Count before you eat. But how?

Tell me one thing…

Seriously, wokay?

When people ask you, ‘What is your daily calorie intake count?’

How do you answer? And what do you answer?

Not that I feel like being answerable for the food that I eat. But still I am curious.

And what happens when people count and eat? One gram of X has Y amount of calories. How-how-how do you manage to count and eat? I am quite intrigued to know the process that goes into it. Do you also get to enjoy every morsel of food that you put in your mouth or is it the just the brain working overtime doing calorie math?

Assuming you eat a typical Gujarati Thali with an assortment of curries, veggies, lentils, Indian breads and sweets thrown in, then how do we do the math?

How about a typical Indian Dosa with the accompanying chutney and sambhar?

Fleeting Thoughts

 

 

Tale of the Treadmill Woman

To the Woman-Always-on-the-Treadmill

I see you on the treadmill when I enter the gym

I see you on the treadmill when I leave the gym

I see you playing trainer-the-trainer

Convincing your trainer that the treadmill is the only thing made for you

And only you

Much to the bewilderment of everyone around

I see your worried trainer trying to convince you to get off the darned machine

To the Woman-Always-on-the-Treadmill

I see you on the treadmill when I enter the gym

I see you on the treadmill when I leave the gym

At 65Kgs you have not a visible sign of extra fat

55Kgs is what you aim for

By running on the treadmill

And only treadmill

Much to the annoyance of your trainer

Twelve and a half minutes is all that I could manage

On the treadmill

Newbie that I am

You run at a maniac speed next to me

I walk at a snail’s speed next to you

I see you on the treadmill when I enter the gym

I see you on the treadmill when I leave the gym

To the Woman-Always-on-the-Treadmill

I admire your level of endurance

I chose not to run next to you

Or walk next to you

It does nothing for my levels of motivation

I now know

Why nobody walks next to you

Why nobody runs next to you