Eating right!

For the background, I was 'forced' to look for healthier options to eat after having a kid. I could not stand the chance to see her eating junk or low nutrition food and educating myself was the only option as no one place had complete information.

Here are the ground rules I have established over time, I call them Food-To-Dos:

• Don't stay hungry for long
• Don't starve or you tend to make wrong food choices
• Don't eat if you are not hungry
• Don't over-eat
• Think twice before putting anything in your mouth that if you deserve to eat better quality food
• Never go out hungry for grocery shopping or you pick wrong things ;)
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• Don't skip breakfast
• Try to have 5 meals a day. (including 2 snacks)
• Have a heavy breakfast, good lunch and light dinner
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• Drink lots of water! (sometimes we forget that when we are busy and long pending thirst is misinterpreted as hunger)
• Limit salt intake
• Always check ingrediant list on what you buy (the ingrediants are listed in decreasing order of quantity)
• Don't eat any food with preservatives / added colors / added flavours / added sugar / added vegetable oil!!
• Try to eat as raw as possible, processed food are not the best
• Try to cook and cook from scratch
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• Limit your carbs
• Have good complex carbs (whole grains, brown rice, oat, millets)
• Eat lots of good fat (virgin cold pressed oils, nuts, ghee)
• Avoid fried food
• Eat moderate dairy (dahi, chach)
• Eat less but good quality sweetners (brown sugar, maple syrup, honey, agave nector, date syrup... etc)
• Limit juices
• Eat lots of veggies
• Try to have high fibre food
• Eat moderate and good quality protiens (nuts, whole beans, white meat)
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• Try to eat carbs, protiens and fruits towards the start of the day
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• Have moderate physical activity

Do these make any sense to you?

DeviantART has gotten me!...

.........phew..........
I am up on DeviantART all the time.. This is a big time obsession.
The art is so fresh, so varied and so enchanting....
You'll have to look at it to believe it..

Photoshop Tutorials

This is a great place to learn the basics as well as advanced techniques of the trade. Well organised... Particularly of intrest to beginers will be this page. Check it out.

Contests2Win

This is a great place to contest and then win prizes!!

Check it out.

Although I love Firefox but folks this site works best with IE. The animations on the contest page don't load properly in Firefox.

Give it a try and you'll love it.

100 GB Account at Hellacius Riders

Pinch me to let me know if it was true. I can't believe this war was going to be this bad. They are doing all they can to get crowds.

Been there. Done that.

Just registered on Hellacius Riders. It remains to be seen if it really turns out the way they make it seem to be.

Color therapy in cricket

I was thinking about this the other day when we lost to Pakistan in the Asia Cup match, what is it that keeps us from winning? Or to have it the other way, what is it that lets them win most of the time. (I had to refer to them, as its not just Pakistan).

I saw a striking difference in the winning and losing teams... Color. (Those of you, who thought I was a racist, please note that the implied meaning was that of clothes).

Well, to begin with, the most aggressive team, Australia has a yellow dress but they have managed to streak it with green, and you must have seen the after-effects.
Man, they win!!

Have a look at Pakistan for that matter, they have a green dress with streaks of yellow, and they aren’t cold either.

By now you must have noted that the yester years winning formula of South Africa was not hard work, at least not just that, it was the color green with the customary yellow.

Then there was Sri Lanka which came out well, it did started with dark blue but surely it got traces of yellow, and lo, the miracle was there to see.

Of course, West Indies at a time was an exception to the rule, with their Maroon rules, but then the Green-Yellow pair is not the all ruler, but it wins more often than it loses.

So you guys there in blue, now the secret ancient winning formula of cricket is known. Green is the best and if you can't get that, atleast get some yellow lines here and there on the blue.

It works!!!