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The Desi (and vegetarian except for eggs) dietplan of the 17 days diet
Hi all.
Getting down to business. Weigh yourself (preferably in pounds) before you start! You can weigh in daily or every 2 days if you like.
Remember you NEED to exercise atleast 17 mins every day as per the Dr. Mike. Lets make that a round figure of 20 mins -brisk walking/jogging,etc.
Getting down to business. Weigh yourself (preferably in pounds) before you start! You can weigh in daily or every 2 days if you like.
Remember you NEED to exercise atleast 17 mins every day as per the Dr. Mike. Lets make that a round figure of 20 mins -brisk walking/jogging,etc.
The diet plan:
This diet
was created by a famous doctor- Dr. Mike Moreno. The diet is centered around four 17 day cycles:
was created by a famous doctor- Dr. Mike Moreno. The diet is centered around four 17 day cycles:
Cycle 1: Accelerate- the rapid weight loss portion, which helps remove sugar and fat storage from your system
Cycle 2: Activate- the metabolic restart portion, with alternating days of accelerate and activate day diet plans that keeps the body guessing and you dont reach a plateau.
Cycle 3: Achieve- a phase that involves learning to control portions and introducing new fitness routines
Cycle 4: Arrive- a combination of the first three cycles and learning good habits that last a lifetime.
Dr. Mike’s 17 Day Diet consists of specific food plans for each cycle. In my earlier experience with the diet a few years back I had lost around 7-8 kgs and kept it off till I became pregnant with my little girl.
One important thing --if you are not averse to eating a variety of non veg food items, then do try the actual diet which involves eating a lot of animal based protein like chicken, fish, turkey, etc. You can get a copy of it here
However, even in that case, please do join us so we can try and reach our weight loss goals together. To encourage others, do write in your starting weight and final weight in the comments.
Now, the meal plans that I've come up with are for ethical vegetarians who also eat eggs basically an eggetarian.
Cycle 1
Day 1
Gen goal: to drink 10 glasses or 8 eight oz glasses of water. This is a daily must.
Some other minor things:
1. Eat as much veggies and protein as you want. For us it translates to lots of egg whites as too much egg yolk can get your bad cholesterol up.
2. Two servings of probiotics a day are allowed -i.e. yogurt
3. Two fruit servings are allowed.
Breakfast :
Start with a glass of hot water with lemon in it when you get up.
Take 2 egg whites and make an omelette by adding lots of chopped vegetables like carrots, spinach-be creative! Use olive oil as up to 2 tablespoons of it daily is allowed in the diet!
My personal favorite is -1 crimini (or any other)mushroom chopped in to tiny pieces and sautéed in olive oil. To this I add chopped spinach and then pour in the egg whites. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and fat free parmesan cheese (this is actually allowed!). I have it with a tablespoon tomato ketchup.
While coffee and regular tea are best avoided to let your body detox, if you just cant resist it like me, then drink almond milk coffee. The taste takes getting used to but its healthy.
I guess a small cup of regular tea could work but its best to have green tea as recommended in the book. No sugar and No artificial sweeteners except stevia based ones are allowed (if you must. Try and avoid this too if you can, I cant).
Pre-lunch snack: 1 orange.
Lunch :
Take a big bowl of yogurt (दही ), peel and chop an apple finely and add to the yogurt. Sprinkle some sunflower, flax and chia seeds on this. I love this and can have it everyday! Trust me -its very filling. You can sub other fruits like strawberries or blueberries (bananas NOT allowed in this phase).
Evening snack:
another small bowl of yogurt. A cup of green tea at least an hour after the yogurt.
Dinner :
Legumes (दालें) and even राजमा /छोले (kidney/garbanzo beans aka chickpeas) are not allowed on this cycle but a small bowl of dal might be just irresistible at this stage (make sure that a very little or no ghee घी is used in tarka.)
Or from one of my favorite chefs (avoid the corn flour as its not allowed)- http://nishamadhulika.com/hot_and_soft_drinks/mixed-vegetable-soup-recipe.html
Or this soup by substituting chicken broth with vegetable broth - http://www.tipsonhealthyliving.com/diet-and-fitness/17-day-diet-recipe-17-day-slimming-soup
Day 2
You survived Day 1. Come on to day 2 now by first weighing in!
Breakfast :
2 whole eggs scrambled away with onions, tomatoes and all other veggies that you can think of. A cup of green tea.
Pre-lunch snack:
An apple.
Lunch :
Salad- my DIY home salad is a lot of greens from the Costco Spring mix, topped with sunflower seeds, chia seeds, an egg white omelette, dried cranberries, chopped strawberries, chaat masala and a little lemon. You can make any combination.
If at work, try the Subway Veggie delight salad with an extra egg white and a couple of fat free dressings like Honey Mustard and Sweet Onion. These do have sugar though and are technically not allowed in this phase but a very little bit should be ok.
Chai time :
A cup of green tea.
A little sugar free yogurt (obviously not with the tea).
Any fruit like strawberries/blueberries/orange/apple/plums/pears/peaches/red grapes/prunes post lunch is ok but it should be before 2 pm. (save the fruit list -these are the only fruits allowed on Cycle 1).
A little sugar free yogurt (obviously not with the tea).
Any fruit like strawberries/blueberries/orange/apple/plums/pears/peaches/red grapes/prunes post lunch is ok but it should be before 2 pm. (save the fruit list -these are the only fruits allowed on Cycle 1).
Dinner:
At least one serving of probiotics a day is a must in this phase. So I am making kadhi without pakode. बेसन (gramflour is not allowed in this recipe) but a little bit of it spread over the whole kadhi is a cheat we'll have to allow. Dont have more than a bowl though.
A big big bowl of steamed veggies (I use the Costco frozen mixed veggies after removing corn as its not allowed in this phase) with salt. You can add soya or other sauces in moderation to make it taste better.
Day 3
Breakfast :
Smoothie time : Check which ingredients you have on hand and make a smoothie from this.
Mangoes to be avoided for these 17 days though :(
One egg white omelette with this.
Pre- lunch snack :
Apple or 1 cup of blueberries. A cup of green tea an hour after this.
Lunch :
An egg white omelette with spinach and onion. Use lots of spinach from the Costco organic spinach box. The last time I did the diet around 4 years back, I used to make this in the morning and take to work. While the onions became a little purple, it still tasted ok at lunchtime.
Evening snack:
Green tea and yogurt spread over time.
Dinner:
Any veggie that you are cooking for your family. You can have any amount of veggies throughout this cycle. Cook with a little quantity of olive oil. Potatoes are NOT allowed so just take them out of your plate. I'm making cauliflower गोभी आलू रसे वाला .
If you still feel hungry, eat a boiled egg. I poach it in the microwave in a minute's time. Basically take around 3/4 cup of water, pour out the egg on top of it and then keep in microwave for around 1 minute. Take it out when it looks done and use a sieve (छलनी )to get the egg.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Review of Rock star
Spoiler Alert:
My review of Rockstar -though admittedly the only reviews I myself read of any Hindi movies are of thevigilidiot's.
Pros- 1.I liked the fashion trendsetting value of the movie. The use of the mid Eastern headgear and salwars by a trendsetting 'rockstar' was a very nice touch indeed.
The protagonist's sudden awakening of the sense of style is somewhat unexplained though. Listening to Sufi music is one thing but to realize that one can take Sufi style clothes to a different (and refreshing) interpretation is something that I thought only someone with at least some exposure to fashion could have done. During his college time, all that we see of JJ's (as he was back then) sense of fashion are the unflattering, unbranded tight jeans and rather mundane shirts.
2.Music : I've started liking the music of the movie after repeated exposure to the songs of the movie -courtesy 'H' (a.k.a husband).
Now the bashing:
With the exception of the songs 'Main saari raat', 'Sadda haq' and probably 'kun faaya kun,the only value of the other songs in the movie is to serve as the background score if I am busy doing something else. I don't think I can listen to the songs with silly words like 'nadaan parinde ghar aa ja' and enjoy the song for the sake of the song.
Emotions: The movie does takes one on an emotional roller coaster or at least tries very hard to. The only problem is that every time you start to identify emotionally with the protagonist, you wonder why he needs to act as he does -and there goes the balloon.
I did feel that the main character isn't emotionally mature himself. I mean, isn't he being rather selfish when he leaves his comatose lover in India to rush off to Prague to sing-after first fighting with the authorities to reach the venue. Either that, or it's an error on the part of the director who lost the basic funda of 'unity of place, time and action' funda that he should have read before beginning to direct movies!
On a different note, I wonder why the Czech authorities are preventing him from going onstage when he is not at all anti establishment -the guy sings in Hindi for heaven's sake in a country where they understand only Czech or some mix up of Slovak and German (from what I remember from my visit there). The authorities of course, have given full permission to the organizers to set up the stage in a public place and allow the crowds to assemble there and only have a problem with Jordan turning up on the stage.
Characters: Why does Heer, who has apparently grown up in a strong, secure and loving family, have to rebel to the extent of doing crazy things which no high society dudette would want to do.Even if she does want to rebel against some unseen demons of her own, did she not manage to find a drug dealer that she had to depend on desi liquor for getting a high?
I won't even go in to the whole 'doing such things in the rape capital of India and getting away with everything'...
Jordan, while seemingly motivated by his true love, when he finally gets there emotionally that is, treats her only as a muse for his creativity. The love does not motivate him to propose a divorce with Jay and a marriage with him but only to have an affair with her...even when he sees how it seems to be tearing her up internally. That again does not make sense -Heer's sense of adventure is rather childish -eat the forbidden apple just because someone told her not to. If that is the case, then why does having an affair suddenly awaken her 'good girl' sense? Or perhaps it didn't...she only wanted to brush the evidence of her weakness under the carpet rather than own it up to her husband.
Instances of real shabby editing in the movie:
When Heer is shown for the first time in Prague, she is shown resisting her sister in law's persuasion to buy something for herself. When her sis in law mentions how Heer never buys anything for herself, she mentions an appointment with her 'psychiatrist' and refuses to buy anything (how can you ignore the gorgeous Prague crystal woman! I would have loved to buy half a store if only I had more time and money when in Prague). In the next scene we see her carrying at least 2 shopping bags!
Heer doesn't mind sharing the knowledge that she has an appointment with a psychiatrist (rather than a counselor) with her sister in law. One consults a psychiatrist only for serious mental disease that requires medication.
(From a simple Google search- Psychiatrist are trained doctors, who work largely through diagnosis of illness and then by prescribing a treatment - usually involving medication. Counselors are normally non-medical personnel who work by talking and encouraging you to find your own solutions.)
The affair scenes reminded of the movie 'murder'. The husband in 'Murder' was at least shown to be someone who was still scarred by the death of his first wife. Heer's husband is eye-candy, looks caring enough; is admittedly dumb to marry what he thought would be a trophy wife but at least has cash bags. He and his family all stay in one big joint family set up but are cuckolded easily by a woman who does not even drive a car herself but has to make use of a dedicated chauffeur. But, well, no on notices that the bahu is missing and chauffeur is still at home/garage.
The sister in law easily decides that a woman who has never worked in her life can easily work as the event manager of an international rock event just because the rock star of the show is Heer's old friend!
I guess that's enough venting of my thoughts for now. Back to a reasonable life away from Hindi movies. Better to repeat Downton Abbey and pray for a Hindi movie that I can watch and still walk away happy from (I am not cynical or highbrow about all Hindi movies. Jab We Met, Kal Ho na ho..are movies I enjoyed tremendously).
My review of Rockstar -though admittedly the only reviews I myself read of any Hindi movies are of thevigilidiot's.
Pros- 1.I liked the fashion trendsetting value of the movie. The use of the mid Eastern headgear and salwars by a trendsetting 'rockstar' was a very nice touch indeed.
The protagonist's sudden awakening of the sense of style is somewhat unexplained though. Listening to Sufi music is one thing but to realize that one can take Sufi style clothes to a different (and refreshing) interpretation is something that I thought only someone with at least some exposure to fashion could have done. During his college time, all that we see of JJ's (as he was back then) sense of fashion are the unflattering, unbranded tight jeans and rather mundane shirts.
2.Music : I've started liking the music of the movie after repeated exposure to the songs of the movie -courtesy 'H' (a.k.a husband).
Now the bashing:
With the exception of the songs 'Main saari raat', 'Sadda haq' and probably 'kun faaya kun,the only value of the other songs in the movie is to serve as the background score if I am busy doing something else. I don't think I can listen to the songs with silly words like 'nadaan parinde ghar aa ja' and enjoy the song for the sake of the song.
Emotions: The movie does takes one on an emotional roller coaster or at least tries very hard to. The only problem is that every time you start to identify emotionally with the protagonist, you wonder why he needs to act as he does -and there goes the balloon.
I did feel that the main character isn't emotionally mature himself. I mean, isn't he being rather selfish when he leaves his comatose lover in India to rush off to Prague to sing-after first fighting with the authorities to reach the venue. Either that, or it's an error on the part of the director who lost the basic funda of 'unity of place, time and action' funda that he should have read before beginning to direct movies!
On a different note, I wonder why the Czech authorities are preventing him from going onstage when he is not at all anti establishment -the guy sings in Hindi for heaven's sake in a country where they understand only Czech or some mix up of Slovak and German (from what I remember from my visit there). The authorities of course, have given full permission to the organizers to set up the stage in a public place and allow the crowds to assemble there and only have a problem with Jordan turning up on the stage.
Characters: Why does Heer, who has apparently grown up in a strong, secure and loving family, have to rebel to the extent of doing crazy things which no high society dudette would want to do.Even if she does want to rebel against some unseen demons of her own, did she not manage to find a drug dealer that she had to depend on desi liquor for getting a high?
I won't even go in to the whole 'doing such things in the rape capital of India and getting away with everything'...
Jordan, while seemingly motivated by his true love, when he finally gets there emotionally that is, treats her only as a muse for his creativity. The love does not motivate him to propose a divorce with Jay and a marriage with him but only to have an affair with her...even when he sees how it seems to be tearing her up internally. That again does not make sense -Heer's sense of adventure is rather childish -eat the forbidden apple just because someone told her not to. If that is the case, then why does having an affair suddenly awaken her 'good girl' sense? Or perhaps it didn't...she only wanted to brush the evidence of her weakness under the carpet rather than own it up to her husband.
Instances of real shabby editing in the movie:
When Heer is shown for the first time in Prague, she is shown resisting her sister in law's persuasion to buy something for herself. When her sis in law mentions how Heer never buys anything for herself, she mentions an appointment with her 'psychiatrist' and refuses to buy anything (how can you ignore the gorgeous Prague crystal woman! I would have loved to buy half a store if only I had more time and money when in Prague). In the next scene we see her carrying at least 2 shopping bags!
Heer doesn't mind sharing the knowledge that she has an appointment with a psychiatrist (rather than a counselor) with her sister in law. One consults a psychiatrist only for serious mental disease that requires medication.
(From a simple Google search- Psychiatrist are trained doctors, who work largely through diagnosis of illness and then by prescribing a treatment - usually involving medication. Counselors are normally non-medical personnel who work by talking and encouraging you to find your own solutions.)
The affair scenes reminded of the movie 'murder'. The husband in 'Murder' was at least shown to be someone who was still scarred by the death of his first wife. Heer's husband is eye-candy, looks caring enough; is admittedly dumb to marry what he thought would be a trophy wife but at least has cash bags. He and his family all stay in one big joint family set up but are cuckolded easily by a woman who does not even drive a car herself but has to make use of a dedicated chauffeur. But, well, no on notices that the bahu is missing and chauffeur is still at home/garage.
The sister in law easily decides that a woman who has never worked in her life can easily work as the event manager of an international rock event just because the rock star of the show is Heer's old friend!
I guess that's enough venting of my thoughts for now. Back to a reasonable life away from Hindi movies. Better to repeat Downton Abbey and pray for a Hindi movie that I can watch and still walk away happy from (I am not cynical or highbrow about all Hindi movies. Jab We Met, Kal Ho na ho..are movies I enjoyed tremendously).
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