, including evidence that ketones help with autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, among others. (Note that the article linked above suggests ketosis and lower carb, lower processed food diets should be beneficial in absence of highly processed western diets.)

Disadvantages to keto are:

1. It’s pretty strict. Even though there are a lot of companies now pouring research into keto-friendly processed foods, one of the main reasons you want to do keto is to avoid processed foods.
   
   With that said, however, you can eat a wide variety of vegetables, just not starchy ones like corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, or beets. You can eat low sugar fruits like the various berries and avocado (which is, itself, a berry so there’s your fun fact for the day).
   
   Keto is restrictive in the sense that you can’t eat the highly processed, unhealthy foods that have been normalized to us our entire lives. That will feel weird at first, but you’ll get used to it and once you realize how good you feel on keto versus a western diet, you won’t want to go back.
2. You’re going to get a million people who are basing their nutritional beliefs off 50 year old bad science (research Ansel Keys if you’re bored and want to know how badly our food science is in the US). Our food pyramid and government suggestions for good nutrition are based on agricultural lobbying, nothing else. Even with emerging, hard data that saturated fat in its natural forms (butter, bacon grease, coconut oil) is healthy for you, many governments (UK and US primarily) refuse to budge on recommendations that you should eat highly processed fats instead.
3. You’ll get a lot of other people telling you that “all that protein” will kill your kidneys. Firstly, keto is high fat, moderate protein, low carb, so you won’t really be eating too much more protein, but secondly unless you have kidney problems, they’ll process more protein no problem.
4. You’ll also have people telling you that you “need” carbs, but that’s nonsense. Our bodies are designed to work optimally on the long-burning fuel of fat, and get quick bursts of energy from carbs. 10,000 years ago we didn’t have Costcos to get Twinkies at 2 in the morning. We had to rely on hunting big game, foraging for roots and some vegetables, and very rarely did we find a bee hive or some berries to give us a quick rush of tasty sugar. Beyond that, your body has essential amino acids and essential fatty acids it needs to live, but there’s not one essential carb.
5. Keto takes a few days to a few weeks to adapt to. In that time period you might experience some “side effects”, such as:

• Headache
• Fatigue
• Irritability
• Stomach issues
• Other weird things like being overly hot or cold, difficulty sleeping, muscle cramps, etc.

The good news is that these things can be mitigated almost entirely by ensuring that you’re getting enough electrolytes. You want about 3500–5000mg of sodium per day, 400 mg of magnesium, and 3500–4200 mg of potassium.

You can get sodium from salting your food, and you can supplement about 200 mg of magnesium a day in pill form (after that you kind of just pee it out), but potassium and roughly half your magnesium really should come from foods, like pumpkin seeds, salmon, spinach, avocado, cocoa powder (no sugar added), kale, walnuts, almonds, broccoli, sardines, etc.

Keto makes you pee a lot, because when you stop eating sugar, your body stops converting glucose into glycogen. When you’ve used up all your stored glycogen, you pee out all the water that it was stored in. This is a reason people lose so much weight in the first 2 weeks of keto. Half might be fat, but you’re going to pee a lot. You need to replace those electrolytes or you’ll feel like garbage.

Basically, the biggest “disadvantages” of keto are getting over the fact that western foods are generally not healthy even though they’re delicious, and people telling you you’re going to get sick, get ketoacidosis (which really only happens to type 1 diabetics), or people judging you.

Keto is a great way to suppress your appetite and lose weight, dramatically lower systemic inflammation, and cut your risk of various metabolic diseases by a wide margin. Keto took me from 450 pounds to 250 pounds in about 13 months, also taking my total cholesterol from 312 to normal ranges in the same time. It helps calm my soul-crushing anxiety, helps me think more clearly, and lets me fast for long periods of time (and fasting has its own merits, too).

Anyway, this was way longer than I wanted it to be, but you should be able to skim and get the information you wanted. I highly recommend keto, even if you’re not overweight, because of the health benefits of dramatically reducing your processed food and carb intake overall.

How can I reduce my weight from 78 kg to 65 kg in 2 months?

Well for that you need to follow a strict diet and an exercise routine.

I am just putting some bullet points in layman terms to give an idea and easy understanding to focus on the areas.

To start with, go with these.

1. Stop taking salt.
2. Stop taking sugar.
3. Start drinking water.
4. Limit your carbohydrates.
5. No fat
6. No. Junk
7. No starch
8. Only salads, liquids

Edit 1 - By the words Stop/No here I mean avoiding/minimizing the intake.

Edit 2 - Only salads, liquids include Fruits, vegetables, juices, chicken salads should make large part of your meals.

I myself lost exact 25kgs in 2 months.

Starting from April to June end.

Before

After

Now

Need guidance ?

Best Regards