Thursday, 3 November 2016

[amdavadis4ever] eat or delete - THE TEACUP PRINCIPLE! (Posted by B D Jesrani)

 


This is arguably one of the best times of the year. You are in the thick of the holiday season. Everyone is shoving ladoos and pedas in your face, and you revel in the fact that you will be perpetually, temptingly, surrounded by food for weeks. To talk caution and health right now is nothing short of being the party pooper. Nobody wants to be that woman. But that woman I must be...

HEAR ME OUT, I MEAN WELL

The fact of the matter is that taking holiday weight off is one of the hardest things to do, and even a few kilos accumulate over time as lethargy sets in. There's still some time to go, but why kickstart the new year with `weight' from the previous year? Start now. Slapping your own wrist off the buffet table is one of the hardest things to do. That's why I won't ply you with numerous tips. Instead, I just want to leave you with one idea: The Teacup Principle.

HOW IT WORKS...

If you remember this, you've pretty much got the season covered. The Teacup Principle is essentially my way of conveying how best to deal w i t h situations when you fall off the healthy eat ing wagon. Say you are at a p a r t y .

Yo u ' v e b e e n d i s c i p l i n e d , sticking to the veggies with the dahi dips, passing over the fried stuff. Just as you are about to start patting yourself on the back, your hand starts moving towards a golden-fried potato that comes with its very own cheesy dip. What difference will one potato make, you think as you reach out for the snack and liberally douse it in its accompaniment. As you munch satisfactorily and close your eyes, you reopen them to find that the plate hasn't moved. Well, since it's clearly there to be eat en, you reach for one more. And one more.

And since you've al ready broken your diet by now, you may as well enjoy the rest of the spread. One misstep becomes six fried potatoes, a second helping of kheer, three chocolates and a sugary mocktail. And that, in essence, is the Teacup Principle.

Many of us have an all-or-nothing approach to eating healthy. We either follow it with perfect precision or none at all. We have good days and cheat days with nothing in between. I compare the all-or-nothing approach to breaking a set of six teacups. You broke one teacup by accident, sure. But do you have to deliberately break the other five? Accidents happen. But do you have to compound your calorie intake?
Keep in mind that it takes 3,500 calories to gain a pound of weight.If you slipped and made a 100-calorie mistake, not catching yourself makes it a 1000-calorie mistake.Three days like this, and you have gained a pound. It's that simple and that quick. Remember the Teacup Principle the next time you are at a soirée, a wedding or a family function. After all, it's a festival of `light', and you don't want to be bogged down by that `heavy' feeling later, do you?

 

 


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