Stop Being Lazy!

Day 30 of 100 Happy Days:

Usually I don’t do anything the day after the weekly meeting of my research work. For last two weeks I was so busy with the work, I barely had the time and energy to do some other work. Yesterday was the meeting day, but I couldn’t just sit and do nothing today. I didn’t get the chance to apply any job for last two weeks, so there is a lot on my list. Also, I am on diet but for last few days I didn’t cook properly and my husband was just eating this and that (like nan bread with spreads!). I was feeling guilty about it, so cooked his favorite beef curry, egg curry and beef biryani today! 

 GM Diet day 4: Milk and Banana day

My diet is going alright. Drank three glasses of milk and 5 bananas. Cheated a little, ate a piece of beef while cooking 😦

Tomorrow is beef day! Yea! Already marinated some thin beef stakes! 

GM Diet: Day 2

Day 28 of 100 Happy Days:

Day 2 of GM Diet is all about vegetables. All you can eat. To me this day is better than the fruit day, as I can use some creativity to make my meals. You can eat salad, you can eat raw vegetables or you can boil some vegetables, or cook veg stir fry or soup! This morning as yesterday I started the day with a full glass of warm water with few drops of lemon juice and later ate some salad. For lunch I made clear vegetable soup. For this I just boiled some vegetables in broth with small amount of salt and pepper. I didn’t put any kind of sauce, like ketchup, soy sauce, sriracha or oyster sauce, so the taste was very bland. That’s okay!

For dinner I made butternut squash soup for the very first time, and it was good! Here is the recipe:

Ingredient: 
Butternut squash: 1, Medium sized
Onion: 1, medium sized, chopped
Apple: 1, skin peeled, chopped
Garlic: half, peeled
Salt and pepper: taste wise

Direction:

1. Cut the butternut squash into small pieces.
2. Put small amount of oil in a deep pan and add garlic, chopped onions and apple.
3. When the mixture will start to turn golden, add the squash pieces
4. Add some water with salt and pepper and cover with lid.
5. When the squash pieces will be completely soft, take it out from the stove and wait 5/10 minutes.
6. Blend the mixture part by part in a blender with some water
7. When the blending will be done, transfer all thick soup to the same pan
8. Adjust water and salt
9. Enjoy!

Now, I have made this soup for weight loss purpose, so I have used small amount of oil. This soup can be enhanced many ways. Like, adding butter or coconut milk or milk cream in the last step.

Tips: To cut the butternut squash easily, I baked the squash first to make it soft. I cut the squash in half and then baked it for an hour at 375F. After that it was soft enough to cut in pieces. If you have better squash you can easily remove the squash with a spoon from its skins after baking, so no post-cut is necessary. Depends on the softness of the squash.

GM Diet: Day 1:

Day 28 of 100 Happy Days:

Today I have started the GM diet. GM diet is the hardest thing I have ever done for weight loss purpose. They say after doing this diet I should lose 4/5 lbs every time. Well, that was not true for me, every time I loose max 1-2 lbs, may be because I am not over weight?! 

I know, this is not the ideal process for weight loss. The ideal process would be to change the life style, always eat healthy and do regular exercise. But I’m lazy and I love desserts and oily foods. I can’t stay motivated for too long. What can I do, honestly? I think for me, this time GM diet would be a better start for my weight loss journey. It is very hard, but hopefully the result will give me some motivation. After finishing this one week diet I will continue to eat healthy. 

The first day is all you can eat fruit. So, I started the day with a full glass of warm water with few drops of lemon juice. For breakfast I had an apple and a cup of green tea. For lunch I had a pears and later I ate two plums. By dinner time I was really hungry, so ate some pears and cantaloupe with raspberry and vinegar dressing. I guess that is okay as the sauce has only 40 calories per tbs and I didn’t use more that 1 tbs!

Hopefully I will stay motivated till the end of the week.