On the other side are hundreds: Mikhail Golubev was able to lose weight from 103 to 72 kilograms

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1. What was your maximum weight and when was it?

Maximum weight was somewhere in the 102-103 kg with height 170 cm, but I was understandably not very fond weighed, therefore, may have been figures and more. :) In such a physique I stayed around until the end of 2011.

Put yourself clear and achievable milestones in numbers.

2. At what point did you decide that you need to change something?

I decided to change something (and changed) rather quickly and abruptly. Basically, I think it was due to the fact that began to grow up the son (about 3 years was him) and I felt physically very uncomfortable by the fact that I could not participate adequately in his growing activity. And generally just tired it was bold, with shortness of breath, with impossible without a deep breath and breath to tie the laces themselves.

Monitor intake and calorie consumption, maintaining a constant deficit. It is convenient and fun to use activity trackers and applications. It is important not to go crazy on each calories: calorie dishes and products will still be very approximate.

3. Why did you start? How to lose weight? What helped you reach your goal?

Give preference to products with a predominance of protein (carbohydrates you still find yourself. :)

He began by saying that he stopped to shove in your mouth all in a row in unimaginable amounts and in parallel began to go to the gym 2-3 times a week for more than two hours just puffed on elliptical trainer. I stopped every day to travel by car and has become relatively a lot of walking. Over time began count calories and bring them into the application on the phone (there was very helpful the Fitbit, which eventually helped to navigate against eaten and calories burned, as well as weight and body fat percentage).

Helped a lot, it seems to me, that I began to see progress quickly. After about 5 months, I have weighed 20-22 kg less. Then I paused for a couple of months (to celebrate), podnabrat 3-4 kg and then squeezed out more about 10 kg in 3-4 months. More important is that the bulk of the not very healthy meal in the family consumed me. So as soon as I was seriously engaged in dumping fat, his wife stopped to fill the fridge with any nonsense and began to feed me useful. :)

4. How to react to surrounding changes occurred?

Well, of course, everyone was asking what had happened and if I'm sick. Asked so often that I began to answer all, it's all the damn worms! :) But the vast majority, of course, praised and said they too would have to be ...

5. What has changed in your life after you lost weight?

Already it is clear that a lot has changed. But when losing weight, no sense of the revolution, I had not. I refused flatly almost on any products not flatly refused by alcohol and so on, but gradually, by itself it's not very useful decreased to very small volumes, and useful - on the contrary. In addition, dropping the first 20 kg, I began to run. Running more and faster, I became interested in this topic and came to school I Love Running, then I ran a half-marathon in Hamburg, then another, then a few more, then 42 km... :)

Now on my balcony worth roadies in the machine, I learned to swim crawl (Never in my life could not, except by a dog and Sochi breaststroke), the number of workouts per week has reached six, and in May of 2015 I took part in its first IM70.3. My resting heart rate of 65 turned into a 43-45, and 32 of the IPC - in 50+.

In general, in fact, almost everything has changed!

6. How much do you weigh now? What helps to keep fit?

Lot go walk, use public transport. If possible, it is better to stop travel by car.

Now I weigh 72 kg, but still going to hold on to 69 (although the weight here is not very revealing, it is more important for me fat percentage, I would like 12%). I try not to abuse the food, but since it does not always work, the compensating amount of training.

7. What can you advise to those who are now in the beginning?

I've been wanting grow thinBut nothing has been done since to convince myself that it needs to change the way of life, which is impossible (too global changes that are not seen as tools).

I'm not trying to change your lifestyle (it changed itself), but on the contrary, told himself that here, they say, I do not deny myself a glass of whiskey and cola, but still losing weight! That is kind of how I especially did not change my life, but lose weight is possible without this. As a result, it is certainly not the case, but I believe that in order to change the way of life I have now would weigh 120 kg.

Be sure to monitor the progress and do not worry if it will not. This is temporary!

So my advice would be this: the objective is in numbers (possible intermediate) and move to it. In this case, the motivation for it is very important to see progress. If a week of efforts in the room number on the scale is not particularly changed, you can even chitit: weighed on different scales, remember that at the last weigh-in did not drink anything, and now in the stomach 500 grams of water, and so Further. I resorted to this more than once and, because of this, do not despair in times when the body I did not want to give acquired good.