Fitting Back into My Old Clothes Challenge: Day 4 and 5

DAY 4: TUESDAY 24.2.2015

Today was One of Those Days.

I got up late, very late. Missed my exercise. Barely had time to drink coffee and eat a boiled egg (let alone make a diet plan) before being inundated with chores and errands.

But since I had the daily staples of coffee, boiled egg, salad, sweet potato, yakhni, qahva, fresh fruit and nuts ready and prepared, I was able to grab these bites on the go. Otherwise I would have had the candy and cake for sure. (Well, I did have one bite of cake.)

9.30 am	Coffee
11.00 am	Boiled egg
12.00 am	Salad and sweet potato
2.00 pm	A hurried lunch of chicken karhai and some naan (not a good idea; whole wheat chapattis are much better)
3 .30 am	Yakhni
7.00 pm	Chicken karhai and naan
8 00 pm	Ginger qahva

Even though it was a hectic, helter-skelter day, I managed to not fall back on junk food and overeating to see me through it, though I did feel hungry through the day.

Luckily for my diet I wasn’t able to join a friend for paneer tikka at a dhaba.

The previous night I had overeaten when dining out (as usual), but not as much as I would have if I hadn’t tried. At first I took only a small helping of Kabuli pulao, Afghani boti and mutton butter karhai with hot naan as I had planned. And then I went for seconds and thirds and fourths, which I had not planned to do at all. I realize I will have to curtail eating out during this challenge as it seems to be my most vulnerable Achilles’ heel.

With the cycling and fat burner yakhni and qahva, my solid fat layer has started melting and is ready to burn off. I should have exercised today to torch it, but in the morning the weather was so gorgeous that instead of going for exercise I enjoyed it in bed. At least I didn’t go out for halwa puri as should ideally be done.

Day 5: WEDNESDAY 25.2.2015

My bed and blanket won again today. No exercise, but at least I made a meal plan. Today is the third day I’ve missed my exercise. On the plus side, at least I’ll not build muscle mass. But I do need to burn off the loose fat or I’ll lose muscle tone, and that is the most difficult to get back.

9.00 am	Coffee with milk.
9.30 am	Boiled egg.
10.00am	Fruit
12 noon	Khageena, and half a chappati to stave off hunger.
1 00 pm	Yakhni
2 00 pm	A small bowl of salad
3 00 pm	Some sweet potato
4 00 pm	A bowl of yogurt with nuts
6 00 pm	Tea/green tea
7 00 pm	An early dinner of tikka masala beef
7 30 pm	Ginger qahva
9 00 pm	A tablespoon of ispaghol mixed in a glass of water.

Last night I went to bed feeling hungry, and I didn’t like the feeling at all. Today I remembered I had missed the ispaghol drink. Because I hadn’t made the diet chart. 

Tomorrow I must add a vegetable side to the meat dish.