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Counting Calories

October 31, 2024 | By

Kanchan’s calorie count compels Santosh Bakaya to skip her favourite balushahi. Enjoy Episode 19 of Santosh Bakaya’s ever popular Morning Meanderings Season 4 – your favourite morning read with your morning coffee! ☕ Heartwarming episodes that will make your Thursday mornings extra special! ☀️📆 🎉

weighing machine

“Main moti ho gayi hoon”

It has been only six days since I started going to the gym, and every day I glean some intriguing anecdotes, some tips on how to reduce weight, and on what to eat and what to refrain from eating.

At home, I have reluctantly started keeping a strict check on my calorie intake, and even bought a weighing machine, which is mostly used by our slim Kanchan.

“No, I won’t have the balushahi,” Kanchan remarked, casting furtive looks at the box of balushahi, which we had bought a day back, but on second thoughts, did not want to eat for fear of gaining calories.

“Why ever not?” I asked.

Main moti ho gayi hoon,” she said, casting sheepish glances at her figure.

“How many calories are there in balushahi?” Kanchan’s sudden question stumped me. Well, I had never counted the calories, only munched on my balushahi.

I burst into a litany of giggles looking at her Scarlett O’Hara waist.

“Why are you laughing, Didi?”

“Just remembered what the doctor had told your husband,” I retorted, with a twinkle in my eyes.

“What?” she said, hiding a naughty smile.

Khud to itney motey taazey ho gayey ho, apni wife ko itna patla kaise kar diya?

Arrey, I was sick then.” Like every wife, she jumped to her husband’s defense.

I was afraid that if she did not pick up the box soon, I would give in to the temptation, and start hogging like the glutton I was trying to prove I was not!

I held out a couple of balushahis to her. “Let me go and weigh myself first,” said Kanchan, hopping on the overworked machine.

Whenever Kanchan was not doing the chores, she would be found standing on the weighing machine, her head hanging down, eyes widening, and face grim. I felt she was preparing for the Olympics—such was her sincerity in losing a few grams.

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“Green tree reduces weight?” she asked, looking at me having green tea.

“Green tree?”

“Yes, that is what I am saying, green tree!”

“If you hang from green trees, you might,” I chuckled.

She grimaced and then smiled.

When last seen, she was sitting on a chair, taking delicate sips from a cup of green tea, and chomping on balushahi!

This was too tempting a sight and my hand furtively sneaked towards the balushahi box. Then with electrifying speed, I pulled it back, just in the nick of time, before it could touch the dreaded balushahi. The balushashi looked just as surprised as I was at my supreme control over the urges.

Apna weight lekar aati hoon,” she said, and again dashed towards the weighing machine.

 

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Dr Santosh Bakaya is the author of three mystery novels for young adults, and a book of essays titled Flights From My Terrace, which was recently published as an e-book on Smashwords. Her poetic biography of Mahatma Gandhi, Ballad Of Bapu has been published by Vitasta Publishers, Delhi, India in May 2015 and has been receiving rave reviews from everywhere. Although a Political theorist, with a doctorate in political theory, it is literature which has been her first love. She was awarded the Reuel international award for language and literature 2014 for her long poem Oh Hark!, which forms part of the Significant Anthology. Many of her poems have figured in the highly commended category in Destiny Poets, a UK based website and many are part of international anthologies. Right now, she is giving the final touches to her satirical novel, tentatively titled Sanakpur Shenanigans.
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