Day 8, 9, 10

Day 8, 9, 10 (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)

Day 8 was good.  Ate when I was hungry, but again evenings are the most difficult part for me. Eat a lot as soon as I get home.

But the good thing is, I can feel if I am full now after I eat. Find it difficult to recognize it and stop it. Also, I get tempted by snacks and icecream. I need to write some simulations.

Simulation 1:
I come home in the evening. I take sherlock for a walk. I change my clothes wash my face, say a little prayer and then take a snack and sit down. Watch the traffic and take a bite. Slowdown and enjoy it.

Simulation 2: Buy a veggie puff and a masala tea. Smell the puff... take a bite, keep it down, chew chew chew.... swallow... wait for a few seconds, with nothing in the mouth and then start again.

Day 5, 6 and 7.

Day 5 (Sunday)

I am writing this 3 days later, so I can't remember anything. So another lesson learnt is to write this blog everyday. I think overall the day went okay, except for eating a lot of nuts when I am not hungry and drinking coffee.

Day 6 (Monday)

I went to work, ate rusk and coffee for breakfast, very difficult to judge if  was hungry or full in the morning hurryburry. Anyways, I felt hungry so I ate some nuts (borrowed) from Tony and then ate my lunch. Ate chocolate after lunch. I need to stop this. I did this just out of habit. I need to come up with "Gargle mouth after lunch and go for a walk" as a routine. I ate lunch mindfully, stopped half way through the box. Drank coffee as a pick me up. Ate the remaining lunch at 4 because I was hungry. All this was good. Came home, ate idlis late, even though I was super tempted to watch TV and eat, I refrained and ate them with the TV turned off. I felt very proud about this moment. Ate some nuts late at night. Not so proud.lol.

Day 7(Tuesday)

I attended the Agile class. Ate a bagel for breakfast. Ate mindfully. Ate another bagel for lunch. ate mindfully. ate a little piece of dessert. Ate mindfully and only when I was hungry. Drank coffee as a pick me up. Came home and went to "Curry in a hurry" ate some chaat. Ate only when I hungry. Felt full after wards. Did not eat anything after dinner. I consider this day to be very successful. God day. Great Day.

First Week Take Aways:
When I was eating mindfully the system worked very well. Observed the status of my stomach after eating and felt bloated most of the time.

I need to figure out when to stop eating. Also need to figure out how to stop eating those pesky nuts. I need to figure out the drinks (coffee and soda).  Over all the first week, I learnt some parts of the method. Some things are still a learning process. This blog helps a lot. I need to write this every day.

Day 3 and Day 4

This is an update of Day 3 and Day 4.

Day 3:

Day 3 was good, except for the evening. I came home in the evening and ate arisi upma and chips and yogurt, without abandon. Ate watching TV. I ate till I felt bloated. Then went to see David Cross, ate M&M during the show and then came home and ate dinner... a lot of chips and rice and yogurt.

The take away is, evenings are bad. Watching TV and eating an evening snack is a 30 year old habit of mine. It is going to take a lot of time to get rid of it. I need to keep trying.

The good thing is I am starting to notice how bloated I felt after eating. Am noticing my hunger levels, I knew I was not that hungry when I started eating, and I knew I was feeling very bloated after I ate. I never observed these things before.

I also measured my weight at 218 pounds. Felt very very bad about it. THought of discontinuing this system and going on a 7 day diet. But this blog is the only thing that kept me from changing. I am going to give it the full 30 days. I would say the first 3 days I haven't been following the scheme very well. It is going to take some adjustment to change my ways.


Day 4:

Day 4 was better than day 3. I had coffee and biscuits for breakfast, but I could not figure out if I had enough for breakfast. I need to come up with way to figure out the how to estimate my hunger/satisfaction for drinks.

Then I felt hungry at 11, ate a kind bar, some oranges and some rice and chips. But ate consciously and at the table. Stopped when I felt a little full. That was good.

I got up in the afternoon and had a few biscuits mindlessly. This was not good. Then I ate another lunch at 4... Ate sitting on the sofa...it was not ideal, but I stopped when I felt full...maybe... I could have better. Eating at the sofa is not helping.

For dinner we went and ate pizza, I only had two thin crust slices, felt full, and had ice cream at "lick". I enjoyed it, didnt feel bloated at all. Felt pleasantly full.

We came back home and ate curd rice and chips even though we were not hungry.../sigh... but I realized it and felt very bloated afterwards.

Eating Consiously

I came across Paul Mckenna's "I can make you thin".

The 4 rules are:

Eat when you are hungry (If you think you might be hungry, you are not)
Eat what you want
Eat consciously (This is the kernel of the system. 95% of the success depends on it. )
Stop when you think you are not hungry. (Not when you are full).


I am going to follow this for 30 days.


Day 1:

April 20th was Day 1. I did okay. Did not really apply the rules to breakfast, as I was thinking I only drink coffee and eat rusk. Lunch was good. I ate in front of the computer, but I was super conscious. Stopped half way through the lunch box.
Evening was not that good. I went home and could not follow the rules. I had nothing to do, so I kept going to fridge and eating yogurt, kathi roll, nuts, dried fruits. I was not really hungry. After 20 mins I felt so bloated. The only good thing about it is, I observed how uncomfortable I felt after eating when I was not hungry.
Dinner I ate watching a youtube video. Again, this is not good. Habits die hard.

Good start of the day... but then determination and discpline got low during the evening.

Plan for day 2 is to have something to fill my evenings, so I don't go after the food. For day 2, I am going to get an hair cut and brush the dog, and take him for a long long walk.

Process Improvements in Life

Life is a process.

I have come across a bunch of different "process improvements" / self help things which help improve the process, whatever may be the goal.

With this blog, I want to find a way to improve the process of making process improvement. This is meta.

I want to create a space where, I will experiment with "Life improvement" ideas for 30 days, and write honest feedback about it. I know for sure, that will help others improve their process.

Most of these life improvement processes are not "Quantitative" measurements. For example, I ate very well today except for the night time snack. Is my day a total failure? It was not a 100% success, so it is somewhere in between and it is not easily Quantifiable.

This is where Qualitative....am just getting too technical... so here it is simple terms.


I will follow some idea for 30 days. I will write a blog every day about the experience. At the end of 30 days...will drive to a conclusion if the idea is worth or not. That is it.