The diet conundrum

People seem to be fascinated by my diet.  I don’t mean the admiring kind of fascination.  That I would lap up and ask for more, but it is more about the you-are-so-wrong-and-let-me-prove-you-wrong kind of fascination.  Conversation normally starts with, “Oh you’ve lost weight!”and then goes on to ask me which program I have joined.  When I tell folks I’ve joined no programs but have simply made life style choices, and give details, the interest becomes something else.  It becomes hostile.  People want me to be wrong.  Why?  Maybe because it is so easy and do-able.

Most people go on fad diets which is so wrong …  Fad diets lead to deficiencies and one is more likely to cheat on them.  I should know it.  I have been there and done that.

My diet is very simple.  I avoid grains and legumes.  I do not eat sugar.  I do not eat anything that is processed.  It is easy for me, because I love to cook and I like to eat my own cooking.  For sweetness I use dates and honey.  For salt I use pahari namak or rock salt.  And I do not eat anything that comes from a package.

I eat lots of salads and vegetables.  My diet is predominantly non-vegetarian.  I was counselled to see my plate as circle divided into three parts.  One part is for uncooked foods like salads, one part for cooked vegetables, the third part for proteins.  Luckily for me, I like all those things.  And the thing about home cooked food is that one is sated and that makes it easy to stay on the program.  My reports are good.

I don’t get this hostility.  It is not as though I am snatching that packet of kurkure out of someone’s hands.

So chill, people.

And yes, I made the comic.  I did not lift it from somewhere.

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