To Diet or Not - The Million Dollar (few kilos??) question
Diet - the four letter word in the vocabulary of every woman once they attain consciousness. Like all true self respecting women, I have been aspiring for the hour glass figure for many years (with passage of time a few decades) now. My typical dieting experience will start with something like this. An unhelpful acquaintance will go (rather loudly) " Have you put on weight??"". My normal response is " Oh! Maybe. But as you know I do not worry about it much. It comes and goes." The truth is it only comes and never goes.
I will come home all miserable and blame the whole world, corporate life, stress, husband, kids, the cook and ofcourse god for my poor metabolism. Since I have been fighting the battle of girth from my teens it has almost become second nature to me. The usual excuses are : (1) Its genetic; (2) Its menopause and hence higher water retention; (3) Lot of stress eating recently; (4) Festival season and a few other predictable ones.
The blatant truth: I am a foodie and love to eat.
I recently read a nice book titled "Confessions of a serial dieter". The author had highlighted her battle with the bulge and the various remedies she experimented with. Unfortunately I was interested more in her food pre-diet rather than her regulated diet. I know a lot of people who fight this battle constantly with various levels of seriousness. For myself I have figured that if I can manage to do portion control for a period that is a decent success. Whether I can move to all the diabolic diet regimes - not sure. For now, the scale is atleast stable though there is no movement downwards. As and when there is a genuine southward trend due to perceptible efforts on my part will be sure to share it.
Cheers
Diet - the four letter word in the vocabulary of every woman once they attain consciousness. Like all true self respecting women, I have been aspiring for the hour glass figure for many years (with passage of time a few decades) now. My typical dieting experience will start with something like this. An unhelpful acquaintance will go (rather loudly) " Have you put on weight??"". My normal response is " Oh! Maybe. But as you know I do not worry about it much. It comes and goes." The truth is it only comes and never goes.
I will come home all miserable and blame the whole world, corporate life, stress, husband, kids, the cook and ofcourse god for my poor metabolism. Since I have been fighting the battle of girth from my teens it has almost become second nature to me. The usual excuses are : (1) Its genetic; (2) Its menopause and hence higher water retention; (3) Lot of stress eating recently; (4) Festival season and a few other predictable ones.
The blatant truth: I am a foodie and love to eat.
I recently read a nice book titled "Confessions of a serial dieter". The author had highlighted her battle with the bulge and the various remedies she experimented with. Unfortunately I was interested more in her food pre-diet rather than her regulated diet. I know a lot of people who fight this battle constantly with various levels of seriousness. For myself I have figured that if I can manage to do portion control for a period that is a decent success. Whether I can move to all the diabolic diet regimes - not sure. For now, the scale is atleast stable though there is no movement downwards. As and when there is a genuine southward trend due to perceptible efforts on my part will be sure to share it.
Cheers
