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How I switched to raw food
It all started around 2004. This year was marked by the transition to the heavyweight category. I competed in hand-to-hand combat. With my average standard weight of 85 kg, then I passed 90 and tried to gain more weight. My dream was the weight mark in the centner. For I firmly believed that the bigger and fatter a man is, the stronger he can strike. With my height of 190 cm, this weight was not something completely sky-high. I loved the gym no less than eating dumplings. So my mass grew. When I reached the 98 kg mark, I felt like the hero of Vysotsky’s song “The Ballad of Plaster”:
Well, I've been healthy for a long time, but I don't intend to take a cast.
Let the hands become like tusks,
I don't give a damn about it.
But I think it seems much more massive.
I really felt massive and significant. Now I can honestly admit that behind the mass recruitment there was an exclusively psychological complex - I wanted to be more, more important, have more importance. And I achieved that. The massive carcass cutting through the space really looked impressive. Looking ahead, when I lost weight, a lot of people didn't even recognize me.
So, before the cherished centner was missing a couple of kilograms. But if before the minor inconveniences associated with a large weight, just occasionally drew attention to themselves, now they obsessively stood before their eyes and reproachfully stared at me, shaking their heads crushed. Ascent to the 5th floor was accompanied by heavy breathing, sweating was extreme, the stomach, which at least 4 hours was deprived of food rebelled and demanded food. Laziness and apathy became frequent guests of the psychological state. It's easy for me to write about it now. Because now I understand and realize it. And then I couldn't understand it. Eat as usual, live as usual. But for some reason I was getting like a moose out of a joke - worse and worse. I didn’t think about the correctness of my diet. The structure of life, the balance of calories. It wasn't like that. My head was busy with other things.
It helped, by and large, by accident. Vacation. The vacation that I had in 2010 was the longest in my career – 2 months. June and July 2010 was marked for me by the sea, the sun, fresh produce, which was taken in the hospitable southern market and a lot of walking. I had no weights under my feet and no thought to watch my weight.
I was just enjoying life. I finally realized that tomatoes can smell. What are ripe fruits that have just been picked from a tree? What, it turns out, can be a long time in the fresh air, when not constrained by mosquitoes and constant downpours. I grew up in the North. My hometown where I was born is Syktyvkar. The capital of the Komi Republic. Here, winter begins in October and ends in April. It's a joke about us that summer was good, but I was at work that day. It is from fresh vegetables and fruits only potatoes, cranberries and cloudberries. In general, not the easiest conditions for living. And those two months at sea just showed me that life could be a little different. Life can be enjoyed, not in the process of constant survival.
I didn't go to the gym. What is the point of sitting in a stuffy room when you can be in the fresh air, swim and walk a lot. Mostly that’s what I did – walking and swimming. My diet has changed too. The flour food has almost disappeared. Dumplings and pasta were replaced by stuffed peppers and vegetables on the grill. Frozen meat disappeared from the diet in principle, always on the market took only the freshest. There were minor changes in the fish - salmon and cod were replaced by gobies and flounder.
Of course, a huge part of the diet included fresh berries and fruits - apricots, strawberries, cherries, cherries, apples, peaches, watermelons, melons, I did not get to the local grapes, since it was poured with ripeness only by September. I specifically describe the diet in such detail that it was clear that I did not limit myself in food. I still ate a lot. The quality of these products was different. First, they were fresh and natural. Secondly, almost 70% of my diet was fresh fruits and vegetables.
Let me remind you that I didn't have any weights with me. I didn't measure my body in centimeters. The lightness and slimness that appeared correlated only with fresh air and tan. Like, I just look good. What a surprise I was when I came home, stood on the scale and saw the result. In my wildest thoughts, I thought I'd lost five or seven pounds. But the scales showed a fantastic result - my weight fell from 98 to 85 kg. I lost 13 pounds without any effort. I did everything I used to do. I ate as much as I normally do. A little more. There is always more food in the south than in the north. But I didn't gain, I lost weight! That's a lot of weight! It was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky. Of course, I realized that I had more aerobic exercise (walking, swimming), but so much! I was very interested in that. I started reading a lot of literature on nutrition. After all, in addition to lost kilograms, I lost shortness of breath, sweating and many other unpleasant moments, which for their intimate physiology I will not describe.
I didn’t think about performing in heavyweights anymore, I thought about how easy it was, how good it was and how much healthier I was. I realized that all the extra pounds I was carrying were just a layer of fat that prevented me from being healthy and happy. This was the beginning of the first phase of my dietary change.
The second phase began in 2012. As an experiment, I decided to give up meat. An important role in this was played by the “Theory of adequate digestion of academician Ugolev”. Growing up in the north, life without meat seemed unreal to me. If someone had told me a few years ago that I could do without meat, I would have laughed in his face. Life without meat began as an experiment. There was a pack of dumplings in the freezer, a pack of sausages in the fridge.
Every time I cooked my own food, I would look in the fridge and wink at the sausages and say, “I’ve warmed up my Mexican (vegetable) mix in the pan today, but if I don’t, I’ll take you guys.” And the guys wrapped in a film shell said to me joyfully, "Come on! If anything, we will be happy if you eat us. However, I began to eat without meat. I was totally shocked! How so?! You can live without meat at all! The collapse of the whole foundation of life! What about the essential amino acids and all the other theories that I was fed in the chemistry and biology department? In practice, it turned out to be a little different. The process of completely eliminating meat took me 2 years. I mean, it's a time when I at least occasionally indulged in kebabs or duck under honey sauce.
Then it stopped being a necessity for me. Then, for me, it became necessary to search for knowledge – why we eat the way we eat. And what does that give us in life? I will tell you my blob of vision: the way the average person eats only gives him health problems. Period. Our body doesn't live. He's fighting the crap we put in him on a regular basis.
I'm a harsh practitioner. The theoretical knowledge I received while studying at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology of SyktSU often contradicted the practical results I obtained. That is why I will only give advice that I have tried personally. You should be aware that some tips should be taken with an eye on the physical condition. For example, I strongly DO NOT recommend, for example, immediately after omnipotence to switch to Fruitarianism. The transition process should be smooth, gradual and, most importantly, non-violent. Forbiding yourself something, you will spend 2 times more energy than in normal life. In addition, you will receive severe emotional stress, which will not lead to anything good.
First of all, you need to understand your own body. His real needs, not his imposed needs. I went through this process for a long time, by trial and error. And now, after summing up my experience, I am ready to share it with you. At the moment, I have a fairly large number of people who come to me for advice in terms of proper nutrition. They themselves are lazy to read Ereta or Ugolev, to apply the practical experience of Lapshinov or Valiakhmetova. Understand the statements of Zeland or Sanfire. I give clear, punctual, practical advice. From A to Z.
The study of biology, which I was passionate about in school (why, in fact, I went to chem-bil), was replaced by a passion for studying biochemical processes. However, to consider a person from the point of view of scrupulous analysis is not correct. Man is the object of the Gestalt approach. It should be studied in a complex. That is why I began to study in depth the psychological aspects of man. The psychology of communication and crowd psychology, which I actively studied when I worked in radio and television, began to be replaced by personality psychology and Gestalt therapy. He received a lot of experience from studying with Levan Zardalishvili, Yuri Kiykov and Jeanette Tapejo. The constant study of the motives of human behavior, his life patterns, constantly pushed me to study an increasing layer of questions. Physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, psychology and even esoterics. I did not shy away from anything, because my main requirement for the information received was its practical application and effectiveness.
I searched, found, applied and started looking again. I have tried more than one method of normalizing weight and maintaining a high level of health.
One example was illustrative. I was invited by my old friend, now a high-level official. He saw how much weight I had lost and wanted to lose some weight as well. But he went to the gym and drank protein shakes. He was afraid of losing power along with his weight. When people lose weight, they think they are losing muscle. In fact, they are just losing excess fat. They have no idea how small their muscles really are. To show him this, I offered a simple test, armwrestling. Right on the desk, freeing it from bureaucratic and representative tinsel, we clutched our hands and started fighting. He puffed and nozzled, trying to put me, a tentacle dead (given that I weighed 25 pounds less than he) on the table. But all his efforts were in vain. And then he admitted there must be something in my system.
Yeah, there's something in my system. There is strength and there is health. The extra layer of fat you are wrapped in is just a layer of fat. And it interferes with your own health. You're not walruses or seals. You don't need that kind of fat! Your body wants freedom from excess. Your body is a unique self-regulating structure. Please don’t stop him from functioning normally! Our brains have been flooded not so much with fat as with the terrible stereotypes that modern culture has imposed on us. For many, Arnold Schwarzeneger was the standard of the body. Do you know who the standard was for him? Bruce Lee! A man who didn't have a drop of fat in him. A man who could knock down a man who was much bigger than himself in mass! It is said that people invented clothes after they learned how to cook. Because they were ashamed of their bodies. Remember at least ancient Greece.
Oddly enough, but the study of nutrition revealed for me a whole layer of knowledge that is associated not only with weight. I discovered a whole world called happiness. I learned to accept my body and soul. I learned to understand my true needs and desires. I got rid of the patterns of thinking and blinkering. I had to become an expert in a healthy lifestyle, in nutrition, in proper nutrition. In addition, I am an expert in martial arts, which helped me find the right balance in consumption and expenditure of calories. At the moment, I have extensive psychological practice, I conduct many trainings not only on a healthy lifestyle, but also on motivation, time management and improving staff efficiency.
I can definitely say that the issue of normalization of weight can affect absolutely anyone, regardless of age, gender and social status. Whether you are old or young, poor or rich, male or female, we all want to be healthy and happy. And I have a way to achieve that. published
Author: Semyon Kuleshov
P.S. And remember, just by changing our consumption – together we change the world!
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Well, I've been healthy for a long time, but I don't intend to take a cast.
Let the hands become like tusks,
I don't give a damn about it.
But I think it seems much more massive.
I really felt massive and significant. Now I can honestly admit that behind the mass recruitment there was an exclusively psychological complex - I wanted to be more, more important, have more importance. And I achieved that. The massive carcass cutting through the space really looked impressive. Looking ahead, when I lost weight, a lot of people didn't even recognize me.
So, before the cherished centner was missing a couple of kilograms. But if before the minor inconveniences associated with a large weight, just occasionally drew attention to themselves, now they obsessively stood before their eyes and reproachfully stared at me, shaking their heads crushed. Ascent to the 5th floor was accompanied by heavy breathing, sweating was extreme, the stomach, which at least 4 hours was deprived of food rebelled and demanded food. Laziness and apathy became frequent guests of the psychological state. It's easy for me to write about it now. Because now I understand and realize it. And then I couldn't understand it. Eat as usual, live as usual. But for some reason I was getting like a moose out of a joke - worse and worse. I didn’t think about the correctness of my diet. The structure of life, the balance of calories. It wasn't like that. My head was busy with other things.
It helped, by and large, by accident. Vacation. The vacation that I had in 2010 was the longest in my career – 2 months. June and July 2010 was marked for me by the sea, the sun, fresh produce, which was taken in the hospitable southern market and a lot of walking. I had no weights under my feet and no thought to watch my weight.
I was just enjoying life. I finally realized that tomatoes can smell. What are ripe fruits that have just been picked from a tree? What, it turns out, can be a long time in the fresh air, when not constrained by mosquitoes and constant downpours. I grew up in the North. My hometown where I was born is Syktyvkar. The capital of the Komi Republic. Here, winter begins in October and ends in April. It's a joke about us that summer was good, but I was at work that day. It is from fresh vegetables and fruits only potatoes, cranberries and cloudberries. In general, not the easiest conditions for living. And those two months at sea just showed me that life could be a little different. Life can be enjoyed, not in the process of constant survival.
I didn't go to the gym. What is the point of sitting in a stuffy room when you can be in the fresh air, swim and walk a lot. Mostly that’s what I did – walking and swimming. My diet has changed too. The flour food has almost disappeared. Dumplings and pasta were replaced by stuffed peppers and vegetables on the grill. Frozen meat disappeared from the diet in principle, always on the market took only the freshest. There were minor changes in the fish - salmon and cod were replaced by gobies and flounder.
Of course, a huge part of the diet included fresh berries and fruits - apricots, strawberries, cherries, cherries, apples, peaches, watermelons, melons, I did not get to the local grapes, since it was poured with ripeness only by September. I specifically describe the diet in such detail that it was clear that I did not limit myself in food. I still ate a lot. The quality of these products was different. First, they were fresh and natural. Secondly, almost 70% of my diet was fresh fruits and vegetables.
Let me remind you that I didn't have any weights with me. I didn't measure my body in centimeters. The lightness and slimness that appeared correlated only with fresh air and tan. Like, I just look good. What a surprise I was when I came home, stood on the scale and saw the result. In my wildest thoughts, I thought I'd lost five or seven pounds. But the scales showed a fantastic result - my weight fell from 98 to 85 kg. I lost 13 pounds without any effort. I did everything I used to do. I ate as much as I normally do. A little more. There is always more food in the south than in the north. But I didn't gain, I lost weight! That's a lot of weight! It was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky. Of course, I realized that I had more aerobic exercise (walking, swimming), but so much! I was very interested in that. I started reading a lot of literature on nutrition. After all, in addition to lost kilograms, I lost shortness of breath, sweating and many other unpleasant moments, which for their intimate physiology I will not describe.
I didn’t think about performing in heavyweights anymore, I thought about how easy it was, how good it was and how much healthier I was. I realized that all the extra pounds I was carrying were just a layer of fat that prevented me from being healthy and happy. This was the beginning of the first phase of my dietary change.
The second phase began in 2012. As an experiment, I decided to give up meat. An important role in this was played by the “Theory of adequate digestion of academician Ugolev”. Growing up in the north, life without meat seemed unreal to me. If someone had told me a few years ago that I could do without meat, I would have laughed in his face. Life without meat began as an experiment. There was a pack of dumplings in the freezer, a pack of sausages in the fridge.
Every time I cooked my own food, I would look in the fridge and wink at the sausages and say, “I’ve warmed up my Mexican (vegetable) mix in the pan today, but if I don’t, I’ll take you guys.” And the guys wrapped in a film shell said to me joyfully, "Come on! If anything, we will be happy if you eat us. However, I began to eat without meat. I was totally shocked! How so?! You can live without meat at all! The collapse of the whole foundation of life! What about the essential amino acids and all the other theories that I was fed in the chemistry and biology department? In practice, it turned out to be a little different. The process of completely eliminating meat took me 2 years. I mean, it's a time when I at least occasionally indulged in kebabs or duck under honey sauce.
Then it stopped being a necessity for me. Then, for me, it became necessary to search for knowledge – why we eat the way we eat. And what does that give us in life? I will tell you my blob of vision: the way the average person eats only gives him health problems. Period. Our body doesn't live. He's fighting the crap we put in him on a regular basis.
I'm a harsh practitioner. The theoretical knowledge I received while studying at the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology of SyktSU often contradicted the practical results I obtained. That is why I will only give advice that I have tried personally. You should be aware that some tips should be taken with an eye on the physical condition. For example, I strongly DO NOT recommend, for example, immediately after omnipotence to switch to Fruitarianism. The transition process should be smooth, gradual and, most importantly, non-violent. Forbiding yourself something, you will spend 2 times more energy than in normal life. In addition, you will receive severe emotional stress, which will not lead to anything good.
First of all, you need to understand your own body. His real needs, not his imposed needs. I went through this process for a long time, by trial and error. And now, after summing up my experience, I am ready to share it with you. At the moment, I have a fairly large number of people who come to me for advice in terms of proper nutrition. They themselves are lazy to read Ereta or Ugolev, to apply the practical experience of Lapshinov or Valiakhmetova. Understand the statements of Zeland or Sanfire. I give clear, punctual, practical advice. From A to Z.
The study of biology, which I was passionate about in school (why, in fact, I went to chem-bil), was replaced by a passion for studying biochemical processes. However, to consider a person from the point of view of scrupulous analysis is not correct. Man is the object of the Gestalt approach. It should be studied in a complex. That is why I began to study in depth the psychological aspects of man. The psychology of communication and crowd psychology, which I actively studied when I worked in radio and television, began to be replaced by personality psychology and Gestalt therapy. He received a lot of experience from studying with Levan Zardalishvili, Yuri Kiykov and Jeanette Tapejo. The constant study of the motives of human behavior, his life patterns, constantly pushed me to study an increasing layer of questions. Physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, psychology and even esoterics. I did not shy away from anything, because my main requirement for the information received was its practical application and effectiveness.
I searched, found, applied and started looking again. I have tried more than one method of normalizing weight and maintaining a high level of health.
One example was illustrative. I was invited by my old friend, now a high-level official. He saw how much weight I had lost and wanted to lose some weight as well. But he went to the gym and drank protein shakes. He was afraid of losing power along with his weight. When people lose weight, they think they are losing muscle. In fact, they are just losing excess fat. They have no idea how small their muscles really are. To show him this, I offered a simple test, armwrestling. Right on the desk, freeing it from bureaucratic and representative tinsel, we clutched our hands and started fighting. He puffed and nozzled, trying to put me, a tentacle dead (given that I weighed 25 pounds less than he) on the table. But all his efforts were in vain. And then he admitted there must be something in my system.
Yeah, there's something in my system. There is strength and there is health. The extra layer of fat you are wrapped in is just a layer of fat. And it interferes with your own health. You're not walruses or seals. You don't need that kind of fat! Your body wants freedom from excess. Your body is a unique self-regulating structure. Please don’t stop him from functioning normally! Our brains have been flooded not so much with fat as with the terrible stereotypes that modern culture has imposed on us. For many, Arnold Schwarzeneger was the standard of the body. Do you know who the standard was for him? Bruce Lee! A man who didn't have a drop of fat in him. A man who could knock down a man who was much bigger than himself in mass! It is said that people invented clothes after they learned how to cook. Because they were ashamed of their bodies. Remember at least ancient Greece.
Oddly enough, but the study of nutrition revealed for me a whole layer of knowledge that is associated not only with weight. I discovered a whole world called happiness. I learned to accept my body and soul. I learned to understand my true needs and desires. I got rid of the patterns of thinking and blinkering. I had to become an expert in a healthy lifestyle, in nutrition, in proper nutrition. In addition, I am an expert in martial arts, which helped me find the right balance in consumption and expenditure of calories. At the moment, I have extensive psychological practice, I conduct many trainings not only on a healthy lifestyle, but also on motivation, time management and improving staff efficiency.
I can definitely say that the issue of normalization of weight can affect absolutely anyone, regardless of age, gender and social status. Whether you are old or young, poor or rich, male or female, we all want to be healthy and happy. And I have a way to achieve that. published
Author: Semyon Kuleshov
P.S. And remember, just by changing our consumption – together we change the world!
Join us on Facebook, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki
Source: vk.com/zdorovyi_kod
