I hate DIETS!.....Yes I said it......shoot me:p

 

You know that moment when you walk into a room and sight that "Adonis".... that hunk of a flesh, in the perfect clothes, world swooling smile and yummy lips:D...and as a cool chic and practicing what mamma taught us, you can't walk up to him and introduce yourself,  so you then start praying and binding any spirit of delay that wants to stop him from noticing you and coming to strike a conversation...hian! If your prayers are answered , he actually finally sees your dazzling smile, Marilyn Monroe rouge lips and walks over.....

 

Fast forward to 2 months after.....you are wailing on your satin sheets in the corner of your bedroom drenching your pillow in salty water cos the hunk just dumped you! Mean thing! After taking you to a state of euphoria and *coughing* ecstasy and spoiling you with all the gifts you can imagine and the entire girl folk were jealous that that babe don hammer!

 

That's exactly how I see diets! Cheats! You see something that you feel you can do as you've been sucked in by the ads and gimmicks and once you start the "water" weight starts to drop off and you are in a state of euphoria "whoop whoop I'm loosing weight "and then you get to a point all the water don finish and you ma start mad ass cravings for normal food wey papa God don kuku ma bless us with before! Then you start to eat like someone who had been in

somalia the last few months and hadn't had a decent meal in years.....hence the point your hunk of a diet has left you high and dry! Then you now add all the "weight" lost and even a lil jara wey nature sef go dash you!

 

I really don't get some diets ooo! Assiiiiin I have seen all sorts in the cause of my research....choi! LWWMO (laff wan wound me o). I would take you guys through the A - Z of diets shortly and you'll be the judge of them yourselves. But I have to do ofofo of this one o.....it can't wait! It's called the Air diet. Here you actually dish your food but pretend to eat......as in you'll be opening and closing your mouth and swallowing air and allowing only the aroma of the meal to fill you! Then when you actually eat, its water and salt soup!LIKE SERIOUSLY!!!!!! And na for Hollywood them do this one pass. Madonna was one of the celebrities used for this ridiculosity! Ptcheeeeeuwwwwww! As my MIL will say, ramgbafe!!

 

I honestly see eating only grapefruit or drinking lemon in water continuously for days only and I can see people lemming better chicken tins or just banning any food group completely,as correct suffering o! Why can't I eat my chicken, without the skin, grilled and sautéed, juicy and luscious? The thot is already making my mouth water! Yummy yummy in my tummy!(as my kids will say)

 

Guess what? Most of the 1 million calories you consume every year are burned without your ever thinking anything of it. It takes energy for you to breathe and sleep and for all your organs to function. The energy you consume and store is used primarily to power your anatomical systems and structures. So in essence only 15 to 30 percent of your calories are burned through intentional activity such as walking, aerobics or doing the wumba wumba on your anniversary! 

This is why I tell people....you are really about what you eat o. For me, and what worked for me (I am not a professional, na law jejely I read) its 80% nutrition and 20% conscious exercise. Let food fight the fight! uh huh! Your bestest weapon against fat ain't a tae-Bo video (exercise is awesome and good tho, don't get me wrong)or a self- serve liposuction vacuum, it's food. Good food. Inflammation-reducing food. Eating ALL food but in the right portions for that category, at the right time and prepared aptly!

For crying out loud why would anyone want to loose all the weight you spent the last 3 years building up in 2 months! It doesn't even make any sense. Your body isn't stupid na, as God dash us better sense na so Him dash our body too...it'll revolt and do that with war sometimes sef. When you starve yourself for more than 12 hours your metabolic rate actually goes down by 40%! And if we add it up, even if your last meal was 9pm (which is a tad too late), you really need brekkie latest before 9am the next morning. When you skip meals, your body senses a dietary disaster and quickly goes into storage mode rather than burn mode. That's the primary reason deprivation diets or too little caloric diets don't work especially for long term. 

 

This is the scenario -Your body panics about going into famine so it slows metabolism into emergency-storing mode rather than a steady state of burning. That's why on the average, breakfast eaters are slimmer than those who skip brekkie (errrrrrrm but that would be a healthy and filling combo and not a meal that can feed a nuclear family of 4 :P). This is so because they keep their metabolism genes turned on meaning that calories are more likely to be burned off before they can turn into fat! And this is why you would hear people honestly tell you they really shouldn't be fat....you ask why and they tell you they dont eat much o...for example now i don't each breakfast! Do we now see the link!!!!

I'm beginning to sound like a "teacher" o.....a strict one at that.....teeheehee...I wan make una vex begin do the proper thing! It starts from the mind people!

I tell people and my clients that you need " The Reason". This reason(s) are the stuff that fuel your determination! Makes you put your head in the game. For me my reasons where;

- I needed to get my confidence back cos I like fashion and looking good and fat sure has a way of making you look silly in a lot of outfits....aside iro and buba sha o....thank God for oleku :D 

- I also refused to look like my hubby's granny! Nefarious o! Haba! Na crime say I marry born am 3 beautiful kids ni?

-I also wanted to be able to walk briskly, go up the stairs and not be gasping like a walrus out of water! 

I have a client who has become like a sister to me....her only reason was simple....her kids!!!. I was curious as to why. She said she had noticed her 7 year old never liked her coming to her school for anything. At every given opportunity she would rather her dad comes or no one. So she sat her down and the lil one confessed amidst tears that she was always teased by her classmates about her mums belly and it made her feel bad. Omoh! She vex say wetin? She def doesn't want to be the cause of her baby's insecurities. And that has kept her focused!

So you need your own reason.....very personal to you. It can be health, like high Bp in ur lineage, or diabetics, or traces of obesity, or self confidence or a sense of accomplishment! Just make it the best quality fuel cos thats what is gonna go into the determination's tank while you drive that car.

At F.i.t.T.r.i.x.......wellness meets fabulosity because that was what drove my determination....I needed to be a confident, healthy and fabulous looking wife and mum of 3 and people see me and they can't possibly believe 3 kids have lived in that trim tummy. Yea yea....it might be a tad vain but a ill bit of vanity is neccessary mbok! I love it when me and boo bump into his colleagues or friends and you can see him beaming with pride......or me sef i bump into old school mates and they are dumbfounded ( it still happened over the weekend at a friends sons 1 year old parry). And thats what we are devouted to doing over and over again!! Help you achieve your goals and stick to it while having a blast! And the awesomest part....No miracle pills or drugs! Just FOOD. www.facebook.com/FittrixPassion
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Here i was @ Uk sz 16/18, though coming from 18/20-22.....upper waist-35; lower waist 43; Hips 50..... 2 kids...*sigh. Any fatter and that cart wouldn't have fit!!

We need to leave that mentality of our granny's generation where from a mile away you can tell the mums of 2,3,6 from the sisi's. Or is there any silent code of conduct that says because I have decided to love and marry a dude....bear him kids then my life don end? Please tell me oo lemme know so we will know which god to appease as I don contravene wella! Cos I look soooo good now, when I'm walking past a mirror or glass i actually stop to check myself out!:D*wink**wink*

As a mum of 3 kids....no abs o but im mighty happy with my trim tummy....@ least i dont look preggies all the time :P. STATS- upper waist 29; lower waist 31.5; hips 44(hips dont lie!!)

So i hope with this few points of mine you will fully understand my assertion........DIETS DONT WORK!! As you can see i achieved this transformation without any fad diets. Lets ditch the quick-fix mentality mbok and apply our selves and minds for the long haul.