Soda Pringles aur Pastry symbolize the three food groups that are my comfort poison food ! No matter my mood (Happy,Sad, Depressed or Ecstatic ) or the time (morning,day,evening,midnight..) i like to eat junk food and wash it down with soda . This blog is about my daily attempts at keeping off them and any form of physical exercise i do to burn the never ending supply of fat i have accumulate over the years .
Why a Blog?
I have been inspired by my school friend Dhruv Bonnerjee who is blogging about his attempts to quit smoking . When he could not post how days 6,7and 8 went by I got agitated enough to post a Facebook update inquiring about it. As it turned out it was only time management issue and he is on track. His stories forced me into thinking aloud what was i doing about my poison, and the answer i got was nothing. B4 i get into what else forced me into taking some action against my obesity let me point out another reason for starting this blog.
Ever since i can remember i loved to talk, but never to write. I can yabber-jabber on any topic non stop. I think it all started in those Moral Science classes in school at LFS ( Thank you Mrs. Ghosh 4 making it my most interesting class to date), right through my undergrad days at KUSOE (where i could b found debating anything but course material mostly with one of my best friends Bikash ) to my graduate days at KUSOM (what i spoke about here is a blur) and continued into my Managerial Leadership Class at Maxwell (where i had to compete against 10 other equally vocal Humphrey Fellows from around the world) . Another constant throughout this adventure was the feedback i got from my teachers/professors : "Please Elaborate" on my written papers. I somehow seem to loose interest while writing my thoughts and views . I have said this many times End Sem exams should hve the option of a viva and one should be able to voice mail assignments. Now my friend Sanjay wants me to start writing a column for the newspaper he edits in return for covering my Business Incubator venture. Plus there is so much i want to say to a wider audience (outside Facebook) so i thought this blog will be a good learning experience . P.S. Add to that the no longer hidden desire to get a PHD someday .
Why start Now?
Its not a sudden move , i hve been seriously thinking about this for a while and my Mom has been nagging about this since ages. A few years ago i started going to a gym with my friends Milan,Sudeep and Bineet. All of us paid for a annual membership to get a big discount but after 2 months Bineet and I dropped out citing the winter cold. One thing that i remember from those 2 months at the gym is that i started watching what i ate for the simple reason that each morning i experienced how hard it was to burn off those calories. But my laziness and the late nights got the better of me and i found excuses to stop gyming. In 2011 i landed in Syracuse for a year and lived on Large sized Pizza's , frozen burgers and Chinese dinner until my friends Humayun & Sherry took me in and started feeding me proper food at dinner. For lunch i started eating fruits and salads thanx to my friends Sania and Kristine with whom i usually went grocery shopping . Chocolate Milk from Rite Aid down the hill continued to be my poison. Sania & Kristine did try to get me into stop taking the bus after class and walk instead but i was too stubborn for them to fix me. Two months in New York with my college friends Bikash & Juna got my eating habits on track somewhat. As a result i was perhabs the only one i know who lost weight instead of gaining it after a year in America. But that was 2 yrs ago. And its been a downward journey since i got back to mandu .
More recently i was on a weekend getaway at a resort outside Kathmandu with my friends Milan, Ashish, Khagendra and Bineet (the Torpe gang). Late into the friday night we somehow started talking about my obesity and my sleeping habits (sleep after sunrise and work/play at night). Milan is perhaps the oldest member of our group and most certainly the fittest. He told me how he changed his sleeping pattern , started exercising and eating healthy. His pep talk had a certain effect on me though not visible immediately. Last week the old Maruti Omni van that Dad usually drives after he retired broke down while he was driving Mom to a meeting. Since than Mom refuses to go anywhere in the Van and my car has now been called into service leaving me wheeless (my motorbike having been retired to Rajbiraj for the once a month trip to my village). I have started to walk to work ever since (Ashish drops me home on his bike each evening). This week my parents went out of town for a fortnight taking my Dezire as their ride in the absence of the office Prado or Pajero that would have been the usual choice until Dad retired a year ago. This means i am most certainly without a ride for the next 15 days. I just hope i can use this to start a new life style.
What happened Today ?
Although i have not yet been able to shake off my sleeping habit, this evening I decided to take a walk . I walked from home towards Summit Hotel down the hill to Kan Devta Sthan then up the hill to Himalay hotel all the way upto Pulchowk. From pulchowk i walked through what is now called Jhamel an area with more eateries than i can count and a few new ones are still coming up. This is my heaven , lined with the best pizza place in town (RoadHouse Cafe) to a choice of Italian, Malaysian, Korean, Continental, Indian , Nepalese restaurants, numerous bakeries and a couple of sports bar. But i did not stop at any of them to eat or pick up a bottle of Coke or Sprite that i would have usually done. I did pick up a cup of Cafe Latte from a Illy outlet at Chai Chai Cafe. Once home i thought back on what had happened and took this as a starting point.
Day 1 : 0 Soda, 0 Pringles, 0 Pastry !
Wish me luck !! lets c what happens tomorrow.
Brahma !
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