WeightIn30 – Day 15

Oh, yesterday was an epic failure with diet.

The kids were leaving for Lucknow. Surprisingly, it turned out to be emotional just when I was busy pushing on the suitcases being closed up!

The moment they left, I ate atleast 3 katoris of murukku and atleast 10 milk bikis. I then proceeded to collapse with sleep and couldn’t get up when the kids called from the airport.

On the other hand, I’m glad to have been maintaining the WeightIn30 logs as writing that I have not done the last CrossFit session, in fact, pushed me to do it.

Performance:

1. fiber: pushed for high fiber despite having Sunday poori. I’m proud of having fiber consistently for lunch and dinner.

2. IF: Suddenly it’s been tough to manage 14 hours. Day 14 ended with me eating dinner at 9:30 pm! 7:30 pm is being a hard goal to track for last meal.

3. Steps: 9000 steps done

4. CrossFit: 3/3 done! 50 burpees.

Today is a classic day that I did everything right with respect to fiber, steps and CrossFit but the diet was screwed. And it’s not going to help with the weight loss. All the other 3 things are ON TOP of the diet, specifically, not binge eating.

WeightIn30 – Day 13, 14

I forgot to write yesterday, most probably because the WordPress habit is not set yet.

Hopefully this sets in soon.

Day 12: we bought some food from outside the previous day and I had gorged on rice and roti with some junky masala paneer and dal makhani. Tried to eat less but the dal makhani was so irresistible.

It showed next day. Even post the gut cleaning, I didn’t feel hungry. That must mean something. Hunger is a sure shot sign that the process of toxin removal has started, I think. The mind beseeching us to eat seems to be pointing in that direction.

Mom made some cake. I tried a bit of it but somehow cakes have become extremely carby and unable to eat more than a couple of bites. Maybe good for me. No sweets eaten, so that’s good.

Performance – Day 12:

Food: One of my huge weaknesses is chegodilu. I simply cannot stop at 1 or 2. So I must have eaten about 10 of them through the day 😦

Fiber: fiber eaten at dinner only

IF: maintained at 14 hours because I didn’t feel hungry. I wouldn’t say it was successful from a fasting perspective.

Steps: 9k steps done

Day 13

Finished the junk food with roti but ate much more fiber. courtesy Komala, who kept the grated carrot ready in a huge container by 11 am. That’s one key, to do this in the morning itself. The texture of grated carrot helps massively to eat it, given all the teeth troubles.

I went for a walk in the evening, 10k steps done AND the highlight was – I stopped myself from eating momos by recollecting the bad IF from the day before. Success, brain persuaded! Instead, I ate a chappati, matar paneer and carrot (and a few chegodilu 🤦‍♀️).

Gut cleaning today was painful, I can see how long that junk food stays, I can still feel it. Fasting definitely doesn’t seem to work with hotel food.

Performance:

1. Fiber: met the lunch milestone, yay.

2. Steps: 10k done

3. IF: 13:59 hours done. Even one minute not done is that hour not done.

4. CrossFit : need to do 3/3. Pending.

WeightIn30 – Day 12

Moved here when Typeshare failed me. I’m done with stupid AI features startups are sprinting towards, rendering the product unusable.

What has it been, 14 years?!

I intend to write everyday now, and I need a reliable friend! And here we are!

So before we start, let me tell you I’ve been on this journey of finally writing down about my weight loss exercise, after nearly 25 years of struggling with extra weight. It has been the center of my self esteem and I will paste the earlier posts shortly so that we have better context here.

Day 12:

I have a feeling I am going to put in weight. I’ve understood why now. Over the past 2 days I’ve been unmindful of what I was eating at lunch. That meant ‘reckless abandon’ into carbs, leading to some pulihara on day 11 and yesterday a brownie!! It was waaay too sweet, but I kept eating and didn’t bother to even compensate with fiber.

And that’s it. I was feeling hungry again at 3. This is the very vicious circle I need to avoid, which can simply be met with a small amount of fiber like cucumber or a fruit afterwards. This is easy to fix. But not so easy to be mindful of.

Performance:

1. IF: it was very hard to continue after 13 hours, I was unable to concentrate at work. My focus now is on extending that torture from 1 hour to 1.5 hours. Usually it doesn’t happen before 14 hours but yesterday was different. Cleaning the guy (aka pooping) seems to create a massive difference in tolerating IF. Undecided on how I should feel about guy cleaning.

2. Fiber: bad bad bad. No fiber at afternoon == no weight loss. Rule of my life.

3. steps: only managed 4.8k steps. This is a good reminder that even a 20 min walk while on the phone can get to 6.5k steps, it’s not hard at all, just mindfulness required to make a choice.

4. CrossFit: leg workout done. Hoping the back is ok for burpees on Saturday.