Sharing is Caring

A good part of the credit for my commitment to health and fitness should go to my nutritionist. She does not believe in fad diets which prescribe eating only salad throughout the day or alternate between wheat and besan rotis or only rajma for dinner  etc. The only thing she recommends is eating every two hours + 1 hour walk/ run / gym/ swim. You can eat whatever you want to as long as you avoid sweets and fried stuff it is fine.. really! I met her a couple of years ago and she gave me a full laundry list of what I could eat in a day including the quantity– it included rice or chapattis, curries, dal, egg whites, veg juices, nuts, fruits , salad… well everything in one day! Didn’t quite feel I was ‘on a diet’. So eating every two hours has been the rule for some years now.

If you think the nutritionist is Rujuta Divekar, no it isn’t. My nutritionist does not charge a lakh like Rujuta does. Talking about Rujuta, have you read her first book 'Don't lose your mind, lose your weight'? A friend of mine gifted the book recently and I quite enjoyed reading it.  Rujuta too advocates eating every two hours and infact gives you an entire timetable with options on what you could carry to work and eat.

My lunch dabba with all the eat-every-two-hours stuff is actually heavier than my office bag (office bag contains the office diary, two pouches, wallet, goggles, spectacles etc ). When I started this eat-every-two-hours thing a couple of years ago, was very skeptical about the fact that I may feel hungry suddenly and hence would carry extra food- fruits, rotis, curries, nuts etc and that continues till date. And it is not just about being extra cautious and carrying surplus food. I usually like to share food with people who love to eat. Some of my best friends in office are foodies who used to sit in the next cubicle. Our discussions revolved only around “What do you have for lunch?” “Let’s grab a drink tomorrow” “Let’s go for chaat the day after” “Let’s do breakfast at ABC place before the meeting next week” and so on.

One of those who I bonded well over food was colleague and friend DK who would bring dabbas and dabbas of food from Pune every Monday and we would keep it (away from the prying eyes) for the entire week and eat! I’d share my munchies in return. Those were the good old days where I’d swim for six days in a week and hence managed to lose quite a bit of weight combined with the eat-every-two-hours regime.  DK is back in Pune for good and I miss her terribly every single day in the Bombay office. Have none to talk food with these days. Met DK on Saturday in Pune and do check her tweet to me here. All the running and cycling is showing I guess.

Honestly. I am slightly partial in sharing my food. Avoid gluttons and food starers in putting their ugly hands in my dabba. The fruits, nuts, biscuits are strictly for my darling team and vetti chat partners at work( The girls in my team get a Krishna sweets dabba of sweets and all whenever we crack a kicka$$ deal, cupcakes when they want to J ) .

With DK not around and two other foodies SB and SG having quit, am left with sharing my munchies with VJ aka vetti chat partner #1 who sits across my cubicle. So bonding happens as I put this snack dubba on the ledge and he picks up the same, gets up to start off some vetti conversation across the table. 

So in my case, sharing is not just caring, but a lot of vettiness, vambu and veen peechu.

Oh yes have managed to lose some 4 odd kilos since Feb 1st. Good na?