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I love food. I should stop trying to fool myself and others, and blame my excess weight on endocrinology problems and too many hormones in the food. The truth is that if you ask me to choose between a bag of paprika flavored potato chips and a bowl of baby carrots with low-fat dip, I would go with the first one. I know I’m not alone. Maybe you would do the same. That’s why I wanted to make this blog: so I can share recepies that are so delicious, they would keep your mind away from all those temptations that declared a war on your waist, tights and butt.

Here’s a little about me…. I don’t expect you to actually care, but I bet m

any of you can relate to at least a little bit of my experience. And if you have 1 neuron more than me, you can learn from my mistakes and go straight to the right way of dieting.

I’ve been dieting since I was 10. At 11 doctors started suspecting me of hormonal imbalance, and when I turned 14 they realized that I have a (rather rare) hormonal imbalance causing me all the excess weight gain: the Cushing Syndrome. After a surgery and medical treatment ever since, my weight kept fluctuating from 55 kilograms (120 pounds) to 100 kilograms (220) in less than 6 month.

So I started dieting. And this is how my story begins. You name any, I tried it!

From the miracle diets that can shed you of 20 pounds in 1 week (like the cabbage soup one), to starving myself (Monday to Friday: just water, weekend: all I can eat), to supplement based diets. And guess what? Nothing worked. The kilos kept coming back, usually surpassing the weight I had at the beginning. Yep, that was my yo-yo period.

Then I got a little smarter, so I started trying smarter diets. My first experience was with Michel Montignac’s book Eat Yourself Slim, which worked pretty well for a while. However, the dissociation eating made me want to do exactly the opposite, so one day I did it, and since then my Montignac days came to an end.

Then came Atkins. I lost quite a few pounds with the Atkins diet, and my life started to visibly change (again). But I honestly felt guilty abusing all those fats: butter, fried pork, bacon… I felt sorry for my heart and my blood vessels… Besides, an apple a day does keep the doctor away, and with no apple to protect me, my blood tests turned out a little higher than I was expecting. It was time for another change.

So I got to South Beach. What I first liked about this diet was that it was originally created as a way to improve your heart and circulatory system, and losing weight was just a “side effect.” The principles of South Beach are healthy, the weight loss is guaranteed, and the support you find on internet extremely helpful. I truly believe now I will finally change my life long bad eating habits, and I encourage anyone who wants to join me in this adventure.

I made this blog so I can help others like me, but in the same time to help myself. Now if I make a mistake or quit, I won’t only disappoint only myself, but all my readers as well. And the same goes for you, my friends. We are dieting together here!