The Speedbreaker Diet

Following this diet along with the associated exercise regimen helped me drop from 85 kilos to 62 kilos in 4 months.  I changed my diet starting 08 Nov 2013; that's the day after i was diagnosed. When i stood on the weighing scale in the doctor's chamber i was 85 kilos. Four  months later in March 2014 for an  interim review when i stood on the weighing scale in the same chamber, I was 62 kilos. The doctor was mighty pleased  (as was my tailor). So it worked for me, and there's no reason why it shouldn't work for everyone if done sincerely. I never went hungry nor was the nutritional profile of the diet skewed towards any  particular food group. Simplicity is the name of the game.

The fundamentals being the diet is this. Avoid processed food, increase fibre and protein, reduce fat, and switch to slow  burning carbs. This translates to:-
Things to avoid :-
Flour  and everything made from it (biscuits, breads,cakes, samosas, et al)
whole wheat flour or Atta,if possible, for the first three months.
Rice,white, brown all varieties.
Starchy vegetables
Overly sweet and Ripe fruits
Saturated fat : butter, ghee, dalda, mayo, cheeses.
Polished and dehulled dals (dhuli daals)
vegetables / meat cooked in gravy or a lot of oil
Not more than 2 tbsp of oil a day
Not more than 1 tsp of salt a day
sugary /milky tea and coffee

Things that help good health and weight management:
Salads
Dals with bran (unbroken chilke waali dals)
Rajma, choley in less oil, black Chana
Vegetables that have little starch
Cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli,Karela, bhindi, louki,Tomatoes,Onions,capsicum, cucumber,beans, garlic, ginger, brinjals,kundru and parwal, kathal etc
Oats, dalia, barley (substitute for Atta and rice)All green leafy vegetables.
sprouts salads
guavas (not overripe), apples,pears
two eggs a day (whole, boiled for 7.5 min in boiling water and then removed and placed in a bath of normal water to stop overcooking)
grilled chicken,fish.Keep in mind however, that no matter how much fish is touted as a super food, there is a very real danger of mercury poisoning if portions of large sized fish(>1.5kg)are consumed regularly. This is because, when fish eat other fish, the mercury content progressively increases. no more than 180 gm of fish per week is to be consumed, preferably of smaller variety. Consider the pollution level of our water bodies from where fish are sourced and use discretion.
Soya nuggets: a true super food.One of the best sources of vegetable protein,they possess the miraculous quality of being able to reduce cholesterol in the bloodstream. Given that the Indian diet is fundamentally deficient in protein,soya nuggets go a long way in ensuring adequate protein in the diet.