Live Pretty Die Fun The System II.

 

You live your life according to a system in all areas, and your lifestyle can't be any different. The Lifetilt program provides a framework for your life, under which you learn to live according to a certain system. With sacrifices and adhered-to meals, you create a lifestyle for yourself, but even more importantly, something you might not even notice, is that you train yourself to be consistent. Among other things, the program gives you this extra benefit, so when I babble about how you strengthen yourself mentally and in character with workouts and sticking to your diet, this is partly what I mean.   

So, we're past the program. Facing you, the city is full of pleasures offered by foods you had to give up during the program, but now there's no barrier, nothing to hold you back, and this is the point where you need to stay very alert, because if you give in now, you're done, and there will be no stopping. At such times, you can fall to the other extreme as quickly and easily as SZDSZ dropped out of parliament in 2010. The long-term deprivation of a basic instinct-driven pleasure like taste, and its sudden re-supply, gives the brain such a shock that there is no mental strength that could resist a binge-eating period you've never experienced before. During the program, your body understood that there was no food now, it adapted to the changed state, but it only played for survival, and with every new carbohydrate bomb, it will madly demand to restore the state you were in before the program. This process is called the "yo-yo effect" by the proletariat, but let's call it a basic life instinct. The first week after the last day of your program should be a period of adjustment to the new situation, serving as a transition between your program and more relaxed everyday life. It's like when you've finished with your girlfriend, but you can't immediately sit down at the computer to surf the net; instead, you slowly extract yourself, two minutes of kissing and caressing so it's not so obvious, you really have no desire for foreplay anymore, and then you slowly sit down at the computer. The point is, there needs to be a transition...

 

But let no one think that I've been living on lean cottage cheese since January, because that's absolutely not the case. Pizzas, donuts, chocolates, cookies, wild drunken binges, McDonald's, late-night pizza orders, and I don't know if anyone remembers the 15,000 calories I consumed in a single day during my trip to Barcelona. These are necessary, and SOMETIMES you need to let loose, because you can't live without real delicious flavors, nor is it worth it. These are truly needed, these truly bring joy, but the emphasis is on "sometimes." You simply cannot do this to yourself: after your program, you start eating like pigs at a slaughterhouse, shoveling everything in front of you with the exclamation "I deserve this now," uncontrollably for weeks, because if you do, you might as well set your house on fire.

The System

From January to March, I lost weight from 96 kg to 82 kg as a result of the program, and my weight on October 5th, that is, now, is 85 kg. These 5 months include a summer with all its pitfalls, 35 pints of beer drunk during the 4 days of Balaton Sound, giant hamburgers during the day, binges at other festivals, lángos at the beaches, and every single calorie bomb food you can imagine. You can't live on a strict diet, but you can live by a well-structured system that lasts for the rest of your life, which allows for these extreme excesses.

1.  I have provided diets for every body type, running under the name "body-shaping diet" in the "body type diets for women" entry. I usually only allow you to start that once you have shed the unwanted excess weight with the radical Lifetilt program. That diet also guarantees weight loss, and moreover, it is a much more permissive, followable diet. So, after the program, base your diet on the body-shaping diet according to your body type, because that will be the foundation of the entire system.

2.   2 per week, 8 per month. Remember these two time intervals and these two numbers for life, because these numbers will indicate the number of days when you can indulge in what women's vocabulary calls "cheat days." So, you will have 2 days a week when you can deviate. When these 2 days will be and where you place them in the week is up to you, the main thing is that it cannot be more than 2 days within a week. I can already see the female thoughts, that these 2 days will be Saturday and Sunday, and then next week Monday and Tuesday, so you can mess around for 4 days, which wouldn't be a problem, but then this needs to be followed by 10 diet days. Knowing people, this option is a direct path to death, because after 4 carbohydrate-rich sugary eating days, it is almost 100% certain that the ground will slip out from under your feet, and an avalanche will start downwards from which there is no return. The 2 days off per week is just a guideline, which is an option in front of you and an escape route if circumstances demand it. The 2 per week, 8 per month is the maximum number, which you don't necessarily have to exhaust, and you don't have to start these 2 days per week with a jar of Nutella and order Nestlé's entire product range. Let it include a lunch where you eat what you want, desserts with whipped cream, a drink with friends in the evening, and even a gyro on the way home from the party.

   

3. Three workouts a week. You've changed your lifestyle, meaning exercise has become part of your new, healthy life, and this MUST accompany you throughout your entire life from now on. Even after the program ends, workouts cannot stop, because movement is still necessary, even if you maintain the rhythm of 2 per week, 8 per month. Three cardio exercises of some kind per week, which you MUST adhere to. For me, this can be anything, except that damn world-idiotic Zumba and Kangoo, because these two are forever on the banned list, and remember that for life, just like home aerobics is not an option. Spinning, hot iron, swimming, cycling, hiking, anything is fine, just GO AND EXERCISE 3 TIMES A WEEK.

4. Three liters of fluid per day remain, and with this, we arrive at a very important point. During the program, you already learned that fluids are exclusively mineral water, teas, and occasionally light cola. Everyone thinks of food when it comes to diet, yet with sugary drinks and fruit juices falsely advertised as 100% and their counterparts, you can easily consume over 1,000 calories daily without even noticing. After the program, you can drink these crappy things too, but here the ratio changes to 1 per week, 4 per month, meaning you will have one, I repeat one day a week when you can drink these, and on the other days, you must stick to the tea-water-fagging.  

5. By adhering to the first 4 points, you will be able to maintain your weight and figure for many months without special effort, but unfortunately, life is not that simple because I'm not afraid that there will be huge setbacks for many of you, and those 2 per week, 8 per month will instantly turn into 5 per week, 20 per month, if you adhere to anything at all. That's why, and because humans are fallible and prone to pushing themselves into the abyss, you will need some corrective interventions in the future, which will be necessary if you have regained 60% of the weight you lost. If, for example, you lost 15 kilos with the program, and 9 kilos came back, then you better slap yourself, my dear, because you've stepped onto the path at the end of which are men who will no longer want to sleep with you, and I believe I cannot imagine a more horrible feeling in women's heads, because that man at the end of the road could be your friend, your husband, or the guy you want to get for yourself.

 

6. 60%. If this number comes up, then prepare yourself mentally for your next program, which would be entirely unnecessary if you weren't such an immoderate, gluttonous, characterless nobody. It's solely up to you how many times you'll have to complete the Lifetilt program in a year, but of course, only if you still want something from life. You absolutely must do the program once a year, if for no other reason than for your renewed mental strengthening, and because there's always a better physique, a more beautiful appearance, ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. If you don't adhere to what's described in the first 4 points, then 2-3 programs within a year are not out of the question, but then it's up to you how much you want to screw yourself over. 

So, almost everything is allowed in life after the program, but don't forget that everything has a price. Harmful things are the most attractive and best things in the world, but if you don't pay attention and don't hit the brakes in time, then the mirror will appear, and even if you don't believe it and don't care, you will suddenly notice that people's attitude towards you will change, and unlike the mirror, you won't be able to cover that up.