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Loosing Weight is a Myth? - What are my options? Recurring Heartburns? - Beware Esophagus Cancer

Hey, welcome to the band of weight losers, well not losers really? - Think Twice, you might want to wear the best fit of dresses, but the attire wont fit well, you might have to settle for the least liking, best fitting dress. But is there an option?

You work more than 12 hours in a day, do not have the time to eat properly, do not have anyone to cook the right kind of dishes for you? No personal trainer? No dietitian to take care off you? No time to prepare you own food? Are you hogging your food? You do not over eat, still you do not loose weight? Not able to sleep properly? You have a heartburn often?

If you have heartburn often, better catch up with a gastroenterologist, it could be an esophagus cancer.

What are your options to loose weight still have a healthy diet? Here is what is called the best practice:

• Once you wake up, drink a full glass of plain water.
• Before you run for the news paper/e-mail, finish your breakfast by around 7:30 to 8:00AM (you will else skip/delay)
• Have a light breakfast(bread or rotis), with one glass of whole milk.
• By 11:30 have an apple, orange or pears. A whole fruit would be good. (no bananas)
• Drink as light as Butter-Milk(chaas) or just plain water or Lite milk.
• For the lunch, have 3-4 Rotis with sprouts or egg whites. A cup of Fruit/Veg Salad. Drink a lot of water.
• Drink 2.5 to 3 liters of water a day, you need to drain the toxins.
• By around 4 to 5:30PM you should be famished again, have a slice of bread and some salad or sprouts.
• Avoid fried, gravy, oil, butter, cheesy food.
• Drop Pizzas, Burgers, Samosas, and the likes from your diet for good.
• By dinner time, you have to go into a "dozing mode" so just have 1 roti with a good amount of salad, and curd.
• The above said is a low-carbohydrate high protein diet, modified to Indian conditions. Avoid rice, and rice items. You can modify the food with soya chunks, soya flour and vegetables.

Well, that should be a good challenge for all you food lovers to stay on the kind of diet said above. A good suggestion is to keep a LOG, or CHART of the food that you intake. You should be keeping note of the food that you eat, and analyze the same by a week end. You can find when you were driven to eat more, and what kind of food drives you crazy, and how you can stay away from the crave.

Craving is the biggest culprit in dieting. So know your craving, when it bursts, and help yourself. Better have a partner to monitor your chart, so that you are accountable to some one.

Happy shedding of weight! Keep safe, eat healthy, eat a lot of greens, drink water!

- SwordMouth





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Recipe - Baingan Brinjal Bartha (Not Julia Bartha)

Baingan Bartha - Ingredients[This is not a quick recipe]:

• 2 Large Bartha Brinjal(egg plant/Baingan) [these are very big brinjals]
• 2 or 3 finely chopped Onions[the recipe is a semi-gravy, so finely chop every ingredient]
• 1 small tomato finely chopped
• 4 finely chopped green chillies
• A little ginger, finely chopped too. finely chopped Garlic (more the garlic more the taste)
• A cup of Curd
• Dry Red Chillies Crushed as flakes.
• 1 tsp red chilly powder, 1 tsp dhania(coriander) powder, 1 tsp haldi(turmeric) powder
• 1 tsp garam masala powder
• Salt to taste, lime juice, ghee and Vegetable/Sunflower Cooking Oil

Method:

1. Roast The Brinjal: Slit the brinjal into 4 sections, apply oil to the whole brinjal and roast it in open flame for 15 minutes or till the brinjal is soft and cooked.
2. Heat oil in a thick broad pan, add garlic, ginger and fry.
3. Once it's fried, add the onions with all the powders and fry till golden brown, make sure enough oil is floating to cook the other ingredients.
4. Add the tomato, brinjal, a bit of lemon juice, salt and fry for 6 to 7 minutes.
5. Keep stirring so the bottom does not stick.
6. Add 3 to 4 spoonful of curd and immediately turn off the heat. [else the curd will be cooked]
7. Now the dish is ready to be served with Rotis/Chappatis.
8. Garnish with coriander and heat ghee with chilly flakes and pour over the dish.

Add more curd as needed. Not may would use curd, but this is a very tasty variation. Try both the variations, with and without curd. Choose the option that fits you best. This is an elaborate recipe that fits a good week-end dinner. Leave your comments with any variations, or questions about the dish.

Recipe - Pastas In White sauce with Black Olives

Ingredients:

1. Any type of Pasta (Macaroni would be perfect) - 2 cups
2. Olive Oil
3. Cooking Oil (Sunflower/Rice Gram any oil that does not have a pungent flavor).
4. Fresh Ground Black Pepper - 2/3 T.Spoons
5. Milk 2/3 cups.
6. Corn Flour
7. Salt to taste
8. & a few Black Olives

Prepare the Macaroni First:

Heat water with 2/3 Table Spoons of Cooking Oil, and salt, in a large pan, bring it to boil, add the macaroni. [Only do so once u see the water boils, else your macaroni will take longer time to cook, and stick to the pan]. Keep stirring so as to avoid sticking for 10 to 12 minutes. The Macaroni should be soft enough for a firm bite. Take care not to under-cook your pasta, you wont like the raw taste either. Remove it form heat, drain the water and set aside.

Prepare the White Sauce:

Heat a wide large pan, with Olive Oil. Once it is hot enough, add corn flour spoon by spoon, while stirring smoothly. Once enough flour is added, stop adding, and only stir for 2 minutes, avoid lumps, immediately add milk, still stirring. Once the Milk starts to boil, add Fresh Ground Black Pepper and salt. This will make the milk to split and get the required sauce like consistency. Add it to the "still hot" Pasta, garnish with Olives and serve.

Additional Tips:

• Do both simultaneously so as to serve the pasta hot.
• Keep Stirring - Avoid Lumps in the Corn Flour.
• Sprinkle Oregano and Red Paprika Flakes to add flavor.
• Cut the Black Olives in Rings.

I love the Mahali Root recipe, here is a preparation for the same from Lulu.

"BRUSSEL SPROUTS AND HARD BOILED EGGS SAUTED IN BUTTER WITH A

BRUSSEL SPROUTS And Roasted Cashews

1 1/2 Cups. brussel sprouts
1 tsp. butter
Salt & pepper
2 tsp toasted salted cashews

Boil large amount of salted water rapidly, Meanwhile, remove and discard outer leaves of
Make a half cut in root end of each sprout with a knife, for even cooking. Boil until half Drain well. Melt butter in a large skillet until the butter's raw smell disappears. Remove from heat. Add and Stir in sprouts with salt and pepper to taste. Sprinkle with nuts and serve.

Your tasty Brussel Sprouts are ready.
Brussel Sprouts are very good for Overall health and Weightloss Plans.

Well, I decided to try another variation to this awesome Recipe. Remember Don't cook the sprouts too much. Just Crisp Enough will do. I Decided to add some Hard Boiled Eggs to this recipe.

To make hard Boiled Eggs:

Everyone can boil eggs. But making the hard boiled egg is an art by itself.
Choose Old Eggs, new Eggs are not right for hard Boiling. Fill the skillet with water, just an Inch higher than the eggs. Place the Eggs in a row, on the bottom of the skillet. Sprinkle enough salt, and some vinegar. Bring it to a boil, and remove from heat. Leave the eggs to be in the hot water for 15 minutes. Then remove from hot water, fill the skillet with cold water. Add some ice cubes if you want it faster. Now the eggs are ready to be peeled. Peeling is an art again. Hit the larger part of the egg to a hard surface. press the egg on your palm. Then peel, it should come off in a jiff.

Now the Recipe:

Follow the instructions for Sprouts as above. Heat the skillet, add butter and heat
till its golden brown. Now slice hard boiled eggs (yellow removed), introduce
them into the skillet. Fry them till light brown. Now add the Brussel Sprouts,
sprinkle generous amount of fresh ground pepper and some salt to taste.