My GM Week

So I have heard a lot about the General Motors diet but never tried it because I thought it is tooooo difficult and being the foodie I am, I will never be able to sustain it.

But from past 4 months I was not able to work out due to injury first in my left foot and then as soon as I was able to stand on my two feet the right foot bumped itself in the wall restricting me to bed for another couple of months. Well that might bed an exaggeration, I was not restricted to be but yes I was hopping and limping so could not go for brisk walks, jog or gym :(.

I was getting bothered with my tendency to put on weight by mere thought of food and was thinking about some kind of a diet. When my cloths started snuggling me around I prepared my mind to go the GM way and it helped me loose that extra fat I gained while sitting idle.

The diet really works if you are doing some kind of yoga or walk along with it but still I lost about 3-4 kgs without any kind of physical workout. The best part is you feel a lot lighter on your stomach after this diet and specifically for me even after the diet was over I did not feel the urge to snack upon cookies, chips or any other kind of junk food between meals. Yes it is difficult specially the first 2 days but once you make up your mind it is not that hard.

So here I am sharing the day by day account of my GM diet which you can try before any wedding or special occasion to fit in your favorite dress.

Day 1

Day 1 is dedicated to fruits and fruits only. You can eat all and any kind of fruits except for banana. Along with fruits you need to drink loads of water, around 10-12 glass. Following is the kind of menu you should follow:

• 1-2 glass of warm water after you get up.
• Breakfast could be 1 Apple/Some watermelon/Musk Melon .
• Mid morning: 1 chikoo/1 pear/1 pomegranate and with lots of water.
• Around noon take some orange/grapes/cherries to munch on.
• Lunch time around 2-3 mixed fruit bowl.
• Evening around 5-6 1 chikoo/1 pear/some grapes/cherries/Plums.
• Diner time mixed fruit bowl.
• You can drink fresh lime water with some honey in it between meals or some fresh coconut water.
• Avoid any kind of milk product including tea.
• You can drink green tea between meals.
• The trick is to take small potions 5-6 times so that you do not feel hungry.

Day 2

Vegetable day. Eat all vegetables raw or cooked on this day. Cooking can be done in very less olive oil.

• Start morning with 2 glasses of warm water.
• For breakfast eat 1-2 boiled potatoes. You can make a potato chat by adding some green chilies, fresh coriander, tomatoes, lemon and chaat masala to it. Optionally you can add some butter if it feels to dry to you.
• mid morning around 12' o clock eat a salad bowl with cucumber, tomatoes, lettuce, bell peppers and some lemon or vinaigrette dressing. Do not put any oil or cream based dressing in this salad.
• For lunch you can cook some tasty mix vegetable in olive oil or even without it. Saute some onions and tomatoes in non stick with only half a tea spoon olive oil (or without it) and add some peas, mushrooms, cabbage, carrots, capsicum, beans and cauliflower to this. You can add some spices like salt and pepper and even some soy sauce and tomato ketchup.
• In evening you can make a corn chaat with some american sweet corn (very little), onions, cucumber, carrot, tomatoes and bell peppers in lemon, salt and black pepper dressing. Make sure to add less corns and more vegetables as corns are high in starch.
• For dinner eat another bowl of salad with either mix vegetable or any other veggie. I prefer a big bowl of bottle gourd (ghiya) cooked in tomatoes and green chilies. 
• Again drink loads of water (10-12 glass), fresh lime, green tea etc.

Day 3

This day is a combination of fruits and veggies sans bananas and potatoes.

• 2 glass of warm water in morning.
• Breakfast should be a fruit 1 apple/watermelon/musk melon.
• Mid morning or noon eat a bowl of mixed fruit or a salad bowl. 
• Lunch will be a mix veg and salad bowl if you have eaten fruit bowl at mid afternoon. If you ate salad previously then you can combine mix veg with some fruits for lunch.
• In evening with green tea you can again eat any fruit chikoo/pear/plums/grapes/pomegranate/mango as per you linking.
• In dinner you can eat a corn salad/green salad/mix veg/any other vegetable along with some papaya.
• Drink loads of water and a couple of glasses of fresh lime if needed without sugar.

Day 4

Bananas and milk only. On this day you can drink up to 3 glasses of milk and eat up-to 8 bananas. You can make cold coffee, banana milk shake or plain milk but limit the amount of sugar intake. Drink lots of water and you can also drink GM wonder soup if you feel hungry, which you will not because bananas and milk are quite heavy on stomach.

Day 5

After being devoid of any carbs on the first four days, today is the day you can eat some actual food. The fifth day is brown rice and tomato day. You can eat as many as 6 tomatoes as salad and 1 cup of brown rice.

I made tomato rice with brown rice and added some green chilies and salt to it but without any oil. You can divide your 1 cup of rice in 2 or 3 meals and consume them at different meal times along with raw tomatoes.

And not to forget loaaaaadddsss of water. Around 14 glass.

Day 6

This day is again brown rice but with mix vegetables.

• Eat some salad for breakfast. Optionally you can add some corns in your salad to add taste to it but the dressing should not be oil or cream based.
• Make a mix vegetable pulao with 1 cup brown rice without any oil and spices. You can add green chilies, salt and pepper to this. Divide this in 2-3 portions and consume at different meal times.
• Between meals you can eat as many salad and vegetables as you want.

Day 7

Again you have to eat 1 cup brown rice with as many vegetables and salad this day. You can also drink fresh fruit juices this day. Drink loads of water along with juices.

By this day you will be feeling much lighter and an average person loose around 3-5 kg (even more in some cases depending on your metabolism) with this diet.

I will soon be adding some GM diet recipes in my Sanjhi Rasaoi blog so keep looking for them.