Added (15 Dec 2016)
I made lunch.
Egg and cheese prata.
Pan fried with butter.
Lots of black pepper.
Now, read the rest of the blog.
One year ago in December 2015:
Regular readers probably know that AK is on a special diet by now and has enjoyed some early success.
Dieting, like many things in life such as being frugal, requires discipline. Often, people give up after a while because they get too extreme and feel deprived. This applies to both dieting and being frugal.
What do I mean by feeling deprived?
It is like meeting a Dementor (as in the fantasy creature from Harry Potter) and having all the happiness sucked out of us because we were denied all the food that made us happy.
Dieting shouldn't be like that.
Dieting should be a happy process of discovering ourselves with a healthier body weight.
I shared in an earlier blog post that I find it hard to have zero carbs and zero sugar in my diet. It is especially hard because I have a sweet tooth.
So, I go for as little carbs and sugar as possible. That is the best I could do.
My weight loss process might be a little slower, as a result, but I am still losing weight. Dieting is not a race.
Of course, it would be good to be able to lose weight faster but if I must become unhappy to do so, then, the diet can go where the sun never shines.
After several weeks, today, I cheated big time on my diet:
Hot chocolate, cakes and cookies. |
It was a real treat! It was also free of charge and that made me feel less guilty about cheating. LOL.
If we are following a diet, being too extreme is not a good idea. A gradual weight loss is better than a drastic one.
We shouldn't have to be too concerned with being right with what we eat all the time.
This brings to mind what Peter Lynch said about how being right 6 times out of 10 times would make us better than most investors.
We cannot be right all the time as investors and dieters. We should just aim to be right most of the time and that should make us quite happy.
-----------
Added on 24 April 2016:
I find this a pretty good compromise for my diet:
Just another egg omelette with coconut oil and olive oil? |
It is filled with curry potato and cheese! |
Protein, good fats and good carbohydrates. Yummy too! |
Added 17 Jan 17:
Related posts:
1. My food bill grew in size.
2. Life is about many things.
3. Is it bad to sit on cash?