Carlos

Before starting Cambridge, I did not feel happy with my life, I was not able to look at myself in the mirror and when I did I tried to avoid seeing my body. I didn’t really accept myself and I transferred that frustration without knowing it to other parts of my life.

Having frustrations in my life made food an escape or a substitution. That with a sedentary lifestyle caused me to gain weight over time.

In December my ex-girlfriend broke up with me and it was a very hard blow because I loved her very much. I understood that I couldn’t love someone else if I didn’t first love and accept myself, therefore, my first step was to look in the mirror, get on the scale and accept my reality.

The truth is, I hadn’t started before, I simply didn’t want to see that part of my life, I didn’t want to see myself as a morbidly obese person because I simply didn’t want to get on the scale and accept reality.

I found out about Cambridge Weight Plan through another consultant and a very good friend, and to whom I am very grateful, her name is Paulina Camacho.

The first few days were really easy, because I made a persistence journal and my goal was to fill it for 30 days. Persistence consisted of not breaking my diet for any reason during that time. After that time things were easy.

Now I have been noticing all the difference in the world, before I couldn’t climb stairs, I lived frustrated and with pain in my knees and back. I felt clumsy in my movements, I was sleepy and tired. Now I have much more vitality, I am more agile and I have started going to the gym to build muscle and shape my body.

What was difficult was the social part of my life, several times I preferred not to go out to events so as not to break my persistence and that affected my social life somewhat. In the end I could have gone to those events and I could have not broken it without a problem, but at that moment I felt that perhaps due to a social pressure that I only created in my head I could break my persistence.

At first I didn’t feel the support of my family or my friends. No one believed that I was capable of following such a strict and extreme diet for so long, but over time they began to understand that I was serious and began to support me.

Thanks to my persistence diary, it was not so difficult to overcome the cravings, because, although if they came, I also thought that if I broke my persistence I would have to start from scratch and I highly valued the work I had already done each day.

Compared to before, I really like the person I am becoming, friends of mine have told me that I am an example and that they want to do what I have done. On the other hand, this process has made me understand many things about how I function as a person and I have built my character and my determination to face adverse situations. I have transferred this same character to other parts of my life and I am having the results that I want to have.

I believe that the greatest benefit of following the Cambridge plan was understanding how I function emotionally and physically. It has taught me that it is not difficult to do something that many people consider impossible, and it is not difficult if you have or build the necessary disposition and willpower.