DailyInspire.ch 2025

 

 

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
— Nelson Mandela

 

 

 

Molo, ndiyathemba ukuba unempilo entle namhlanje!
(Hello, I hope you're doing well today!)

I greeted today in the language of Nelson Mandela – a man who spent 27 years in prison for freedom, and then walked out not to seek revenge, but to build peace – and became president.
He showed the world that even the most impossible roads can be walked with dignity, patience, and a heart greater than one's own pain.
An interesting man, and his words are my inspiration today.

 

I achieved my first short-term goal.
Finally!
After two months, admittedly, but still!
Here it is.
I weigh my long-desired 94 kilograms.

That’s what I aimed for, and the scale showed exactly that today. Spot on! As if we had arranged it.
I still have two days left until the deadline, but since it’s already done – I won’t complain.

Let me briefly remind you that my HMF method with the 1% rule of daily improvement of one aspect of life consists of five daily tasks and goals to be achieved in the short, medium, and long term, as well as one main goal.

The exact rules of my HMF method and the 1% principle can be found here:
EN: https://dailyinspire.ch/en/game-rules/
DE: https://dailyinspire.ch/spielregeln/

 

My short-term goal was (how nice it is to finally say that in the past tense):
“I weigh 94 kilos or less on 01.04.2025.”

I managed to achieve it on 29.03.2025 and no, I do not intend to gain weight again and I will do everything I can to avoid the so-called yo-yo effect. Why? Because I didn’t lose weight like a madman who had read about "miracle diets". I didn’t lose weight by starving myself. I didn’t take unnatural boosters, nor did I help myself with liposuction.

I lost weight because I introduced into my life a few habits and a few restrictions, which I followed very strictly.
(I will stick to them – until the end! Habits have this quality: they stay with us longer 😊)

I am a cook.
A cook works in the kitchen.
In the kitchen, there is food.
Plenty of food.
Delicious food.
I probably don’t need to say or describe the rest.
A daily training of willpower.
A daily rejection of snacks and carbohydrates in excessive amounts.

My fat-reducing behavior is sticking to rules with stubbornness and perseverance.
Here are my rules, which I followed daily during weight reduction:

• practically zero sugar (here the exceptions are honey and occasionally – a few times over two months – 70% chocolate without lecithin and other junk) > sugar is also connected to point two and three. Let's move on.
• a minimum of carbohydrates, especially empty carbohydrates. Examples of products I completely eliminated from my diet:

 

• White sugar – for example, in coffee or tea – I only use honey for coffee. Half a teaspoon – because I treat coffee as dessert.
• Sweets – jelly candies, hard candies, lollipops, chocolate bars – I won’t even comment. I threw them in the trash.
• Sugary soft drinks – cola, Fanta, Sprite. A senseless bomb of garbage for our body. It neither quenches thirst nor brings anything positive to the body. Just sugar. No words – I’ll leave it without further comment, because this should simply be banned, and for children forbidden like alcohol and energy drinks. It is harmful. Very harmful.
• Juice from concentrate – especially sweetened, but also 100% juices. Unfortunately – I used to like them. Then I read. I educated myself. I recommend it. Learning doesn’t hurt, and it can knock (it will definitely knock) stupidity out of your head. Juices – bye bye. I eat fruit whole – the greatest benefits are found in those parts of the fruit that are thrown away during juice production. What a coincidence.
• Cakes and cookies made from white flour – I’ll just smile 😊
• White bread – fragrant baked goods (in my restaurant, there is fresh bread every day – straight from the oven from a regional bakery. Truly delicious), toast bread (chemicals in the shape of “bread”), baguettes from refined flour, and other baked goods from so-called “bakeries” in supermarkets – defrosted and baked on-site (stay as far away as possible!). White bread is a thing of the past, although it cost a lot of effort – since February 1, 2025, I haven’t eaten a single slice. Now I’m so used to it that I don’t even think about reaching for bread. I motivate myself every day with the loss of unnecessary kilograms and simply better well-being. White bread – bread in general – sayonara!
• Sweetened breakfast cereals – for example, chocolate balls, colorful cereals, and other gimmicks in a box. Alivederci!
• Chips and salty snacks – they often also contain a lot of fat. Not worth it. I roast sunflower seeds with salt in the oven – delicious, healthy, and mine. Preparation time? 10 minutes. Chips? Ciao!
• Fast food – fast food places that proudly call themselves restaurants are a thing of the past. Along the roads, in every shopping center. Practically every moment we are being fed by their ads and logos. I was recently at one of these temples of human downfall for coffee (I needed Wi-Fi – unfortunately. I bought a coffee for 1.5 EURO and left). What I saw there filled me with fear and even disgust. Overweight children munching on fries, artificial buns, and washing it all down with “healthy” juice – and all of it watched over by parents holding XXL burgers. Burgers that could just as well be called a chemical formula compilation with a bit of meat and flour. Do people really not realize that one should not poison others? Especially not one’s loved ones? If you want to poison yourself – go ahead. But don’t give it to your child! Ufff. Sorry. Fast food – it’s gone and will stay gone! Never again!
• French fries and anything deep-fried – I simply said no. Oil used in fryers (no matter if sunflower, or – God forbid – palm oil, often hydrogenated, as well as ready-made mixes: rapeseed + palm, rapeseed + sunflower + antioxidants) is very bad oil. Dishes soak it up and simply – I won’t put that in my mouth. Uf wiederluogen.
• No alcohol. One of my greatest successes. I’m very proud of it. Not a single drop of this addictive poison in my body. Алкоголь, до свидания!

I’m nothungry. I’m happy and 23 kilograms lighter. That’s how much extra weight the old, cuddly, dumpling-shaped Kacper used to drag around. A small, dumpling-like little monster who one day decided on his own to change and to become someone great – in his ever-shrinking body.

That’s all – and yet so much. Goal achieved. I’m moving on to the next one. I have a medium-term goal to accomplish:

“Finished website M...D...ch on 01.05.2025”

I have a month. I can do it! I’ve already started and I’m improving it every day. In fact, you could say I already have it – it’s just a matter of time now. The result will come on its own.

Tomorrow I’ll set my next short-term goal, but I need to think it through and refine it.

“A goal properly set is halfway reached.”

I leave myself – and you – with that thought.