Diets that worked for me after 30

Good evening. This is MARU.

I was at my heaviest around the spring of 2020, andI was over 62kg (my height is 155.5cm). Back then, my days were full of stress, I was feeling mentally down, suffering from insomnia, and prone to overeating. On top of that, I was also an alcoholic ← I hit rock bottom 👿

I had tried various diets before, but while I could lose some weight, it was a vicious cycle of gaining it all back once the diet period ended. Plus, unlike in my 20s, it's become harder to lose weight >< I would diet, get frustrated, lose control and overeat, try to stop eating out of self-loathing, but then get angry and overeat again... the cycle repeated... 🍚

Despite all that, my current weight is... 47.9kg.
That's a 14kg loss in a little under four years.

By the way, I haven't done anything special... This time, I'll share how I approached it and ended up losing weight.

To start with the conclusion, the two most effective methods were:
1. Reducing daily food intake
2. Dealing with stress

1. Reducing daily food intake🍞
Sorry for such a blunt answer!!! You're probably thinking, "If I could do that, I wouldn't be struggling!" Right? Like, "Didn't you just say you overate and rebounded many times yourself?" The important thing here is to
stop trying to get motivated temporarily to "reduce food intake for a diet!"💛

It's important to take a long-term view, like "I'm going to live with this eating habit for the rest of my life" 👍

So, for example, "I'll lose weight to wear a swimsuit!" or "I'll reach my Cinderella weight for marriage hunting!" are a bit dangerous.Because once those events are over, you have no reason not to eat anymore💦Plus, you end up saying things like "I'll have a parfait as a reward for working hard on my diet" or "The event is over now, so it's fine"💦

As for the specific method, I replaced my lunch with salad chicken 🐔

If you don't like chicken, I think tofu bars are fine too.Various flavors of salad chicken and tofu bars are sold at 7-Eleven and Lawson, and they're actually pretty tasty, so you won't get bored of them☆ For salad chicken, I like the smoked flavor. For tofu bars, the basil salt one at Lawson was delicious (it was novel to have basil on tofu lol), but I also like the side-dish style tofu bars that contain hijiki and beans.

During my lunch break at work, I would just bite into it straight from the package, rinse the remaining juice down the sink, and throw away the trash.It was easy, so I kept it up.

I think the 16-hour fast I'm doing now is also effective 🌸

As I wrote in a previous article, I skip breakfast andhave soy milk or almonds as a snack ^^It fills you up lol. I thought about enzyme water, but I decided against it from the start because I didn't think I could keep it up if it was expensive. After all, this is a lifelong eating habit.

By the way, at night, I eat the same things as my family, whatever I like.White rice, side dishes, and miso soup. Sometimes I eat sweets or drink alcohol☆ Right now, I'm hooked on Lawson's 47% increased volume series cheesecake, and I've been buying them out at hidden convenience stores and eating them every day lol. Also, I cook my white rice in a low-carb rice cooker. I think I bought it at YAMADA Denki. It tastes normal and good! Also,I polish brown rice to a 50% level and eat that🍚

I've been living like this for four years.
By the way, this eating habit is only for weekdays; on weekends, I eat out with my family ^^ At those times, I eat what I like without worrying too much, but since my stomach has shrunk, my daily intake rarely exceeds 2000 calories. ← On days when it does exceed that, I'm usually out and about, walking about 20,000 steps, so I'm starving.

In the past, I tried making burning soup and going to the gym, but it was too much effort and I couldn't keep it up.It was easier to just replace one meal with something ready-made or skip it altogether♡ I'm just lazy like that...

2. Dealing with stress
There are many ways to do this, like finding distractions or doing light exercise, butif the source of the stress is clear, it was faster to just deal with that.At the time, my job was the source of my stress, but when I got married, moved, and changed jobs, my insomnia, alcohol dependency, and overeating all cleared up. I'm certain that this boosted my weight loss results.

Method 2 involves changing your environment, so it might be difficult to do immediately, but Method 1 can be started today, so I recommend it☆

Thoughts on losing weight😊
When I lose weight, I feel like my thinking becomes a bit clearer. I wonder if there's fat in the brain too, haha 🌸 Also, I'm happy that I can fit into S to M size clothes, making it easier to choose outfits. However, because I have gastroptosis, my stomach pops out after eating, and since I have a "wave" body type with larger thighs, I have to think carefully and try on bottoms, or I'll make a mistake ><I think controlling one's body shape is difficult.

That's how it went, and this time it was about the diet I experienced~☆

Thank you for reading until the end. I would be happy if you could also press the "Like" button🐾