One scoop of Ice Cream

In my effort to do away with my cliched "mother tales" I thought of penning down something different. Everyday in our lives we try to eat healthy, eat good food free of grease, free of sugar, free of sodium, free of anything that you think is harmful for you. I struggle hard to imbibe the same healthy eating habits in my daughter yet I eye the large diary milk chocolate that my mother got from india about 6 months ago sitting in the fridge or that Haagen Dazs mango ice cream sitting in the freezer.

People who know me now will find it hard to believe that I was a fat kid and any girl will know how hard it is growing up as one of the fat girls. One bad comment made me change my eating habits and everything I did. Soon within 2 months I lost 12 kgs. Everyday after that I have struggled to keep that effort alive. All through my teens and until the day I got pregnant I counted each calorie I ate and worked off every extra cookie I ate. I can proudly say I am fit.

But life is such a funny thing all that over caution and all that extreme cardio later I find it even more harder to cheat.

Most of us at least most of the girls I know live a life devoid of anything that is close to sugar ever since the day the turn a tiny teen. Why is that we find it so hard to just let go one day and not worry where those calories go. Why do we constantly worry about how much we weigh or how many calories do we burn per week?