I am on a dieting spree these days . Dont get me wrong i still love food eat all the different food and am a registered foodie . Only thing is i have started checking the calorie content on whatever i eat and started obsessively checking my weight . How do you start loosing weight by checking calorie content and checking weight ? Before you start to make fun of this calorie checker pls consider this .
Recently i brought a packet of pure ghee made soan papdi from bareilly . Usually we all eat till it gets over . This time to tell the truth it was the most tasty soan papdi i have ever eaten (much better than haldirams ). But this time i checked the cover for any calorie information . It was clearly mentioned in the cover --- 2500 calories . If a single person eats it an entire days calorie is contained in it and all the rest of the days food will go as fat accumualation in the body . And being a dieter i am supposed to decrease my calorie intake . So what did i do ... I didnt eat the soan papdi in one go . I took my share and ate it over two days . Best of both worlds ... i ate the tasty soan papdi while my calorie intake from this was 2500 divided by 4 again divided by 2 .
Now coming to the heading Kentucky fried chicken and tender coconut . During my younger days (read 1 year ago ) me and my friend used to finish a bucket of kentucky fried chicken easily . Nowadays i eat KFC once in ten days and that too 2 pieces . And i eat a variety of foods ranging from soan papdi to tender coconut to salads all in reasonable quantities . And paradoxically i found out that most of our indian foods taste better and are more healthy calorie wise(except sweets ) than the italiano pizzahut , americano KFC etc (please check on the net calorie of the popular fast foods ). I am not against any of those food . They are all nice but the point is they are overhyped by the marketing gurus so much that we indians have started following the americas in the obesity charts . The incidence of obesity is much greater in america to a large extent due to overconsumption of fast food . Denmark recently became the first country to tax food which contains excess of saturated fats . I think india should follow suit and also our country should promote the great indian cuisine (not the heavy ghee variety ) as popular "slow " food chains so that more people start eating the "slow indian food " in style . In that way we will lead healthier lives . Personally i think fast food is like going fast in a car . An occasional speed is interesting while if we always travel in high speed the result is disastrous healthwise , Unless one is Michael Schumacher ...
P.S : I lost 4 kg so far by this calorie watch and cutting calories . Got to add mild exercise from this week . Wish me luck
Recently i brought a packet of pure ghee made soan papdi from bareilly . Usually we all eat till it gets over . This time to tell the truth it was the most tasty soan papdi i have ever eaten (much better than haldirams ). But this time i checked the cover for any calorie information . It was clearly mentioned in the cover --- 2500 calories . If a single person eats it an entire days calorie is contained in it and all the rest of the days food will go as fat accumualation in the body . And being a dieter i am supposed to decrease my calorie intake . So what did i do ... I didnt eat the soan papdi in one go . I took my share and ate it over two days . Best of both worlds ... i ate the tasty soan papdi while my calorie intake from this was 2500 divided by 4 again divided by 2 .
Now coming to the heading Kentucky fried chicken and tender coconut . During my younger days (read 1 year ago ) me and my friend used to finish a bucket of kentucky fried chicken easily . Nowadays i eat KFC once in ten days and that too 2 pieces . And i eat a variety of foods ranging from soan papdi to tender coconut to salads all in reasonable quantities . And paradoxically i found out that most of our indian foods taste better and are more healthy calorie wise(except sweets ) than the italiano pizzahut , americano KFC etc (please check on the net calorie of the popular fast foods ). I am not against any of those food . They are all nice but the point is they are overhyped by the marketing gurus so much that we indians have started following the americas in the obesity charts . The incidence of obesity is much greater in america to a large extent due to overconsumption of fast food . Denmark recently became the first country to tax food which contains excess of saturated fats . I think india should follow suit and also our country should promote the great indian cuisine (not the heavy ghee variety ) as popular "slow " food chains so that more people start eating the "slow indian food " in style . In that way we will lead healthier lives . Personally i think fast food is like going fast in a car . An occasional speed is interesting while if we always travel in high speed the result is disastrous healthwise , Unless one is Michael Schumacher ...
P.S : I lost 4 kg so far by this calorie watch and cutting calories . Got to add mild exercise from this week . Wish me luck
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