IN Digestion

My Dad is the oldest in a family of 15+ Brothers and Sisters (I always forget how many).

My Dad’s brother died a few years ago from a heart attack, (or some other heart related problem).

My Dad’s other brother died last week of a heart attack, (or some other heart related problem).

My mom called me this morning to tell me that my Dad was in dallas for two weeks because his other brother now is also hospitolized because of heart problems and he just had a stroke.

So, you can imagine that my family from the UK flew down, my dad from ohio and I drove in from Houston to be here -

The main point of the story is, I was alarmed also for my fathers health - considering that he is the oldest of these guys - (he reassured me he eats healthy, etc. and is in good standing with the doctors) - the fact he pops about 7 pills a day though is not so reassuring.

But THAT is not even the main point of the story.

Today was not such an unordinary day in my life (food wise), so you get the idea of what I normally eat and why I am alarmed.

1. I woke up, consitpated and sick to my stomach so I had one of those mix in water fiber drinks (ispaghol for the desis) - mostly because of the two boxes of maceroni I had consumed the day before.

2. Had I not waken up consitpated, I probably would have had two aslee gee parathas with some short of salan, or meat

3. I had two super size meals (frenchfries, burgers, cokes, the whole deal)

4. I ate the super size meal because I was to constipated to eat pizze (there was a pizza hut right there)

5. When I arrived in dallas, my cousins had gotten me a pizza.

6. I was to consitpiated to eat the pizza in point number 5.

7. I ate it anyway (but only two slices)

8. I over heard my cousins asking my other cousins if we should have paratha salan or paratha chain for suhoor

9. Thank god they said parata chai, at least its not some glob of meat

10. This was not even a full day, this is just an average day

On a better day, I can uusally down two plates of biryani and 5-6 slices of extra cheese pizza. (and thats just all, dinner (after 6pm) (lets call this a good day)

I average about 4-6 good days a month, and 5-10 average days a month

Combine that with a pack of cigarettes daily… and all the men in my family from both sides having heart problems, and diabetes - and blogging being the closest thing to exercise in my life….

I am pretty sure I am going to die of heart problems, pretty early.

The thing is I really sincerely do try to change my eating habits daily. I even ‘make’ my wife say she will not give in to me and not let me eat what I want, and instead I will try to eat only dhaal chaaval.

But since I am such a good arguer somehow I convince her daily (shes kinda smart) to let me eat what I want, and that its better for me.

The reason I can do that is because I actually believe what I say.

My most common argument is that its better for me to eat the way I want so that I am inspired, so that I can do the work on my task list.

My best argument recently was if she lets me eat as much as I want of a typical thing (I wanted to eat two things of maceroni and cheese that day) - I will get tired of it quicker and not want to eat it anymore.

Got to go, i think i feel a bowel movement coming on…