Japanese Variation

After spending a little time in Japan, I have been inspired to modify my meals with a little bit of a Japanese flair.

Breakfast:
 - I still love my toast and milk. I haven't changed this. But I learnt that the Japanese have rice, fish and a bowl of miso soup for breakfast. What an excellent variation to the routine!






Lunch:

 - Half a cup of white rice
 - 3-4 oz. salmon cooked (with soy sauce, teriyaki sauce or plain)
 - salad made with shredded cabbage and sesame-ginger dressing (organic)
 - bowl of miso soup (with wakame sea weed and tofu)
 - One slice of apple or other fruit

 



Snack:

 - Milk
 - Fruit

Dinner:

 - Same as lunch
 


Realization:
After being brave enough to eat just one slice of apple for dessert (after learning this behaviour in Japan), I realized that I often reached out and cut off a few more slices of apple. And then the realization hit me: all this time I had been reluctant to eat fruit for fear of not being able to finish the whole fruit and thus wasting any of it. Often the fruit would go bad because I would never reach out and eat it. Thus, I ended up wasting the whole fruit for fear of wasting some of it.



Fear is so silly. It serves absolutely no purpose.

New Diet Plan

There are a few things my meal plans have to incorporate:
1. I have less and less time to spend preparing my meals
2. I have less interest in cooking than I did before due to new interests
3. I have to lose weight
4. The food has to be tasty. I can't eat boiled tofu.
5. Food has to be fresh and healthy. I refuse to eat prepared and processed foods.

My new diet plan consists of the following:

Breakfast:
- Toast. This can be a mini bagel or sliced bread.
- Milk. I like to have hot milk made into a chai or a latte.

My Introduction to Losing Weight

My very first experience with eating healthy to lose weight started with a longish conversation with a nutritionist who worked for the hospital. I will always be forever grateful to Mrs. Dasgupta for giving me the basics of a healthy diet that turned into a fundamental base for developing my eating skills. Here it is in a nutshell. I used to weigh 72 kg, my height was 150cm. I lost over 4 kilos with this diet. But I had to stop it prematurely due my grade 12 final exams.

Breakfast:
  - 1 slice Toast
  - 1 slice low fat cheese
  - 1 cup of low fat milk


Snack/Tiffin:
  - Sandwich made with 2 slices of bread and salad (tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, onions, etc)


Lunch:
  - 1 small bowl of rice
or
  - 1 small whole wheat khubus
  - 1 small piece of fish (30g)
  - unlimited vegetables cooked


Snack:
   - 4 saltine crackers
   - 1 orange
   - 1 cup milk



Dinner
   - Same as lunch
   - Walk after dinner