The notes from a fellow dieter

You know something is not going well when you start looking for the calorie count in every food item you buy . Suddenly diet coke becomes your best friend and you see for the word “diet” in everything you eat - curd , biscuits , sandwiches and even sweets . You dread seeing your belly because it hides your d*ck and you have to see your most valuable tool only in the mirror hiding below the belly. That’s when my friend decided it is time to change his life style . He started off with getting up at 6am which in his words is midnight and many hours before he usually gets up . Two days of morning walk and he was snoring in his bed the next day .His girlfriend ,whom he had called for company during the morning walk, actually liked the idea and the change in her boyfriend 3 months before the marriage . But she was standing all alone in the morning in the ground on the third day .It actually took a threat from her saying the marriage is in doubt that woke my friend on the third day . Unfortunately for me , I was the one who was sitting beside him when he decided to change his life style . I said “yes” when he asked me to accompany him to the sandwich shop for a whole week for lunch .But where we ended up was not the sandwich shop but the SUBWAY next to the sandwich store . I got a chicken sub and since he was on a diet(or was he) ordered for a chicken salad which costed like a day’s pay . Three days to SUBWAY and chicken salad , we didn’t know whether we lost weight but lost too much of something else - money. After realizing we have to be the CEO of a company to afford SUBWAY salads daily and also not to go there until we became one in the future (which means we wont go to SUBWAY again). , we headed for the sandwich shop next door as originally planned . Veg sandwich , club sandwich , European delight , creamy corn and whatever was in the menu was tried . Sandwich was in the hand but his mind was with the Andhra mess , meals from which had actually given him the belly . If you don’t know where half of india’s software engineers go for lunch , just go to the nearest Andhra mess . The little boy in the Mess who pours sambhar can identify the company of a person better than the NASSCOM chairman , knows every id card , salaries for each designation in different companies and can even give career advice . And all the big food companies set shops in the tech parks thinking they can actually make money and can charge ridiculously exorbitant rates. No way if an Andhra mess is nearby . This continued for a little more than three weeks and the results were good – for me .I lost 2 kgs and he gained some .Bugger out of desperation had been hogging in the night and made more calories than if he had eaten his original meal for lunch . The story sounds familiar ? . There is a similar page in most software engineer’s diary .A good (but not so good) salary gives them a paunch immediately and some want it to show to their future in laws as a sign of prosperity – ridiculous . I am not the one to advice on diet but in dieting and exercising , what is most required is patience . A crash diet for a month or mad exercising for a week wont compensate for what you have accumulated for years.

Update – He still is using a mirror .