We bake our own bread.

Hmm..so finally i started dieting.. Did i ever narrate the story about the sweet tummy of mine.. The story starts in summer of 2003 , when i realized that there is nothing wrong in continuing eating when all the others have finsihed their food... People dont mind it ...I also realized something about eating the left overs of others..there is nothing wrong in it..infact, it looks kool... so I started it with these two rules ..Later i developed others like:

• Rule 1: When you are involved in physcical activities, you dont get fat if you overeat....
• Rule 2: Eating food makes me happy..
• Rule 3: Happiness is a gift of God and i must always be celeberated it....by rewarding myself with a good food..
• Rule 4: Home made food is good for health and eating home made food wont make me fat..
• Religiously..it is better to fall in love with food as that keeps a believer away from the love of other sins.. (This is not mine... It was literally said in a religious gathering i once attended long ago..honestly...)

These new rules messed up somwhat..and mutated into some stupid logic: Description follows :

• RULE1--> When i am standing , i am doing a physical activity..so i wont become fat if i overeat while i am standing..This means that if i keep sitting the whole day working or playing warcraft 3, i wont get fat if i momentarily stand up to eat something
• RULE2--> I have lived past few years shifting many jobs and places....that made me sad...:(..so i had to do something to make me happy... and beleive me eating a cup of vanilla icecream takes away all my tension..(Btw..this property of vanilla flavour has been proved scientifically)
• RULE3-->At times it was difficult to get out of the cycle of rule 2 and rule 3.. i.e ....eat ---> become happy----> celebrate the happiness by eating more---> become happier---> celeberate more by eating more.----> REPEAT..............
• RULE4-->The rule 4 got messed up when i found that MAMA ICECREAM is a 'home made icecream'.. the rule says that the home made food never makes me fat...so i ended up in having Mama icecream as frequently as having atleast one cup daily for a very long time...(After all!! Whats wrong in having just one cup a day!!! ??) There are nearly 36 flavours of the icecream..Offcourse i have tried all of them...'Cookies and Cream' is the best one..This year i had one cup on on 20th Jan and the other on 9th Feb... .. :(.. without MAMA, I am really missing all the fun of life......
• RULE5-->Well.. I used to be very religious..and at that time i made it for sure not to fall in love with anything but food..It somehow became my prayer.....a prayer that i regularly offered to keep myself away from the horrible wordly sins.. It was basically an attempt to get Sawab.. so that i may go to heaven.. To have the delicious food available there..

These were the 'few' logical mistakes that transformed me from a slim and smart Sameer of 33'' waist to a fat but smart Sameer of something between 38" and 40".. (Please note the intentional use of smart in both the descriptions)

Anways, i was talking about the story that started in Summer of 2003... The story has different episodes..telling different phases of my life.. telling that i have lived alone for a long time...When you are alone you try to find things that can keep you happy.. For me the search resulted in Computer games and Food... So i fell in love with Starcraft , warcraft 3 along with Rahat Bakery and Mama's icecream.. I used to have lunch in office.. and then at night i wondered like zombies in search of any new 'untried 'bakery or a new good restaurant...It really feels like a loser When you go and sit all alone in a restuarant to have food ..but who cares!!!......Intially my bicycle used to be my partner in crime... These days my princess Subaru is carrying me to far away lands for the sole purpose of trying a 'NEW' taste..... Most of the times i am already full when i TRY something new, .. but ....well!! you know ...curiousity !!!!....It even killed the cat.. ...

My food story also tells about my improper knowledge of food constituents ..i.e i have never able to learn what is protien , what is fat , what is a carbohydrate...etc..etc..( now dont be surprised..i cant even differentiate between chicken and beaf sometimes ) ..so many times i ended up in eating a FAT rich diet that i thought was a PURELY PROTEIN diet.....Impressed.. :).. example: many times I have had maionese rich salads thinking they will help me in dieting.. (Chicken pineapple is still my favourite)

My food story marks 1st April 2004 as the day...when The desire to look smarter.. (Note: I intentionally used the word 'Smarter' and not 'smart')..made me start a daily walk from my the then office..PTA..to my..the then home... It was a long walk from from F-5..(near secretariat) ..to G-9 .(.Peshawar moore)...Now thats a long walk...a really long walk of 2.5 hours... I used to take the blue area route ...walking continuosly along the busy jinnah avenue used to be fun.... This continued for 3 months..... Did i lose any weight.......No.!!! .... really??.....Yes.!!!...Why???Wasnt it too much of a physical activitiy.???... ......Oh!!..! i guess i forgot to mention that there used to be a stop in my walk.. Accidently at Rahat Bakery.. It 'somehow' happened to be exactly in the center of my walking route..... So a stay at Rahat Bakers for half an hour simply balanced the equation..and so i remained in my shape even because of the 3 months of walk..

My walk ended with a foot infection that made me rest on bed for 2 weeks.. :(

After the foot infection recovery, i joined a Gym..October 2004... Gave some 4000 bucks for 3 months period.. went there for only 4 or 5 times in those 3 months.. It was really boring ...and when there is anything boring .. i have to keep myself happy....you know the rule 2..which results in rule 3 ..which results in rule 2...which results in rule 3..which results in...............................

The story recently had a new episode .. I joined a Martial Art club ( Its called Kyo Kushan).. and i also started wearing a weight-reducing-belt regularly.. I had seen its ad on TV... The ad shows a houswife working in kitchen and mysteriously a sales woman enters into her kitchen and asks her to try the new belt.. The housewife wears it and after an hour of wearing it , says she has lost an inch of her waist... so now I am trying the belt..and mind you..this is different from the infamous Suana belt whose ad is shown a lot these days on TV.... The very idea of Suvana belt is quite pathetic...One is supposed to sit near a power plug all the time while wearing it as it is not battery operated.... I heard some people got burns on stomach because of it...

Anyways, i was narrating a story...The story now tells you about this weekend ...25th and 26th Feb..

FRIDAY NIGHT (24th Feb)

After my kyokushan class, I made a visit to SUBWAY on the firday night.. You know!!!..they bake their own bread..they happen to have a board of neon lights saying so.. It was the first time i was 'trying' it.. When i ordered, the guy asked..Which bread will you like to have... At first it seemed a stupid question.. then i got the idea that they probably serve different types of breads..and i just guessed that if there are different types of breads then there will be a 'plain' one among the too....so i said.. the plain one.. it was a fluke...a correct one.... They guy took a long bread from oven and asked me wether i would like to have 6" or 12".. The question had the potential to offend an innocent person like me....but i remained kool and told him to give me 6"..He cut the bread into half and made me a 6" long burger.. (and i was thinking of having a burger 6" in height..:( .. )..It was really fun watching the guy fill the chicken roasted burger with a chutki of chicken pieces and then flling it with all kind of vegetables and sauces. The act of picking precisely three slices of tomatoes .. then putting only two in the burger .. throwing back one..then picking up three cucumber slices..putting two in the burger and throwing back one..and then repeating the same act with all vegetables .. did not make much sense to me..but i guess thats an art of burger-making which an amateur like me can never understand..

Anyways, i had the burger..It was good..really tasty... though i believe that with all those vegetables and sauces, it would have tasted the same had i ordered someother burger... The burger didnt really fill my mighty stomach..but i liked it...and it did gave me an idea of starting the search of this new type of food.. The diet food..

I went to DWATSON.. had a look at the shelf of diet foods... bought skimmed milk powder..and an expensive cereal (It was Bran Flakes:Post Healthy Classics) that promised to make me lose 10 lbs... :) ... Later , i read that it promised to do so in 12 weeks.. :(.....i.e if you eat only and only this cereal for that long.. along with increased physical activities...

SATURDAY (25th Feb)

From morning till night , I had the cereal some 6 , 7 times..though it is supposed to be taken only twice a day..and that too as a complete replacement of food.. Good dieting right!!!.. but i suppose it is rich in fiber so i wont be putting up by overeating it.. At night, i had another Subway burger ..This time i ordered a different burger and as expected had the same identical taste...this time i looked at the ingredients carefully.. On my way back , i brought frozen shami kabab, brown bread and some vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, salad kay patay, onions, Shimla mirch etc)...and at home i made a real wonderfull Subway sandwitch .... ate two sandwitches...(reminder: i had just returned from Subway).... Good diet right!!! .. and then I had a cup full of cereal before sleeping..

SUNDAY -(today -26th Feb)

Sunday morning..I changed the whole shape of my room.. How!! Oh i just cleaned all the mess..The process took my whole day.. Had the left over Shami Kababs and a lot of Diet Cereal as lunch......... At night , i went out and brought some more vegetables and 'K&N chicken patties' assuming they wont have any fat.. ....Made and ate two mighty SUBWAY style sandwitches..Made two for tomorrow ..which i will have at lunch ...

And i forgot to mention that i bought two sauces to help me continue having this diet food ..These are Mustard sauce and Mitchells Mexican Salsa ..Mustard Sauce is my all time favourite...I didnt like its taste ealier but there was a time ...a GIKI time...when i made it bound on myself to eat the 'Double Hot Dog Burger' ...Since it had double i.e two sausages so i always opted for it..As a result I got very much familiar with the mustard sauce which was alway more in the Double Burger..

I didnt like the Mitchells Mexican Salsa..yukh!! its a mixture of onion, garlic and chillie cooked up in vinegar..

OK..now i am leaving to make a cup full of cereal ..with the Skimmed milk of course ...i will have one now...This will be my night cup...and one in morning before going to office.. that will be my morning cup.

May God bless me and my dieting.. May my story have a good end..

And yeah!! i really hated the Mitchells Mexican Salsa sauce so you can have it from me anytime...