hey guys it's Kelly again and I'm here to share with all of you how I lost 17
pounds and have been able to keep off the weight for about ten months completely
effortlessly. As I mentioned before I moved to Germany a little over a year
ago and when I got here I started gorging myself on pretzels and beer and
bread and schnitzel and everything else that Germany has to offer, and that
combined with a very high-stress job, I put on quite a bit of weight. I am
someone that loves food. I eat food all all the time I eat so much food that my
co-workers actually call me lunchbox. I love food. I noticed that my pants were
starting to feel a little tighter but I just lied to myself like, "I think you
just washed these pants so that's why they feel so tight" "oh you're probably
just bloated" "it's probably just that big meal you had last night" "you put on a
little bit of winter weight because apparently you're like a human bear and need
that extra layer of fat to make it through the famine. But then I saw a
photo of myself from when I went on a hike and there was no denying it anymore.
I saw that photo and I was just like "ahhh!" who is that that?? It looks like a whale
sunning themselves" It was me. So I decided I needed to lose weight and I
didn't want it to be this temporary diet that I couldn't maintain. I didn't want
to count calories. There was no way I was gonna spend a whole day of my weekend
meal prepping. I didn't want to follow some strict meal plan that told me what
to eat every hour of the day because to me, that's just not realistic. I wasn't
going to always be able to make sure, that I had four ounces of cooked chicken
one cup of rice. Two tablespoons peanut butter with an apple. There was no way
that I was going be able to follow such a strict meal
plan. I also, and bare with me, I stopped working out to lose weight. "wait, what??"
and I know that might sound crazy but what I found myself doing was being like
"oh I ran five miles today I totally deserve that piece of cake" or
I would be getting up earlier to be able to fit in a longer workout and then
during the day I would get increasingly tired and then start reaching for really
crappy snacks to keep me going. And one more thing about working out is a lot of
people when they decide they're gonna go on a diet, they usually couple it with
a super intense workout regime and it's just too much for you to follow. You
start restricting all of your favorite foods and killing yourself in that realm
and then you decide to work out three times harder than what you ever
did before and your body just gets exhausted and it becomes way too
difficult to maintain. So, I just didn't work out and focused on my eating
habits. And before I start telling you all the methods I use to lose weight, I
just want to make sure everybody knows I'm not a dietician, I'm not a
nutritionist, and I'm not pretending to be. This is just how I was able to lose
weight as like a normal person. Alright so before you start to try to lose any
weight you have to accept that you're going to make some lifestyle changes.
Start rewiring your brain to create new healthier habits. So the number one thing
that I did to lose weight was I cut out processed foods. I just cut them out.
Processed foods just has a ton of garbage in it and you're feeding your
body that garbage. I would feel like crap after I eat processed foods but I didn't
even realize it because feeling like crap became the new normal to me because
I was constantly eating this stuff. It wasn't until I cut out processed
foods that I realized how much better I felt when I wasn't feeding my body all
of that garbage. The best advice I can is that if you don't buy it you can't
eat it. Just don't buy it. yes it involves more cooking. yes I hate cooking but what
I found was it was actually really easy to cook Whole Foods I mean it doesn't
take a lot of effort to cook some chicken or a steak or saute some
vegetables. like I said if you don't buy it you can't eat it so whenever you go
to the grocery store make sure that you never go on an empty stomach and if it's
not feasible for you to be able to eat something before you go grocery shopping
grab a cup of coffee and sip that while you're shopping because that will
eliminate your desire to grab all these foods just because you're hungry.
and speaking of coffee I've heard before like make sure you get a black coffee
instead of a latte or a cappuccino but I just never listened to it because I was
like "okay how often am I getting a latte or cappuccino and is it really adding to
my calorie consumption?" it was. So I started ordering black coffee with just
a little bit of steamed milk or creamer in it and yes the black coffee at first
was a little bit more bitter than the latte or the cappuccino but what I found
was my palate actually started adapting to the taste of the black coffee
I went to Starbucks a few weeks ago and I decided to treat myself and get
the drink that I usually always got when I went to Starbucks and it was
disgusting. I couldn't even drink the whole thing because it was so sweet it
was sickeningly sweet like it actually made me sick. And I'm totally cool with
that because now I don't even want that kind of drink and it's considerably
cheaper to buy black coffees. so along with cutting out processed foods I cut
out processed sugar and I started eating a lot more fruit instead. fruit was sweet
enough and the longer I went without that processed sugar the sweeter and
sweeter fruit became just like with the coffee my palate started adapting to my
new habits and if you're one of those people that likes to go to the
fridge, open it up look for a snack, grab something whatever. I started cutting up
pieces of fruit putting it in a bowl setting it on the shelf in the fridge
and every time I would go to the fridge and open it up I would see that bowl of
fruit I would grab a few pieces pop them in my mouth
and it would be enough to satiate my desire for a snack. I dramatically
increased my intake of vegetables. I always had vegetables with dinner and
stuff but i started eating them all throughout the day and i'm not just
talking about a salad. I'm talking about whole vegetables carrots, cucumbers, bell
peppers, spinach, brussels sprouts you name it. And i like to snack so I made
vegetables my new snack. instead of taking my time and cutting up all these
vegetables and putting them in cute sandwich baggies whatever. I was
literally just taking these whole vegetables to work and yes I got really
ridiculed for it because apparently it's weird when someone to sit at their desk and
eat an entire cucumber...whole but I was losing weight, it was effective. I didn't
care. Haters gonna hate, whatever. And guess
what? people in my office are starting to do this. they're eating a whole
pepper like an apple like I do and I'm so proud. there's actually a lot of
fruits and vegetables that you can eat whole without any prep at all like
tomatoes green peppers Kiwi bell peppers snow peas celery okay maybe not a
pineapple. you can eat those things without having to peel them and cut them
up. just eat them just wash them off and eat them. okay alcohol I know that this
is one thing a lot of people will say no I am NOT giving up
alcohol. why? because I need it. do you actually need alcohol to get through
your day? maybe it's time to find a new coping mechanism. okay fine stop being so
preachy. now I was drinking a beer every night because I liked the taste of it
so that I understand. what I liked about beer the most was that it was carbonated
so I stopped buying beer because like I said if you don't buy it you can't
consume it and I started drinking carbonated water instead. and I'm lucky
that I'm in Germany and there's like carbonated water everywhere they love
that stuff and you can buy it buy bottles and bottles just as cheap as you
can buy still water so if you're in the States I know that it's a lot more
difficult to get those carbonated water so maybe it's worth investing in the
Soda Stream or something if you're like me and you love carbonation as much as I
do the first couple nights was a little rough because I was craving that beer and
instead, I just shoved carbonated water into my mouth after a few weeks I didn't
even crave beer anymore. I would go out to eat with my friends and they would
all get beer and I would be perfectly content with my carbonated water it
became my new habit. ok I saved this one for last because it was the most extreme
thing that I did to lose weight and I did it knowing it was going to be
temporary unlike all the other tips that I just gave. I cut out bread. I just had
to I mean Germany their bread is freaking amazing here honestly like I
can't even explain to you. I had to cut it out. and really, once I mentally
accepted it it wasn't that hard just by making those few little lifestyle
changes I was able to lose weight quick and I didn't gain it back because like I
said it wasn't a diet it was a lifestyle
change it was easy to keep going I hope that this video is able to help you lose
some weight or reach whatever goals you may have thanks for watching guys and if
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posting videos every week I'm gonna go eat a cucumber or something that sounds
really sad it's not that sad it might be a little sad yeah okay bye bye and I'm
dark because when I started editing my video I realized that I didn't even do
any post weight loss or transformation photos for you guys so first time I
bring up some incredibly embarrassing photos of myself to remind you what I
look like before I tried to lose any weight in these photos I weighed about
166 pounds and this is me now
so this morning I got on the scale and I weighed wait I have to convert this
from kilograms to freedom units... 145 pounds
that's a 21 pound weight loss guys that is the least I've weighed in over ten years
okay for real this time..Bye!