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Japanese Home Cooking Showed Me That The Fastest Way to Lose Weight is To Slow Down
Slowly, gently, and with grace is how you’ll get there
Out of all the weight loss diets I’ve tried in my life, adopting a Japanese way of eating food worked for the purest of reasons, in that it was the slowest way for me to get there.
Let me explain.
It's been several years since I've been overweight, but the emotional memories from that time in my life are often just as vivid today. It is frustrating beyond words in the beginning of any health journey, when you are doing everything by the book, yet it seems like nothing is amounting to anything. I distinctly remember reading about how people should be losing a pound a week, and then I’m thinking about how I’ve only lost 0.2 pounds in 10 days. I would read articles on celebrities who had lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks, and new discussion threads on someone’s before/after using a trending diet program. I’d think to myself, what am I doing wrong? Am I not doing enough?
In my worst moments I thought about just pushing through and going hungry for a straight month. If I just did a month of crazy…
But that mindset was not only wrong, it would never work.
