Backstory

I've always been overweight. All my life.
I was a really big baby by Indian standards and by those same standards always FAT. We are not a polite people. We stare, give unsolicited advice to lose weight and claim 'you could be so pretty if you weren't so big'. The irony of it is that as a child I actually wasn't overweight. Up until the 10th grade I was well within my healthy range. I also sort of knew that I was perfectly healthy. So everytime the issue of my weight came up, I actually would say that as long as I am healthy my weight isn't an issue. I've been defensive about it for as long as I can remember. Chitu and I came up with some pretty innovative comebacks for nosy friends of mom's and cruel classmates.

In the 10th, we went on hikes regularly. I hadn't worn jeans since I was kid but I borrowed a pair from a friend for the first hike. I couldn't believe how I looked in it. I was being told that I was fat but here I was in these jeans that I thought I looked great in. Oh yeah, I was 60 kgs (132 lbs) 'fat'.

The problem began after the 10th. My activity level dropped from 60 mins everyday to nothing ata ll. My summer was spent in Saudia Arabia with my dad and we had nothing to do but eat. So four months later, I had put on 20 lbs atleast. The next year was spent putting on more pounds. The 12th brought some weight loss but for the most part I was still really heavy. I took that weight with me to U of M. I lost some my freshman year, more junior year then gained a little back my senior year to a fairly overweight 5'3".

I regret not being able to enjoy being slim when I was. I fought really hard to be proud of things about me that didn't involve the way I looked like being smart. But when I put on all that weight after the 10th there wasn't anything to be happy about and things that I had been proud of didn't seem to help. I was struggling with a lack of schedule and didn't do well in the 11th and 12th grades at all. College didn't get much better. My grades were terrible, I was overweight and generally speaking, miserable.

G - 12th July 2006

Breakfast
Coffee with splenda and 1/2 & 1/2 (1 carbs)
Chicken Salad - 1/2 cup (1 carb)

Lunch
Salad, small w/ basil ranch (2 carbs)
Broccoli and cheese soup - bowl (12 carbs)

Snacks

Dinner
Collard greens and shrimp (2 carbs)

Sandeeps Parent came into town and that has pretty much done this day to crap!!!

Total Carbs - 23
Activity - Running

G - 11th July 2006

Breakfast
Coffee with splenda and 1/2 & 1/2 (1 carbs)
Eggs w/ butter and cheese - 2 (1 carb)

Lunch
Coffee with splenda and 1/2 & 1/2 (1 carbs)
Salad w/ splenda mustard - 2 cups (4 carbs)

Snacks
cheese (0 carbs)

Dinner
Salad w/ splenda mustard - 2 cups (4 carbs)
Beef Meatloaf (6 carbs)
Sugarfree Pecan cluster - 1 (6 carbs)

Total Carbs - 23
Activity - Running and Ashtanga

Oops or addendum

I have been forgetting to mention this but I snack constantly on cheese and deli meats. The deli meats are often rolled up with mayo and dijon.

Emmentaler rocks!!

G - 10th July 2006

Breakfast
Coffee with splenda and 1/2 & 1/2 (1 carbs)
Eggs w/ butter and cheese - 2 (1 carb)

Lunch
Coffee with splenda and 1/2 & 1/2 (1 carbs)
Chicken - thigh + leg (0 carbs)
Salad w/ low fat ranch - 2 cups (6 carbs)

Snacks
cheese and deli meats (0 carbs)

Snacks
cheese and deli meats (0 carbs)

Dinner
Mixed veggies - 1 cup (6 carbs)
Chicken teriyaki - 1 cup (6 carbs)

Total Carbs - 21
Activity - Very slow running

G - 9th July 2006

Breakfast
Coffee with splenda and 1/2 & 1/2 (1 carbs)
Kao Soi - 1/4 (3 carbs)

Lunch
Hebrew national light beef franks - 2 (0 carbs)
Haricot verts - 1/2 cup (3 carbs)

Dinner
Beef Meatloaf (6 carbs)
Salad w/ low fat ranch - 1 cup + 1 tbsp (6 carbs)

Total Carbs - 19
Activity - None

G - 8th July 2006

Breakfast
Coffee with splenda and 1/2 & 1/2 (1 carbs)
Eggs w/ butter - 2 (1 carb)

Lunch
Chicken - thigh + leg (0 carbs)
Salad w/ low fat ranch - 2 cups (6 carbs)

Dinner
Kao Soi - 1/4 (3 carbs)
Pizza, no bread - 2 slices (9 carbs)

Total Carbs - 20
Activity - Running

G - 7th July 2006

Breakfast
Coffee with splenda and creamer (3 carbs)
Eggs w/ cheese - 2 (1 carb)

Lunch
Peas - 1/4 cup (4 carbs)
Coffee with splenda and creamer (3 carbs)
green beans - 2/3 cup (3 carbs)
salami (2 carbs)

Dinner
Kao Soi - 1/2 (6 carbs)

Total Carbs - 22
Activity - None

G - 6th July 2006

Breakfast
Coffee with splenda (0 carbs)
Eggs - 2 (1 carb)

Lunch
Pizza, no bread - 2 slices (9 carbs)
Diet V8 splash - 16 oz (6 carbs)

Dinner
MEAT!! (5 carbs)

Total Carbs - 21
Activity - Ashtanga

Update on fad dieting 2006 (FAD '06)

I'm trying the atkins diet. If it works within two weeks I'll stick with it. So the food diary from now is going to get really strange. Like puppies dressed up like bees strange.
I know all about protein poisoning and the like but I also know what to do to avoid all that. Wish me luck.