A fit of madness - Joined A running group

Well ,

i have always thought of being physically fat - meaning i have stamina, and  i have flexibility... but im fat -- and thats ok !!!

Each year DNA - a local indian newspaper holds a marathon called iCan ! for women - and i have truth be told always had visions of myself running on the streets , pumping , feeling good about myself -- truth be told .. visions of rocky balboa running down the street regaining his health and aaron eckhart - where he is fat , obese looser and becomes hot as he is - by swimming daily 

All my life i have been having vague encounters with exercise.So when i came by a flyer in the newspapers - about a dedicated Running group - Tog gear - who was running a 15 days fitness camp - i decided to join in

6 AM 
Spoke to the co-coordinator and told him I'm overweight - a 100 kg ( lied actually im 109 last week checked) - but that i swam so would it be ok - if i popped by ??? He was kind and supportive egging me on and said i could do it! He told me that the meeting place was carters a popular seaside walking track and the time 6 - and i asked - Am or pm ??? and then there was silence for an ungodly time thereafter - truth be told - im not a morning person - on good days i get up at 7 am and that gives u an indication of my inclinations!!

But i was determined -- i didnt sleep for the entire night as i had to go and reach on time ...

D DAY 

Reached on the D Day - armed with my ipod, pedometer - which my darling friend had gifted to me - in a bid to motivate me to reduce and a bottle of water feeling all pumped pump bloated with egoistic air .... and then the balloon got pricked and how -- 

The trainers were Dr.Ajay Kharat - who is a veteran in running and coach Sujata were there - Coach Sujata came running with a runner all the way from Leelavati ..boy seeing her and the lady running was awesome and i thought soon very soon i will be doing the same..

You see the picture of hoodie, yoga pants, and ipod plugged in is soo fixed in my mind:-))

REALITY STRIKES

We started with warm ups and so far so good - i could do the stretches and i was gloating - c im good - c im good - and then we started walking - we were supposed to walk just 1 round of carters!!

Hah !! boy is that easy or what !! i can - i do it all the time !! i walk 2 rounds -- this is going to be a breeze -

We started walking , and what was their normal speed was my best speed - and then they increased the speed - and my legs and calves were on fire- and  i hadnt even walked half the track yet ...

Dr Ajay kept encouraging me and i was determined to walk -- but that is the time i realised that i was seriously out of shape and out of breath!!

Every one completed the walk and were waiting and i felt like hiding my head under the blanket and not coming out !1

COOL DOWN

i was all set to do my cooling stretches but they too made me realise that i had muscles in parts of my body i didnt even know existed !! and at the end - i could not even take a step

Batatawada khaaoos nako -
was dr ajay K final advice :-) waiting to go back day after for the next torture session :-)
L

Food and Fallacies

Well,



This year  - of late - i have been seeing a lot of videos - on you-tube about health and nutrition - some of the noteworthy being - The science of becoming slim - bbc, the biology of weight loss - Hbo - documentaries etc and have started making slight changes in my diet .( good documentaries - enjoyed the BBC one specially - the HBO made me feel that there is no hope tho)

My first action was to start maintaining a diet journal - i always thought i ate healthy - as i didn't like soda, i didn't have ice-creams - i didn't do chocolates ( well save the ones my bro gave me - which i finished in demonic speed )--- uggh --- shudder --- but boy were they nice :-)
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Well i started the diet journal and then i realized that ..i was eating substantially more than my allotted calories ...some times it was 200 more and some time it was 500 more - nothing much ..but if you realize - daily and increase in the calories made me balloon - - and all the while i would keep blaming the medications that i was put on 15 years ago ( steroids for pcod) for all the fat.

Fallacies broken

The next fallacy that got broken - watching these videos -- was the source of the calories made a difference -. I always thought that simple maths and substitution was the key - so in place of lunch or snacks i would have a sugar drink ( coffee - was my poison ) and think it was OK - and now i realized that it was not so - everything that i ate - the amount , the source everything is important 

NO FOOD to eat 

On my trip to a super market and on a trip out i then did a sample experiment - i decided to find something "healthy to eat "- simple enough??? but boy was that trip an eye opener - i realized that there is nothing nutritional available to eat - despite willing to pay money - most of the stuff - is either fried or simply loaded with loads and loads of sugar .. even milk was loaded with sugar and so was curds( yogurt) :-( . So it is better to eat - local food - available on the road - like a plate of cut fruits , sugarcane juice, banana or the local sukha ( dry ) bhel ( a mixture of puffed rice with various condiments!!

And so the food quest continues -- and now a days i carry fruits , sticks of cucumber , carrot and baby tomatoes -- till i get suitable options ...

I bow down to the superior knowledge of the internet which always said carry healthy stuff to eat with you:-)

And so the saga continues