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March 25, 2017
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It is not easy to maintain the willpower to follow through

Sometimes it’s very difficult to summon the willpower I was talking about yesterday. One day it’s easy. You only need the enough amount of rage or courage to start. It can make you win a race or climb a mountain. But continuing with the same determination day after day it is a really difficult task. Rage or courage is not enough. You need a very powerful reason.




I remember the day I decided to quit smoking. It was many years ago. A friend of mine had died of lung cancer. Some people advised me to do it gradually, but I decided to go cold turkey. I didn’t know how many days it was going to last my strength, but I had decided to fight one day at a time. And sometimes it turned to be an hour at a time struggle. But day after day, and specially night after night (the first ones full of nightmares and night terrors) I have continued a nonsmoker for thirty years.

Luckily, if you decide to control your weight, you don’t need to stop eating. You will have to eat probably the same volume of food, but in this case, adequate and real food. You have to change your nutrition pattern and your habits. If you don’t live alone, you will have to talk it with the rest of the people that use the same kitchen. The reason is that you have to clean your pantry and your refrigerator and throw away everything not considered real food.



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March 20, 2017
Get rid of junk fodder!
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Come back to real food

If your New Year resolution has AGAIN something to be with weighting loss, do me a favor, do not cheat yourself. If your problem got really out of control, don’t hesitate and ask for professional help. If you are simply overweighed, do not tray to blame your metabolism, your genes or your bad luck. You should blame your lack of willpower to control what you eat, drink or the exercise you practice. Gaining weight is the result of eating more of what you need, considering your level of activity. None of the latest fad diet is going to provoke the miracle of turning you slimmer. Neither will do it the Mediterranean Diet. You have to be the sole actor of your own change. Nobody or nothing will be able to help you if you do not have an indomitable self-determination to improve your life.




If you can get the needed self-confidence and willpower, just start walking. In these pages you have enough information to guide you. I am not going to give you more excuses to delay what you have to start when you decide to start. Not before and not later. Just in the very moment you have decided it. But do not seek to gain time looking for impossible solutions. The first step is throwing away all the rubbish you are eating now and starting consuming real food. And the second is that you will have to increase your physical activity.

Once you feel your body is free of the poison coming from sugar burden, trans-fat laden products and junk fodder, you will be able to think more rationally and build your nutrition pattern. Come back then and see what the original Mediterranean Diet can do for you.

I will be waiting.



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