after day 7

The diet recommends to take a three day break before embarking on the next seven days. i know of people who continue on it. after seven days yes definitely lighter really really lighter the belly has shrunk. BUT a really difficult diet. One thing i know because of this diet is that salt is not good for the body specially in temperate climate as the one I am in. Indian diet and food is sort of intense on salt considering the temperate climate. We loose a lot of thru sweat in India not so much here. My swelling is definitely related to it. I would embark on this diet gain once my cast comes off and I am able to exercise. The diet is tough and it is important to buddy up on this one.

Day 6 and seven

It is day seven yeyeyeyeyeye
about day 6 I cheated, with sour cream and cheese. spring clening and a diet regimen do not work together and weekends are tough on a diet paln. apart from that everything else worked fine.
Day seven again vegetables. I think the toughest part of this diet is figuring out waht to eat. Vegetable days, nothing for breakfast comes to mind and rice and tomato day.
I will be glad when this is over.

Day 5 on GM diet

Today was supposed to be tomato and rice day. I was rather excited about it, but it is not as great. To be honest so far I am not enjoying any of it other than the soup that I had yesterday. I cheated a little on that one as I added the tomato and red pepper soup to make the broth more interesting. I think I did pretty good, I sauted the onions with rosemary and thyme which gave the soup a wonderful flavor too bad I did not have bay leaves but for next time I shall add that as well. I am not feeling the diet yet. It is a tough one to follow to the t. I am falling back on the drinking water requirement not too pleased about it. ooooo forgot to mention I was so hungry yesterday that i gave in to the need of wanting to eat and had to eat the banana. Was i delighted???? I had two bananas and found out NO migraines yey!!! so that was exciting.

Coming back to the tomato and rice, I was looking forward to rice and thought I would make a nice tomato sauce with cumin and coriander being the main flavors. Well the end result was very tart sooooo all was not well on this diet. Left with drinking water and maybe tomato as salad tonight:-(

4th day on GM

well well well, by far the hardest day for me. Today is just banana and milk day. It seems rather easy buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut for me banana is out as they have been known to trigger migraines. I am more scared of my headaches than to brave a banana. So it is going to be milk nd tea today, I shall have the famed soup tonight and am just hpoing that I will sustain and stay true to diet till tonight. I am not weighing in but I am feeling lighter.

Day three on GM diet

The diet plan is going well, the quirky part is drinking water (i love water it is ny fav drink) and then having to use the bathroom. That is too much anyway. It is not an easy diet follow as the tummy rumbles and grains have become an essential part of food that a meal without grains seems incomplete. yesterday was all vegetable day, needless to say that by the time dinner time hit i was hungary and had planned on having peppers, well they did not fill me up. BUT i am sticking to the diet so day 3 you are on:-)

GM diet

Being overweight has been a story of life for the past 8 years since having the thyroid issue, not for the lack of trying but because of lack of consistency and being alone in this endeavour. It is easy to state that I am overweight therefore I need to be taking care of it but when I am involved in a family situation being alone for losing weight is very true.
anyway as I will be forty this year, I have resolved to take care of this issue as soon as possible. i am very committed this time (i do know that i have said that to myself in the past but this time I know it is different). so the new experiment is the GM diet. I can not excercise but I have to begin somewhere.... can not excercise due to broken foot hope that heals. I want it to be perfect on the 31st, wish to come out of my cast so I can begin taking lessons in swimming pronto. it will take some time to get back to walking jogging etc.
Today is day two of GM, i am keeping to it except my tea. Wish i could build in some excercise...

2011, the year I turn 40

It has been long winding road to this mile stone in my life. I started taking stock of my life so far and it was rather automatic. I never sat and pondered over it but slowly and surely this feeling came up within me. I remember days when as a little girl I would sit on a swing on a Neem tree in my courtyard and wonder what was life all about, why are we here, what are we supposed to do? I found myself asking the same questions all over again. Actually it started after I turned 39 and obviously 40 loomed in front. I had not given those questions much thought after life took over as a teenager and a young woman. I got so busy living day to day that the bigger picture never materialized. One learning or a sort of epiphany that I am having right when I am writing is figuring out what I really want. I am sad about that part. Sad because it should be a relatively easy thing to do but over the years I took on so many roles that I lost me somewhere. I never imagined it would happen to me never. I would have never imagined myself being like this therefore did not have plan to deal with it. Anyway, the idea is not to wallow in what could have been should have been but on what can be. This write up I am hoping will help me sort myself out from underneath the layers of different roles.

To be honest since I had my daughters years merged into one another and I did not realize that years were passing me by. Summer by summer Halloween after Halloween, they passed me by. So the year I turned 39 I did whole bunch of things (sort of like a big gasping breath before turning 40). I had had an ankle injury for four years and was just coming out of it. Started running again and ran and race with dreams of running a marathon. and realized that had not played v ball for a long long time. Signed up to coach a league which was wonderful, to my surprise v ball came back to me like second nature. It was a wonderful feeling, before I knew it I was playing in a women's league. That was a ride in itself as I remember as a child and a teenager while playing in the dusty courts of India I imagined what it would be like to play on hard wood floors, courtesy to seeing Indian men's v ball team practice in the my school gym. The balls bouncing off the wooden floors making those sounds, players shuffling and their shoes making squeaky noises and thanked god many times over for this wonderful opportunity. Now I am laid up again with the ankle injury AGAIN and am wondering what I did wrong. Started going back to school in the hope of starting my career, the decision has been bitter sweet and I must confess that I am still dealing with the decision of it. Took up dance classes, basically I became a dart, darting back and forth from my house to different activities and all of sudden I am marooned with an ankle that is not healing (9 weeks down already) Anyway I digress, the focus being turning 40 and taking stock of my life. sooooo I am back to the starting point, what do i want to be or do with my life, what does god want me to do, why am I here? I shall write answers (probable) as and when they come to me. Should I be a bhogi or work towards giving up material things? question here is where to draw the line, would god want us to enjoy his creation? I shall leave it here.......................