My Story: I'm Slim, Healthy, and Happy – The Slimming Secrets of a 48-Year-Old Woman

I'm slim, I'm healthy, I'm happy.

I was born in the Year of the Snake, and I'm 38 years old this year. In two more years, I'll be entering my forties.

The fleeting years have etched their marks on my face; fine wrinkles have crept onto my cheeks without mercy, but time has been kind to me, leaving me with a still slender and beautiful figure.

I guarantee that if you looked at me from behind, you would never guess my real age.

I am currently 1.61 meters tall and weigh 48 kilograms.

My slim figure attracts envious glances from many of my peers, especially from my female peers, who all ask me for the secret to maintaining a slim and healthy figure.

When I was a young woman, I weighed around 45 kilograms.

In 1988, I had a difficult childbirth and was in a coma for 14 days. My family, thinking that nothing was worse than trying anything, carried me on a stretcher to Beijing for transfer to another hospital.

Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the experts and doctors at Peking University First Hospital, I was able to return to this wonderful world.

Because of the hormones I was taking, my weight suddenly increased, reaching 138 pounds when I was discharged from the hospital.

I just got home from the hospital, and my sister-in-law didn't even dare to look at me, afraid that I would feel embarrassed because my weight gain was so sudden and unusual.

I occasionally catch a cold, but I don't need to take medicine; just drinking more water is enough.

I don't need to take medicine all year round, and I don't feel tired even when I do some work. I'm a happy and energetic housewife all day long.

To maintain a slim and healthy figure, long-term physical exercise alone is not enough.

When it comes to food, I have absolutely no dietary restrictions; I eat everything, from chicken and duck to fish and meat, both meat and vegetables.

I feel that if I don't eat this or that, I'll be doing my mouth and stomach a disservice.

I eat, but I'm very measured and particular about it.

In general, it's about eating less and eating more frequently.

Of my three meals a day, I eat the most and the most at breakfast. It usually consists of a bowl of porridge, a steamed bun or a sesame seed cake, an egg, a cucumber, and a few green vegetables. How about that? Not bad, right?

To control my food intake, I usually eat small snacks around 10 am and 4 pm, such as peanuts, sunflower seeds, French fries, and fruit. This way, I don't feel very hungry when it's time for lunch or dinner, so I eat less. Usually, I eat half a steamed bun or a small bowl of rice, and some vegetables.

I eat little meat, but I make sure to eat plenty of vegetables.

To lose weight, you need to start with the little things in your daily life. Only in this way can you have a chance to lose weight successfully.

If you're not careful and eat a lot of high-calorie foods like meat and fish for a long time, obesity will creep up on you without you even realizing it.

Thanks to my long-term commitment to physical exercise and a careful diet, although my age has increased year by year over the past ten years, my weight has remained at around 48 kilograms. I am very happy, proud, and honored about this.

I'm slim, I'm healthy, I'm happy!

A winding road to weight loss

I wasn't fat before; I weighed only 39 kilograms when I went to college.

However, sitting in front of the computer all day racking my brains, coupled with my habit of eating sweets and drinking coffee during breaks from writing, caused abdominal fat to accumulate and my belly to grow uncontrollably.

By 1999, my weight had reached 60 kilograms! I thought, I can't carry this extra weight into the new century! So, I made a firm decision and started to "lose weight".

I received acupuncture treatments for three months at an acupuncture weight loss clinic.

During the period when I was undergoing acupuncture for weight loss, I followed the doctor's advice to control my diet: my daily diet consisted of one egg and one tomato per meal, and I could not drink much water. On hot days, I could only drink a sip of water when I was thirsty.

I was so hungry that I could barely walk. When I saw a bus, I couldn't squeeze on no matter what I said, so I had to take a taxi to work.

I firmly believe: "If you're hungry enough, even a thick waist can become as thin as a needle!"

I persisted for three months, and the results were remarkable. My weight dropped from 60 kg to 52 kg. Even the doctor praised me for my perseverance and persistence. Whenever the doctor encountered someone who couldn't control their diet according to the doctor's advice, he would ask me to share my experience and praise me as a typical example of successful weight loss.

Winter has arrived in the blink of an eye, and I think I have successfully completed my "weight loss" mission. Now it's time to nourish my body for the winter.

So every Saturday and Sunday, I would either make pork rib soup or have hot pot with lamb. After "nourishing" myself like this all winter, I weighed myself again and couldn't believe it: I had reached 65 kilograms! Not only had all my "weight loss" efforts been in vain, but I had also gained an extra 5 kilograms!

I began to reflect on my lifestyle habits. The first mistake I made in failing to lose weight was starving myself. When people are hungry, their first urge is to eat a big meal, and their bodies will also send signals to store food. Eating soup after being hungry will cause a lot of fat to accumulate under the skin.

In addition, it is also unscientific to not drink water for a long time. The body's metabolism and fat burning all require water to help them. Insufficient water intake can also lead to weight gain.

The most crucial point in losing weight is to develop healthy eating habits and a scientific diet, rather than either starving yourself or overeating, or eating sporadically.

Therefore, I devised a weight loss plan that suited my lifestyle:

1. Get up at 6 a.m., drink a glass of water, jump rope 40 or 50 times, and then eat breakfast.

Breakfast consists mainly of soy milk and eggs, with an additional piece of fruit as a side dish.

2. Eat rice or noodles for lunch, but don't eat too much.

After eating, instead of sitting down and starting work immediately as before, spend half an hour exercising or doing housework.

I've discovered that mopping the floor is a great abdominal exercise. Lying on the floor for 40 minutes every day not only stretches the body but also effectively exercises the abdominal muscles.

3. Eat less staple food for dinner, and mainly eat seaweed, tofu, winter melon, carrots, and tomatoes. Generally, do not eat potatoes or large amounts of meat at dinner.

In addition, it is important to control the time of dinner and not eat too late. If you eat dinner late, food will stay in your stomach and cause fat accumulation.

Don't watch TV while eating.

Watching television can slow down stomach motility and affect gastrointestinal digestion.

After dinner, drink a cup of unsweetened yogurt and take a half-hour walk downstairs.

After persisting like this for a year, my weight has dropped from 65 kg to 58 kg.