The CRUPI'S DIET, and why you should follow it too
PREMISE
I and my body, in synergy and via a real collaboration, have developed a completely novel approach to nutrition, but before then let me give you some background, so that you can understand where it comes from and acquire a context that will truly change your perception of it. This article is as long as it needed to be, because this diet is not as all the diets you know. This diet is a journey, a journey towards you, and, as every journey, it takes its own time.
BACKGROUND
Growing up, as almost every woman in our modern patriarchal and capitalistic society, I struggled with weight and diet. I have never been obese, and perhaps not even overweight, but I tend to accumulate fat on my lower belly, side glutes, back thigh, under my chin, around my armpits, unless I pay attention to my diet and I workout regularly.
I was born with a natural hourly glass figure that many would envy, and the rich pay millions to get my same body. Yet, for most of my life I failed to realize it and I felt imperfect, constantly on the edge of "getting fat". I would constantly count calories, to the point that I knew by memory the caloric content of many snacks, and that became a thing with my friends, who would ask me instead of reading the labels.
I'm honestly grateful for my approach to life: I constantly make sure to keep everything on track and I apply pressure in the right direction at the right time for that to happen, and until it does.
I was born and raised in the area where the Mediterranean diet was first discovered and studied by Dr. Ancel keys, near Nicotera, in the south of Italy. Hence, as you can tell from the introduction to this post, my diet was already allowing me to maintain my weight pretty well, and my insecurities came not from my body being not good enough, but from the body dysmorphia incepted in all female teenagers by our society, and meant to keep women busy with their insecurities and easy to catch for toxic and immature men, while patriarchy keeps conquering the power seats in our society.
However, when I went to college, in Rome, my diet changed, I also started drinking alcohol to "get drunk", something that was not part of my habits before. My diet changed even more when I moved to the US, where protein is glorified, carbs are demonized, olive oil is replaced by butter, portions are huge, and fats, refined sugars, and poisonous ingredients, are heavily "sprinkled" on almost every food item even in the healthiest grocery stores (discover the effects of some of them with my article).
As a consequence, I have tried a lot of different dietary approaches in my life, mostly to (unnecessarily!) lose weight, and at times just to detox or to build a healthy routine that would allow me to maintain my weight more effectively:
