Whine alert! This is a whiny post, brace yourself before reading further :-D
Most times, I really feel good about being in this diet, the no-carbo, low-fat and high protein and high vegetables and fruit diet makes me feel good about the healthy choices I am making. At other time though, I just can’t wait for this diet to be over. Yesterday, at my in-law’s place where we gather to iftar together was one of those times that made me wish I could fast forward time to end of my Maintenance phase. Why? Because, almost everything that I made there, contained carbohydrate. I have no real hankering for rice or pasta or mee hoon and I wasn't afraid that i was going to gobbled up those but I did not want to offend the host by not eating the rice, which is a great thing in most Malay families.
As per norm, when family gets together, the thing that womenfolk do is cook and cook and cook. From 12noon yesterday until around 2pm we made mini spring rolls with chicken floss filling which we then deep fried for Eid. It was a tedious and time-consuming process. Then at around 3pm I started on the food for iftar, which was vegetable and chicken spring rolls (ok, by now I am sure u would know that I love spring rolls!), fried vermicelli with chili and chicken bits, catfish in coconut milk with chili and turmeric, bitter gourd stir-fried with shrimps and shallots and durian cooked in coconut milk and palm sugar. None of these were P3 friendly and my safest bets were the catfish and bitter gourd. Try eating that without rice in front of the whole family! You were sure to get some serious stare and snide comments which I just let whizzed by. When desert time came, I told them I was stuffed and prefer to sit it out and maybe have it later but let myself be cajoled into having the vegetable and chicken spring rolls, the lesser evil, rather than the durian porridge which was sugar-loaded. I hated being the focus of attention and ate a few more of those spring rolls just to stop the tongue wagging! Duhhhh!!
In a way though, I think it will be a good practice for me to prepare for the life post-hcg diet, where it is just you against yourself. No more protocols of the phases! I can’t be avoiding carbohydrate all my life; it is not healthy as we need all the food component to make a balanced and healthy meal, but I can control the when and the how much. We just need to know which portion to take more and which to take less. It all boils down to the simple math of calorie input and output, just like our charts of the monthly income and expenses!
Speaking of which, I better get to work and earn my living for now, have a good day people!
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