Adryanna - Before, 115 kilos...  

After, 67 kilos

Storing fat can be a genetic inheritance or a bad eating habit. In Adryanna's case it was both. She started putting on weight when she was a teenager. Being a ballet dancer, she always tried to keep herself on a diet to avoid getting heavy on her classical dancing shoes.
She kept herself on a good weight until she was 17, when she got her ballet diploma. Then, she started working as an English teacher from morning to evening and got into University in the evening period, studying from 19:00 pm to 23:00 pm.
She did not have time enough neither place to eat healthily at school and University cafeteria.
Putting on a lot of weight was a result of irregular physical activity and bad eating.
Depressed, Adryanna ate some chocolate bars to " comfort " herself.
"I was happy with my professional career but my personal life was a mess" she recalls.
From 72 kilos she went to 120 kilos and had kept that for 2 and a half years. Desperate, she decided to do something good for herself and live her life the way she really wanted and even rescue that LOVE she has always had for dancing.
She started a treatment on a clinic and got some enzime injections on the skin where there was fat storage. She decreased her working hours to have more quality of life in her free time and started learning some latin dancing styles and belly dance.
The results were amazing, in 12 months she lost 50 kilos and did not lose her muscles or got too flabby due to dancing. Happy with her 67 kilos, she started living her life again and teaching Belly Dance on the weekends.
However, changing habits takes time and dicipline, Adryanna got some problems in keeping a good eating plan alone and manage her anxiety and emotions off from the food. With her stressing life style of living in São Paulo and keeping up three jobs, she put on 15 kilos.

Desperate, she looked for some positive eating rehabilitation program called Meta Real (a kind of weight watchers in Brazil). There, she followed the plan for one year and lost the extra kilos that she wanted, eating everything. Nothing was forbidden, she just learned about the importance of chewing the food, reasonable quantities, eating when she had physical hunger and controlling the emotions off the food.

Adryanna incorporated the method so well that she wanted to become one of the monitors at Meta Real to help other people who have eating disorder. In the middle of her studies at Meta Real, her Norwegian boyfriend proposed to her. She moved to Norway and got married.
Norwegian food has a lot of fat, sweets, cakes and fatty meat like pork and sausages. She put on 7 kilos and had to learn how to choose light and healthy products at the supermarket.
"In Brazil you can find light version of everything you buy at the supermarkets, even sweets, pudins and cakes. Here, there aren`t many diet or light products. Sticking to fish, chicken, vegetables and fruits made me control my weight a little bit . However I am willing to lose some more, I am NOT in a hurry at all, by the way it is a horrible mistake wanting to lose more than 5 kilos in a month. It is really unhealthy, the natural way of losing weight is from 3 to 4 kilos per month. "
The most important thing that everybody MUST understand is that there is absolutely NO body pattern for dancing. This was created by the MEDIA and poisoned 96% of the world population. We must accept the body shape we have and nurture it and take GOOD care of it in a peaceful, positive and healthy way. Everybody is unique and different from eachother, this is what makes it so special and fascinating. Accepting yourself the way you are and learning about the things you like to do is so prescious and MUST be a priority in your life.
 

Hydrate your skin and body from inside out drinking plenty of water. 8 glasses of water per day is the minimum requirement.
Chew the food you eat until it becomes creamy in your mouth, try to chew each bite 20 times.

Taste and enjoy what you eat, have your meals in a quiet and calm place with no tv around.
Eat only one plate, mixing vegetables, meat, carbs (choose from: boiled or baked potato, rice, pasta with tomato sauce, whole wheat bread) and fruit as a dessert if you wish.

Eat three complete meals a day. If you get hungry between meals eat baby carrots or a toast with light cheese and decaf tea or yoghurt or a fruit smoothie.

Only 2 cups of coffee a day (maximun).
Grill or bake the meat.
White meat is a good choice for 4 days of the week.
Eat eggs, beans or lentils 2 a week.
Make sure your calcium (all dairy products) intake is more than 5 times a week.
Eat sweets, cake, junk food and ONCE a month with MODERATION.
Drink 2 glasses of wine or a pint of beer on the weekends.
Live your life happily!