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When I discovered I could count calories to lose weigh, I felt like I have found a perfect solution to control my weight.

I was in my leanest body in August of 2019 that I've ever being by counting calories and doing intermittent fasting, but I was still over eating.

All my attempts so far to lose weight weren't in vain, the mistakes helped me see what works for me.

In April of 2024, I can say ingesting nutrients and vitamins your body need, is key to have cravings under control. The food that I've eating during my life full in sugar will come to my mind, but I'll see it and don't have the action to buy and eat it.

Today at 28y I can say I never had problems with appetite, I've always loved eating, it made me happy, but I shouldn't have created the habit of eating so much of ultra processed food. Because by eating it so often I was feeding a addiction.

I’d say it started when I was a kid and didn’t have an understanding about what food meant to my health.

I remember always eating as much as I wanted without caring about what was it.

Now I understand that it was not normal to eat an entire bar of chocolate, or more than one ice cream after lunch.

It turned into a coping mechanism for sadness.

How I don’t let sadness interfere with my eating habits?

I have three meals a day, eat carbs, protein, vegetables and fruits.

When I want to eat chocolate, my favorite unnatural sweet I do it after a meal and eat only one portion size.

I understand the meaning of a portion and I eat it without repeating the plate.

Even when I’m sad, I try to understand the feeling instead of using something to distract me from it.

I never understood why I was struggling so much with my food habits, till i realized my motivation were in the wrong place.

My main goal to chance my diet, was my body image when it should have being all the time my mental health.

Our brains is the one of the main sources of power and what make us who we are.

When I was ingesting alcohol and a lot of sugar, red meat, and chocolate till I finished the entire bottle of chocolate cream I wasn't taking in consideration the long term effect it would have in my brain.

In the next days and even weeks I'd experience dizziness, diarrhea, lack of focus, irritability, insomnia, episodes of depression.

The crave for sugar was coming of a place os lack of knowledge when I didn't know that I should protect my brain though food.

Since I realized it, I don't struggle anymore with food choices, because I know what I should do to keep my brain health.

Beautiful morning ☀️

Starting the day 1/30 with the new plan to be healthier for my trip to Germany

Breakfast

Eggs 🥚

Strawberries

Dragon fruit

Linseed

Cocoa and black coffee ☕️

In the past 29 days I've tried to follow a protein diet around 100g of protein per day, but in the end I didn't felt so could so in the next 3 weeks I will try to eat like in the book #fastlikeagirl but without introducing so much fat because I can handle well nuts.

Lowing the protein intake to 70/50g sound good for me. Having a dinner with cooked vegetables, fruits and flaxseeds sound like a good plan for the next weeks.

In 2023 and at the beginning of the 2024 I reached a level of unhappiness and worthless I had never experience before.

Most of it because I wanted to have my first job experience in Europe and I couldn't reach in the period of time I wanted, and when I finally got it, I lost it after 3 months of work.

This made me realize how important for a human begin is to be self employed, to avoid situations that makes you think you're incapable of achieving daily goals.

I see myself has a extreme smart, intelligent, persistent and I can't put myself down just because someone decided to fired me. I can't give others this kind of power.

The fact I had to put myself together, by myself with no external help, made me realize how much I want to be successful and win in life. Have my own business, a company to rule and manage.

When people work for others they get fired all the time, so that made me thing. Am I gonna fall apart every time I get a no? every day I don't feel like I'm achieving goals and being meaningful, and mindful?

Benefits:

Healthy skin

Healthy gut

Healthy mind

Healthy life.

I'm 28y and I've always being surrounded by the greatest love of my mother. Even thought my relationship with my father were more cold, because of his mental illness I LOVED my family with everything I had.

I only understood how difficult is to live in this world without being surrounded by people that love and care about you, after almost 1 year and half of living in abroad.

I learn the most valuable and realistic lesson about life in 2024.

Nobody is coming.

Every human being is living their own lives. They don't care about what you need. YOU need to stand, speak, look people in their eyes, and say what you want from them.

You tell the world what YOU want, and it will give to you if you work hard to achieve your goals and learn the steps.

It's not easy to digest and accept this fact of reality, but is the way it's.

Going outside home, the strangers only want to get money. To take your time and profit from you.

When you step outside, be prepared to defend yourself.

Some people don’t find happiness at their homes with caring parents, but I was blessed with the best parents I could ever dreamed.

I see now that because there was so much love at home I was too resistant to find my place in the world and decide what I wanted to study and be has a professional. I also wasn’t interested about taking a drive license or be intimate with guys.

All that was in my subconscious and only now I realize. But I don’t blame myself. Imagine living in a house where you were comfortable, have your room, food, love and attention. That’s with everybody wants and need to grow. It’s the perfect home. But parents are not forever, they die and at some point you need to grow and became an adult.

The outside is full of strangers. Fast food, extra sugary food that warms you health, people will come to you with the intent to take, not give. You need to learn how to develop a skill, get a job and give knowledge to have something in return.

To have a meaningful life, find love, build a family, have a work that makes you happy, be surrounded by good friends so in the end you will be able to say: I loved and I was loved.

I saw people getting destroyed after loosing people they loved. I won’t be that kind of person. I’ll survive and live after the loss.