How This 24-Year-Old Dropped 106 Pounds! The Entire Plan Of Attack Inside.
Living a healthy lifestyle and getting our bodies to a healthy point is something many of us are really starting to embrace.
While I personally chalk much of this up to the growing awareness and the shift in consciousness, we are experiencing things that get us more in touch with ourselves, each other, our bodies and the earth, the reason that strikes each of us can be different. This article is about my cousin and the story is quite inspiring. We get asked various health questions all the time. Whether it be about eating a healthy diet, certain health concerns, transitioning to vegan or vegetarian diets or anything about exercise and healthy living, at the end of the day, our conversations are always about doing what feels right to you and adjusting your lifestyle in a way that suits what you feel is the right direction for you given the knowledge that you are exploring. In many cases many of the adjustments are small and simple, but can be psychologically challenging. Sometimes we feel that losing weight or becoming more healthy is an unattainable amount of work, but as you will see below small adjustments and some dedication to a healthier lifestyle can make a huge difference to your health. Summary of changes: WHO: Rob Loschiavo, conversationalist at the Conversation Agency. AGE: 24 CITY: Toronto 300 at my heaviest, and currently 194, total weight loss of 106 pounds. As a kid, I was pretty healthy and skinny for the most part. I was always very active, played hockey since I was 4 and I can’t remember ever not playing outside.
The weight gain started when I was about 10. Unfortunately, for me my weight gain was triggered by both of my parents going through a separation during that year. I don’t think I really realized how quickly I was gaining weight until I was in high school and insecurities set in.
There is so much that went through my head when I think about all the situations, comments and ridicule I endured that made me want to change.
The final straw had to have been somewhere between a McDonald’s and all-you-can-eat sushi binge —but all jokes aside, it happened when I realized that I was disrespecting myself, and I wasn’t loving myself and how I looked. In turn, how could I ever expect friends, coworkers, potential clients, or new partners to respect me? I wanted to be healthy, I wanted to wake up in the morning and not look in the mirror and feel disgusted with myself. I wanted to be happy, and shop at all of the stores I liked. I didn’t want to have to battle searching for the largest size in a store and pray it would somehow fit. And then there’s the whole having a beach body thing. I’m a very social and outgoing guy, so being out and about and always in the public eye, I wanted to been seen differently. It all started a year ago, right after booking a trip to Cabo, Mexico with friends. I set the goal in my mind that I would loose 100 pounds in one year. A friend of mine introduced me to the world of juicing and I don’t think I ever turned back since. I replaced my breakfast meals with a fresh green juice filled with fresh fruit and vegetables. Every morning, I would get up 20 minutes earlier, fire up the juicer and away I went. Immediately after a week of this process, I already found a change in my attitude, energy, and that I was actually losing weight. Next, included removing any and all processed foods from my life. Trust me when I say it’s really easy to do this. I started eating fresh foods, and foods rich in vitamins and nutrients. A lot of the time kale became my best friend. But for the most part, processed foods, sweets, fast food, and heavy meals like a bowl of pasta were out of my life. I also become very conscious of the calories I was consuming when I would cheat or indulge a little. I knew how much work, sweat, and time went into burning off a cookie at the gym.
The hardest adjustment was having time! Being healthy takes lots of dedication. Getting take out food takes five minutes, whereas finishing work at 5 p.m., getting home for 6 p.m. and whipping up a healthy meal from scratch was not always easy and was quite exhausting a lot of the time. To this day, I will never admit to dieting. Dieting does not work. Diets always fade away and once they do you go back to your normal eating habits and that gets you nowhere. I discovered that what I went through was a lifestyle change, one I was proud of! My first step was signing up for my local gym, I knew I would not be making a transformation without putting in some hard work. Prior to joining, everything seemed pretty exhausting and draining because I wasn’t in shape or active by any means. Signing up for the gym was excruciating because it was a shock for my body to get used to.
These days I go to the gym about three to four times a week for an hour. I focus on 30 minutes of cardio and 30 minutes split between focus on my abdomen, legs, arms, etc. with weights. It gives me so much pride and confidence to see what I accomplished! At the beginning I thought I was dreaming trying to lose anything even close to 100 pounds. One year later and I can’t wipe the smile off my face. My biggest regret was worrying so much about cheating or the bad stuff I ate after the fact of already having it.
The damage was done. One healthy meal doesn’t make you healthy, just the way as one bad meal will not make you unhealthy. Remember that it takes a lot of time and hard work.
There is no rush. Find out what works and what doesn’t work for you and create a new lifestyle. It’s not going to be easy, and sometimes it will feel like you will never reach your goal, but it’s not always about getting to your goal — it’s about the journey to reach it and what you discover about yourself. Never lose hope, and never give up. Another huge help is motivating friends to do the same and sharing stories with them.
The biggest thing is that you have to want to change and you’ll be so happy when you finally do. Originally submitted to: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/02/25/weight-lost_n_4853273.html .
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