Three Steps to Weight Loss

I seem to have dropped a few kilos. I am not some ripped guy who has a six-pack, or even toned per se. Far from it. Nor was I obese or depressingly overweight. I was just overweight. You could say somewhere between overweight and plump. 
And over the past fortnight I have done just three things that have managed to cut down my body weight and greatly increased the happy feeling when I look at myself in the mirror. And how have I achieved this? Not by hitting the gym everyday (though I now am moti-weighted enough to do so, and will.), nor by dieting like there is no tomorrow. 

All I did was, 
1. Have a warm glass of water with honey, first thing after waking up every morning.
 (Recipe: Take a glass. Put a tablespoon full of honey in it. Fill the glass with water. Microwave it. Drink.)

2. Use the stairs instead of the elevator.

3. Cut out some food things from my diet. 
 (This doesn't mean you avoid it like the plague. It just means you don't over- indulge. You like Rice? Have it only once or twice a week. Have smaller quantities. Have lesser number of Bananas. Don't drink as much cola. I have been drinking a litre of Cola almost everyday for the past 12 years. Now I drink maybe 300ml twice a week. Replace it with some other drink that you like. Like a Iced Tea or something.)

This is all I did. And in two weeks I have lost 3 kilos or so. This isn't some mantra or some hard and fast rule. Just something that worked for me.
And I feel good.

New Year Resolutions Part -II

Okay,
So another whole year went by. And once again I have failed to stick to my New Year resolutions, which are now Old Year resolutions. 
Why? Was I busy? One piece of evidence suggests that I probably was. Because I seem to have managed only one blog post between the Old Year Resolutions and this one. But a stronger piece of evidence suggests that I wasn't so busy at all. What is the stronger piece of evidence you ask? Well, it is my bank balance. Forget about multiplying my wealth, I didn't seem to add to it at all.

Anyways, the crux is that another whole year went by. And I couldn't stick to the promises I made to myself. I didn't get fit. I lost a bit of weight, but that happened at the fag end of last year and is currently an ongoing process. I didn't end up reading as much as I thought I should or would have. My waking habits degenerated some more. My temper levels went to previously unseen levels. Which I regret wholly. Said and did things that I feel ashamed of. And I apologise from the bottom of my heart for those things. My expenses shot off the charts. I didn't buy a house, nor did I travel much. In fact the only places I travelled to last year were to Goa and Colombo, SL. And I didn't put my bike on the road either. Pity. Because that would have been pretty cool.
All in all, it was a pretty bad year. But! There was not just a silver lining, there was the whole Sun shining! I got married. Took a long time coming, but boy am I happy! But I will save that for some other time.

So this year I plan to do all that I promised myself last year and then some. 
I do have a lot planned for this year, and I will ensure that I do see them to completion. 
Amen.