Speaking of success factors, I should admit that the first one is a mental condition, and the second one is a ration. As for sport, its on the third place. I guess, it is important to know about it if you are going to get slim.
Why did I set the priorities like this? Thats because Ive tried everything! I had been trying to drop weight using sport, diets, fasting, both calculation and ignorance of caloric content, even the famous K clinic, for ten years. I had been taken treatments in K clinic for ten years. But, as Ive already mentioned, my weight came up to three hundred pounds. I bet you wonder what methods are applied in the clinic. Ph. D. of medical science Kosenkov had nearly the same experience of fasting, and he described it in the book. So, youll read about it below. The main method of K clinic is a kind of fasting too. Proper fasting, accompanied by different procedures. During the first four days of being there I ate nothing. I only drank a special broth. I drank rice water four-five times a day, and thats all. No other food. On the fifth day, they started to bring me out of this state. I was given some juice. At the same they maintained my condition by doing lots of bowel cleansing procedures, so that I felt fine more or less. Then, for the rest of the time, I was carefully brought out of fasting. They slowly, very slowly increased my caloric intake and volume of food consumed. The food was pretty common but yummy. You start to feel the taste of the simplest products. You do not imagine how yummy the cucumber or tomato can be! Its a taste explosion! Oh, wish you know how yummy common buckwheat porridge can be! I almost fell in love with it cause I suddenly found out how tasty it is. Thats true. Besides, there were supporting medical procedures such as massage, hydrotherapy, pelopathy, and so on. As a result, I dropped some weight.
Ten or fourteen days were enough to complete the treatment course. The most important results were as follows. First, it changed my eating behavior. Second, the stomach shrinks. As a consequence, it decreases the daily amount of food consumed. It usually lasts for two or three months. Thats all. During the next month, I dropped some weight because of the stomach shrinkage and decrease of daily food amount. Then you try to maintain weight, you feel well enough, you have energy. But, as I have told, the effect lasts for a few months only.
By and large, your life remains the same, and your mindsets, mental prism through which you look at life, remain the same too. You return to the same life that youve left. Now I understand that there is nothing surprising in the fact that you revert to old habits and responses. Its impossible to change anything in your life without change of responses, habits, and life attitude.
Id like to assess the experience of my interaction with the D clinic, either. What did it give me? What are the main advantages? How long did the effect last? What prevented me from achieving long-term and significant results? Actually, it was also quite interesting. In my opinion, I get very important information about caloric content there. Now I realize that only one thing matters. It depends on how much energy you consume with food and on the amount of energy you spend then on physical activity and metabolism. There are no miracles, no magic techniques.
They explain it pretty clearly there. You try this method. They give you tools and explain how to calculate calories. They show you how it works. Then you get significant mindsets. The method includes basic psychological techniques aimed to make you feel disgusted with your favorite high-calorie foods. So, it helps to take away some of the addiction. You get a certain mindset that helps to realize: junky food is not that yummy as you thought before. There are breathing techniques that reduce appetite. Thats true, it works. They are aimed at suppressing appetite. There is a pretty interesting method to identify hunger.
Its really helpful. As a result, I dropped twenty two pounds again. Its nearly the same weight that I lost after the course at K clinic.
Weight loss effect after D clinic lasts a bit longer, about five months. Thats it. It brought some positive attitude for sure, and besides some valuable information.
Ive been thinking about my interaction with Artyom, our collaboration during the counseling, things we had done trying to understand why it led to such impressive and long-term changes: I dropped ninety pounds and maintain achieved weight. I will tell you about it in this book for sure.
Actually, I still keep my weight under control, ensuring that it continues to decrease. I drop pounds pretty slowly now. I still have a long way ahead of me. Nevertheless, I move on! I realize that I have already adopted some new eating habits and perceiving habits. Living this way is easier and more comfortable.
Group session of psychologist
Artyom Andreyevich Ovechkin:
We didnt eat after 6 pm.
Ill write down everything. Gym. What else? Coding. Ill write down all the methods, and then we will discuss them. Coding. Anything else? Fasting. What else? All kinds of diets and food rationing. Surgery? No? Great! So, you havent tried it yet. I believe there will be no need for surgery soon. What else? Pellets.
Yes.
Really? Pellets, slim teas, BAAs.
Diuretics.
Pellets, teas, herbs. As usual, they have a diuretic or purgative effect, or both sometimes, to give you a tiny bit of fun. Getting slim at any cost!
Acupuncture.
Reflex therapy. They can use needles, pressing and cautery, and so on.
Coding.
Fasting. Once I attended a medical center. I hadnt eaten for sixteen days.
Yeah, I am serious. It was a sort of fasting marathon. Was it the weight loss clinic? I dont remember. You shouldnt eat 24 hours before the start. Then you go to the center, talk all night long there. In fact, I had to stay away from food for thirty days after it
Id like to tell you a story now. There is a well-known fasting counselor in the city of Three participants of his training died last year. One of them died on the eighteenth day of fast. But it doesnt stop people from coming!
Remember, fast can be applied only in the clinic under the supervision of physicians! Besides, it is intended not for weight loss but in order to clean the body and improve the health state. During this period, the health condition of the patient should be continuously monitored. If you start fasting under the supervision of a scammer, it can turn out badly.
Nikolay Ivanovich Kosenkov, member of Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ph. D. of medical science
I tried fasting twice. My weight decreased. But a year after, I gained twice the weight I had lost during fasting. Yes, I had an unusual experience at the time of getting out of fast. What a great taste diluted juice has! I had never tried such a yummy drink before. My taste and smell senses were heightened. At the time of fasting, I felt ease throughout my body. I was active and positive. But after fasting my weight went up as fast as ever! Fasting can be applied if you have medical evidence, but not for weight loss. Its all up to you. Is that what you want?