Her name is Francesca Sanzo, she is a blogger and storyteller by profession, and she has written a beautiful book that tells about her slimming and rebirth path that has allowed her to lose over 40 kilos.

It is called “102 kilos on the soul” (Cartabianca Publishing editions) and is a book written like a diary, which addresses the theme not only of obesity, but of the rediscovery of oneself through the transition to a new lifestyle.

Francesca, author of the blog Panzallaria, speaks in a touching but also concrete way about her condition as an obese woman and the spring that pushed her to change at the threshold of 40 years.

The awareness of the change came when she realized that those pounds she had been carrying for too many years were an obstacle to a freer and fuller life, and that she could accept her fears without suffocating them through food.

FROM 102 KILOS TO 60 KILOS: THE PUSH TO CHANGE COURSE

There is a psychological mechanism known as Loc ( Locus of control ).

It only changes when passing from an external to an internal defined Loc condition.
That is, when we finally realize that the responsibility for our state, health or otherwise, is ours alone.

That only we have the faculty and the power to change our life, and that we can neither expect others to solve it for us nor continue to tell ourselves that there are impediments to change.

For example, our condition is the fault of age, stressful work, lack of time, greed that is our only pleasure, having to take care of the family or otherwise if we have become fat.

Taking the helm of your life and understanding that if we want to change there are no excuses is not an easy process, indeed, it is painful and has different times for each of us. Change scares many.

You can feel inadequate, you can be afraid of failing and being so worse.

You get to an internal Locus of control just when you make peace with those fears, you listen to them but you manage to resize them to regain a power. That of making decisions and acting accordingly.

From 102 kilos to 60 kilos: Francesca’s slimming path

Despite an autoimmune disease and a sense of inadequacy and insecurity that have accompanied her since she was a child, Francesca is finally able to decide to change and do it for herself.

So she turns to a nutritionist who proposes her a diet, follows it and discovers that the sacrifice of eating differently was not as scary as she thought.

That the habits of secretly eating packets of snacks could be neutralized and replaced by new habits for pampering oneself, such as walking for an hour. And find that you feel so much better.

In this book, divided into chapters that represent weight loss stages that lead to new awareness, there is no lack of advice, but in essence it is not a book that speaks only of a diet.

It is about a woman who from the decision to go on a diet manages to review her life, to acquire a food awareness that leads her to further lose weight even after finishing the journey with the nutritionist. This is because she understands what she wants her body to feel good about.

She is able to appreciate and marvel at a body that changes and that from being thin now allows her to do many more things.
And she allows her to be that free and happy spirit that until now had always been stifled.

Why read “102 kilos on the soul”

Even though I came out of my obesity condition when I was still a child, I found myself in many mechanisms described by Francesca. Those who push you to eat because you don’t seem to have anything to count on other than food. Those that push you to tell yourself that you are fine like this, that you are now like this and that trying to change also means being able to fail.

Is it worth trying to change even knowing that you risk failure?
The answer is yes when this change means wanting to improve yourself, aiming for happiness.
Being happy thus becomes a goal that each of us can reach if he wants to.
There comes a time when the will to change is stronger than everything, even the food that has had a power over us for years.

Read this book, you will find a lot about yourself, and recommend it. You will not regret it. You can buy it here or on the publisher’s website also in paper format .