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)...
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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.