Started
gym again.. 
only today morning… did 45 mins of cardio… feeling a little sore and very nice… I realized that I have gained a neat 10 kgs from last November. All my weight loss earlier has been completely reversed and I have gone higher actually. 
Well… that’s done… If I can keep working out for a while, I will lose it again.. I will be more careful in maintaining this time… it hurt a little to see others to be so much slimmer in the gym… but anyway I am not going to think too much about that… a scale climbing down would be a lot of fun..
Nothing new is happening… I am trying to do a small piece of embroidery… also doing sme cooking… yesterday I made something called “pizza paratha”.. It is flat bread with stuffing of aubergine, capsicum, tomato, onion and a little cheese… it was good fun… then the day before, I made grilled eggplant salad… that was very very good… I am planning to make that again… I am anyway eating a ton of fruits everyday, courtesy my mom… if a cannibal eats me now, I dare say my flesh would be sweet with a filling of assorted fruits :)… so I am planning (this one here is the operative word) to cut carb from my dinner and have some salads and soups… I should have fun cooking and eating that… don’t know if it would be feasible though…
This weight loss and gaining back is making me think about changes that I can sustain… cutting carbs from dinner.. sustainable?… what do you think? Let me see how I do… even if I fail eventually, I would still have eaten better for a while… I was reading about raw foodism a few days back… it is very interesting.. I dont think that is something that I can do at all… but in small doses it could be good…
Lots of love to you all…..
ellabella said,
July 7, 2008 @ 6:27 am
Beautiful wedding pictures, Ini dear. You, of course, must know that there’s nothing monstrous about you. You’re not even terribly overweight, for goodness’ sake! The red is quite lovely on you. Why, oh why, do you young women obsess so over your weight, I wonder? I suppose I’ve been guilty of it myself, but I wish I hadn’t. Life is too short to spend it feeling miserable about not being what you think you ought to be. I really think it gets in the way of leading a full and satisfying life altogether. What if, just for say a week - or a month - you focused on everything in your life EXCEPT your weight? What if you acted like you didn’t have any issues at all about your weight? What if you just got out and did what you currently feel that only *thin* people do? What if you decided to see all the good things about you that WE see when we read what you have to say about yourself and your life? Thanks for wishing you could send me some sunshine. Seeing your picture was like a little ray of sunshine, so I guess you did send me some without knowing it!
Hugs,
Z
round said,
July 7, 2008 @ 10:44 am
Sounds like you are getting back on track!
Tell me about your eggplant salad - I made one 2 weeks ago that turned out really lovely.
On the carbs issue - I try to cut down a lot on carbs when I’m dieting (”white carbs” - bread, rice, potatoes, pasta and sugar, not whole grains, fruits, veggies or legumes). I think it helps mainly by cutting out a source of calories that are easy to overdo…
I recently read that some of the studies on raw foods have shown that there are certain vitamins that are better available and absorbed by cooking vs raw, putting some big doubts into the raw-food movement. That said, there are some interesting raw food recipies out there (recently saw one for beetroot salad). I’m guessing the truth is where it always is — moderation!