Hello all, my name is Hanna, 25 and I live in Ukraine. I'm a computer programmer. My height is 164 cm / 5.4 and my weight is 62 kilos.
I usually maintained healthy weight of 52 kilos / 114 pounds. For some time I even had about 48 kilos / 106 pounds and that was really nice, so that's still my goal. But this winter I went skiing and received an injury (knee ligament rupture). I had a surgery and stayed at home for a long time. So I gained about 10 kilos (22 pounds) because of low activity and boredom :) At last I can do gym (but no fitness yet, which is much better for me :( ) So you see I have to get my figure back now :)
Now, about the way I've choosen to get thinner and healtier.
1) The Diet 1200 kilocalories
I totally checked it on myself. It's good for getting thiner and also for maitaining healthy weight (which is the same but with little bit less strict standarts). This diet by itself lets you loose a little bit more then a pound a week, but in combination with physical activity, drinking a lot of fluids and maybe some yogurt days (will write about them later), you can loose couple of pounds a week! The trick of the diet for me is to consume mostly low fat products: vegetables fruit, low fat dairy products, boiled chicken etc. When the products are low fat, you can eat more of them, score 1200 kilocalories a day and not get hungry often :)
2) Yogurt days
Once a week for the whole day I eat only 2 litres (0,5 gallons) of very low fat yogurt. Also I can eat some cottage cheese or hard cheese. And maybe 1 banana :)
This helps to clean my intestines for better digesting.
3) Gym (3 times a week) and swimming pool (1-2 times a week)
As I cannot do any fitness yet, because of my surgery, I chose gym. Doing sports boosts my metabolism and I loose weight faster.
4) Also I do hoop for my waist (20 min a day), use my concussor and do some body mud wraps at home to loose more inches from my lower body and waist.
Hope I will loose 10-14 kilos until NY :)