One of the goal in new year resolutions (and in past few years) has been to reduce weight.
For the past few years. The one area which has been seeing constant growth is the area around my waistline. Very conveniently I have been mistaking this FAT for bulking up or muscle unless I got a rude awakening in the form of lower back pain. In fact, one fine day the situation worsened so much that I have been unable to get up from the bed. I had to take some medical assistance. But it was like warning bell for me to better take care of my weight. Since then, reducing weight has always been on my agenda. But I'm never able to make much headway about it. That was till last year.
Then one really interesting thing happened to me. I changed jobs (again tick off one of major to do point) and was deputed to Malaysia for period of 6-7 months. My total experience in Malaysia was topic for another day.But one of the unique thing about my situation there was a shortage of good North-Indian foods. As a by-product of this I was able to reduce my weight. I managed to shed off around 5 kg from my waistline.
The problem however was that it returned with a vengeance on my return back to India. Since I feasted on all the delicacies I could lay my hands upon. Moreover now I was limited to sitting all day in front of laptop coupled with driving in car 3-4 hours daily.
But then I was really determined to reach the wait level of Malaysia and even to excel that. Hence one of the goal in my New year resolution was to reduce weight. The problem with such kind of goals is that it really take sustained and continuous efforts over a longer period of time with little or almost negligible results to show off. And if by any means you managed to give in to the your cravings for desserts or snacks. Then all the efforts go down the drain. That's why I become really interested in GM diet or General Motors Diet.
It offer almost everything (instant weight loss, cleansing of system, skin glow) just stopping short of Nirvana.
So I geared up to take this challenge right in the first month of New year itself. The basic premise of GM diet is very simple. It cut down on the carbohydrates (so no chapati or rice). Also every day is fixed for fruits or vegetables (that too boiled or raw only). It claims to reduce around 5-7 kg in a single week.
The brief synopsis of 7 day is as below
Day 1 : All fruit day except banana, grapes, litchi and mangoes
Day 2 : All vegetable day (not fried, but boiled or raw)
Day 3 : The combination fruit and vegetables
Day 4 : Full day banana and milk only (for sodium and potassium)
Day 5 : This day is for Tomato, sprouts and cottage cheese with some soya chunks thrown in
Day 6 : Same as day 5, the only change being that tomatoes are replaced with soup
Day 7 : The last day is for fresh fruit juice, one cup of brown rice / single chapati and some vegetables
The more details about GM diet can be found on link below -
http://www.thefitindian.com/the-fastest-indian-vegetarian-diet-to-lose-weight/
At-last the elusive day comes and I was all charged up for the experience. I planned to start this on Monday as it was seven day plan and what better day to start this than the first day of the week. The added advantage of it being the working day is that I will be busy in work with no distractions. So I stocked up all the fruits one day before on Sunday which is also the day for our weekly fruit and grain market. The only flip side was that there was no Melons available in this season which is highly recommended due to high water content. I was more worried about day 2 that how I will pass the full day with boiled, raw vegetables only which I'm not used to eating. Little did I know that I cant even pass Day 1 successfully.
The complete day meal-plan was divided into six mini meals. So I need to eat six servings of fruits only. As I get up early and have breakfast at 7 itself so six meal servings was not a problem. So I started with and apple and packed some fruits also for lunch and other mid day snacks.
Incidentally my office starts at 8.30 and I need to leave at 7 from my home.Hence I have breakfast pretty early. By the time I reach office already one and half hours has elapsed since I had my fruit breakfast and I was already feeling a bit hungry. At around 10am I had one guava plus some (in fact lots of) water. Everything seems to go well up-till that point. In lunch I had papaya (I'm normally not very fond of it. but since it was all fruits day I don't have much options. I think at around 3pm the things started to go wrong a bit. I was having a mild headache all day but now it started to get worse. In the hindsight perhaps not having tea or coffee the whole day was my undoing as I started experiencing what you can call cold turkey for tea / coffee. Perhaps I took the GM diet schedule too strictly which way no tea or coffee with milk. The diet recommends black tea / coffee but the same was not available. I think I took green tea and then thought about having an orange. I have eaten just one slice of it but then did not liked it one bit. It was around 4.30 and only one hour left in office time so I thought about having some rest.
But my condition was worsening every moment. I could not even take any medication as practically my stomach was empty and it was not recommended to take any medicines. For the worse I was feeling a bit nauseated also.
Just before the closing time of office, I vomited in rest-room. The immediate problem was that I still need to drive for around 2.5 hours before I could reach home. Fortunately I carpool with me colleague and hence the duty of driving me home was on him. The long drive back home was even longer for me. I somehow control it all the way but vomited just outside my home. I had some homemade khichdi before going off to sleep.
That was the end of my experiment with GM Diet. I could not even complete first day which was supposedly easier of the lot. For next time I need to take care of few thing that I learnt in this experiment. Firstly maybe doing this on first day of week is not a good time. Perhaps its better to start this experiment on weekend. This way I will be better prepared for emergency as I will be at home only. Almost if I could reach monday then I will have headstart of two days as already two days with diet has already elapsed. The second thing I will not cut on the tea or coffee while following this diet plan. I think it will be too much implementing both the thing (cutting on cereals as well as tea) at the same time.
Even though the experiment was tough still I'm not giving it up yet. Will surely give one more try.
The last thing is regarding the results. Even though it does not really count as I had to give up on GM diet only after one day. Still the reading on weighing scale shows weigh-loss of 1.3 kg. Perhaps the major contribution in that was of vomiting. I'm all in for such one day session if I could lose around 1 kg in one day. Jokes apart. I think this is more of replacing your foods with healthy options that diet.
So I don't think there are any adverse effects to following this diet plan. Definitely worth a second try.
For the past few years. The one area which has been seeing constant growth is the area around my waistline. Very conveniently I have been mistaking this FAT for bulking up or muscle unless I got a rude awakening in the form of lower back pain. In fact, one fine day the situation worsened so much that I have been unable to get up from the bed. I had to take some medical assistance. But it was like warning bell for me to better take care of my weight. Since then, reducing weight has always been on my agenda. But I'm never able to make much headway about it. That was till last year.
Then one really interesting thing happened to me. I changed jobs (again tick off one of major to do point) and was deputed to Malaysia for period of 6-7 months. My total experience in Malaysia was topic for another day.But one of the unique thing about my situation there was a shortage of good North-Indian foods. As a by-product of this I was able to reduce my weight. I managed to shed off around 5 kg from my waistline.
The problem however was that it returned with a vengeance on my return back to India. Since I feasted on all the delicacies I could lay my hands upon. Moreover now I was limited to sitting all day in front of laptop coupled with driving in car 3-4 hours daily.
But then I was really determined to reach the wait level of Malaysia and even to excel that. Hence one of the goal in my New year resolution was to reduce weight. The problem with such kind of goals is that it really take sustained and continuous efforts over a longer period of time with little or almost negligible results to show off. And if by any means you managed to give in to the your cravings for desserts or snacks. Then all the efforts go down the drain. That's why I become really interested in GM diet or General Motors Diet.
It offer almost everything (instant weight loss, cleansing of system, skin glow) just stopping short of Nirvana.
So I geared up to take this challenge right in the first month of New year itself. The basic premise of GM diet is very simple. It cut down on the carbohydrates (so no chapati or rice). Also every day is fixed for fruits or vegetables (that too boiled or raw only). It claims to reduce around 5-7 kg in a single week.
The brief synopsis of 7 day is as below
Day 1 : All fruit day except banana, grapes, litchi and mangoes
Day 2 : All vegetable day (not fried, but boiled or raw)
Day 3 : The combination fruit and vegetables
Day 4 : Full day banana and milk only (for sodium and potassium)
Day 5 : This day is for Tomato, sprouts and cottage cheese with some soya chunks thrown in
Day 6 : Same as day 5, the only change being that tomatoes are replaced with soup
Day 7 : The last day is for fresh fruit juice, one cup of brown rice / single chapati and some vegetables
The more details about GM diet can be found on link below -
http://www.thefitindian.com/the-fastest-indian-vegetarian-diet-to-lose-weight/
At-last the elusive day comes and I was all charged up for the experience. I planned to start this on Monday as it was seven day plan and what better day to start this than the first day of the week. The added advantage of it being the working day is that I will be busy in work with no distractions. So I stocked up all the fruits one day before on Sunday which is also the day for our weekly fruit and grain market. The only flip side was that there was no Melons available in this season which is highly recommended due to high water content. I was more worried about day 2 that how I will pass the full day with boiled, raw vegetables only which I'm not used to eating. Little did I know that I cant even pass Day 1 successfully.
The complete day meal-plan was divided into six mini meals. So I need to eat six servings of fruits only. As I get up early and have breakfast at 7 itself so six meal servings was not a problem. So I started with and apple and packed some fruits also for lunch and other mid day snacks.
Incidentally my office starts at 8.30 and I need to leave at 7 from my home.Hence I have breakfast pretty early. By the time I reach office already one and half hours has elapsed since I had my fruit breakfast and I was already feeling a bit hungry. At around 10am I had one guava plus some (in fact lots of) water. Everything seems to go well up-till that point. In lunch I had papaya (I'm normally not very fond of it. but since it was all fruits day I don't have much options. I think at around 3pm the things started to go wrong a bit. I was having a mild headache all day but now it started to get worse. In the hindsight perhaps not having tea or coffee the whole day was my undoing as I started experiencing what you can call cold turkey for tea / coffee. Perhaps I took the GM diet schedule too strictly which way no tea or coffee with milk. The diet recommends black tea / coffee but the same was not available. I think I took green tea and then thought about having an orange. I have eaten just one slice of it but then did not liked it one bit. It was around 4.30 and only one hour left in office time so I thought about having some rest.
But my condition was worsening every moment. I could not even take any medication as practically my stomach was empty and it was not recommended to take any medicines. For the worse I was feeling a bit nauseated also.
Just before the closing time of office, I vomited in rest-room. The immediate problem was that I still need to drive for around 2.5 hours before I could reach home. Fortunately I carpool with me colleague and hence the duty of driving me home was on him. The long drive back home was even longer for me. I somehow control it all the way but vomited just outside my home. I had some homemade khichdi before going off to sleep.
That was the end of my experiment with GM Diet. I could not even complete first day which was supposedly easier of the lot. For next time I need to take care of few thing that I learnt in this experiment. Firstly maybe doing this on first day of week is not a good time. Perhaps its better to start this experiment on weekend. This way I will be better prepared for emergency as I will be at home only. Almost if I could reach monday then I will have headstart of two days as already two days with diet has already elapsed. The second thing I will not cut on the tea or coffee while following this diet plan. I think it will be too much implementing both the thing (cutting on cereals as well as tea) at the same time.
Even though the experiment was tough still I'm not giving it up yet. Will surely give one more try.
The last thing is regarding the results. Even though it does not really count as I had to give up on GM diet only after one day. Still the reading on weighing scale shows weigh-loss of 1.3 kg. Perhaps the major contribution in that was of vomiting. I'm all in for such one day session if I could lose around 1 kg in one day. Jokes apart. I think this is more of replacing your foods with healthy options that diet.
So I don't think there are any adverse effects to following this diet plan. Definitely worth a second try.
