Divulging

So about 55 days ago I finally started intermittent fasting, but initially it was only namesake. I ate like a PIG 🐷 because I could eat only twice and didn't want to be hungry during my fasting window. Attention - you are never to full to start craving in the middle of the night😂.. So anyways it was first week of April when I get a video call from my cousin's saying now we need to take our lives seriously and look after our health.

One of us apart from me had already started his intermittent cycle and was taking it really seriously. It filled me with shame that this guy is really doing this with 100% devotion. He was working out too, like real workout where you lift weights. So as we were all appreciating his efforts my darling doctor brother insisted that we post our weight height and BMI in the Whatsapp group (WEIGHT MATES) that we created to keep us all geared up throughout this journey.

Everyone was below 100 except the two of us. My BMI = weight of a teenager. It took me several days to gain courage to actually post the number in the group. Where I cheated again. I put 5kg less because I was tooooo ashamed. But that was also an eye opener, throat choking and mind boggling kind of situations. I died a 100 times in those few minutes.

Actually I was scared of being judged. You kind of have this thought when you don't accept and love yourself and have a constant fear of being looked down upon, or laughed about or at least judged about. But then my sister, who is also one of the moderators on WEIGHT MATE, encouraged me and said its okay, just post it. And in that it's okay was a full sentence😞 "if you are so ashamed, what’s stopping you from changing"

After that video call a lot had changed. And next day I was motivated to go on a millet, daliya, curd etc kind of diet. I increased my water intake. And I kept on doing it. One cousin sent me a link to this amazing app for intermittent fasting. I tried many apps but this is the best so far.

Well another motivation was that I'd be cheating on my birthday soon and I exactly knew how. Cheese cake and chicken biryani. So the target was set when I had started the fasting for namesake. And believe me these are the only targets that you’d want to achieve. So yes, I regularly started weighing myself, kept cheating day targets to keep me motivated, followed the diet strictly but again I wasn't very happy with where it was going. Then my dedicated cousin posted that he LOST 5 KGS😲. And I had lost only about a kg and half😕 (I was happy for him, but remembered that 3 Idiot dialogue, Can you guess?)

Something seemed wrong. Then my sister suggested not to attack food when you first eat after fasting. You should always start with a healthy fat or something just to tell your body that okay now it's time. So from next day I would take 5-6 almonds or have coconut water, or water infused with chia seeds something very basic. But nothing monotonous. Today I ate a mango. And after this I’d wait for an hour or so and then have my lunch. So this stopped me from being the PIG I initially was & by the time its 6 or 7 in the evening I’d be hungry but not too much.

So the two meals would be lunch and breakfast. I usually love breakfasts that have eggs or poha or upma or plain paratha and if nothing I'd cook daliya with veggies or moong daal and eat it with dahi. The daliya dish is a magic. It keeps you full for really long and you don't feel heavy at all.

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I do crave for meaty burgers, cheesy pizzas, biryanis and fries in the night, EVERY FREAKING NIGHT. I lull myself to sleep with exotic food videos. And now that’s a routine. Don’t judge. I can’t eat but I sure as hell can watch, NAYANSUKH 👀as my SIL and WEIGHT MATE moderator calls it.

So it's been 55 days now and I have managed to loose 9 kgs without any workout. The weight I told my WEIGHT MATES plus 5kgs minus 9 kgs. And for a woman with PCOD its harder as it is. My cycles are way too uncertain (now the whole world knows that. so much that probably everybody on my contact list will keep a track of when to talk and when to avoid me). And to get them on time is a miracle. And I witnessed the miracle.

When I posted on our group everyone appreciated 👏and that’s exactly what you want when you are on a journey like this. I still need to take this more seriously and probably add some workout too. But the fact that I can fit into the dresses that were tight six months ago is an achievement I should celebrate. So I had mutton curry, rice and shahi tukda on Eid. (Thinking when should be my next cheat day🙋? and what should I eat?)

It's actually amazing what food can do to you. Just the fragrance can set you in a right mood. 

Note to Self: Sniff all you want, and wait for your cheat days.

"Ati Sarvatra Varjayet" - Excess should be avoided (I think I just got a new TATTOO idea).  This applies to almost everything in life.. 

Excess food leads to 2 MAJOR ISSUES:

• excess weight which will result in OSD - Outfit Shortage Disorder (& we don't want that, right?)
• excessive health issues which will result in LO-30 deficiency - Looking Old at 30's Deficiency (Always remember Anil Kapoor at 64?)

Just keep eating right and right will follow. I know sometimes it's hard to control, to hold on. 

But hey! what are cheat days for?

Thanks for reading...

Stay Tuned !!

Love

Priyanka Jawalgaonkar