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Hola friends…my random thoughts haunt again!

Born 8.5 pounds, brought up in a well-t-family, with cubby cheeks a symbol of health of the bearer and wealth of the rarer I was always the + size as Pantaloons calls its elite over-weight to obese category customers. The world dint let me live, taunts, name calling, wired and down right rude pick-up lines and ya – free advice have been and still are regular happenings in my life!

Hey don’t worry it’s no ‘kaun karega guddi se shayadi – from Mrs. Tendulkar kindof a sad story!’(The reason for the bold font is that I don’t want to lose the already scanty fan base)

My friend Jasmie once told me that I look like a balanced and a sane person on the exterior, well thanks Jasmie, but I am prone to all that jazz which every silly soul is! So where was I? Oh yes the new fad: my oat meals!

Sick and tired of the GM diet which made me lose 5 kgs in a week and put on 7 in the next, the every lasting no fat diet, gym classes and dance lessons on ‘pardesiya yeh sach hai pia’ (the height of ‘how crazy Prajakta can get to lose weight example) I heard of oats and their goodness! And I wanted to try it too.

My mom as crazy as me for my weight loss, for reasons more serious (stay fit, dnt get diabeties, produce healthy and timely grand children) than mine (wear a corset on my farewell, go bungee jumping, make 10 guys propose to me an I reject them…and so on) bought me a KG pack of Saffola oats and thus began the epic drama!

Today is the7th day of this fad or whatever you say and I am still on it. 

The point is not that how much weight I lost, the point is I like it! Sonam, my friend pukes at the very mention of oats, so did I till I dug into the slurry.

I have realized that if you can’t do what you love (eat chicken tandoori everyday) then the next best alternative is to love what you do  - I came up with five different recipes of oats in the seven days of starting it (for the 2 days I was sulking on the bad taste that stuck to my palate forever).

A lesson that I would never forget for my life!

Comments

  1. Blah.Blah.N.More.Blah5 November 2011 at 00:17

    I love oats :p No not kidding, i reeely do :)But im glad u'hv chosen to like wht u do. Like dey say while sitting on a roller coaster u touch the highs and lows.. its upto u to choose betwn screaming ur lungs out and sitting bck nd enjoying the ride :) :)

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  2. K.Kanan Mishra5 November 2011 at 01:57

    superb....

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  3. pia5 November 2011 at 06:57

    praju.. whoa... this is neat stuff.. hey tell me about this oats thingy too..i soo need to lose weight...

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  4. @random7 November 2011 at 01:02

    feels so good to have comments on the blop :P...ya pia i'll surely tell u all that...thnax kanan...n divi - i <3 u coz u <3 oats...
    cheers to oats!!!

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