Day 5 of IF

Today is the fifth day of IF. The scale doesn't show any changes, however I'm happy that I complied with the commitment and kept the promise. In each day since the start of IF; I have been eating dinner in between 7:00 to 8:00 PM and the meal next day sometimes in between 12:00 to 1:00 PM. This usually results in 16 hours of fasting window and 8 hours of eating window. Living in a family with a kid and different family members with different diet requirements it is very difficult to stick with exact time schedule for the lunch and dinner. Though I need to eat lunch at 2:00 PM to meet the cycle of 18/6 its very difficult to wait until 2:00 PM for the lunch. I need to adjust with the time schedule of other family members as well. However from the next week I will try my best to increase the fasting window to 18 hours. 

One thing that baffles me is why there has been no any significant weight loss in past five days ? Or is it too early for me to expect reduction in weight in just five days. Yes that may be true. However one thing that I need to improve myself is controlling the diet during eating window and doing some moderate level exercises. I didnt do any exercise thinking that if I do exercise it may increase my hunger and may result in eating more once I break the fasting. But from some reading as of now; I think I can exercise sometime in between 4-7 PM just before my last meal. I also think it would be good idea; because if I do exercise during fasting window the hunger may increase and I may end of eating more. So from next week I will jjoin Gym and start doing moderate exercise sometimes in between 5-7 PM. Also another mistake in past five days was eating too much after breaking the fasting and the food was mostly rice. In the coming week I need to strict white rice to only one mean and add more complex carbs like roti and more vegetables in the dinner.

Following will be the action point for coming days to reduce the weight by 2 kg per week for every week;

• Increase the fasting window to 18 hours.
• Eat rice only on one meal and add roti in one meal.
• Engage in some form of physical activity in between 5-7 pm (either join GYM or go for brisk walking)
• Eat more fruits and vegetables.
• Do some yoga and meditation in the morning.
• Not more than 3 meals during the eating window.

So with all these action plans the target is to reach in between 68-70 KG by the end of March.

Intermittent Fasting

After many failed attempts of reducing weight, I decided to go with the recent trend of Intermittent Fasting (IF). Although fasting has existed culturally in our society for long; in recent time it has also become a part of life for staying physically fit. Today was my first day of IF and just finished my fasting window. Yesterday night I ate my dinner at 7:00 PM and didn't eat anything except water until 12:00 AM today (16 hours of fasting since last meal). The experience on the first day was good. And there was no any problem. Although there was some craving for hunger at 10:00 am in the morning i somehow managed it. I also did some yoga and meditation which might keep me motivated in this plan. I plan to continue this for next two months and see good results

Life is like riding a bicycle….to have a balance you must keep on moving

I left my first job at a local NGO in Pokhara in 2008 to pursue my master’s degree in public health (MPH) in Institute of Medicine (IOM); Kathmandu. Had I remained satisfied to my bachelor’s degree; my job in a NGO and my carefree life at Pokhara; I would have never been at the place where I’m today. “A journey of thousand mile begins with a first step” and leaving a job in Pokhara and moving to Kathmandu for master’s degree was my first step in a mile-long journey of life. After completing my MPH I joined one of the most reputed INGO in the field of HIV in the role of program officer with my station in Dhangadi of Kailali district. This was one of the most remarkable milestones in my career. With in three years tenure in this organisation I moved from Dhangadi to Pokhara and then to Kathmandu. In three years of my professional career in this organisation I was amidst a super professional and high performing team constantly monitored and coached by supportive & care taking supervisors. There was nothing to complain despite some overpressure during some day of the week. After three years I decided to move to another organisation. Change is necessary for growth of individual and organisation. I think the desire for change at that time forced me to change this organisation. After this organisation I joined another renowned organisation working globally in the field of child rights and implementing global fund program in Nepal. During five years tenure I got everything a public health professional wants in his career. Delegation of important tasks to me by the supervisors; exposures in the national and international forums; trust on me by my colleagues and opportunity to take lead role in role out of some national level key activities sharpened my public health skills. I was fully satisfied in my role and giving my hundred percent. Despite having everything a public health professional wants sometimes I felt like something was missing. I don’t know why but the inner intuition in me was telling that after working more than ten years in the field on HIV and having so much experience it’s time to search for international job now. Though there was enough in my plate; I still had an appetite for international job. After one year of vigorous search I finally landed in an Australian organisation working in eight countries of Asia Pacific Region. It was like a dream come true for me. My first international job and staying and working outside the country for a long term for the first time. I was super excited. The first few months went very fine. I was with my wife and enjoying the extravagant and lavish life style in the fastly booming city of Asia. My employer is still processing for work visa and I may need to travel back and forth untill this is settled. And this sometimes force me to think “did I make right decision?’. Yes I have made right decision. Change was necessary and I did it. I sometimes relate this to the famous quote “Life is like riding a bicycle. To have a balance you have to keep up moving. If you stand in same place for long you are likely to fall.” Absolutely true…..I have moved for balance. So no regrets………..Standing still in same place for long takes you nowhere.

Movie Review "Jatrai Jatra"

There are very few movies which have taken Nepali movie standard to new height. To name some among these are "Jatra" and its squeal "Jatrai Jatra". The common feeling most audience have while watching most Nepali movie in hall is; very poor acting; unrealistic scenes; undigestible dialogues and poor comedy if there are any some comedy scenes. Most of the times while watching Nepali movie its very painful to sit patiently for around three hours and watch the movie till end. But the movie "Jatra" and its sequale "Jatrai Jatra" has changed the whole dynamics of Nepali movie. Unlike other nepali movies you dont feel disconnected to the movie scenes. Each and every scene in this movie relates to daily activity of every Nepalese citizens. You are not forced to laugh by undigestible forceful comedy scenes. The small comedy scenes are interwined and plotted to an interesting story line to which each and every audience feels connected. This is the most strong part of the movie Jatrai Jatra. Besides this the acting of three lead characters Phanindra; Munna and Yas is superb; realistic and down to earth. The lead actress Sampu (Barsha) and the child actor Iman had done full justice to their role. The new characters added in the sequale "Daya Hang Rai" and "Raja Ram Paudel" have also done damn super good job. The cinematography is superb specially in the last part of movie which shows the scene of Pokhara and Phewa lake. In some of the movie plots there are some unrealistic turns and sudden change in plots which is a bit weird. Otherwise the movie is flawless and fully entertaining.

Moving to New Place

After working for more than three years in a USAID funded project and almost five years in a Global Fund funded project in Nepal; I had made decision that its now time to move on and look for international job. Before making this decision I had tried for PhD desperately in many institutions but I must say luck didn’t favor me and I never got tempting offer for PhD. Though there were some offers for self-funded PhD I didn’t like the idea of going for self-funded PhD by leaving a good paying job back in home. After many unsuccessful attempts for PhD I consoled myself saying international jobs should be the next in pipeline for me. Then I started hunting for the international job. But it was not as easy as I had imagined.

Though there was no any specific preference for international job; I had always wished I could start from one of the Asian countries. Due to the family reason also it was very important for me to shift to any Asian country. After hundreds of applications and a few interviews I was finally offered a place  by a Australian organisation implementing Global Fund  regional grant in Asia Pacific region. I was so desperate for international job that I couldn’t make any comparisons or negotiate with the current or new organisation and made the instant decision. I was determined that I must move on and staying in same place for a long time will bring saturation and some frustration at some point in time. So without any second thought I made decision to move  for new responsibility in a new organisation.

A regional hub of Asia; a city of expats; a fastly booming economy; a city of angels; best destination for students looking for quality education in low price and many more. A city that has everything for everyone. I was super super excited to be living in the city for at least next two years. (Though the contract is for three years my plan is to live in the city for at least two years).

It has been just three months since I moved to new job. In the past three months I had been busy in adjusting myself to the hustling and bustling life of new city. The major things that I did in past three months besides the regular office work are; I moved to an apartment; tried learning a little bit of local language and visited a beach during long weekend. My office is processing work permit and looks like it takes some more days. Otherwise I’m enjoying and having a good time in new city.

Review of 2.0

I had fully enjoyed watcing the movie Robot. "Can Robots have feelings and emotions?" "What happens if such machines develop emotions and fall in love with human?" ........ These were the important points raised in the movie "Robot" and was worth watching. However the sequale of movie Robot; "2.0" is not as interesting and as worth watching as its previous movie Robot.

The movie 2.0 starring superstars Rajnikant and Akshay Kumar; has raised an issue of how too much use of mobile phones is impacting the overall ecosystem. In the movie Akshya Kumar plays the role of an Ornithologist who is disappointed with the fact that telecommunication companies increase their frequency much higher than that allowed to them by the law to survive the increasing competition between different service providers. This has killed many birds which in turn has affected the overall ecosystem. So to save birds government must follow stringent regulations and strict monitoring on the telecommunication service providers. This is the crux of the movies story and directors has added different animations, flavors and cooked up some small stories to support the main idea.

Although first half of the movie is very interesting; in the second half audience start getting bored and film looks little bit lucid. In the earlier movie Robot; the use of animations and technology was digestible but in this movie too much use of animations and technology makes the movie unrealistic and unpalatable. Its a mediocre movie with many areas of improvement and not meeting the expectations of audience who were desperately waiting for the sequale of movie Robot.

आज अचानक..................

आज अचानक दैनिकी साह्रै monotonus भएको अनुभव भयो। लेख्ने पढ्ने बानी त हराएर गएछ । कुनै एउटा समय थियो हरेक हप्ता नयाँ नयाँ पुस्तक पढेर सकाएको हुनै पर्थ्यो मलाई, हरेको दिन सुत्नु भन्दा अगाडि ब्लग मा केही न केही लेखेकै हुनुपर्थ्यो । आज ब्लग हेरेको त , ब्लग मा कुनै लेख नलेखेको पनि दुई बर्ष हुन लागिसकेछ । हैट समय जती सबै फेस्बूक  टुइटर्  र youtube ले खाएछ । सिर्जन्सिलता भन्ने चिज सबै मरेर गएछ । आजकाल ते केही कुरा लेख्न खोज्यो भने पनि हात नै सर्दैन, दिमाग मा केही आउन्दैन । कम्प्युटर को अत्यधिक प्रयोग, जे कुरा पनि गूगल मा खोज्ने बानी र कपि पेस्ट सिन्ड्रोम ले दिमाग त साह्रै बोधो बनाएछ । सधैं यस्तै भयो भने त खत्तम हुन्छ । अब जीवन सैली मा फेरी परिवर्तन गर्नु पर्ने बानी गर्नु पर्ने भो । दैनिकी लाई सिर्जन्सिल बनाउनुपर्छ । हरेक हप्ता नयाँ नयाँ पुस्तक हरु पढ्ने बानी बसाल्नु पर्छ अनी सधैं केही न केही लेखिरहनु पर्छ ।