Invictus Diet Analysis
97% of our Invictus interviewees indulged in moderation whenever they wanted to.
Ah, one of the most important sections and the one you’ve probably been looking for, right?
Let’s begin with the most important finding in terms of diet – every single person ate whatever they wanted to and didn’t follow the diet charts completely. This isn’t a bad thing; it just means that as people with healthy taste buds, these diabetics were not going to torture themselves with boring food. While some felt a bit guilty, they were adamant that they were not going to give up on their little treats.
It doesn’t mean that they didn’t care for their diet at all; they wanted to adhere to a healthy lifestyle. So, instead of giving up their favourite food, they have found ways to include it in their diets. This doesn’t happen overnight, these diabetics already knew the diet charts so thoroughly it’s ingrained in them; so when they choose their …show more content…
Ramila Shroff, it’s all about balance. “I balance the other food according to what I eat. Let’s say if I eat sheera, then I’ll eat fewer chapattis. Or if I see something I would like to eat, then I break it into smaller pieces to have later”.
This brings us to an important point – portioning the food that tempts you. For us Indians, our main temptation is sweet food. We have such a wide variety of sweets that cater to every kind of taste bud that it becomes so hard to resist when we have to give it up. But you don’t have to, not entirely. You can’t eat 3-4 pieces, but you could eat anything from ½ a piece to 1 piece depending on the size of the sweet. In fact 86.8 % of the diabetics who ate whatever they wanted to said that they measured the portions of sweets they had instead of giving them up completely.
Rabishankar Gupta has his own way of doing things. If he indulges in a sweet, he’ll make sure to have a large serving of salad with it. This way his blood sugars remain relatively stable and he gets to eat whatever he wants
Ah, one of the most important sections and the one you’ve probably been looking for, right?
Let’s begin with the most important finding in terms of diet – every single person ate whatever they wanted to and didn’t follow the diet charts completely. This isn’t a bad thing; it just means that as people with healthy taste buds, these diabetics were not going to torture themselves with boring food. While some felt a bit guilty, they were adamant that they were not going to give up on their little treats.
It doesn’t mean that they didn’t care for their diet at all; they wanted to adhere to a healthy lifestyle. So, instead of giving up their favourite food, they have found ways to include it in their diets. This doesn’t happen overnight, these diabetics already knew the diet charts so thoroughly it’s ingrained in them; so when they choose their …show more content…
Ramila Shroff, it’s all about balance. “I balance the other food according to what I eat. Let’s say if I eat sheera, then I’ll eat fewer chapattis. Or if I see something I would like to eat, then I break it into smaller pieces to have later”.
This brings us to an important point – portioning the food that tempts you. For us Indians, our main temptation is sweet food. We have such a wide variety of sweets that cater to every kind of taste bud that it becomes so hard to resist when we have to give it up. But you don’t have to, not entirely. You can’t eat 3-4 pieces, but you could eat anything from ½ a piece to 1 piece depending on the size of the sweet. In fact 86.8 % of the diabetics who ate whatever they wanted to said that they measured the portions of sweets they had instead of giving them up completely.
Rabishankar Gupta has his own way of doing things. If he indulges in a sweet, he’ll make sure to have a large serving of salad with it. This way his blood sugars remain relatively stable and he gets to eat whatever he wants