Going on a diet

Yup, back and planning to start dieting from today.
Started charting my food intake and control my junk items.
Keeping fingers crossed

Run run run

Hi guys! Its a long time since my last post.
Well, I had been busy enjoying life :-)
One of the things I did was to participate in a Marathon training. It was a great experience. Though I would have run only 3 kms, I felt as if I had run the entire marathon! I'm sure training for a marathon will get one into the fitness groove!
Here is the link to the upcoming Marathon in Bangalore.
http://www.thefullerlife.com/index.php?id=178

Run for your life :-)

Know ur sleep...

Wanna post something today, but donno what: Here are some interesting facts abt Sleep!!
Reasons for sleeping and waking up early.
Evening from 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating unnecessary/toxic
chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes).
This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music.
If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as
washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this
will have a negative impact on health.
Evening from 11pm - 1am: is the detoxification process in the liver,
and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the gall, also
ideally done in a deep sleep stat.

Early morning 3 - 5am: detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there
will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time.
Since the detoxification process has reached the respiratory tract,
there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with
toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am: detoxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9am: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you
should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier,
before 6:30am, for those who are sick. Breakfast before 7:30am is very
beneficial to those wanting to stay ft. Those who always skip
breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to
eat breakfast late until 9 - 10am rather than no meal at all.
Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of
removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am
is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a
good sleep and don't sleep late.

Indian food - Know ur calorie intake...

A list of widely eaten daily Indian food :

Item:Weight:Quanity:KiloCalories
---------------------------------
Almonds:100 g::655
Amla :100 g::58
Apple :100 g::59
Banana :100 g::116
Bengal gram dhal :100 g::372
Black gram dhal :100 g::347
Bread White toast::2 slices:176
Bread Brown::2 slices:218
Brinjal :100 g::24
Buttermilk:-:1 glass:25
Cabbage :100 g::27
Carrot :100 g::48
Cashewnut :100 g::596
Cauliflower :100 g::30
Chapati flour:40 g::100
Cheese :100 g::348
Cheese pizza:100 g:5 '' dia:270
Cucumber :100 g::13
Dates :100 g::317
Dosa (plain)::3 medium:360
Green gram dhal :100 g::348
Groundnut :100 g::567
Guava :100 g::51
Idli::3 big:130
Kaju Katli::1 piece:58
Ladies finger :100 g::35
Mango ripe :100 g::74
Methi leaves :100 g::49
Milk - buffalo :100 g::117
Milk - cow :100 g::67
Murruku::7 - 8 medium:529
Onion :100 g::59
Papaya - ripe :100 g::32
Peas :100 g::315
Plain rice:50 g:1cupful:150
Potato :100 g::97
Puri flour:15 g:1:100
Ragi :100 g::328
Rice (parboiled) :100 g::346
Rice raw :100 g::345
Sambar::0.5cup:105
Samosa:100 g:1 piece:400
Soyabean :100 g::432
South Indian Adai::2 medium:550
Sweet potato :100 g::120
Tomato ripe :100 g::20
Uthappam::2 big:330
Water melon :100 g::16

Acknowledgement: Collected from different websites :-) Hope they are authentic!

Ever been on a "diet?"

I'm on a self-claimed dieting process to shed the extra pounds hanging on me, only that I tend to eat more than my usual normal amount.
The poorly fed stomach keeps on asking for more and the craving for snacks is on the rise!
Did a big research on the calories permitted, intake and burning patterns, meal plan etc etc only to keep calculating the KiloCalories!!
The more I walk, more I feel hungry. Most of the experts ask u to many small meals. Imagine me snacking all the time in office ! Do u think I 'd have the patience, planning & time to buy healthy snacks that are tasty too ? I end up munching chocos, chips, bhel, biscuits instead and gulp down tea whenever i feel like eating something!
What is the way out?
I'm trying a different approach - Burn more calories and continue eating the normal food. And more importantly, keep track of ur calorie-intake. Literally write down in a pocket-diary every time u eat that sinful chocolate or relish a black tea! Like a balance sheet, jot down the physical activities that exert energy!
Let me wait for 3 weeks and give u guys an update, if this simple exercise is fruitful. Keeping my fingers crossed & chanting my calories !