I didn’t lose 10kg from one decision.
It wasn’t a program, or a challenge, or a strict version of myself I forced into existence.
It happened slowly, through a series of changes that had less to do with “trying to lose weight” and more to do with understanding myself better.
Looking back, it was less about restriction and more about alignment. Less about control, more about awareness.
These are the things that genuinely shifted everything for me.
going vegetarian for 4 years (a reset, not a rule)
At the time, I didn’t frame it as a “health transformation.”
It was more like a reset.
I stopped eating meat and, without realizing it, I started paying attention in a way I never had before.
I had to learn what I was actually eating. What made me feel good. What left me feeling heavy, tired, or inflamed. I started researching food properly instead of just eating whatever was convenient.
It created space for curiosity.
And that curiosity changed my relationship with food completely.
repairing my relationship with food
This was probably the biggest shift, and the least linear one.
I had to unlearn a lot of guilt.
Food stopped being something I could be “good” or “bad” at. I stopped treating it like a reward or punishment system.
Some days I still overthought it. Some days I didn’t.
But over time, the emotional charge around food started to loosen.
And when that happened, I naturally made calmer choices, not because I forced myself to, but because I wasn’t operating from stress anymore.
moving my body (but in ways that felt sustainable)
I didn’t become someone who suddenly loved intense workouts every day.
I just started finding movement that didn’t feel like punishment.
Yoga became a big part of that, not because it burned the most calories, but because it regulated me. It made me feel connected to my body instead of disconnected from it.
And I added HIIT sometimes, not obsessively, but intentionally. Short, effective, done.
It wasn’t about doing more. It was about doing what I could actually maintain.
meditation (quietly changing everything)
Meditation didn’t “fix” anything overnight.
But it changed the gap between impulse and reaction.
I became more aware of why I was reaching for certain things, not just food, but habits, patterns, distractions.
That awareness slowly created choice.
And choice is where change actually starts.
mindset work (books that changed how I think)
Reading shifted how I saw discipline, identity, and change.
Not in a motivational way, more in a philosophical one.
It helped me zoom out. To stop seeing everything as urgent. To understand that consistency isn’t about intensity, it’s about identity over time.
That alone changed how I approached everything, including my body.
warm lemon water in the mornings (the smallest anchor)
This one sounds simple, but it became a ritual.
Warm lemon water in the morning wasn’t about weight loss.
It was about starting the day intentionally.
It created a pause before I rushed into everything else. A small signal to my body that the day was beginning gently, not chaotically.
And those small signals matter more than we think.
what actually changed
I didn’t lose 10kg because I “tried harder.”
I lost it because I became more aware.
Of what I was eating, yes, but also of how I was thinking, reacting, and moving through my days.
It was a collection of small internal shifts that eventually showed up externally.
And maybe that’s the part I didn’t understand at the beginning:
the body doesn’t change in isolation.
it responds to everything else changing first.
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