09 Nov October – Happy Diwali – Lost Good Weight With a lot of experiments

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Date – 31 oct 2016

Happy Diwali, May god bestow happiness and prosperity to you and your family.

I hope that all of you must have enjoyed during Diwali. My Diwali was great too because I lost a lot of weight in this month. Yes it is hard to believe, Diwali is our most important festival in which we eat a lot of luscious sweets in an amazing variety. This is the first Diwali wherein I ate only 1 or 2 sweets, otherwise we tend to eat only special food during these 4 to 5 days. I did not leave my diet and god gave me a good reward for that.

Let us now talk about my weight.
My weight is now: 76 Kg
Weight lost in the past 1 and a half month: 4 kgs
Total weight lost: 14 kgs

In the past one and a half month, I experimented a lot with my diet, because my weight was losing at a slow pace. As I told you earlier in the past month, I want to increase my weight loss speed but I did not understand how it would happen, because instead of losing weight at a faster pace, my weight was stuck between 79- 80 kgs. But after a few changes, in the last 15- 20 days, I started losing weight and once when approximately within a month, I lost only a kilo, in the next 15 to 20 days, I lost 3 kgs. It means that the changes in my diet resulted in the breaking of weight loss plateau.

Although, I fell into depression due to the slow weight loss and I became irritated. And when you are in depression, you feel that why I am doing this if it is having no effect at all. Amongst all this, I felt like quitting everything and to cheat, but as I said earlier, I feel that if I am not able to lose weight this time despite all the hard work, I would not be able to lose weight anytime ever. This thought did not let me slip and my husband was the most supporting in this. Even he started researching about this to find the reason behind this. And then we made some changes in the diet.

Now I am going to tell you what all changes I made in the last one and a half month.

15 Sep- 30 Sep

This is the same diet which I updated during the last month, through which my hard fat started to convert into soft fat and I lost weight too.
I followed this diet for around a month, from 1 September till 30 September. But when my weight was not steady at 78- 79 kgs again on 1 October, it showed 78 kgs and mostly 79 kgs or more, I felt that I had to make more changes in the diet.

To break the weight loss plateau, to increase the pace of weight loss and to maintain its speed, some changes in diet are always necessary.

So firstly I reduced the intake of my diet. Like,

• Sprout salad (8.45 am) which I used to take 100 grams, I reduced that to 55 to 60 grams.
• And chapatti (4 pm) was reduced to half (which I used to take one full).
• Along with this, the amount of juice which was 250 ml was reduced to 175 ml (almost half).
•  Apart from that, the jeera ajvaain water which I took in the morning was replaced with a new tea, which is cinnamon and ginger boiled in water along with lemon water. Since I was consuming the jeera ajvaain water from around 2 months, I had to change it.
• Along with this lemon water, I started chewing around 10 grams of curry leaves.

This is the way my diet was followed

Morning food

5.30 am – One glass warm water

6.00 am – Soaked fenugreek seeds (now I started consuming only fenugreek, I throw away its water)

6.30 am – ¼ apple + 30 grams pomegranate

7.15 am – Cinnamon- ginger tea- strain cinnamon and ginger after adding it in boiled water and drink it after squeezing half a lemon and adding black salt. (175 ml + 10 grams curry leaves).

8.45 am – Sprouted seeds salad (take different types of seeds every day, around 20 to 25 grams soaked + 25 grams (tomato, onion, green chilies, green coriander, some curry leaves and 1 spoon flax seeds powder).
10.00 am – Coriander juice 175 ml

Day’s food

1.00 pm – Oats (40 grams cooked)