Ales Novak's old blog

I did it in approximately four months. I was convinced that resisting hunger is difficult. It is not, unless I am tired. In such a case my will is not strong enough. That ruled out sport activities - running, bicycle :-).

Another lesson learned was that it was good to plan on eating, for instance it is easier to follow plan such as I will eat something at noon, then two hours later an apple, then after another two hours a piece of pastry and turnip-cabbage.

I followed common advice to eat food that does not cause sharp rise of blood sugar followed by sharp drop, which leads to hunger. I started to eat salads at noon and I can confirm that it works, i.e. I will not be starving three four hours later, I will be just dreaming ... :-) anyway, I can stand it.

My own invention is that drinking beer actually helps. I mean when having one beer in the evening I have found it much easier not to eat though I was used to eat even after 8 p. m.

Another objective was to consume less cholesterol rich food. Eggs were easy to stop to eat though I really like them. Avoiding, or I should say eating less, meat proved to be more challenging because I did not know what to eat instead of it. We have have a lot of meat based foods. National habit. I have found however some alternatives over time such as beans with sauce, usually chili sauce, anything containing jalapenos, and Indian vegetarian food.