Rito

For a long time I believed that I led a full and happy life, as time goes by we find some events that contradict us and lead us to a reality. One of those mistakes is believing that you will never lose a loved one, because it happened to me, when someone who marks your life leaves it is terrible, that happened to me with the death of my father-in-law, a person with an incomparable vision and heart, unfortunately he managed to overcome his overweight and he died on January 31 of a terrible heart attack. From then on everything changed, my life became more fearful, thinking that I was also an overweight person and that at any moment I could leave and leave my family.

The feeling of frustration grew every time I looked at myself and saw that I was still the same being with more kilos, I went to the gym for a couple of months and came back sore, that pain that my joints could not bear to carry, and every day the emotional shock of not seeing progress grew. Little by little I accepted that I could never lose weight and that I would remain FAT until I died.

One day at work the opportunity arose to move to a city closer to my home, of course I took it and decided to start over. I arrived in the land of dough (Poza Rica), full of excess dough, butter, which was my food for the first 6 months, there was not a day in which I did not stop eating something as delicious as some enchiladas with roast beef, tacos and any craving that I craved when I thought about it. What was my surprise: that made me gain a few more kilos.

One fine day, to be exact, Saturday, February 8, I got up and went to buy some delicious snacks like every weekend. Talking to my wife, I told her that I would like to lose weight. She was surprised. I told her that I would like to have a healthier life, to be a person who has less risk of suffering from diseases due to being overweight. She told me that several colleagues at her work (the PEMEX tower) had lost a few kilos with a famous milkshake. At first the idea seemed good to me, and that same day I decided to start. I came into the hands of Consultant Ulises Griego, who had good results with the shake and had lost a few kilos. I arrived at his house, he interviewed me and gave me an introduction to what Cambrige was, of course a bit aseptic, since the whole explanation sounded like something I would try and it wouldn’t work.

The moment of truth arrived, when I got on the scale and knew that I had almost 120 kg on me, but it wasn’t all but my metabolic age (of an elderly person - 88 years old -), that was when I was most shocked, in addition to my measurements and my sky-high visceral fat. These data encouraged me to make the decision and begin the challenge towards myself. That weekend was the last weekend of eating snacks, eating pizza and having empanadas and garnachas for dinner.

The via crucis of the first week with Cambrige was hard, stopping eating overnight, staying on shakes, water, black coffee and green tea. But I did it, the first week I lost almost 6 KG, quite a challenge, I immediately began to feel like my clothes were a little looser, my belly was gradually going down. The reactions in the office were immediate, others didn’t believe I was going to lose weight, others cheered me on, others worried that I might decompensate, except for all that I kept going, the second week I lost another 4 kg.

Little by little I continued losing weight until I reached 6 weeks and with almost 25 kg less, I continued with step 2 until, the feeling of trying a bite again was strange, my mind and my stomach became accustomed to only eating liquids, I resisted eating food, however little by little I started eating again.

The taste for fat-free food was born in me, I decided to stop eating red meat and the taste for white meat arose in me, vegetables now became my hit, I always try to combine them with any meal with vegetables.

Before Cambridge I was a sedentary person, I didn’t even run 200 meters, now with almost 40 kg less I have run distances of 10 km and we are currently training for a half marathon. It’s incredible that all this changes in just 6 months; 6 months of being born again and living in a different way, THIS IS CAMBRIGE, YOU ARE BORN AGAIN.