Indian Food Delights
My wife and I took the family out to eat at our favorite Indian restaurant yesterday. We went there in the early afternoon because this restaurant has a "buffet" on Sunday during that time, so we can have a wider array of different samples of so many good dishes. The pindi chole and the spinach paneer were my favorite of the many different items I sampled yesterday. The meal was delicious.
As I have mentioned, about 11 or so years ago, I went through a period of weight lost where I had a goal to bring my BMI down into the normal range. In order to do this, I had to go through considerable thought and effort to change my thinking about food and what to eat.
For my effort, my major change was in proportions. Truth be told, I LOVE to eat, and I ate BIG quantities of food.... but, today..... I still LOVE to eat and I still eat BIG quantities of food. The change is in proportions:
Basically, if a food is calorie dense (lots of calories in a small package), I tend to eat those foods in small or very small volume. This means that fried foods (which I never liked much anyway) tend to be either avoided or eaten in very small quantities. High fat foods in general are eaten in very small volume.
If a food is calorie diffuse (few calories in a big volume of food), I then tend to eat A LOT of those foods. This means salads, vegetables, fruits, etc.
If the food is calorie medium (an "in-between") caloric content relative to volume, I eat a MODERATE sized volume of those foods. Beans, lentils, chickpeas, chicken, fish, breads fall into this realm.
So, that is what I did in a nutshell. I just changed the proportions of the foods that I ate. It allowed me to lose 120 pounds (~55kg or 8.5 stone).
However, there are a few foods that I find very difficult to NOT eat in HUGE quantities when available. The two foods that I do struggle with to eat in the right volume are:
Pizza
Nuts (especially mixed nuts in a can)
I am not successful in proportional eating of those two foods, and so.... I simply try to avoid those two items as much as possible... because my willpower is not so successful with those two things.
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5 Comments:
That was a huge weight loss and you managed all by sensible eating. Well done.
Your plan has worked really well, and yes you do have willpower.
I love fried foods. Unfortunately.
When I was visiting my son in Oregon he took his dad and I to a Indain restaurant to eat at.
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Losing weight is difficult at any age, but the older we get the harder it comes off. I'm diabetic and recently got serious about losing weight for several reasons. I started my program in the middle of May and to date I've lost 43 pounds and my A1c has dropped from 7.3 to 6. I feel like I've accomplished something major and still have a long ways to go but I'm getting there one day at a time.
Well done on the weight loss - that's amazing, and also unusual in that you have kept it off for all these years. Losing weight is something I'm finding extremely hard to do. You have laid out a structure here that I have not really thought through before. I do have a good idea of calorie content and try not to eat high-calorie foods, or if I do I balance it the rest of the day or the rest of the week with lower calorie foods, but with your approach I believe it will help me just that little bit more to think of my food intake in that way.
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