Day 6 ~ 15: 6 Nov, Sat ~ 15 Nov, Mon


Break in dieting.
First the Diwali weekend. Then the inertia of motion of over indulging myself. Then a big dinner farewell party for Najima san in the office on Wednesday night. Then a false start followed by the School Bazaar on Sunday. On Monday, went to Sizzlers with the kids for lunch.

Here are the weights:

06 Sat - 85.3
07 Sun - 85.4
08 Mon - 85.3
09 Tue - 86.1
10 Wed - 85.7
11 Thu - 86.1
12 Fri - 86
13 Sat - 85.5
14 Sun - ?
15 Mon - 86.0

Day 5: 5 November 2010, Friday: 85


Breakfast:

- fruit salad
- mathris
- pickles
- 1 cup of tea







Lunch:

Oriental Raj Restaurant
- 2 pieces of nan
- chicken curry (no chicken)
- vegetable curry
- 2 small pakoras
- salad




It is Diwali today, so the restaurant people served Jalebi!









Dinner:


Exercises:


Day 4: 4 November 2010, Thursday: 85.2

Breakfast:

- oatmeal
- mathri
- pickles







Lunch:

- rice and dal
- salad








Dinner:

Chhoti Diwali Dinner
- 2 pooris
- 1 kachori (not in picture)
- chhole
- diet boondi raita
- pickles
- 1 nariyal laddoo



Exercises:

- 15m + 30m + 30m walk

Day 3: 3 November 2010, Wednesday: 85.9

Breakfast:

- walnuts and peanuts
- 1 boiled egg
- 1 cup tea







Lunch:

Kerala Bhawan Restaurant with Sarika, Ratish, Emi.









Dinner:

- rice
- dal
- aloo beans
- karela






Exercise:

- 2 hours doubles badminton

Day 2: 2 November 2010, Tuesday: 85.4

Breakfast:

- 1 boiled egg
- 1 slice bread with butter
- 1 cup tea
- namkeen






Lunch:

- 2 rotis
- aloo sem
- salad







Dinner:

- khichuri
- saboo dana khichuri
- fried rice
- diet boondi raita
- fried papad





Exercises:

- 15m + 40m + 15m walk

Day 1: 1 November 2010, Monday: 86.5

Breakfast:

- 1 boiled egg
- 1 toast
- 1 cup of tea
- some namkeen






Lunch:

- 2 rotis
- aloo gobhi








Snacks:

- 1 glass orange juice












Dinner:

- 2 rotis
- aloo sem
- karela
- diet boondi raita
- salad





Exercises:

- 25m pranayam (5+10+10)
- 15m walk

Long Breaks; Lots of Attempts;

Have taken long breaks.
Made lots of attempts. One was successful. Most not so much.
But as the old saying goes - you only fail when you give up. Till then, you are on your way to success.

七転び八起き - nana korobi ya oki
fall seven times, get up eight times.
- old japanese saying


"Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish."

Day 116 : 20 May 2009 Wed 78.2

Breakfast:

- bread and peanut butter
- fruits
- tea







Lunch:

Buffet Lunch at Rajmahal Yurakucho with an office colleague.









Dinner:

- oatmeal uttapam
- ghia
- diet raita







Exercises:

- 35 minutes pranayam (5m Deep Breathing, 15m Kapal Bhati, 15m Anulom Vilom)
- 50 minutes walk (20 + 15 + 15)
- 15 minutes exercise cycle
- 30 minutes weights

Day 115 : 19 May 2009 Tue 78.5

Breakfast:

- bread with peanut butter
- fruits
- tea







Lunch:

French Restaurant with colleague from Office.









Dinner:

- 1 chapati
- ghia
- diet raita
- small portion of dal






Exercises:

- 35 minutes pranayam (5m Deep Breathing, 15m Kapal Bhati, 15m Anulom Vilom)


Another Break

More out of carelessness than any good reason.
Let us be careful from now on for the next one month.

Day 107 : 11 May 2009 Mon 78.4

Breakfast:

- 2 slices bread
- 1 boiled egg
- 2 slices apple
- 1 cup of tea







Lunch:

- 2 rotis
- gobhi matar








Dinner:

- 2 rotis
- palak
- diet raita
- salad







Exercises:

- 60 minutes walk (20m + 20m + 20m)
- 35 minutes pranayam (5m Deep Breathing, 15m Kapal Bhati, 15m Anulom Vilom)

Day 106 : 10 May 2009 Sun 78.5

Breakfast:

- 2 slices bread
- 1 boiled egg
- 2 slices apple
- 1 cup of tea






Lunch:

- rice and ghia
- a few bites of rice and gobhi manchurian
- a few bites of chicken biryani







Dinner:

Wanted to have something very light like palak, but ...
Had gone to Round 1, while returning it was a bit late, the kids were hungry, Sarika was tired and so went to Mac. I was still restraining myself, then thought let me enjoy Mothers' Day and so joined in ...

- double cheese burger
- potato fries
- coca cola
- chicken nuggets







Snacks:

Carrying on the Mothers' Day ...

- about 1/4 of what is shown here









Exercises:

- 1 hour walk
- 35 minutes pranayam (5m Deep Breathing, 15m Kapal Bhati, 15m Anulom Vilom)

Day 105 : 9 May 2009 Sat 78.8

Breakfast:

Starting with a bang: pakoras!

- pakoras (aloo, gobhi, pyaaj, paneer)
- 3 strawberries
- half banana
- 1 cup of tea






Lunch:

- 2 rotis
- ghia
- salad
- apple







Dinner:

Ratish and family came home. Most of the stuff from Masala, some by Sarika and Emi.
Was very tempted, restricted myself to one overflowing, stuffed plate. The joke was, I need a bigger plate!

- nan
- rice
- chicken biryani
- chicken curry
- mutton curry
- gobhi manchurian
- aloo gobhi
- sheek kabab
- kalami kabab
- samosa


Exercises:

- 1 hour walk

New Target, renewed focus and effort

After having lost 10 kgs in 2 months, have basically been taking it very easy - as far as dieting goes. The nice benefits of exercise (pranayam, walking, weights) have made a deep enough impression on the body-mind for me to feel mild withdrawal symptoms if I do not do them.

Specially for the last one week, since the Golden Week started, I have really been eating the way I used to eat before - with lots of effort, stamina, perseverance - keep on stuffing yourself with food till you are unable to move! Then lie in a stupor like an overstuffed python to digest all the food.

And still the weight has not shot up. Till 2 days ago, was only 1 kilo more (77.9) than the minimum I have reached (76.9). Though with special effort - which only the obese people have a talent for - I could gain another 900 grams to make it to 78.8 in 2 days.

Anyway, time to refocus and to make another sustained effort to reach our initial target of 72.

We will be leaving for Chicago on 19th June. That gives us about 6 weeks.

It should be easy to come back to 78 in a couple of days. Then we can aim for a kilo a week to reach 72 before we leave for Chicago.

Very reasonable rate of about 1 kilo per week, 4 kilos per month.

Day 88 : 22 Apr 2009 Wed

Breakfast:

- bread and peanut butter
- fruits
- tea







Lunch:

- palak
- 2 chapatis








Dinner:

- 1 bhatura
- chhole
- diet raita
- salad
- pickle





Exercises:

- 80 minutes walk (20m + 60m)

Day 87 : 21 Apr 2009 Tue

Breakfast:

- half fried egg
- orange
- namkeen
- peanuts
- tea





Lunch:

- 2 rotis
- aloo baigan








Snacks:

- samosa
- 2 papad
- tea







Dinner:

- 1 roti
- palak
- curd
- salad







UNPLANNED EATING:

- half roti and sabji
- 3 mutthi namkeen


Exercises:

- 30 minutes Asanas
- 50 minutes walk (20m + 30m)
- 20 minutes in the pool (swimming + walking)

Day 86 : 20 Apr 2009 Mon

Breakfast:

- 1 toast
- 2 egg whites
- 1 cup tea







Lunch:

At Rajmahal restaurant.









Dinner:

- chicken curry and rice
- diet raita
- salad
- namkeen






Snacks:

- roasted mattar









Exercises:

- 35 minutes pranayam (5m Deep Breathing, 15m Kapal Bhati, 15m Anulom Vilom)
- 70 minutes walk (20 + 15 + 15 + 30)
- 30 minutes weights

Break

This is a break in my recording what I am eating.

Since finishing 2 months and losing 10 kilograms, I have not been very seriously trying to control my diet.

One reason was that I was celebrating the loss of 10 kilograms in 2 months.

The other reason was, I started exercising seriously, with weights. This lead to more of a hungry feeling and I gave in thinking that some good amount of nutritious food is needed while doing weights. Though I was paying less attention on nutrition and more on what the tongue craved for ...

After this break, I am again starting to seriously lose weight.

Still want to reach 72 kilograms by the 25th of May.

Day 78 : 12 Apr 2009 Sun

Breakfast:

- bread and butter
- apple
- tea








Lunch:

- khichuri
- diet boondi raita
- 2 papad







Dinner:

Lots of tasty food for Easter Dinner at Ratish's home.

Apart from what is in the photo, there were lots of snacks and also payasam.







Exercises:

- 20 minutes cycling
- 30 minutes weights
- golf range (50 balls)

Day 77 : 11 Apr 2009 Sat

Breakfast:

- bread and peanut butter
- 2 egg whites
- tea







Lunch:

Arjun and Radhika wanted to go to the Capricciosa Italian Restaurant for a long time. Finally went.

I did a nice job of eating very less.







Dinner:

- fruits
- salad









- dal









Exercises:

- 1 hour 15 minutes of various kinds of aerobic exercises