1. I didn’t want to go hungry nor starve
2. The food will have to taste good
3. The ingredients would have to be fine, healthy and easy to use/prepare
4. I didn’t want to exercise
5. My goal weight was 75kg

I had also learned from my previous attempts to loose weight and knew what traps I could fall in. For instance I came to realize that I was a sugar addict and my new diet would of course have to take that into account. I also knew that once I start to eating candies and cakes I won’t settle for one piece or few pieces for that matter. I would finish the entire box or plate.

Obviously my enemy were the carbohydrates in all that candy and sweets I consumed. But a lot came also from fruit juices, wrong timing of fruit consumption. Wrong fruits would also make my blood sugar skyrocket or plummet and those would have to be exchanged.

So I made my own diet based upon the ideas from Atkins, GI (Glycaemic Index) and “The Stone Age diet”. The food would have to contain a lot of proteins and much less carbohydrates. Sufficient amount of healthy fats as well as all needed vitamins and minerals would also make the list. Liquid was an important part too and I opted for still water (no bubbles) and sometimes lemonade (without sugar of course). I was to continue to drink coffee (no sugar there either) but not milk. However yogurt was fine as long as it didn’t contain sugar nor aspartame. Seeds won’t make the list but nuts (especially almonds) were to become one of my favourites. Often I would aslo eat raw food.

I guess you could call my diet “Haris’ diet” and you wouldn’t be wrong since I later realized that what I was doing was to make my own diet in the process. In my next post I will publish an extensive list of the ingredients that I considered eatable. Later on I will also provide you with the recipes for different dishes

The thing is that I haven’t been overweight forever. Before I turned into lazy-sitting, cake-eating, not-exercising  blob I used to be a very fit person who trained regularly and didn’t get tired from walking up the stairs. I knew how good life could be and a loss of that made me almost despise myself. Several times I tried to loose weight but it didn’t work out mostly due to my lack of discipline. These failures just made me even angrier with myself and the cycle of evil continued.

But something happened that sunny morning in April 2008. On my way to work, as I was forced to pick up the pace not to be late which made me all puffed out, I cussed myself for eating another 250gr of chocolate last night. Bad conscience was killing me! Luckily for me I picked up a free newspaper on the bus earlier that morning and one headline caught my attention. I do not remember it exactly any more but it was about detoxing after overeating during Easter-holidays. After skimming through the article I made a firm decision to try that detox over the weekend and see how that would work-out for me. Six weeks later I was 13kg lighter and enormously happier. After additional sex weeks I lost four more kilos and achieved my target weight of 75kg (165 pounds).

I did it all without exercising or starving and more importantly, one year later I have not regained any of the weight I lost during those three months. But the best part is the sense of achievement and self-respect I gained in the process. Now I do not have to fight with myself every morning nor despise myself for every bite of chocolate I take.

This blog is about that. About my personal journey out of obesity and overweight. About achievement, self esteem and happiness. I hope that you will find it interesting, informative and helpful and, if you wish, share your views and experience with me.

If you want to loose weight I want to tell you that you CAN DO IT and once you do it, you can stay that way too. Just make up your mind and stick to your decision. Your new life CAN start here and now but only if you want to.