Let's lose weight by reading wisely. Basic rules of the Kovalkov diet

Our food substances must be a remedy, and our remedies must be a food substance.

Hippocrates

Introduction

The first thing I would like to do is thank you for taking the time to study my technique and now (I hope) hold mine in your hands new book. When I first sent the manuscript to the publishing house, they were somewhat shocked by its length. Therefore, the first thing they asked me was: “Please write a shortened version. We are afraid that such a thick book will not be bought.” But life has shown that such books are also needed! In the first month of sales, my first book entered the top five best-selling non-fiction books.

But a promise is a promise. And I decided to write a book entirely devoted only to the method of getting rid of excess weight. All stages are described in detail here, special attention is paid to the formation of proper motivation and prevention typical mistakes. I tried to keep only the most important and useful information, supplementing it with new necessary data, but avoiding unnecessary details and justifications.

In the future, I plan to prepare a text for those readers who want to learn more about the laws of nature, reflected, like in a mirror, in our body. There will be details in simple language The main mechanisms leading to obesity are explained, so that everyone can imagine the main reason for the development of this disease in themselves. I hope that after mastering my method in the first book, starting to lose weight and getting the first results, you will want to learn more. And then both books will naturally complement each other, forming a single whole.

How is this book different from other “weight loss creations”?

I have antipathy towards humanity because ninety-nine percent of it consists of suggestible idiots, susceptible to any propaganda. Each of them, if whispered in his ear, is ready to stand up and kill me.

V. Levi “Me and We”

I am a dietitian and have been working in the field of weight loss medicine for over 15 years. During this time I had to see a lot! Among my patients there were both beginners and those who “have known everything for a long time” about losing weight. These are pop stars and businessmen, executives and ordinary workers. They all, in my opinion, have one common problem. They tried many times to lose weight, but for some reason it didn’t work out. And although most of them are quite strong-willed people, they were unable to walk this path alone. Having finally realized that diets did not help, sooner or later they turned to me. And then the fun began... But! This is a completely different book!

Frankly, I don’t often visit bookstores, but as soon as my first book came out, I started looking there out of curiosity. And I involuntarily noticed that, it turns out, there are quite a few people who write books under the conventional title “How to lose weight correctly,” although they themselves have never gotten rid of a single one in their entire lives. extra kilos! Just like that coach from the joke who taught swimming, but was afraid of water. Such healers and even doctors can now be seen on television screens and in newfangled clinics, often advertised on the radio. And how many “smart” books have been written by these advisers!

Overweight medicine has always stood next to cosmetology; Perhaps that is why the profession of a nutritionist was considered fashionable and prestigious. Monetary, if you like. This is probably why everyone is now giving advice in this area. My patients sometimes tell funny stories. They say they come to the district clinic to see an endocrinologist who weighs no less than themselves. And this doctor begins to give them painfully familiar recommendations: “Move more and eat less.” Sometimes, however, he also advises “to run away from a heart attack.” Despite the fact that some patients, due to excess weight, find it difficult to even tie their shoelaces...

I liked what Mikhail Zhvanetsky once said:

“Guys, I am a coach from God, although I temporarily work in a vegetable store. You sit in the cellar, sort through the cabbage, and all the options, options are in your head.”

I have seen more than once how a fitness trainer recommends “turning your head” to “develop” the cervical vertebrae, especially with osteochondrosis (which affects many people). But any doctor will say that without pictures cervical spine Carrying out such manipulations is dangerous! The medical literature even describes the so-called “barber chair” syndrome. When a client is seated in this very chair and held for a long time with his head thrown back far back, and at the end of the procedures, suddenly, unexpectedly for everyone, it is discovered that he has fallen asleep...

The habit of familiar and beloved dishes and products from childhood has been developed in us for decades; representatives of some nations have had it for generations, almost at the genetic level.

And then “suddenly” a “smart” (sometimes very smart and persistent) specialist like me appears, who declares: “Until now, you have been eating incorrectly, you need to eat 6 times a day and not at all what you are used to, chewing each piece 50 times!” He would try to chew every piece like that himself! I'd like to see what happens to his teeth in a few years. It is clear that no organism will accept such a dictatorial attitude.

Our body is delicate and fragile. You can’t “break” him, you need to be able to negotiate with him! Hundreds or even thousands of people start to eat like they should, and then many of them become convinced that the effect is the opposite. The kilograms quickly return, and they also bring with them new diseases.

Sometimes self-medication is supported by overly active paramedical workers and even doctors who, apparently, consider themselves experts in all areas of medicine. They often give disinterested, but for some reason completely illiterate, advice on the Internet. Their unbridled desire to become famous, to show themselves as experts in nutrition, sooner or later can end in tragedy for someone. But they probably don't understand it. Or they don't want to understand.

Such public educators literally appear from somewhere in batches; every day they try to teach us life from the TV screen or from the pages of glossy magazines. One day I was surprised to learn that the most popular publication in our country is not “MAX1M” or “Cosmopolitan”, or even “Komsomolskaya Pravda” with its “Kremlin Diet”, but a simple newspaper called Healthy Lifestyle - “ Healthy image life" - with a circulation of as much as two million! Who would have imagined that a newspaper distributed on trains, advising to treat pneumonia with rutabaga juice and hemorrhoids with cucumbers, has so many fans? Who are these two million? Aren't we ourselves?

My wife now, as I write these lines, scolds me for being excessively aggressive and categorical. But, to be honest, this amateur performance is disgusting! As a doctor, as a professional who has dedicated his life to medicine, looking at this is not only funny, but also disgusting. Every day I have to answer the same question on the Internet several times: “Tell me, how can I lose weight?” or “How can my girlfriend lose weight?” I don't know how to do this! If only because I don’t know either you or your girlfriend!

These people probably naively believe that I know some secret unique remedy for weight loss and simply keep it in the strictest trade secret. Oh! If only it were that simple!

It is impossible to help a person get rid of excess weight in any standard way, if only because we are all different and our reasons for being overweight may be fundamentally different!

The entire theory presented in this book could be contained in one a short phrase: “Don’t eat bad food, take care of yourself - and you will be healthy.” However, a person is not a dog; it is not enough for him to say “fu”. It is also necessary to explain in detail why, in fact, “fu” and how it (this “fu”) will affect his body.

What I want to offer you is not a diet in the usual sense. This is a complete, comprehensive methodology. It includes not only certain rules for eating food, but also special (easy!) physical exercise. And, of course, the necessary medical support.

By using all these simple means and following a certain scheme, you can achieve the same results that I achieved myself, and then thousands of my patients.

Having at one time developed the basics of this technique, I, following them, in just six months without special effort I lost 50 kg and still, for many years now, I can easily maintain this weight. But the important thing is not that I once lost weight myself, but that now I know how you can do it.

I would really like for you to understand the main thing from my example and from the example of my patients: IT IS POSSIBLE TO LOSE WEIGHT! This is quite real! And not just lose a few kilograms, which usually return quickly, but lose weight significantly, to the physiological norm of a healthy person.

Believe me, with my help it won't be that difficult! Let’s just agree right away - I won’t be able to lose weight for you! “For myself,” I have already lost weight and now I see my task only as showing you the correct and shortest path to this goal and warning you against possible errors. I've already walked this path. Now we can go through it together.

By reading and drawing the appropriate conclusions, you will quickly learn to apply the acquired knowledge in practice, you will understand what you need for proper weight loss, you will see how my technique works, and you will be able to appreciate the result. From study to awareness, from awareness to action!

When I started writing this book, I was hoping that there are people who are always hungry for knowledge, especially when it comes to their health. Therefore, when presenting the material, I did not strive for brevity. I have structured the book in such a way that if some sections seem too abstruse and difficult for you to understand, you can safely skip them and return to them a little later.

Don't let the presence of special terms scare you. I tried, if possible, not to use medical terminology or immediately explain the meaning of unclear words. Indeed, without a clear idea of ​​the essence of the processes taking place, any therapeutic measure becomes like idle philosophical speculation about the meaning of life. By simplifying the content as much as possible, we get “Dietetics for Dummies.” But I wouldn’t like to consider you dummies! Although sometimes I deliberately repeat certain thoughts to make it easier to remember the most important concepts and principles. If you have questions, and some topics turn out to be difficult to understand, you can always discuss them on the forum on our clinic’s website: www.diet-clinic.ru.

It happens that a chance meeting with a stranger or a book suddenly helps to cope with problems that previously seemed insoluble. I offer you such a meeting here and now. Join us!

Dr. Kovalkov’s method for losing weight is based on a nutritional system that can be followed comfortably and safely for health throughout life. A well-known nutritionist developed a nutritional style for himself, thanks to which he lost 55 kg and is no longer gaining weight. A lifelong diet involves eating low-calorie foods. The author assures: those who lose weight using the method do not feel hungry.

Principles of the technique

Weight loss is based on the principles of Dr. Kovalkov’s diet:

1. Positive motivation.
2. Physical activity.
3. Vitamin and mineral supplement for the period of weight loss.
4. Refusal of fatty and carbohydrate foods.

Following a diet requires prior consultation with a doctor, especially if you have chronic diseases and exceed the weight limit by 30 kg.

Stages of the method

Losing weight takes place in 4 stages. The first of them is the strictest.

Preparation

Preparation lasts from 2 weeks to 20 days. At the initial stage, the goal is to wean off insulin products. Prohibited:

• sweets;
• potato;
• white rice, corn;
• white bread;
• smoked meats;
• semi-finished products, snacks;
• sweet soda;
• fast food.

Separate nutrition also plays a role important role at the preparation stage. Side dishes should be consumed separately from meat or fish. The diet should consist of legumes, grains, fruits, vegetables, accompanied by plenty of fluids. The meal plan for 3 weeks looks like this:

1. Drink a glass of water in the morning before breakfast.
2. For breakfast, it is advisable to consume a glass of fermented milk product with a fat content of no more than 3.5% (kefir, matsoni, fermented baked milk, yogurt). The product is supplemented with a handful of bran, which fits in the palms of your hands, and a fist-sized handful of pine nuts (almonds, walnuts).
3. Lunch consists of the same bran (the author recommends washing down the bran with any liquid except sweet).
4. During the day, 4 apples are eaten. Vegetables are not limited.
5. For dinner, eat a vegetable salad seasoned with 1 tablespoon of olive oil. The dinner ends with cottage cheese - 2 tbsp. spoons.
6. At night – 2 egg whites.

Coffee, tea, even with added milk are not contraindicated. Drinks should not contain only refined sugar. The tasks of the first stage are to prepare the body for the absorption of protein, cleanse the intestines, and normalize carbohydrate metabolism.

Start

The “Start” stage lasts 10-14 days. It differs from the first in that the diet is replenished with protein: daily fish, cottage cheese, meat, seafood. These could be soy products, mushrooms. The diet should contain fermented milk products, egg whites, bran, vegetable oil, vegetables, and nuts. The minimum amount of protein per day is 40 g. Of fruits, special attention is paid to grapefruits and apples. Bananas, grapes, and plums should not be consumed. Rye bread is allowed.

Approximate nutrition plan for the second stage:

1. For breakfast - a glass of any fermented milk product, a handful of bran, a handful of nuts.
2. Lunch consists of protein food - 70 g of permitted foods.
3. Dinner – vegetable salad or stewed vegetables with a spoon of olive oil, cottage cheese – 2 tablespoons. spoons.
4. During the day - fruits, except forbidden ones, vegetables are not limited.
5. Before bed – 2 egg whites.

The second stage lasts until about 7% of excess body weight remains. Maximum quantity fat per day – 40 g.

The period is characterized by an expanded list of products and physical activity. Simple walking and walking is its best option. Slow, effortless exercise will be more beneficial for those who are not in the best physical shape.

Habituation and consolidation

The third stage is the final one. Duration ranges from one to one and a half years. The diet here is varied, including chicken, fish, seafood, and cottage cheese. The author recommends:

• eat at least 5 times a day;
• replace sweets with dried fruits;
• drink a lot of water (be sure to drink 1 glass of water on an empty stomach - this reduces body fat).

In your diet, you must adhere to the correct use of foods: protein foods should prevail, and 2 boiled egg whites before bed are an unshakable rule. The carbohydrate limit is up to 40 g per day and walking still continues to play an important role. A sufficient load is 10,000 steps per day according to the pedometer. There are no other restrictions.

How to stop craving sweets

A huge number of diseases, including diabetes, are associated with sugar. The author compares sugar in the book “Lose Weight Smartly” to a drug. Sugar includes not only the pure product in the form of cubes or sand, but products containing it. You can get rid of sugar addiction by adding chromium. It is received along with medicine, containing chromium. The foods included in the diet are rich in minerals: sea and river fish, pearl barley, radish, beef and poultry liver. The nutritionist advises treating honey as a medicine, not a food product, setting the dosage within a teaspoon.

Basic rules of the Kovalkov diet

Life in a new body according to Dr. Kovalkov’s method provides conscious rules for a person who has recognized the basic mechanisms of weight loss and can create a varied and healthy diet:

1. You need to eat when you want. If you don’t want to have breakfast in the morning, then you need to wait until the moment when you want to have breakfast.
2. During the period of weight loss, beer and strong alcohol are excluded. Only 250 ml of table red wine is allowed, and only for dinner; drink enough water for everyone.
3. As for fruits, it is better to lean on apples, but in the first half of the day. This will cleanse the intestines.
4. If weight loss gets stuck, which often happens in the second stage, it is recommended to sharply increase the amount of food for one day. The quality of food remains the same: low-fat foods, high in fiber and protein.
5. At the consolidation stage, all changes to the diet regarding forgotten foods and serving sizes should be introduced gently. But the daily limit rule is strictly observed. simple carbohydrates– up to 40 years
6. Prohibited foods during the diet include 4 of them: sugar, white flour and flour products, potatoes, polished rice.
7. It is recommended to eat in small portions in order to reduce the stomach and no longer experience a deceptive feeling of hunger.
8. It is necessary to adhere to the right combination of products. It is a mistake to combine carbohydrates and fats in one meal. The body perceives carbohydrates as insulin, accumulating them in subcutaneous fat.
9. We must forget the rule of drinking 2 liters of water daily. The main thing in the diet is not the quantity, but the uniform consumption of water. The doctor advises keeping a brightly marked bottle of water in front of you so that you can take a sip when you look at it.
10. To achieve the desired result, the author advises losing weight with positive emotions, otherwise a setback is guaranteed.

The advantages of Dr. Kovalkov’s nutritional system include comfortable weight loss without exhausting diets, the absence of hunger, counting calories and keeping a diary. The weight comes off gradually, without causing harm to the body. The skills of proper nutrition are permanently consolidated.

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Alexey Vladimirovich Kovalkov
Let's lose weight wisely! Doctor Kovalkov's technique

Our food substances must be a remedy, and our remedies must be a food substance.

Hippocrates

Famous nutritionist Alexey Kovalkov presents

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Introduction

The first thing I would like to do is thank you for taking the time to study my method and now (I hope) hold my new book in your hands. When I first sent the manuscript to the publishing house, they were somewhat shocked by its length. Therefore, the first thing they asked me was: “Please write a shortened version. We are afraid that such a thick book will not be bought.” But life has shown that such books are also needed! In the first month of sales, my first book entered the top five best-selling non-fiction books.

But a promise is a promise. And I decided to write a book entirely dedicated to methods of losing excess weight. All stages are described in detail here, special attention is paid to the formation of the right motivation and the prevention of common mistakes. I tried to preserve only the most important and useful information, supplementing it with new necessary data, but avoiding unnecessary details and justifications.

In the future, I plan to prepare a text for those readers who want to learn more about the laws of nature, reflected, like in a mirror, in our body. The main mechanisms leading to obesity will be explained in detail, in simple language, so that everyone can imagine the main reason for the development of this disease in themselves. I hope that after mastering my method in the first book, starting to lose weight and getting the first results, you will want to learn more. And then both books will naturally complement each other, forming a single whole.

How is this book different from other “weight loss creations”?

I have antipathy towards humanity because ninety-nine percent of it consists of suggestible idiots, susceptible to any propaganda. Each of them, if whispered in his ear, is ready to stand up and kill me.

V. Levi “Me and We”

I am a dietitian and have been working in the field of weight loss medicine for over 15 years. During this time I had to see a lot! Among my patients there were both beginners and those who “have known everything for a long time” about losing weight. These are pop stars and businessmen, executives and ordinary workers. They all, in my opinion, have one common problem. They tried many times to lose weight, but for some reason it didn’t work out. And although most of them are quite strong-willed people, they were unable to walk this path alone. Having finally realized that diets did not help, sooner or later they turned to me. And then the fun began... But! This is a completely different book!

Frankly, I don’t often visit bookstores, but as soon as my first book came out, I started looking there out of curiosity. And I involuntarily noticed that, it turns out, there are quite a few people who write books under the code name “How to Lose Weight Correctly,” although they themselves have not lost a single extra kilogram in their entire lives! Just like that coach from the joke who taught swimming, but was afraid of water. Such healers and even doctors can now be seen on television screens and in newfangled clinics, often advertised on the radio. And how many “smart” books have been written by these advisers!

Overweight medicine has always stood next to cosmetology; Perhaps that is why the profession of a nutritionist was considered fashionable and prestigious. Monetary, if you like. This is probably why everyone is now giving advice in this area. My patients sometimes tell funny stories. They say they come to the district clinic to see an endocrinologist who weighs no less than themselves. And this doctor begins to give them painfully familiar recommendations: “Move more and eat less.” Sometimes, however, he also advises “to run away from a heart attack.” Despite the fact that some patients, due to excess weight, find it difficult to even tie their shoelaces...

I liked what Mikhail Zhvanetsky once said:

“Guys, I am a coach from God, although I temporarily work in a vegetable store. You sit in the cellar, sort through the cabbage, and all the options, options are in your head.”

I have seen more than once how a fitness trainer recommends “turning your head” to “develop” the cervical vertebrae, especially with osteochondrosis (which affects many people). But any doctor will tell you that it is dangerous to carry out such manipulations without pictures of the cervical spine! The medical literature even describes the so-called “barber chair” syndrome. When a client is seated in this very chair and held for a long time with his head thrown back far back, and at the end of the procedures, suddenly, unexpectedly for everyone, it is discovered that he has fallen asleep...

The habit of familiar and beloved dishes and products from childhood has been developed in us for decades; representatives of some nations have had it for generations, almost at the genetic level.

And then “suddenly” a “smart” (sometimes very smart and persistent) specialist like me appears, who declares: “Until now, you have been eating incorrectly, you need to eat 6 times a day and not at all what you are used to, chewing each piece 50 times!” He would try to chew every piece like that himself! I'd like to see what happens to his teeth in a few years. It is clear that no organism will accept such a dictatorial attitude.

Our body is delicate and fragile. You can’t “break” him, you need to be able to negotiate with him! Hundreds or even thousands of people start to eat like they should, and then many of them become convinced that the effect is the opposite. The kilograms quickly return, and they also bring with them new diseases.

Sometimes self-medication is supported by overly active paramedical workers and even doctors who, apparently, consider themselves experts in all areas of medicine. They often give disinterested, but for some reason completely illiterate, advice on the Internet. Their unbridled desire to become famous, to show themselves as experts in nutrition, sooner or later can end in tragedy for someone. But they probably don't understand it. Or they don't want to understand.

Such public educators literally appear from somewhere in batches; every day they try to teach us life from the TV screen or from the pages of glossy magazines. One day I was surprised to learn that the most popular publication in our country is not “MAX1M”, or “Cosmopolitan”, and not even “Komsomolskaya Pravda” with its “Kremlin Diet”, but a simple newspaper HLS - “Healthy Lifestyle” - with a circulation as much as two million! Who would have imagined that a newspaper distributed on trains, advising to treat pneumonia with rutabaga juice and hemorrhoids with cucumbers, has so many fans? Who are these two million? Aren't we ourselves?

My wife now, as I write these lines, scolds me for being excessively aggressive and categorical. But, to be honest, this amateur performance is disgusting! As a doctor, as a professional who has dedicated his life to medicine, looking at this is not only funny, but also disgusting. Every day I have to answer the same question on the Internet several times: “Tell me, how can I lose weight?” or “How can my girlfriend lose weight?” I don't know how to do this! If only because I don’t know either you or your girlfriend!

These people probably naively believe that I know some secret unique remedy for weight loss and simply keep it in the strictest trade secret. Oh! If only it were that simple!

It is impossible to help a person get rid of excess weight in any standard way, if only because we are all different and our reasons for being overweight may be fundamentally different!

The entire theory presented in this book could be summarized in one short phrase: “Don’t eat bad food, take care of yourself - and you will be healthy.” However, a person is not a dog; it is not enough for him to say “fu”. It is also necessary to explain in detail why, in fact, “fu” and how it (this “fu”) will affect his body.

What I want to offer you is not a diet in the usual sense. This is a complete, comprehensive methodology. It includes not only certain rules for eating food, but also special (easy!) physical exercises. And, of course, the necessary medical support.

By using all these simple means and following a certain scheme, you can achieve the same results that I achieved myself, and then thousands of my patients.

Having at one time developed the basics of this technique, following them, in just six months, I lost 50 kg without much effort and have been calmly maintaining this weight for many years now. But the important thing is not that I once lost weight myself, but that now I know how you can do it.

I would really like for you to understand the main thing from my example and from the example of my patients: IT IS POSSIBLE TO LOSE WEIGHT! This is quite real! And not just lose a few kilograms, which usually return quickly, but lose weight significantly, to the physiological norm of a healthy person.

Believe me, with my help it won't be that difficult! Let’s just agree right away - I won’t be able to lose weight for you! “For myself,” I have already lost weight and now I see my task only as showing you the correct and shortest path to this goal and warning you against possible mistakes. I've already walked this path. Now we can go through it together.

By reading and drawing the appropriate conclusions, you will quickly learn to apply the acquired knowledge in practice, you will understand what you need for proper weight loss, you will see how my method works, and you will be able to appreciate the results obtained. From study to awareness, from awareness to action!

When I started writing this book, I was hoping that there are people who are always hungry for knowledge, especially when it comes to their health. Therefore, when presenting the material, I did not strive for brevity. I have structured the book in such a way that if some sections seem too abstruse and difficult for you to understand, you can safely skip them and return to them a little later.

Don't let the presence of special terms scare you. I tried, if possible, not to use medical terminology or immediately explain the meaning of unclear words. Indeed, without a clear idea of ​​the essence of the processes taking place, any therapeutic measure becomes like idle philosophical speculation about the meaning of life. By simplifying the content as much as possible, we get “Dietetics for Dummies.” But I wouldn’t like to consider you dummies! Although sometimes I deliberately repeat certain thoughts to make it easier to remember the most important concepts and principles. If you have questions, and some topics turn out to be difficult to understand, you can always discuss them on the forum of our clinic’s website: www.diet-clinic.ru.

It happens that a chance meeting with a stranger or a book suddenly helps to cope with problems that previously seemed insoluble. I offer you such a meeting here and now. Join us!

Chapter 1 A Perceived Necessity

A person goes further and further, seeing ahead a calling bright light and the road of truth rapidly soaring to the heavenly heights. And there will not be an outside observer nearby who can say that just a few steps in front of this person the edge of a cliff and sharp stones are black; the bottom of the gorge will be stained with the blood of the walker in a few moments.

And between these stones in relaxed poses sits a warm campaign of marauders, looking up impatiently; on the edge of a cliff, waiting for someone going towards the light...

Kara Mergen

We all live in a market economy, where money and profit are the defining concepts. Where the rule “Who is not on time is late!” reigns, and common sense and a thoughtful approach, unfortunately, fade into the background. This is probably why queries in Internet search engines for the phrase “How to lose weight quickly?” are thousands of times higher than requests for the phrase “How to lose weight correctly?” I often ask my patients at appointments: “Why did you come to us? What do you want from us? The response is almost always a surprised phrase: “Why? What I wish I could lose weight!” And almost no one said: “I turned to you so that you could help me correct the disorders that led my body to be overweight.”

But, you must admit: when only the size, proportions of the figure, appearance are your main motives, your main task becomes to bring yourself into line with the standards accepted in society. At the same time, the opinion and judgment of other, completely strangers about you, is the dominant link.

Don't agree? Then take the risk of asking yourself a few questions:

Do you compare your external data (size) with what the people around you look like?

Do you feel much more comfortable around fatter people?

Do you feel uncomfortable if you find yourself the fattest person in a group, at a party, or on public transport?

Do a person’s external data influence your opinion of him?

I daresay that you answered positively to almost all questions. And the medical services market adapts to your needs. And, in my opinion, all currently existing and actively advertised weight loss methods, starting with surgical intervention and ending with the installation of a “golden needle” in the ear, all kinds of coding and suggestions are aimed at only one thing: to eliminate the main symptom of a complex pathology - excess weight,- but not at all the reasons for its appearance. This is a continuous production aimed at one specific goal: to remove excess weight from you as quickly as possible. And we must give it its due: it copes with this task quite successfully.

What's next? Why do all these methods give only temporary results? Let's try to make a prediction. Let's make an analogy. Don't you think this approach is similar to trying to clean up water pouring out of a broken pipe? You understand that until the tap is turned off, it will not be possible to collect water. But despite this, you continue to stubbornly move the rag across the wet floor. So it is with our problem: many are constantly fighting a hopeless struggle with the symptoms of the disease - with excess weight, but not with its causes. It's like constantly taking headache pills without knowing why your headache hurts. There are many reasons, and each case requires different treatment. It is not the disease that should be treated, but the person! Do not fight the symptoms, but find and eliminate the causes!

None of the currently existing methods, systems, diets encourages a person to radically change what served as the starting point not full, and those changes in the body that externally manifested themselves in the form of excess weight; does not identify or eliminate the causes of obesity. On the contrary, the entire “weight loss industry” is focused on one goal: “Let’s do this quickly!”

Is this beneficial for them? But this is exactly what you want from them! As in any market structure, demand determines supply. Let me remind you that the request “How to lose weight quickly?” – the most popular in all Internet search engines.

Trying to find the most effective ways getting rid of fat, people sometimes subject themselves to real physical torture. They, like the prisoners of the Chateau d'If, can slurp liquid cabbage soup for many days or, like prisoners of a desert island, eat only grapefruits. Or they put on rubber clothes and run around in the heat in them until their lips crack from dehydration. And sometimes these martyrs “for the glory of their belly” go to extremes... People begin to starve, like victims of the camps!

I am categorically against dashing “cavalry attacks” in the form of fasting. You can lock a person up alone, and in a month he will come out as thin as a Brazilian fashion model. And what? At the first opportunity, he will certainly attack the tray of hamburgers. According to research, a year after such intensive programs only 5% of hunger strikers maintain their achieved weight.

As the classics said, “we do not need hysterical outbursts, we need the measured tread of the iron battalions of the proletariat.” There is no need to “break the patient over the knee,” it is useless to have fiery conversations with him in the spirit of “Pull yourself together, you rag, stop eating!” or “I recommend a healthy, nutritious diet.” If a person were able to do this, he would have solved his problem himself long ago. Consistency and uniformity are important here; understanding and awareness of dependence on pathologically developing processes, be it the psychology of eating behavior or the physiology of food absorption.

And now the main thing! Let's think about it: is it possible overweight is your problem? This is just a symptom, a consequence. In fact, the problem is that for one reason or another, you either eat more food than your body needs, or this food is not properly digested! And from here two main classic questions arise, the solution of which determines the result: why are you doing this and how to change it.

Looking back over the past years, you will probably agree with me: your entire previous life in all its diversity has led and continues to lead to the fact that the body malfunctions. After all, it’s only cognac that gets better with time. And a completely logical external manifestation of this disorder is increasing excess weight. You can, of course, pause this process using any of the methods currently offered. You can even completely lose weight. But!

Without eliminating the cause of the growing pathology in the body, you will never be able to maintain this weight!

After all, look what happens. Let’s say, resorting to the help of surgeons, putting a needle in the ear, receiving two notorious lists of products for a blood test, taking “ Thai pills“or simply by going on another diet, a person really begins to lose weight quickly. At the same time, he invariably puts his appearance much higher than his well-being, which can seriously suffer. After all, the main goal is immediate and quite specific: to achieve stunning appearance at any cost, regardless of “production costs.” Everything else is just a necessary sacrifice in the name of ideal slimness and insane beauty!

Women are persistent creatures! Therefore, I fully admit that through incredible efforts and self-torture you will sooner or later achieve your goal! And anyone who has ever experienced these feelings of “victory over weight” remembers the inspiring feeling of euphoria. But let's think about it: don't all your achievements come down only to external manifestations? Yes, you “collected water,” but nothing has changed inside you: “the tap is still open,” and the weight continues to increase. And quickly. I daresay you know this as well as I do.

Sooner or later, you invariably return to your old way of life, and along with this, your old, painfully familiar outlines of your figure return. Every time you try to eat less, you inevitably and quite consciously push yourself into the “cage of restrictions”, where you are allowed to eat just enough so as not to die of hunger. But you can’t sit in such a “punishment cell” forever! You “blow up the walls of the prison” and... attack the food. As a result, this practice leads to cyclical alternation strict restrictions and binge eating. Life turns into a stubborn struggle, into an endless series of victories and defeats. Not understanding or not wanting to understand this simple truth, thousands of people go this route: they voluntarily put themselves in a “prison of diets” and adhere to strict rules that they set for themselves. Then, having “broken out of prison to freedom,” they quickly make up for lost time. After all, any prohibition sooner or later returns to us with an irresistible desire!

One woman told me at a reception: “I woke up in the kitchen among a mountain of candy wrappers. I cry, I scold myself... But I eat!”

Sooner or later, a moment comes when even the thought of any restriction will be perceived by you as a deprivation of freedom, a loss of rights.

Prohibition always creates addiction. Dependency leads to revolutions and the overthrow of dictatorships. It turns out to be a vicious circle, a path to nowhere! Any attempt to control excess food, overeating, resulting from addiction, is always made through the denial of freedom of choice. Most of us are afraid that if we have freedom in our food choices, we will invariably and constantly overeat. Therefore, while trying to get overeating under control, they simultaneously consciously deprive themselves of freedom of choice. But denial of freedom of choice is denial of responsibility for it.

There are only two options for the development of events, and many of you probably know this from your own experience...

Alexey Vladimirovich Kovalkov

Let's lose weight wisely! Doctor Kovalkov's technique

Our food substances must be a remedy, and our remedies must be a food substance.

Hippocrates

Introduction

The first thing I would like to do is thank you for taking the time to study my method and now (I hope) hold my new book in your hands. When I first sent the manuscript to the publishing house, they were somewhat shocked by its length. Therefore, the first thing they asked me was: “Please write a shortened version. We are afraid that such a thick book will not be bought.” But life has shown that such books are also needed! In the first month of sales, my first book entered the top five best-selling non-fiction books.

But a promise is a promise. And I decided to write a book entirely dedicated to methods of losing excess weight. All stages are described in detail here, special attention is paid to the formation of the right motivation and the prevention of common mistakes. I tried to preserve only the most important and useful information, supplementing it with new necessary data, but avoiding unnecessary details and justifications.

In the future, I plan to prepare a text for those readers who want to learn more about the laws of nature, reflected, like in a mirror, in our body. The main mechanisms leading to obesity will be explained in detail, in simple language, so that everyone can imagine the main reason for the development of this disease in themselves. I hope that after mastering my method in the first book, starting to lose weight and getting the first results, you will want to learn more. And then both books will naturally complement each other, forming a single whole.

How is this book different from other “weight loss creations”?

I have antipathy towards humanity because ninety-nine percent of it consists of suggestible idiots, susceptible to any propaganda. Each of them, if whispered in his ear, is ready to stand up and kill me.

V. Levi “Me and We”

I am a dietitian and have been working in the field of weight loss medicine for over 15 years. During this time I had to see a lot! Among my patients there were both beginners and those who “have known everything for a long time” about losing weight. These are pop stars and businessmen, executives and ordinary workers. They all, in my opinion, have one common problem. They tried many times to lose weight, but for some reason it didn’t work out. And although most of them are quite strong-willed people, they were unable to walk this path alone. Having finally realized that diets did not help, sooner or later they turned to me. And then the fun began... But! This is a completely different book!

Frankly, I don’t often visit bookstores, but as soon as my first book came out, I started looking there out of curiosity. And I involuntarily noticed that, it turns out, there are quite a few people who write books under the code name “How to Lose Weight Correctly,” although they themselves have not lost a single extra kilogram in their entire lives! Just like that coach from the joke who taught swimming, but was afraid of water. Such healers and even doctors can now be seen on television screens and in newfangled clinics, often advertised on the radio. And how many “smart” books have been written by these advisers!

Overweight medicine has always stood next to cosmetology; Perhaps that is why the profession of a nutritionist was considered fashionable and prestigious. Monetary, if you like. This is probably why everyone is now giving advice in this area. My patients sometimes tell funny stories. They say they come to the district clinic to see an endocrinologist who weighs no less than themselves. And this doctor begins to give them painfully familiar recommendations: “Move more and eat less.” Sometimes, however, he also advises “to run away from a heart attack.” Despite the fact that some patients, due to excess weight, find it difficult to even tie their shoelaces...

I liked what Mikhail Zhvanetsky once said:

“Guys, I am a coach from God, although I temporarily work in a vegetable store. You sit in the cellar, sort through the cabbage, and all the options, options are in your head.”

I have seen more than once how a fitness trainer recommends “turning your head” to “develop” the cervical vertebrae, especially with osteochondrosis (which affects many people). But any doctor will tell you that it is dangerous to carry out such manipulations without pictures of the cervical spine! The medical literature even describes the so-called “barber chair” syndrome. When a client is seated in this very chair and held for a long time with his head thrown back far back, and at the end of the procedures, suddenly, unexpectedly for everyone, it is discovered that he has fallen asleep...

The habit of familiar and beloved dishes and products from childhood has been developed in us for decades; representatives of some nations have had it for generations, almost at the genetic level.

And then “suddenly” a “smart” (sometimes very smart and persistent) specialist like me appears, who declares: “Until now, you have been eating incorrectly, you need to eat 6 times a day and not at all what you are used to, chewing each piece 50 times!” He would try to chew every piece like that himself! I'd like to see what happens to his teeth in a few years. It is clear that no organism will accept such a dictatorial attitude.

Our body is delicate and fragile. You can’t “break” him, you need to be able to negotiate with him! Hundreds or even thousands of people start to eat like they should, and then many of them become convinced that the effect is the opposite. The kilograms quickly return, and they also bring with them new diseases.

Sometimes self-medication is supported by overly active paramedical workers and even doctors who, apparently, consider themselves experts in all areas of medicine. They often give disinterested, but for some reason completely illiterate, advice on the Internet. Their unbridled desire to become famous, to show themselves as experts in nutrition, sooner or later can end in tragedy for someone. But they probably don't understand it. Or they don't want to understand.

Such public educators literally appear from somewhere in batches; every day they try to teach us life from the TV screen or from the pages of glossy magazines. One day I was surprised to learn that the most popular publication in our country is not “MAX1M”, or “Cosmopolitan”, and not even “Komsomolskaya Pravda” with its “Kremlin Diet”, but a simple newspaper HLS - “Healthy Lifestyle” - with a circulation as much as two million! Who would have imagined that a newspaper distributed on trains, advising to treat pneumonia with rutabaga juice and hemorrhoids with cucumbers, has so many fans? Who are these two million? Aren't we ourselves?

My wife now, as I write these lines, scolds me for being excessively aggressive and categorical. But, to be honest, this amateur performance is disgusting! As a doctor, as a professional who has dedicated his life to medicine, looking at this is not only funny, but also disgusting. Every day I have to answer the same question on the Internet several times: “Tell me, how can I lose weight?” or “How can my girlfriend lose weight?” I don't know how to do this! If only because I don’t know either you or your girlfriend!

These people probably naively believe that I know some secret unique remedy for weight loss and simply keep it in the strictest trade secret. Oh! If only it were that simple!

It is impossible to help a person get rid of excess weight in any standard way, if only because we are all different and our reasons for being overweight may be fundamentally different!

Our food substances must be a remedy, and our remedies must be a food substance.

Hippocrates

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Introduction

The first thing I would like to do is thank you for taking the time to study my method and now (I hope) hold my new book in your hands. When I first sent the manuscript to the publishing house, they were somewhat shocked by its length. Therefore, the first thing they asked me was: “Please write a shortened version. We are afraid that such a thick book will not be bought.” But life has shown that such books are also needed! In the first month of sales, my first book entered the top five best-selling non-fiction books.

But a promise is a promise. And I decided to write a book entirely dedicated to methods of losing excess weight. All stages are described in detail here, special attention is paid to the formation of the right motivation and the prevention of common mistakes. I tried to preserve only the most important and useful information, supplementing it with new necessary data, but avoiding unnecessary details and justifications.

In the future, I plan to prepare a text for those readers who want to learn more about the laws of nature, reflected, like in a mirror, in our body. The main mechanisms leading to obesity will be explained in detail, in simple language, so that everyone can imagine the main reason for the development of this disease in themselves. I hope that after mastering my method in the first book, starting to lose weight and getting the first results, you will want to learn more. And then both books will naturally complement each other, forming a single whole.

How is this book different from other “weight loss creations”?

I have antipathy towards humanity because ninety-nine percent of it consists of suggestible idiots, susceptible to any propaganda. Each of them, if whispered in his ear, is ready to stand up and kill me.

V. Levi “Me and We”

I am a dietitian and have been working in the field of weight loss medicine for over 15 years.

During this time I had to see a lot! Among my patients there were both beginners and those who “have known everything for a long time” about losing weight. These are pop stars and businessmen, executives and ordinary workers. They all, in my opinion, have one common problem. They tried many times to lose weight, but for some reason it didn’t work out. And although most of them are quite strong-willed people, they were unable to walk this path alone. Having finally realized that diets did not help, sooner or later they turned to me. And then the fun began... But! This is a completely different book!

Frankly, I don’t often visit bookstores, but as soon as my first book came out, I started looking there out of curiosity. And I involuntarily noticed that, it turns out, there are quite a few people who write books under the code name “How to Lose Weight Correctly,” although they themselves have not lost a single extra kilogram in their entire lives! Just like that coach from the joke who taught swimming, but was afraid of water. Such healers and even doctors can now be seen on television screens and in newfangled clinics, often advertised on the radio. And how many “smart” books have been written by these advisers!

Overweight medicine has always stood next to cosmetology; Perhaps that is why the profession of a nutritionist was considered fashionable and prestigious. Monetary, if you like. This is probably why everyone is now giving advice in this area. My patients sometimes tell funny stories. They say they come to the district clinic to see an endocrinologist who weighs no less than themselves. And this doctor begins to give them painfully familiar recommendations: “Move more and eat less.” Sometimes, however, he also advises “to run away from a heart attack.” Despite the fact that some patients, due to excess weight, find it difficult to even tie their shoelaces...

I liked what Mikhail Zhvanetsky once said:

“Guys, I am a coach from God, although I temporarily work in a vegetable store. You sit in the cellar, sort through the cabbage, and all the options, options are in your head.”

I have seen more than once how a fitness trainer recommends “turning your head” to “develop” the cervical vertebrae, especially with osteochondrosis (which affects many people). But any doctor will tell you that it is dangerous to carry out such manipulations without pictures of the cervical spine! The medical literature even describes the so-called “barber chair” syndrome. When a client is seated in this very chair and held for a long time with his head thrown back far back, and at the end of the procedures, suddenly, unexpectedly for everyone, it is discovered that he has fallen asleep...

The habit of familiar and beloved dishes and products from childhood has been developed in us for decades; representatives of some nations have had it for generations, almost at the genetic level.

And then “suddenly” a “smart” (sometimes very smart and persistent) specialist like me appears, who declares: “Until now, you have been eating incorrectly, you need to eat 6 times a day and not at all what you are used to, chewing each piece 50 times!” He would try to chew every piece like that himself! I'd like to see what happens to his teeth in a few years. It is clear that no organism will accept such a dictatorial attitude.

Our body is delicate and fragile. You can’t “break” him, you need to be able to negotiate with him! Hundreds or even thousands of people start to eat like they should, and then many of them become convinced that the effect is the opposite. The kilograms quickly return, and they also bring with them new diseases.

Sometimes self-medication is supported by overly active paramedical workers and even doctors who, apparently, consider themselves experts in all areas of medicine. They often give disinterested, but for some reason completely illiterate, advice on the Internet. Their unbridled desire to become famous, to show themselves as experts in nutrition, sooner or later can end in tragedy for someone. But they probably don't understand it. Or they don't want to understand.

Such public educators literally appear from somewhere in batches; every day they try to teach us life from the TV screen or from the pages of glossy magazines. One day I was surprised to learn that the most popular publication in our country is not “MAX1M”, or “Cosmopolitan”, and not even “Komsomolskaya Pravda” with its “Kremlin Diet”, but a simple newspaper HLS - “Healthy Lifestyle” - with a circulation as much as two million! Who would have imagined that a newspaper distributed on trains, advising to treat pneumonia with rutabaga juice and hemorrhoids with cucumbers, has so many fans? Who are these two million? Aren't we ourselves?

My wife now, as I write these lines, scolds me for being excessively aggressive and categorical. But, to be honest, this amateur performance is disgusting! As a doctor, as a professional who has dedicated his life to medicine, looking at this is not only funny, but also disgusting. Every day I have to answer the same question on the Internet several times: “Tell me, how can I lose weight?” or “How can my girlfriend lose weight?” I don't know how to do this! If only because I don’t know either you or your girlfriend!

These people probably naively believe that I know some secret unique remedy for weight loss and simply keep it in the strictest trade secret. Oh! If only it were that simple!

It is impossible to help a person get rid of excess weight in any standard way, if only because we are all different and our reasons for being overweight may be fundamentally different!

The entire theory presented in this book could be summarized in one short phrase: “Don’t eat bad food, take care of yourself - and you will be healthy.” However, a person is not a dog; it is not enough for him to say “fu”. It is also necessary to explain in detail why, in fact, “fu” and how it (this “fu”) will affect his body.

What I want to offer you is not a diet in the usual sense. This is a complete, comprehensive methodology. It includes not only certain rules for eating food, but also special (easy!) physical exercises. And, of course, the necessary medical support.

By using all these simple means and following a certain scheme, you can achieve the same results that I achieved myself, and then thousands of my patients.

Having at one time developed the basics of this technique, following them, in just six months, I lost 50 kg without much effort and have been calmly maintaining this weight for many years now. But the important thing is not that I once lost weight myself, but that now I know how you can do it.

I would really like for you to understand the main thing from my example and from the example of my patients: IT IS POSSIBLE TO LOSE WEIGHT! This is quite real! And not just lose a few kilograms, which usually return quickly, but lose weight significantly, to the physiological norm of a healthy person.

Believe me, with my help it won't be that difficult! Let’s just agree right away - I won’t be able to lose weight for you! “For myself,” I have already lost weight and now I see my task only as showing you the correct and shortest path to this goal and warning you against possible mistakes. I've already walked this path. Now we can go through it together.

By reading and drawing the appropriate conclusions, you will quickly learn to apply the acquired knowledge in practice, you will understand what you need for proper weight loss, you will see how my method works, and you will be able to appreciate the results obtained. From study to awareness, from awareness to action!

When I started writing this book, I was hoping that there are people who are always hungry for knowledge, especially when it comes to their health. Therefore, when presenting the material, I did not strive for brevity. I have structured the book in such a way that if some sections seem too abstruse and difficult for you to understand, you can safely skip them and return to them a little later.

Don't let the presence of special terms scare you. I tried, if possible, not to use medical terminology or immediately explain the meaning of unclear words. Indeed, without a clear idea of ​​the essence of the processes taking place, any therapeutic measure becomes like idle philosophical speculation about the meaning of life. By simplifying the content as much as possible, we get “Dietetics for Dummies.” But I wouldn’t like to consider you dummies! Although sometimes I deliberately repeat certain thoughts to make it easier to remember the most important concepts and principles. If you have questions, and some topics turn out to be difficult to understand, you can always discuss them on the forum of our clinic’s website: www.diet-clinic.ru.

It happens that a chance meeting with a stranger or a book suddenly helps to cope with problems that previously seemed insoluble. I offer you such a meeting here and now. Join us!

Chapter 1 A Perceived Necessity

A person goes further and further, seeing ahead a calling bright light and the road of truth rapidly soaring to the heavenly heights. And there will not be an outside observer nearby who can say that just a few steps in front of this person the edge of a cliff and sharp stones are black; the bottom of the gorge will be stained with the blood of the walker in a few moments.

And between these stones in relaxed poses sits a warm campaign of marauders, looking up impatiently; on the edge of a cliff, waiting for someone going towards the light...

Kara Mergen

We all live in a market economy, where money and profit are the defining concepts. Where the rule “Who is not on time is late!” reigns, and common sense and a thoughtful approach, unfortunately, fade into the background. This is probably why queries in Internet search engines for the phrase “How to lose weight quickly?” are thousands of times higher than requests for the phrase “How to lose weight correctly?” I often ask my patients at appointments: “Why did you come to us? What do you want from us? The response is almost always a surprised phrase: “Why? What I wish I could lose weight!” And almost no one said: “I turned to you so that you could help me correct the disorders that led my body to be overweight.”

But, you must admit: when only the size, proportions of the figure, appearance are the main motives for you, your main task becomes to bring yourself into line with the standards accepted in society. At the same time, the opinion and judgment of other, completely strangers about you, is the dominant link.

Don't agree? Then take the risk of asking yourself a few questions:

Do you compare your external data (size) with what the people around you look like?

Do you feel much more comfortable around fatter people?

Do you feel uncomfortable if you find yourself the fattest person in a group, at a party, or on public transport?

Do a person’s external data influence your opinion of him?

I daresay that you answered positively to almost all questions. And the medical services market adapts to your needs. And, in my opinion, all currently existing and actively advertised weight loss methods, starting with surgical intervention and ending with the installation of a “golden needle” in the ear, all kinds of coding and suggestions are aimed at only one thing: to eliminate the main symptom of a complex pathology - excess weight,- but not at all the reasons for its appearance. This is a continuous production aimed at one specific goal: to remove excess weight from you as quickly as possible. And we must give it its due: it copes with this task quite successfully.

What's next? Why do all these methods give only temporary results? Let's try to make a prediction. Let's make an analogy. Don't you think this approach is similar to trying to clean up water pouring out of a broken pipe? You understand that until the tap is turned off, it will not be possible to collect water. But despite this, you continue to stubbornly move the rag across the wet floor. So it is with our problem: many are constantly fighting a hopeless struggle with the symptoms of the disease - with excess weight, but not with its causes. It's like constantly taking headache pills without knowing why your headache hurts. There are many reasons, and each case requires different treatment. It is not the disease that should be treated, but the person! Do not fight the symptoms, but find and eliminate the causes!

None of the currently existing methods, systems, diets encourages a person to radically change what served as the starting point not full, and those changes in the body that externally manifested themselves in the form of excess weight; does not identify or eliminate the causes of obesity. On the contrary, the entire “weight loss industry” is focused on one goal: “Let’s do this quickly!”

Is this beneficial for them? But this is exactly what you want from them! As in any market structure, demand determines supply. Let me remind you that the request “How to lose weight quickly?” – the most popular in all Internet search engines.

In an effort to find the most effective ways to lose fat, people sometimes subject themselves to real physical torture. They, like the prisoners of the Chateau d'If, can slurp liquid cabbage soup for many days or, like prisoners of a desert island, eat only grapefruits. Or they put on rubber clothes and run around in the heat in them until their lips crack from dehydration. And sometimes these martyrs “for the glory of their belly” go to extremes... People begin to starve, like victims of the camps!

I am categorically against dashing “cavalry attacks” in the form of fasting. You can lock a person up alone, and in a month he will come out as thin as a Brazilian fashion model. And what? At the first opportunity, he will certainly attack the tray of hamburgers. According to research, a year after such intensive programs, only 5% of fasters maintain their achieved weight.

As the classics said, “we do not need hysterical outbursts, we need the measured tread of the iron battalions of the proletariat.” There is no need to “break the patient over the knee,” it is useless to have fiery conversations with him in the spirit of “Pull yourself together, you rag, stop eating!” or “I recommend a healthy, nutritious diet.” If a person were able to do this, he would have solved his problem himself long ago. Consistency and uniformity are important here; understanding and awareness of dependence on pathologically developing processes, be it the psychology of eating behavior or the physiology of food absorption.

And now the main thing! Let's think about it: is excess weight itself your problem? This is just a symptom, a consequence. In fact, the problem is that for one reason or another, you either eat more food than your body needs, or this food is not properly digested! And from here two main classic questions arise, the solution of which determines the result: why are you doing this and how to change it.

Looking back over the past years, you will probably agree with me: your entire previous life in all its diversity has led and continues to lead to the fact that the body malfunctions. After all, it’s only cognac that gets better with time. And a completely logical external manifestation of this disorder is increasing excess weight. You can, of course, pause this process using any of the methods currently offered. You can even completely lose weight. But!

Without eliminating the cause of the growing pathology in the body, you will never be able to maintain this weight!

After all, look what happens. Let’s say, having resorted to the help of surgeons, putting a needle in the ear, receiving two notorious lists of products for a blood test, taking “Thai pills” or simply going on another diet, a person really begins to quickly lose weight. At the same time, he invariably puts his appearance much higher than his well-being, which can seriously suffer. After all, the main goal is immediate and quite specific: to achieve stunning appearance at any cost, regardless of “production costs.” Everything else is just a necessary sacrifice in the name of ideal harmony and insane beauty!

Women are persistent creatures! Therefore, I fully admit that through incredible efforts and self-torture you will sooner or later achieve your goal! And anyone who has ever experienced these feelings of “victory over weight” remembers the inspiring feeling of euphoria. But let's think about it: don't all your achievements come down only to external manifestations? Yes, you “collected water,” but nothing has changed inside you: “the tap is still open,” and the weight continues to increase. And quickly. I daresay you know this as well as I do.

Sooner or later, you invariably return to your old way of life, and along with this, your old, painfully familiar outlines of your figure return. Every time you try to eat less, you inevitably and quite consciously push yourself into the “cage of restrictions”, where you are allowed to eat just enough so as not to die of hunger. But you can’t sit in such a “punishment cell” forever! You “blow up the walls of the prison” and... attack the food. As a result, this practice leads to a cyclical alternation of strict restrictions and binge eating. Life turns into a stubborn struggle, into an endless series of victories and defeats. Not understanding or not wanting to understand this simple truth, thousands of people go this route: they voluntarily put themselves in a “prison of diets” and adhere to strict rules that they set for themselves. Then, having “broken out of prison to freedom,” they quickly make up for lost time. After all, any prohibition sooner or later returns to us with an irresistible desire!