Adventures of a slightly overweight girl hoping to be thin (2)

Diet (3 and 4)

After the hell caused by Diet 2, I wanted something slightly more "edible" when I visited my Dr. I said I could go on a diet for 9 days , even if its hard, because I knew I was not gonna follow any instructions while in Alex for 4 days. So I was given two diets, the cantaloupe diet and the "Cesar salad" which by the way, has nothing to do with the actual Cesar salad except that it is salad based. I sticked to the diet most of the time, even while being in a bazaar and seeing the amazing Dina Cantina cupcakes glittering and begging to be eaten. I only messed by half an evening when I was starving for a whole day and was only offered some mini-pizzas.

Disappointment and Payback

I was very disappointed when I found out, that after 9 days of salad and fruit, I only lost half a kilo (remember the song from last time!) The Dr. said I may be going through normal hormonal changes or that my body has gotten used to the dieting and refuses to loose weight. I don't know about you guys.. bas ma3andeesh ana 7aga esmaha "refuses" di. Body eih eli mesh hayesma3 el kalam 3ala akher el zaman! Anyway, being so disappointed with my misbehaving "body", I decided, it's payback time! I called Dina Cantina and ordered some delicious cupcake variatey and had two, had a shawerma sandwich from Abo Amar and a whole liter of strawberry-apple jump juice :D.

Feeling bad

Having eaten all that, feeling bloated and the fact that I have four more days without diet started to freak me out: is it possible that I'd loose all the effort I exerted ? If one diets 9 days to loose 0.5Kg and needs only one day of eating like a pig to gain them back. Then how does one deal , really? I'm not planning to stay on a diet all my life, I mean, I really enjoy food. People who keep saying "I've reached a perfect life; eating one grape fruit in the morning. My lunch is a bowl of salad and instead of dinner I have a fruit" make me sick. They are really missing out on a lot of God given pleasures. So what do I do? Accept that I like food and deal with bing overweight? Or keep on dieting for the rest of my life?

Decision

So I went to bed feeling guilty and confused but was too tired (mentally) to make any decisions. Then I woke up refreshed the next day, just for the fact that I'm leaving Cairo( it's so suffocating now, isn't it?!). Anyway, along the way, we made a stop at On the run, and I decided to get a small brown bread roast beef sandwich (healthy aho, 7ad 3ayez 7aga!) And I am happy to announce that I felt full midway! How cool is that? In the past, I could easily eat a large sandwich and not feel full, which means that somehow, the miracle came true! At that point, I realized that maybe I don't need to diet the rest of my life, just make sure I eat smaller quantities (and go on a diet perhaps once a year) to control weight while enjoying food!

4 days of heaven

So while in Alex, I maintained one rule, "Don't stuff yourself", trying to listen to my stomach and not be a gluttonous pig. Hence, I ate what I wanted but tried to moderate the quantities which ended up good; I didn't gain weight while in Alex. And just today, I started diet (5)...

Comments

ÐΣĻÞЋΐ-Қ said…

Forgive my intrusion without prior and proper knowledge -this is my first visit to your blog- but I had to share since I understand your dilemma. Being a overweight person myself for the longest years of my life made me learn about a lot of things that I was doing wrong .... see, some people who claim to be experts in the matters of weight control are essentially con artists .... what they should be saying to you is change your life style i.e. exercise on a daily basis, control what you eat, be positive and encouraged at all times .... however, they don't, and they think that a caloric intake reduction for a period of time will do the trick!! Of course it does not ... you should be building up your muscle mass to be able to burn more calories that you consume, there's a such a thing called Resting Energy Expenditure rate that should burn up most of your consumed calories per a day, and your muscle mass is the main factor that makes this rate high or low, there's a lot of literature on the internet relevant to the subject that you can read.
BTW, 0.5 kilos loss is a progress, don't let it go to waste, just carry on and you'll reach what you want. I hope I was not too much of an imposition, and I wish you the best of luck.

April 26, 2010 at 8:54 AM