Eating outside foods | How it shaped my life?
Last year I took a new year resolution to spend only once a week on outside food, with the exception of tea, coffee. But not spending on snacks, shawarma, biriyani etc for more than once a week. I took this resolution not to save money, I was becoming obese and getting lots of scolding from my wife for eating outside food. Getting constant remainder of Vadapav and Mutton Biryani from Zomato and Swiggy was very difficult for me to resist. It consumed lot’s of will power to control it. And it is next to impossible to be social without breaking the ‘outside food’ rule. When everyone around me is eating in the table, I also joined with them for company.
When I ask my friends to go outside for some fresh air. Some says “machan, I have exceeded my credits”. What he means his it’s impossible for him to resist the temptation of spending. We live in a fast life, where everything is fast. If we wish to try a new food, we would order it online. Want a new product, you’ll get it on the amazon the next day. Wanted entertainment, I have subscribed to multiple OTT platforms. Everything is fast. The harder I tried to resist, the more I consumed outside food. Every time I eat outside I feel bad because I’m crushing my New Year resolution..
A day of Ramzan:
Most of the time I break the rules are because of my friends, when I see them eating and me staring at them it makes me feel hungry. I had a Muslim friend named Rashid, we both go for tea break together and enjoy goodies, it’s a ritual we practiced. Even when I resisted he drags me along with him.
One fine day, when I was confused whether to eat snacks or not during tea. I asked him “Rashid, do you wanted to have snacks” without any hesitation he said “No machan it’s Ramzan, I’m fasting”. He never had a second thought, no confusion, no dilemma said with confidence and complete mind-body harmony.
How is it possible?
I always wondered, how come someone able to resist with absolute ease like turning off a switch. I went to Rashid and asked him “how could you able to fast with ease? And I couldn’t?” His answered was a life turning moment for me. He told “Deepak, I have already decided to fast so it came easily for me, but you are still struggling with your decision”
According to dictionary Decision is “the choice you make after thinking various possibilities.” I never thought about the various possibilities before setting my New Year’s resolution, just made it in a impulse and tried pursuing the goal. A wise person once said you don’t make a right decision, you make a decision and make it right.
Is it useless?
The biggest villain for pursuing my goals are Zomato and Swiggy, so I uninstalled from my phone. I also came up with some ideas. I started eating oats every morning, it kind a helped me to control the craving. Took more home made protein shake because one of my friend told that “if your body don’t have protein you will feel hungry” I constantly try to find ideas for avoid eating outside. It had set me in a new path.
Looking back into my experience, I was completely unsuccessful in maintaining that New Year resolution. But attempting that goal made me realized the difficulty behind it. Now I eat outside food often, but I have significantly reduced the frequency I had before setting up the goal.
