Early Friday morning ramblings
Up early today. Only by half hour. 
The stress is eating me up a bit. There are oceans to cross at work. Anyway, will happen somehow. Will try to catch up on some work over the weekend.
Eating was okay yesterday.
Breakfast - protein shake
Lunch - 3 chapatis + 2 curry
Snacks-1 - 2 square inch piece of cake from boss’s birthday party. earlier 1 sweet + 7-8 sticks of chips.
Snacks-2 - Ragda Patties. It is a Mumbai street food. We get a milder version at work cafetaria. It’s made of soupy spicy peas poured on small smashed potato cutlets and hot and sweet and sour chutneys. The street ones if you know where to eat can be very good.
Dinner - 2 aloo paratha (flatbreads stuffed with spicy mashed potatoes) + 1 tiny helping of red beans curry + 1 sweet
Apart from this 3-4 cups of black tea, some water, a few sugarfree gums.
Well, looks like I did eat quite some yesterday. The dinner could have been a bit better. Else I am quite okay. Plan to look up the gym today. Should get started next week. Have some time now before I need to start getting ready for work. Will read up fitness a bit more.
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Positive note
Had a good lunch yesterday. Most of the team joined our table. It was full of laughter and leg-pullings. Mainly discussed cricket and a guy’s upcoming marriage. We all plan to join him on the day. Had a good time. Because of the work pressure, I often eat hastily at different times. So it was specially good to have that 40 min break. In fact later at dinner another guy from the team joined me. This one is performing specially well. He missed out on an expected promotion this January. I was and is a bit apprehensive about losing him. But he is doing very well indeed. Great to see such positive attitude. He is fun too at times. Had dinner with him and did some general catching up. Wish I would be more full of fun topics. Worrying about work all the time is making me dull. Oh now I remember more. There were 3 more guys who are my peers and we report to same boss, just trooped in near my desk before dinner. We had some crazy foolish funny nonsensical conversations. So was a good day for laughs and talks.
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Madsie said,
April 11, 2010 @ 3:35 am
Break up your meals ….
Start your day with a fruit - within 15 minutes of getting up - you will be surprised how much of a difference this makes. You can even have a banana ……
breakfast you can afford to have something more filling than protein shake( maybe that alu paratha). Reserve the protein shake for you post workout snack.
If you have lunch at 1 and breakfast at 8:30 9am try to have a tiny snack at 11 am - maybe a slice of cheese or some nuts .
Try having a serving of butter milk ( you get pouches from Amul) at 3:30 pmish or nariyel pani with malai.
The 5:30 snack sounds ok - just limit the quantity .
Dinners - its best to limit carbs. One roti should be fine.
Dont go hungry though - eat lots of veggies …. Maybe make a stir fry of veggies and some paneer. To really fill up have a bowl of Rajma or yummy Ghugni…..
DONT GO TO SLEEP WITHIN AN HOUR OF DINNER…….
I followed this for a month and lost 1.5 kgs without doing anything else …
Do I follow it now? No
But will start again form next month 