Ch:2 Flawed Individual’s Diet

With not much further ado, What’s my diet looking like?

No grains in the diet — includes rice, wheat, dosa, idly, millets etc..

Breakfast — 2 eggs, chia seeds, veggies, sauerkraut(will cover one complete chapter on fermentation)

Protein drink 2–3 times a week with 25g protein with no sugar

Black coffee

Lunch -

Sambar, koottu, sabji

or

Dal/paneer, subji and salads/sprouts

Close out the meals with curds / Kefir and two spoons of olive oil or ghee

Dinner — on most days, I finish the day’s meals by having a tea by 230pm and start the fasting

If I feel hungry, I do have peanuts. Or have soya granules.

I take apple cider vinegar (2 table spoons) daily.

I fast for 36 hours to 40 hours once a month. That’s it!

Why have I zeroed in on this diet?

I arrived at this diet with the help of several videos and most importantly data on how my body was reacting.

What are the side effects?

• Takes a long time to see the effect in weight loss
• Extreme sense of loss of balance as the carbs have long been part of overall well being
• Feel hard to follow when you are close to approaching functions or festival seasons
• There is no way to eat this food in a normal plate. I have switched to a bowl and take several servings till I feel a sense of being satiation.

Some more data for the past year — my hba1c has come from 8.8 in early 2024 to averaging between 6.4 to max of 7.4. My highs have been contributed by sleeplessness. That’s a separate chapter definitely!

Let me go into some detail on how I started feeling.

Its possible that I felt like a victim in this body. No respite towards food. Particularly when everyone seems to enjoy sweets and

Why is the whole world conspiring against me.. Angry at my family for just being mad at me for pointing my mistakes or inadequacies or days when i was cheating.

Angry at realising so so late that all these grains are causing the sugar to increase — What if my brain has a permanent brain fog and have lost lot of my mental acuities?

Why didn’t my group of doctors who have been with me for so long didn’t advise strongly on fasting? Or at Pharma in general :) I am sure you get the drift..

Will share what I did in my next chapter!