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The Ultimate Secret to Weight Loss Revealed — From Someone Who Lost 70 lbs
The simple but not easy concept of calorie deficit
After having been struggling for decades with my weight and all the adjacent hardships of lack of mobility, lack of motivation, eating disorders, fatshaming and beauty bias, I lost 70lbs and reached my ideal weight earlier this year. The whole journey was a tough but amazing accomplishment, but it wasn’t as glamorous as it was eye-opening.
Last January, at the age of 42, living a relatively sedentary life and being considered as lazy all my life, I set out on an indefinite journey to lose the extra weight and establish a completely different lifestyle — and it was different from all the previous attempts where I failed or succeeded temporarily only to gain back the pounds I lost.
This past year taught me a lot about health, fitness, the relationship with food, and mostly about my own determination. And I believe I finally figured out the secret ingredient to weight loss and weight management.
The hard and unpopular truth is that the secret has been out forever, but it’s so simple and so difficult at once that I ignored it for decades — and looked for the solution elsewhere.
