Weight Loss Challenge/change

I will also join in this challenge. I weigh 71 kg. My goal is to lose 16 kg. But, first goal is to lose 10 kg.

I will write everything I ate from today, there's plenty of mindless eating going on recently as well. so I hope publicly writing it down will bring some conscious and mindful eating into my life.

Breakfast 9 am: Homemade Small energy bar, 10 am: 2 slices butter toast + 1 cut up green pepper

Lunch at 12:30 pm: 3/4 cup Brown rice, Dal Makhni (Black Urad dal), Green beans poriyal

Snack: one piece banana bread with no sugar, made with almond flour and buckwheat flour and almond flour.

Early dinner at 5 pm: one apple and a small bowl of Quinoa salad with cucumbers & sweet peppers

Exercise: 40 mins of yoga with 2 rounds of Surya namaskar

Water: Not enough. Will start measuring from tomorrow.

Sleep by: on track to sleep by 10:30 pm

 

Let me share my meals here today, but I won't be regular in posting but will follow the diet

I have cut down coffee/tea during week days, but will enjoy during weekends at least 1 per day.

Break fast: Boiled Chick pea stir fried with little oil

Lunch: Rice, dal, vegetable curry, omlette

Dinner: 3 appams/hoppers (Sri Lankan small ones). Of these one egg appam, and the other two were plain appams with chillie paste (Sri Lankan)

Fruits: Couple of small Sri Lankan bananas during the day for fibre. They are small in size and less carb.

 

Sep 13:
Breakfast: 3/4 cup of pasta made with gluten free pasta ( brown rice and quinoa), sauteed with onion, tomatoes and yellow peppers and spices.

Lunch : White rice, Drumstick curry, Black eyed peas curry, chenai / suran mash, yogurt

2 pm Snack: 2 energy bar, homemade (mostly nuts (variety of them and wholegrain oatmeal)

Exercise: 35 mins yoga in the morning, 30 mins of walking on treadmill in the evening.

Need to drink more water. will drink some more before going to sleep.

 

Are you a vegetarian? If not, you can add chicken or fish to your diet. What I’m seeing is very less protein in your lunch and dinner and extreme high carbs. Potato and rice both have high carbs .. same with chapathi and potato at dinner … and also again potatoes and bread for snack.. If you are eating carbs, you have to eat some protein to bring the insulin level down. And you’ll keep on craving for food when the insulin levels crash after some time.

If you are a vegetarian, include beans, lentils, nuts (almonds, walnuts, pecans, hazelnut, etc) and seeds (pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, sesame seeds, hemp seeds, etc). It’s very important to have protein to be healthy and also, very important for weight loss.

I can understand if you are worried about bloating, you can try many digestive aids like ginger tea, coriander and pepper tea (4:1 ratio, slightly sautéed and coarsely ground and stored and make into thick decoction), add Omam into everything you make with dal or beans, add asafoetida too in everything you cook), exercise, drink kit of water, take triphala etc ..

Also, try to understand more on your intolerances… for some people, gluten (wheat and wheat products) may cause bloating … For some, it maybe dairy (milk & milk products) and for some it may be, vegetables that fall under nightshade family (potato, tomato, capsicum, brinjal, etc) for some, it may be some other thing … You can eliminating all these 3 food items (dairy, gluten and nightshade vegetables) for a month completely and then slowly reintroduce one by one - one week at a time to figure out what’s causing your bloating. These might be temporary intolerances .. and maybe due to inflammation in the stomach or intestines. I had some of these intolerances that went away after eliminating them from my diet for few years and now I can eat them.

 

Wow ..could you pls give me more details about the pasta you used ? Brand and store details pls.

 

It’s GOGO Quinoa pasta from Costco .. my mistake that I said it had brown rice .. this is made of white rice flour, white and red quinoa ..

https://www.costco.ca/gogo-quinoa-organic-macaroni,-2-x-1-kg-.product.100814021.html