Second Cut -- 2 Week Itinerary NZ

And then there was some feedback , some going back and forth with the comunity and friends . 

Here is cut #2 - 

Day 0	23rd Dec	Arrive Auckland 1545	Waterfront Sky Tower
Day 1	24th Dec	Spend day in Auckland
Day 2	25th Dec	Auck - Waitomo	Hobbiton & Glow worm tours - Night at Waitomo	195kms
Day 3	26th Dec	Waitomo - Rotorua - Christchurch	Wai-o-Tapu Sulphur springs - Airport - Arrive Christchurch	146km
Day 4	27th Dec	ChristChurch
Day 5	28th	ChristChurh - Dunedin	Oamaru  Moeraki Tunnel Beach Baldwin street Dunedin market place	360km
Day 6	29th	Dunedin - InverCargill	Slope Point - Bluff -Invercargil	249 kms
Day 7	30th	Invercargill - TeAnau	Early checkin - Glow worm caves	200 kms
Day 8	31st	Te Anau - Milford	Milford cruise - Stay Milford	118 kms
Day 9	1st	Milford - Queenstown	Bunjee - Queenstown explore	287 kms
Day 10	2nd	Queenstown	Queenstown explore
Day 11	3rd	Queens Town  - Pukaki / Mt Cook	Via Arrow Town  and Lake Wanaka	221 kms
Day 12	4th	Lake Pukaki (m cook)- Lake Tekapo - ChristChurch		300 kms
Day 13	5th	Christchurch	Whale watching tours at Kaikoura
Day 14	6th	Christchurch - Auckland
Day 15	7th	Auckland Airport Flight 0900

Our Trip to NZ

Alright, so with the tickets booked its now time to plan the trip.  Thanks to my sister's help, here is the first cut -

Dec 23rd - Day 1 Auckland Arrival 1545
Chill in the city eat some local food

Dec 24th Day 2 Auckland to Waitomo (Tour or Bus or Drive)
Waitomo Caves - Glow worm
Hobitton
Night stay Waitomo

Dec 26th Day 3 Waitomo (bus/car) to Hamilton Airport Flyto Christchurch
Christchurch Check in , explore
Dec 27th Day 4 Christchurch
Gondola ride
Cathedral Square

Dec 28th Day 5 ChristChurch to Dunedin 361km - Pick up a car for the round trip to be returned at christchurch on Jan 5th
Enroute check out -
Omamaru - Penguins and Lunch
Moerari Boulders
Reach Dunedin by evening/night
Dec 29th Day 6 Dunedin
Tunnel Beach
Baldwin street
Dunedin market place

Dec 30th Day 7 Dunedin to Invercargil via Slopepoint
Waikawa Niagara falls cafe for grub - From there Slope point is 25kms.. with gravel roads.
Via Bluff to invercargill
Night at Invercargill

Jan 31st Day 8 Invercargill to Te Anau Lake 158kms
Glow worm caves

Jan 1st Day 9 Te Anau - Milford sound -
Lake Cruise
Night at Milford (is this even possible, if not milford after the cruise the nearest town for stay)

Jan 2nd Day 10 Milford - Queenstown
Half day and night at Queenstown
Queenstown Garden
St peters Church

Jan 3rd Day 11 Queenstown - Arrowtown
Chill in arrow town

Jan 4th Day 12 - ArrowTown - Lake Tekapo
Stay Lake Tekapo

Jan 5th Day 13 - Tekapo to Christchurch

Jan 6th Day 14 - Christchurch - AUCK

Jan 7th - 0900 Return flight AUCK

And then there was food

And then there was food, and lots of it.  Well I can proudly say --- Been there done that as far as the GM diet goes but I am not proud of what I've done in the last 15 hours.
 
Since Midnight yesterday I have had :

* Egg bhurji Pav
* Omlete Pav
* Idli wasa Sambhar
* Half a masala Dosa
* Thali

Yes I feel satisfied but I also feel that I am being unfair. I made the body go through more shit  in the last 15 hours than what I made it go through in a week. May be I should agreed with what Rupali and others had said and taken it slow.

And so to be fair will skip the snack and dinner. Will refrain any tea / cofee till tomoroow.
For now the Chinese Room dinner has been postponed.

I can proudly say that if by mistake I die today I ain't dying hungry.

GM - TV Diet Day 6 - 7

I can see light, its almost  the end of this dark and horrible tunnel. A couple of more hours and I can eat anything that I want.. Huraay..

Day 6 -

I being a part of the cricket team and all was really really scared because I dint want to  faint on the field, that would suck. But because the previous day was brown rice day I was confident I could pull it off. With a bowl full of brown rice told the captain that I am a 100% (heh!). When I got to  the batting, shit! I was getting tired after every other ball. I was so convinced on rotating the strike as I dint want to face many balls that I ended up having a decent knock.

During the innings break they usually serve something and this time it was Idli, mehhhh! couldn't eat it.  Had to live with a box of cucumber and tomatoes.

And this was Day 6 where in you are allowed brown rice and veggies. No fruits yet. By the time I reached home, all known muscles to mankind were beginning to cramp up. Not enough salt in the body, so gobbled up another portion of brown rice with some veggies. Then the feeling began to ris, the feeling of wanting to eat food. "Unbearable"  is the only word which describes it best.
Beer - Chicken, Lemon Chicken - fried rice,  Burger , Paneer Tikka masala and images of many more of my favorite things started to flash before me. But instead all of the above, i had to indulge myself in half a cup of black tea.. Go figure how it felt. Its sucked.

To add to the misery Rupali bought for herself a portion of Bhel and damn the smell of tamarind almost drove me over the cliff. But no, controlled my urges and finished the day with a portion of lettuce salad.
It had been 6 days and I had somehow managed to pull it off against all odds. Rupali was pretty confident that I would never be able to do this. But now she has new found faith in my determination. hehe.

Day 7 -

Now common, who wants to eat fruits and brown rice + veggies on a Sunday. Sunday's is for Idli-Wada sambhar, Sundays is for beer and chicken. Undoubtedly this was the worst day of my life.

Breakfast - Grapes
Lunch - Brown rice + veggies
Mid-snack - water melon

On day 7 you are allowed juices so  had a couple of glasses of mosambi juice through the day.

Like I said today was the toughest day because the urge to eat food was unbearable. Moaned and bitched and cribbed but did not fold, I wasn't ready to give in. One more day that's all there is to it -  said I to myself.

One thing is for sure I miss food much much more than I miss the tele. The tv dint matter alot towards the end, i.e yesterday and today. The thought of food overcame all other desires. :)

Its 22.30 and I believe I am allowed to eat all I want after midnight. Have had Rupali stock the snack boxes, it may sound ridiculous but I actually plan to get up at 12.00 and eat.

Tomorrow is an all new day! A week of GM diet and no TV, I'm kinda amazed at myself. Never thought I would actually be able to do it. Ya sure others do it, but ohh no not me I am the kinds that can't live without food and tv. Well apparently I CAN.

And ya as per the weighing scale I have lost 5 kgs , what was 104 is now 99. Big plans for tomorrow. Have to put all my energies into gaining these 5 kgs back.

Having spent the longest week of my life, I look forward to some real human food. 

GM - TV Diet Day 5

Meh!!!!! Writing this with a very sad and heavy heart. 

Day 5 is supposed to be braised beef and tomatoes and so for the vegetarians its brown rice and tomatoes.

Had early morning cricket practice today and shit I got tired really fast. Offcourse thats what will happen if you've only had milk and bananas the previous day. Survived the practice and from the looks of it, I think i might have lost +- an inch around the waist.

Rupali was claiming my face looks smaller and thinner, but then thats what happens when you don't eat food its called Malnutrition :) .

The heavy headed'ness is now gone, but then the sadness inside is growing. I was at a colleagues desk today and she had a plate full of chips on her desk, I so wanted to dig into it and enjoy the flavours, the spice, the texture. Ohhhh I miss everything about food.

Its 20:30 and I have had:

Pre-breakfast - A cup full of tomatoes with some pepper
Breakfast -  Some more tomatoes and a few spoons of brown rice
FYI --- Brown rice is ridiculous I mean is not even rice, stop calling it rice. It tastes funny and makes me chew so much more than I should.

Lunch - Cup of brown rice
Snack - Some tomatoes and rice
Dinner - Not that I am very enthusiastic about it but ya some more brown rice.

Have a movie planned tonight and man-o-man am I going to miss having the popcorn.

Its been 5 days and I haven't eaten an ounce of normal food and lived without the Tele.

BOOORRRRIIINNNNGGGGGGGG, when will I have food. Have big plans for when the program
finishes, I am going to go crazy and eat the shit out everything I can.

GM - TV Diet Day 4

Yes! I survived.

It was a tough day, I mean good on the stomach no doubt about it. I wasn't feeling full and everything but then the cravings are now beginning to set it.  I had gone to drop Rupali off to her swimming thing and on the way back SHIT, I wanted to eat everything. Wanted to eat the Paani Puri, the Rolls and what not. Came very close to giving up but then din't, came home ate some Cucumber and tomatoes. Called it a day.

It was difficult, to gather the courage to kinda resist the urge of giving up. But then here I am into day 4 having survived more than half of the Diet plan, why give up now.  The scale shows no changes, am down 3 kgs but it is as it was on Day 3.

Again, even while typing the one thing that keeps coming to mind is that "I miss food."

Day 4 is supposed to be the yukiest of them all, mainly because you are only allowed to eat  bananas and milk. And not more than 8 bananas that is. And so, I made myself a thick milkshake with 4 bananas and with the remaining 4 in my hand began the dreaded day.

Its 20.20 now and I have had :

* Breakfast - A banana ( thats right, singular.)
* Lunch - Half a glass of very thick milkshake + a banana
* Mid snack - Took a few gulps of this same milk shake
* Dinner  - Have 2 bananas remaining from the ration and so am going to make some fresh milkshake out of that.

I was reading through the above and there's so much of the word "banana" in it.

Hussshhhhhh.........3 more days to go.

With very little enthusiasm, *santosh raises his fist in the air and tries to shout with a feeble voice --- Hit me harder 'GM diet' , I am still standing.

GM - TV Diet Day 3

Yeyy!!! And I am almost there, well kinda halfway there aaa actually not today. Today  is day 3 of a 7 day program. Tomorrow if I survive I would have done half a Gm diet which is not all that bad for a foodie like me. The love for food now knows no bounds. hehe And ya I mean cooked, humanly eatable food.

A bowl full of lettuce is what I had for dinner imagine that. Here I consider myself a foodie and love eating food, and what did i eat for dinner Salad. I hate that word "salad" doesn't even sound right, may be we should rename it call it - nusa (derived from anus).. So ya had lettuce nusa for dinner., thts sounds about right because thats how it freaking tastes. :)

Couldn't tolerate another round of boiled veggies and hence lettuce nusa it was. Since I did not have to  work I did spend a couple of hours reading which felt nice. Theodoore boone is an interesting character, someone rightly said its like reading nancy drew but the kid knows everything there is to know about Law. Way to go Mr. John Grisham.

Day 3, today I have two hour  badminton sessions and I was very worried if you know this regime will make me weak. And yes it did, got tired really fast but pushed on to play the full two hours.

But because of the work out lo behold the weighing scale showed me having lost 3 kgs. Not that I am not going to gain it all back, but damn this is cool. As per the Gmdietworks website in the beginning of day 3 you will see a loss of 2-3 lbs.

And the heavy head that's just become like a thing which is always there, through out the day.

Its 17:15 now and I have had :

* Breakfast - A cup of water melon
* Mid snack - some more water melon and strawberries
* Lunch - Handful of boiled veggies + cucumber and tomatoes
* Evening snack - Some more water melon

And I feel full, I feel stuffed. But I do miss food, normal insano wala khana. Yesterday evening the office snack had kanda bhajji and i am a big big fan but no can't do. Had to do with my veggies.
And to add to that today morning breakfast in the office, freaking vada sambhar. Simply cannot resist, but no with determination I looked the other way and walked to the coffee machine to get me some black coffee.

I have this sad feeling growing inside me, when when will i get to eat normal food or will I ever be able to eat normal food again. What if the world ends tonight, shit I would have had veggies and fruits on the day I die thats pathetic.

Tomorrow is the difficult day, bananas and milk. A maximum of 8 bananas and a maximum of three glasses of milk, that's all. And did i tell you, I hate milk. I hate to the point of almost vomiting, yuk how can one drink a glass of milk with nothing in it.

The plan is to make sort of a  banana milk smoothie, I really really hope I can survive tomorrow. Cuz after tomorrow its a walk in the park with the rice and all that.

Bring it on you GM diet...I am still game..