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| image: stargatecinema. From the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic. Based on the bestselling book by Sophie Kinsella. Rebecca Bloomwood is played by Isla Fisher. |
The main fitness tip:
Shop, shop till you drop. Shop for dresses, as it does help with your calories when you keep changing clothes. The more you try, the more calories you lose. The more calories you lose, more dresses fit. You feel better and sexier and get encouraged to wear more clothes. Tinier clothes fit. Before you know, you are trying and buying smaller sized clothes and well...at the end of a couple of months, you have a brand new gorgeous wardrobe and a thinner new you.
Warning:
This fitness method might harm your finances if you don't watch it and I managed this weight loss in the summer. I wasn't dieting, but I eat much less in the summer than in winter. The heat crushes your appettite.
The story:
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My first year at
university just sucked. There is no other way to put it. I had worked hard to
get in and it had taken an extremely boring final high school year with a lot
of studying around me and some really annoying health problems. On the surface,
it was nothing serious. I had a cold. The problem? I constantly had a cold!
Imagine spending 2 school terms with mild fever (nothing dangerous but just
high enough to keep you agitated), lack of energy and constant headaches. You
might think the problem was psychological and yeah, I’d have to agree. But
knowing where your problems are coming from doesn’t do you any favors if you
can’t change the conditions causing them. So I took a lot of painkillers (don’t panic, just a
couple a day, as suggested by the doctor, when the symptoms were there). Of
course they made it a little easier to study but hey, their effects were very
short-term.
Long story short, I
got into a really good school. By then, I had a different problem. No matter
how carefully you stick to your doctor’s instructions, the effects of the pills
presented themselves in the shape of chronic stomach pain and nausea, even
though I hadn’t been taking anything for months. I could watch what I ate, but
then when I got nauseous, anything made it worse. And of course it was stress
related as well, again. Because while my school was OK in educational areas, it
was far from satisfying in social areas and for me, having fun is everything.
So now I had another two terms feeling constantly sick. Now, during school,
with a lot of hours and coursework and exams, you can hardly go healthy. But in
the summer, it is much easier to feel
full on less food and stay away from greasy stuff. So I stayed away from grease
and any type of heavy food. So I ate a lot of grilled stuff, fruit and
ice-cream. Yep, ice cream felt a lot easier than muffins and cake. It has a lot
of milk and it is nutritious. And obviously, I didn’t need coffee or tea (who
needs to stay up to study?). This was the diet.
As for the shopping:
Obviously you don’t
spend a lot of money when you are sick. So let’s say that I had some cash to
burn, a healthy diet I was instinctively on and as a girl I am naturally
addicted to shopping.
Anyway, guess what? I
signed up for an Italian course, ate healthily and shopped, shopped till I
dropped that summer. The fitter I got, the more clothes looked great on me and
the more gorgeous I looked, the more clothes I tried. You get my brilliant
cycle. At the end of two months ( eating as much ice-cream as I wanted- though
obviously I didn’t eat a gallon a day), I had lost about 16 pounds. I was happy
with a whole new wardrobe and no stomach problems whatsoever. Yes, the
following term I slowly put back on the pounds slowly but that has do with coffee, tea, chocolate
and the oh-so-familiar vicious cycle of binge eating during studying.
The moral?
The lesson is obvious:
Try to stay away from stress, find a “fitness” activity you love and enjoy
yourself. This results in lost pounds without any felt effort on your part.
Give it a shot. You won’t regret it.
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