This morning I had begun a post on weight and losing it with the idea of leading up to the perils of slimming pills and slimming teas as I’d heard about a friend who became unconscious after a hypoglycemic episode that was attributed to the slimming tea she had been indiscriminately taking. Since I myself have dabbled in various weight control measures in the past, I was aghast that something as innocuous as a slimming tea could have such a terrible effect. I immediately threw out all my slimming teas and began writing about how bad these slimming aids can be.

I had just about gathered my statistics and links to the weightloss industry when my daughter who is a medical doctor told me that I should refrain from writing such a blogpost without knowing all the facts because very often  there is more than what meets the eye, so rather than trash the weightloss industry I should trash my blog post.

But trashing the post didn’t stop me thinking about the pounds that crept up inch by inch all over my once petite frame. How could it happen after all those glasses of hot water with lemon, hot water with cinnamon, cups of slimming teas, General Motors Diet, Low Carb diet, the Boiled Cabbage Soup  Diet, Aerobics and Yogaby Iyengar and Baba Ramdev!

There was a time when my mother rejoiced when I gained a pound, today my family cheers me when I lose a gram. Why is it that weight gain is easy but weight loss is not? I can easily put on 4 kg in just a week but it takes me over a year  to lose it. What happened to the principle of last come first go? These extra kilos seem to be sticking on better than stickfast!

I was looking for some pictures to post on this blog when I noticed some grit in my computer key board and I decided to clean it up with a paint brush. I loosened quite a bit of the dirt and when I turned the board upside down, I found to my horror that most of the dirt was food particles – bits of toast, some biscuit crumbs and horror of horrors even some bits of potato chips – the crispy kind that you can demolish in a second!

Frankly I was aghast by this revelation – that my mouth can’t stop moving even for  a minute – I seem to be either eating or talking . It is no wonder then that nothing seems to work  The bitter truth is that I have been cheating and eating  no amount of Yoga or diet control will work unless I consciously stop eating calories that don’t matter. So from today, it is goodbye fried chips and hopefully hello clean keyboard and slimmer me.

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