On Eating

In my past experience, I found that eating less enables the reduction of weight by gradually shrinking the stomach and silencing its relentless cries for food - to an acceptable level. However, achieving that requires some sly techniques.

If we eat countable items such as chapathis or dosais, we can restrict the number of items eaten - for example, only 3 or 4 chapathis per meal. However, if we take rice, (like most South Indians do) it’s a bit of a problem, since rice is difficult to measure and eat. So a solution would be to fix the amount of rice taken in - such as 2 katoris (or davaraas, in Tamil) of rice per meal.

Of course, one should not have to go hungry on account of eating less food. In the first few weeks, the stomach will ache for more food. Fill it up with an item picked from this list: buttermilk, cucumber, vegetables, fruits. I prefer buttermilk. Fills the stomach, removes hunger, adds nothing. Can you ask for anything better? Cucumber and greens come next for me.

Within 2 months, the stomach will shrink. We will then eat lesser naturally and stay slimmer and healthier, without feeling hungry.

Of course, regular intake of snacks has to be cut down. But the tongue will ache for snacks. Excessive deprival will result in binge eating. So here the best strategy will be to give “leave” to this approach for one day per x days, where x can start with 5 initially and end in 15 later. On that day, you can enjoy snacks or eat a bit unhealthily or bite on your pizza or gulp a chocolate icecream (note the “or”). You can give yourself this concession for one or two meals on that “leave” day.

I have done this before, and it has worked without making me either hungry or angry. Going to try this again now.