Ask most females if they have dieted and most would answer in the affirmative. Likewise, I have been on countless diets. You name it and I’ve been on it. The No Carbs Diet. The Only Carbs Diet. The Beetroot/Ceasar Salad/Watermelon/Only Fluids Diet. The list goes on. I’m always looking for quick results, so the more radical, the better for me.

Typically, my enthusiasm lasts for the first 5 days. Then it starts to fizzle out while the weight starts to creep in. During those 5 days, my stomach sounds like an ongoing drill while my mind conjures up food relations with everything within sight. I’m constantly hungry and have endless Fat Me vs Thin Me battles in my head. Due to the constant hunger, I think of food all day long. I start fantasizing about sinking my teeth into a burger or that momentary bliss when chocolate ice cream meets my lips. These thoughts will take over me within 5 days of incubation and the next thing I know, I’m cleaning out that tub of Haagen Dazs.Fed up with being a walking encyclopaedia of diets without any results, I started looking for a diet that would be more of a lifestyle change rather than a fad diet. That’s when a friend of mine introduced me to Daniel’s Diet. She told me that her mum and boyfriend had lost a lot of weight on it and that it wasn’t a difficult plan to follow.

As usual, that piqued my interest and the first thing I did when I came home was google it. Sure enough, there was an abundance of information on the “miracles” of this diet. The more I read, the more impatient I became to get started on it. I surfed the net all night trying to get my hands on the exact plan. I couldn’t. I then browsed web catalogues of KL’s best bookstores but to no avail. Desperate by then, I placed an order with the writer of the book at 3am that morning.

A week later, the book arrived. I tore it open and read it cover to cover at a speed that would have made my lecturers at university proud. The diet is based on a diet followed by Daniel in the Bible. It is a diet based on fruits and vegetable and anything else that is naturally found on God’s earth, the layman’s term being organic. The book I must say had more of the benefits of the diet than the actual diet itself. However, it did have a list of things that you couldn’t eat as well as a daily checklist of all the things that you needed to eat. This is the most important bit. The checklist included 2 litres of water, nuts as snacks, lentils, 6 colours of raw vegetables, another 6 of cooked vegetables, brown rice, 4 portions of fruits and 30 minutes of moderate exercise. There was also a measurements page that was to be filled out on Day 1 and at the end of the diet, which is on Day 10.

On Day 1, I started checking of the things in the daily checklist. What was amazing was that as I was trying hard to tick off all the boxes, I was eating far more than any diet had allowed me to. I was never hungry. In fact, sometimes I was just too full to manage ticking off all the boxes. However, as this diet doesn’t allow meat, wheat or dairy, I did suffer from cravings on the first three days. However, beating cravings were a lot easier than fighting off hunger pangs. Every time I craved something, I would force myself to eat something from the list. I realised that my mouth just wanted something to chew on. I do admit that being normally non-vegetarian made it difficult at times. I did cheat a couple of times. The meat at the dinner table would get the better of me and once or twice I did pick on an inch of fish or chicken. However, it was just to satisfy my taste buds and I made sure that it was only that.

By Day 4, I was feeling really good about myself. My stomach had flattened, I was feeling full of energy and most importantly I started enjoying filling my body up with salads and fruits. It was a really strange experience for me as I used to be a junk food addict. Suddenly, I wanted to keep my body “clean” and oily food no longer appealed to me. By Day 8, everything was looser on me. However, as I was not allowed to measure myself before Day 10, the only concrete result was that my pants were much looser on me.

I woke up on Day 10 excited. I was excited that I had completed my first diet. I was excited to get my hand on the measuring tape. The moment of truth had arrived. I stood in front of my mirror and measured all the parts in the Measurement Checklist. I recorded it down. Then I pulled out Day 1′s checklist. The shock, joy, disbelief and sheer ecstasy of seeing it was beyond comprehension. I had lost an average of 5 cm off each part and had dropped 4 kg on the scale. My diet had finally worked!

It’s been two weeks since I’ve been off the diet and my weight hasn’t crept back up. The diet suggests that I eat 75% natural food and 25% of anything else. That way, I keep my health and weight in check without forgoing the little indulgence needed. I’m thrilled about finally seeing results and I can’t wait to start the process again next week.

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