We are responding too quickly

Someone responds to something on Facebook or WhatsApp and we rush to correct it! We feel that urge to go there and tell them what is our position with more clarity. We feel like opposing wrong thoughts. I edit Wikipedia so when there is something wrong I see which is wrong in my eyes, I rush to correct it. Why?

Is our response really needed? Is the other person at least thankful to us for correcting him or he is considering it some kind of debate and wants to show us down in public? If we doubt his intentions, why to debate in the first place? Why to waste our energy? There are two reasons for not responding. First is if the person has bad intentions, whatever you may say, he will keep opposing you and second is who has said that I am right all the times? Also have I taken a contract to keep on improving people? Do I get money for it? When whole world is running behind money, why should I keep wasting energy in trying to correct the people when they even don't have curtsy to thank or thank in mind at least?

If what I am trying to convey is science and laws of nature, the other person will have to understand it one day. I am trying to speed up his development but what if he refuses to budge. The best way would be to document it only once that I was trying to help but the help was refused. Trying to help beyond that is a madness. 

This social media and internet is somewhere responsible for the anxiety we feel. Hence limiting its use is one of the best solutions to get mental peace at least when we are stressed too much. The benefit of social media and internet is that we can communicate with anyone very easily but the downside is that anyone can communicate and then control us also very easily. Many a times we are also not aware who is controlling us and why and we give our freedom willingly in the hands of other people. 

Skulls and Roses

First of all thank you Vijay Ambolkar for sharing his Amazon Prime Video's account details with me so that I could see this show by Raghu and Rajiv. I am following Raghu since long and after watching art created by him, one feels a strange kind of confidence and nice feeling about themselves. It's difficult to express. I have always felt confident after seeing each episode of Roadies. 

Reading his autobiography is an empowering experience. What a person can do with his talent and hard work is visible in that autobiography. I am highly inspired by this greatly talented person. 

I just love the tasks he creates. I can see exact replica of real life situations in the tasks and the politics in the shows and also the learning one gains during his shows is real and useful in life while living day to day life. 

Everyone wants to be a hero of his life and Raghu brings out this hero in you. There are many things which he might not share directly about the show and one has to find out these connections. That is also a great creativity of his where one has to apply their own talent to find out the talent in his show. In short he is amazing!

Little hypoglycemia is okay for me!

This can become a controversial post but I do not want this to become one. Hence clarifying some points in the beginning. I am using a medical term here and I am fully aware of it. This post is not for people who are not mentally of physically ready to face the consequences of hypoglycemia. I mean hypoglycemia can be a serious condition and people can faint and might need immediate medical attention.

The title should be read as (While reducing weight) little hypoglycemia is okay for me! This post should be read in continuation of the previous post where I am sharing my thoughts / experiences while reducing weight. But for those who have not read my previous post, I would like to share in brief what it is all about. I am trying to reduce weight and documenting my thoughts during this process. I am doing it for me. I am in the correct mindset of weight reduction now and I do not remain so all the times. These posts are a reminder to me if I forget what my thoughts were when I was in the right mindset for weight reduction. But why not to let others benefit from my thoughts if they can be is the thought behind writing these posts. 

After following Dr. Jagannath Dixit for long time on YouTube, I found that his inspiration is Dr. Shreekant Jichkar so I found about him and found some of his talks. He has explained very well that unless there will be some hypoglycemia, glucagon cannot be released and this glucagon is natural fat burning hormone! So hypoglycemia means we are in the process of burning fat. 

Hypoglycemia makes you feel a little dizzy and weak. One also feels little irritation at the level of mind and I feel that I am easily provocated with little stimulus. Its also difficult to concentrate for sometime and I find difficulty in sleeping if I have not eaten anything. 

The list can be increased and there are other symptoms as well. But what I want to point out here is that I am ready to face all these things because I know that I am reducing weight and little discomfort is okay. How much discomfort is little and how much of it is too much is very subjective. It is not easy to define.

I feel happy now a days when there is little hypoglycemia. Because I am aware that now glucagon has started its function. Its visible to me on weighing scale as well. 

I would request readers to not to misunderstand me. I am nowhere saying that one has to do these experiments on their own by reading this blog. I am also not saying that consultation of nutritionist and physicians is not needed. It is very well needed and it must be taken whenever needed. 

I am just documenting my experiences / thoughts when I am in a very positive state of mind. Because I do not remain always in this positive state of mind. I lose control many times and then I eat whatever I want and whatever quantity I want but after eating I say again to myself - "I will try again to win this temptation to overeat." Yes, let me confess that I overeat. In fact many of us do overeat and overeating has become a culture now.  But it is injurious to health and at least when it is injurious I mean when it has gone to proportions when it is injurious, then at least we should stop or should try to control overeating. 

The consequences of obesity are so much dreadful that I am happy to have little hypoglycemia now!

My thoughts while reducing weight

I am trying to reduce weight and it is easier said than done. Everyone around feels that they know the scientific way to reduce it and it can be really frustrating and some people even lose their life but cannot lose weight till the end of their life! For example, Ricky Naputi. I have created a Wikipedia article on him as a reminder to myself that the fate is faced is not impossible for anyone if they will not take enough care.

I do not feel like talking anything scientific about the process of weight reduction here. Weight reduction is possible by using scientific ways is a fact and nutritionist will be able to tell more about it. They have that right and necessary training. Here I want to share how I am convincing my own mind to reduce weight. So how to achieve the scientifically possible goal and what mental attitude I am keeping is the topic of this post. While sharing this, I must declare what has helped me mostly in achieving this state of mind. Naidu sir and Chinmay Yuva Kendra and the discussions in Chinmay Yuva Kendra has helped me to think in this direction and the things you will read in this post and elsewhere has surely some impact of these things.

I have already reduced about 19 kg of weight primarily by calorie restriction and counting calories is the most effective way to know the mathematics behind weight reduction. Sometimes we are able to do that as well. We count the calories correctly but when it comes to restricting them, we have to fight a lot with our own mind and that becomes very difficult. I do not claim anywhere that I have won my mind or it is a easy task but it is surely a way for faster progress along with scientific knowledge. I am also writing this blog post as a loud thinking. It will serve as a reminder to me when I will forget what were my thoughts because of which I was able to reduce so much of weight. Because "thoughts get translated into action" is my belief. Hence doing work on the thoughts will bring multi fold results than working on behavior / external actions. Nayana (Dr. Abhay Bang) also says that the results of research are always multi fold than other methods like struggle etc. 

• If I will think that I was getting to eat a lot and now I have to reduce that for weight reduction, its painful. But if I will think that what I have to do is fasting and I am getting eat a little during that fasting, that will make me happy. Now is it safe to do fasting? In my opinion, yes for me at least. If you have some doubt about it, you should consult your physician.
• Unless I will stop food, the body will not start burning fats which it has stored. So giving it some opportunity to burn fats is very much necessary.
• If I am afraid of having some micro-nutrient deficiencies, I can always take a multivitamin tablet as mentioned by Dr. Roy Taylor in one of his conversation video with a patient.
• I claim many times that I can eat it and not eat it as well. If I have really achieved that state of mind, not eating it will be beneficial science tells me. So it is a time to exercise mind control.
• Telling mind that nothing will happen even if I will not eat is very very important. Our mind is so much clever that it provides us with all kind of logic to eat food but no harm will happen is a reality. In fact eating more will cause harm is a reality. 
• I am not running away from the food for the whole life. I can start eating normally (what normal means at that time is different thing) once my BMI is below 25 and will need to reduce the weight again if the BMI goes above it.
• Water is always there and I can drink it as much as I want (its not scientifically correct in fact because excess of water can also kill) and when I want.
• It will surely cause a little trouble but it is in best interest of me to take this trouble now so that it will avoid future troubles.
• Weight reduction should be priority of my life! Without being this as a priority, its difficult to achieve it. 
• Not overdoing it is the key. If it will start causing serious conditions, I know I have to stop, take some steps back and try again. Nothing wrong if I fail. 
• Eating proteins over carbohydrates delays the feeling of hunger for the next meal is my experience. Also eating proteins reduces the feeling of weakness is also my experience.

Thanks a lot for reading. A word of caution. Do not try to reduce weight if it is not needed. I would not suggest anyone to reduce weight if their BMI is already below 25. 

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai 

Science means learning to say 'I don't know'!

I read an article which is an interview with Dr. Ashok Vaidya which has this title and I am compelled to think on this topic because it is such a wonderful thought! 

We need to read the title carefully. The title does not say that science means saying I don't know. But it says that Science means learning to say I don't know.

Not knowing is neither crime nor a credit but generally people consider that if they will give this answer of "I don't know", they are making some crime and hence as per a source, people in India misguide instead of saying that they don't know if they are asked a question whose answer they are not aware of.

Saying I don't know does not mean shrugging off responsibility always. It can mean so many other things. It means that the person is honest. It means that the person probably knows something other but not this particular information. It also means that the person is not interested in that field and do not want to continue to think in the same line of logic.

One is not supposed to say that they don't know but they should learn to say it in a creative way. In the end no one knows everything and there is no one who does not know anything. So saying that we do not know simply means that we do not pass a particular standard of knowing about that issue in that field. It does not mean that we do not know anything at all.

My experience is, the more I say this sentence, the more I am inclined to solve that problem because I secretly feel guilty for not knowing something. Its possible that if some wrong answer is given, the person who asked the question will also forget it and the person who gave answer will also forget what he shared because he answered only for the same of answering. In contract a person who pauses and says that he does not know might think about it later and may take it up as a challenge to know the answer.

Saying I don't know is difficult. Hence people avoid saying it and give some wrong answer instead. We should throw away the burden to know everything.

I remember that when I met Himmatrao Bawaskar, he shared with me that if does not understand something about a patients symptoms, he asks them to wait and starts reading the book in front of them and tries to find out the correct diagnosis in front of patients! What a great level of honesty! I love such honest people from the bottom of my heart and my salute to them!!!

Let me tell you from my own experience what happens when you give this answer of I don't know. Nothing much happens most of the times. In most of the cases, the person asks you to find out the information. You request for some time to gain the information and next time you give information confidently. Let me share with you that in this process, people's trust increases on you. So though it might feel momentarily painful and embarrassing to show the ignorance, in the longer run, it is always the best policy. It prevents harm, it prevents damages arising out of actions one might take because of ignorance.

Naidu sir had said once that "No question is a silly question". So let's not be afraid to ask questions and when we are asked a question and if we are not aware of the answer, lets not be afraid to say (because we can always start the process of finding it anytime) - I don't know! 

The economic side of Dixit diet

When you eat only two times a day, it has tremendous benefits is a known fact now. It surely has certain limitations as well but in current situation for me I am finding more benefits. One of the benefits I overlooked is the economic benefit.

When you eat outside, you tend to eat more because the food is more attractive and tasty as well. The most important thing to consider here is that the food when purchased outside in hotels is costlier than the food prepared at home.

One can surely eat anything outside in Dixit diet but we can always parcel it and eat it at our home. Bringing the food home and then eating it will lead to increased monitoring of the food intake by other members at home. One can always do this bringing parcel home once in a while but the main diet is supposed to be at home as per Dixit diet which is a great money saver.

Hence Dixit diet is healthy as well as economic diet apart from a successful weight reduction technique. 

Demonetization

I cannot even begin to start sharing the greatness of a person named Narendra Modi who has shown the courage to do demonetization! I am a very small person to talk anything about politics and I am also not interested in politics at all. So definitely my liking Narendra Modi has no political connotations because I do not agree with all the statements made by him and in fact I have tried to ridicule him for some of his wrong statements. But I have become a die hard fan of Modi after and because of demonetization. 

I am not a person interested in politics hence do not tell me the issues with BJP because I agree with most of them. Also I am not an expert in the field so do not ask me fact and figures because you will need to study them if you are interested in it but I have this right to share that I love this person from bottom of my heart because of this one decision of demonetization!

I can see how much rattled some people are because of demonetization and we can guess the reason why. They are so much angry on Modi because of this but on the other hand they cannot even express this anger freely! Because the moment they will do so, they will get exposed of their own corruption! Yes, its as easy and simple as it is but it is so painful to accept that they are going to any level to prove that demonetization is a failure! I feel lot of pain when I see minds provocated for Modi hate by these people and I also feel bad that many youths are brainwashed with Modi hate only to prove that demonetization was not something great! 

I have few arguments to make. One is that demonetization has the capacity to reduce corruption and we can see corrupt people getting more afraid in our daily lives by it and second is it has pushed the digital economy which has helped India to grow. It has also brought more transparency in economical transactions as a result. Definitely terrorism has links with money and that too is affected is my speculation. 

Only time will tell if demonetization was a good or bad decision and my appeal is to wait for time to tell the facts but I am amused by the way in which some people are rattled so much! Why? Why they are so much rattled? Something must  has been moved very deeply at very high levels. I do not claim that I understand that but something big has moved at a very higher level and that too in a positive direction mostly is my intuition! As I am not a student of economics, I am forced to use the words like intuition which I do not like to use generally. 

One thing I have learned over years of debate is - if a person gets angry while doing a debate, he surely has some deep connection with the subject. Hence before getting angry on this blog post, please be aware that your intentions will be questioned if you just bash Modi and demonetization without giving logical arguments. But criticisms are always welcome as even Modi says! He himself says that criticisms are welcome then who am I to say that one cannot criticize demonetization? But I would like logical points for pro and against demonetization if you are really a student of economics. Please note that we can read intentions too while words are being spoken! Hence do tell me other positive things which have happened because of demonetization apart from criticism. I am very much interested in knowing other good things which have happened due to demonetization. I might be a critic of Modi for other things but he has won my heart by showing the courage to do demonetization!

I am extremely grateful to this medium of blog because of which a person like me who is a non expert in the field has his voice! I am happy that I can make my voice heard because of it. I am happy that you are reading this blog post. I was feeling suffocated by Modi hate of people rattled by demonetization. I might not be able to argue with those people because I am afraid of them but I am happy that my voice is reaching you apart from them! Feel free to let me know good effects of demonetization as well if you are a student of this field because I am bored of listening only negative remarks of so called 'experts'!

इतना क्यूं सोते हैं हम - प्रसून जोशी

इतना क्यूं सोते हैं हम,
इतना लम्बा, इतना गहरा, बेसुध क्यों सोते हैं हम ।

दबे पाँव काली रातें आती जाती हैं,
दबे पाँव क्या, कभी बेधड़क हो जाती हैं।
और बस करवट लेकर, सब खोते हैं हम।
इतना क्यूं सोते हैं हम।

नींद है या फिर नशा है कोई,
धीरे धीरे जिसकी आदत पड़ जाती है
झूठ की बारिश में सच की खामोश बांसुरी
एक झोंके की राह देखती सड़ जाती है,
बाद में क्यूं रोते हैं हम।
इतना क्यूं सोते हैं हम ।

खेत हमारा बीज हमारे,
हैरत क्या अब फसल खड़ी है,
काटनी होगी छांटनी होगी,
आज चुनौती बहुत बड़ी है,
कांटे क्यूं बोते हैं।
इतना क्यूं सोते हैं हम,

सबने खेला और सब हारे,
बड़ा अनोखा अजब खेल है
इंजन काला,डिब्बे काले,
बड़ी पुरानी ढींठ रेल है
इस रेल में क्यों होते हैं हम।
इतना क्यूं सोते हैं हम,

लोरी नहीं तमाचा देदो,
एक छोटी सी आशा देदो,
वरना फिर से सो जाएंगे
सपनों में फिर खो जाएंगे ।
चलो पाप धोते हैं हम,

इतना क्यूं सोते हैं हम ।

- प्रसून जोशी

My response to 'An Open Letter to Dr. Dixit'

Dear Sir,

Greetings!

The most important thing which I want to share is he is nowhere mentioning about two large meals. He is using the term ‘two meals’. The ‘large’ word which you are mentioning here and also in an article on alnews ( https://www.altnews.in/fact-check-dr-dixits-two-meals-a-day-diet-for-weight-loss-diabetes/), is a self invented word and Dr. Dixit is not mentioning it in my humble opinion.

I am not an MBBS doctor but I am a BAMS doctor who has got formal education and training in clinical research and I have got little experience in clinical and other health related research as well. I have liked your idea of writing an open letter to Dr. Dixit but you will be surprised to see that these kinds of letter are there for Ms. Rujuta Divekar as well.

You are mentioning that you are respecting Dr. Dixit but it seems that you are hurt by his emotional comments in the research article. If that is the case, the right place to counter him will be in the medical journals only and not in the open letter. Because the open letters will allow non experts like me in the field to give his opinion.

I can see your and his ideology and I can see that both of you are right at their respective positions. Please note sir that when he is mentioning that the doctors are looting, you need not take the brunt on you. I am sure that you are a good doctor and that is the reason it is paining you the most. Pain is a subjective feeling and it pains the most to the person who is most sensitive. So I can absolutely understand your pain and be sure that we really respect your knowledge. But that is also true about knowledge of Dr. Dixit and Dr. Jichkar and Dr. Jeson Fung and many others. No one has monopoly over knowledge.

The trial design you have suggested is really interesting and I would suggest interested people to conduct such trials.

I agree with you sir that activism and science should be kept separate. But we do we do that sir in our life? Do we keep it really separate? The book of Prof. Richard Dawkins, ‘Selfish Gene’ was used by rights and lefts also to prove their point. Medical science is also used by both the wings to prove their points.

Your this publication would have received much more value sir if you would have published this in a medical journal. Because then you will have to share your conflict of interest. Please understand that conflict of interest is not a crime but a position but which needs to be declared.

He is mentioning that he is not selling any product, meaning he is declaring his conflict of interests. He is a professor of community medicine meaning he is well within his rights to advice about health to a larger community. You are a physician, hence you are well within your right to treat individual patients.

I would have liked if you would have written something like — ‘Additional advise from a physician who are following Dixit diet / two meals a day’. That would have been much more beneficial. Is it wrong from a student like me to expect this from you sir?

Dr. Abhijeet Safai

Research Officer

Symbiosis International University, Pune

Link: https://medium.com/@abhijeet.safai/dear-sir-521579a739a0

मुझे तो लगता है - जावेद अख्तर

मुझे तो लगता है जैसे किसी ने ये साज़िश  रची है
के लफ्ज़  और मानी में जो रिश्ता है
उसको जितना भी मुमकिन हो कमजोर कर दो
के हर लफ्ज़ बन जाए बेमानी आवाज
फिर सारी आवजोंको ऐसे घट मठ करो
ऐसे गूँदो की शोर कर दो
यह शोर एक ऐसा अँधेरा बुनेगा
की जिसमे भटक जाएंगे
अपने लफ्जों  से बिछड़े हुए
सारे गूंगे मानी
भटकते हुए रास्ता ढूंढ़ते
वक्त की खाई में गिर के मर जाएंगे
और फिर आके बाजार में
खोखले लफ्ज
बेबस गुलामों की मानिंद बिक जाएंगे
ये गुलाम अपने आकाओंके एक इशारे पे
इस तरह युरिश (हमला) करेंगे
के सारे खयालात
की सब इमारत
सारे जज्बात के शिशाघर
मुन्नतिम (demolish) होक रह जाएंगे
हर तरफ जहन की बस्तियों में
यही देखने को मिलेगा
के एक अफ़रातफ़री मची है
मुझे तो हे लगता है की किसी ने ये साज़िश रची है
मगर कोई है की जो कहता है मुझसे
के है आज भी
लफ्जोंमानी के परिस्तारो शहादा
जो मानी को यु बेज़बाँ
लफ्ज़ को ऐसे नीलाम
होने ना देंगे
अभी ऐसे दीवाने है
जो ख़यालात का
सारे जज्बात का
दिल की हर बात का
ऐसा अंजाम होने ना देंगे
अगर ऐसे कुछ लोग है
तो कहाँ है
वो दुनिया के जिस कोने में है
जहां है
उन्हें ये बता दो
के लफ्ज़ और मानी
बचाने की खातिर
जरा सी मोहलत बची है
मुझे तो ये लगता है जैसे किसी ने ये साज़िश रची है
- जावेद अख्तर 

Science and poetry

Science and poetry is one thing! They are not separate things. Prof. Richard Dawkins says that "Science is poetry of reality!". Jitendra Joshi (a Marathi poet, actor and artist in fact) says in his poem that when scientists go behind words, they make some inventions and when poets go behind them, they keep going behind words.... Its a beautiful poem. I will find it out and will share it soon. 

Doing science needs instruments. These instruments are costly and are rare. People who have got these instruments are fortunate. They have option to use or not to use them. But what about people who have not got these instruments! Poetry is their only solace! They have no other option left but to take help of poetry to express themselves or to search something if they don't have instruments of science. (Specific degrees or specific training or education is also a kind of instrument in my opinion in this context!)

Hence poetry is a field where one might find many potential scientists! Their name is unknown to science. Their language is different and sometimes even difficult to understand unless you are in that plane of mind. But still they are scientists who can see truth. At least I respect these poets like scientists!

My experiments with Dixit diet

Dr. Jagannath Dixit gave a talk about effortless weigh-loss at Balgandharva Rangamandir on 9th December 2018 and since then I have started following his diet plan / lifestyle as told by him in his that talk and other talks on YouTube. I went to listen to this lecture with Mr. Shekhar Inamdar who is my uncle and Mr. Ashutosh Zambre who is my jiju. 

What is that diet plan is not the topic of this blog post. He has spoken extensively about it in many lectures which are available freely on YouTube and one should listen to those lectures to understand the importance of this blog post. If someone has not done that till now, they must do it after reading this blog post at least. But in anyway, this blog will not give information about what that diet plan is because that is not my authority. He is a professor of community medicine for 28 years in government medical college and also he is a researcher. So its always better to listen what the plan is from his own words. So people who are interested in knowing what this plan is, should listen to his lectures and should not expect that they will get answer here. I am doing this deliberately because as mentioned by him in the lecture dated 9 December 2018 (I have audio recording of this lecture and one can get it upon request), while giving some message for community, it gets diluted and it has got diluted a lot in my opinion already. I do not want to dilute it further and propagate the diluted form in addition. 

This blog post will enlist some points about my experiences with this diet plan / lifestyle and it might help people who are interested in following it. I will also try to answer some of the questions and will try to counter some of the criticisms in a logical and constructive way as per my understanding. He himself says that we should look at the motive of the people who are trying to oppose this plan but let's give benefit of doubt to them and let's consider that they have good motive or genuine queries because as shared by Amrut (Amrut Bang), in a good debate, we should not doubt the motives of the other person. 

Firstly I will share some of the interesting things about this diet plan and then I will try to answer the criticisms / possible criticisms.

One should take a note that I have already reduced my weight by about 18 kg with the help of calorie restriction and without following this diet plan.

Interesting things I have found about this plan: 

1. I am continually trying to understand what he is doing by making these changes in our lifestyle. He is trying to achieve many things. Even he might be unaware of some of the things he is doing, but still he is generating that benefit unknowingly. Hence we should have this attitude to understand what he is trying to do exactly by asking us to make these changes. If we will be observant enough, we will be able to observe these things. 
2. He is trying to connect people to their families in my opinion. When you are eating two times a day, the time of your meal is fixed and the amount of food is also fixed and the place of taking food is also fixed in a way. As this place is fixed and planned, chances are more that one will have these meals with the family. So in this way he is trying to connect us to our families.
3. I can sustain hunger for more time. Earlier, I was not sure if I will be able to sustain my hunger, so I used to eat anything available the moment I used to get hungry. Now, I can wait till the meal gets ready. 
4. Now I know how much food I need. Earlier when dietitian asked me how much I eat in a day, my answer was I don't know. When they asked when (how frequently) I eat, my answer was I don't know. When they asked me what do I eat, my answer was again I don't know. After following Dixit diet, I know how many times I eat  (2 times), what I eat and how much I eat. As these variables are getting fixed, it is easier now to solve this problem of over eating.
5. An obese person never thinks that he eats much. If he will find out that he eats too much, he will reduce the amount and will no longer remain obese. So lets accept that this awareness is lacking in obese people about food. Dixit diet / lifestyle helps to regain this awareness. 
6. My sleep cycle is restored. As I eat around 6 o' clock, I feel sleepy in 2-3 hours and then I sleep. As I sleep early, I wake up early and in this way my sleep cycle is restored in my opinion. If one is hungry in the night, he cannot sleep easily is my observation. I have spent many such sleepless nights in this way in past for reducing weight but now I need not disturb my sleep cycle for reducing weight because of this plan.
7. It helped me tremendously to sustain social pressure to eat with others when I don't need to in fact. When you tell that you are on this diet plan / lifestyle, people may oppose you for a week or so but once they will see the genuineness, they stop opposing you. I had problems about how to say that I do not want to eat when people keep offering some or other stuff out of love. Use the name of Dr. Dixit and it is a magic trick to sustain this social pressure!
8. I could increase my protein intake. I do not find protein tasty sometimes so I would not have eaten it otherwise on my own but as it comes with the meal now, I can increase the protein content and can monitor it in a better way. We can monitor many things like this in the diet once we reduce the frequency of the meals.
9. It's not much difficult to follow this plan. I still sometimes find myself struggling last 1-2 hours before the second meal but apart from that, there is no problem in this plan at all for me! I even don't realize that I am on this plan otherwise nowadays. This struggle was more in the beginning but now it is reduced to a great extent. Also sometimes little irritation can be found at the level of mind in the beginning but that is anyways present when we do calorie restriction. So that issue is not with this plan but with the calorie reduction itself.
10. I have started realizing that I do not need this much food. I had never witnessed my refusal for food for many years! I was thinking that I will never be able to say something like "I am full now and I cannot eat further" as other people around me say! I am able to say these words willingly and that is the real happiness! 
11. Lot of time is saved. As I know now that I am going to get meal at a fixed time, I need not worry about when I will get it and when I can eat it. Also the issues of where and how and with whom and with what speed are solved! The whole issue about eating seems fixed once and for all! Now we can focus on our study / work and utilize the time there or even for our own entertainment and relaxation and creativity! 
12. I enjoy freedom and control over my own self! I am finding weight reduction is much more easier now! I was determined to do it and was sure that I am going to achieve it and I have achieved great success too in the past without this diet plan as I was not aware of this but with the addition of this plan, I am able to see that the target is under control and feel that it is manageable. I was not this much sure about it before understanding this plan / lifestyle. Who does not enjoy freedom? In fact the purpose of life is liberation according to Indian philosophy. So in that sense Dr. Dixit is helping us to get liberated!
13. This is a an evidence based experiment! There are many research papers on this subject and many of them are freely available. So willingness to do some efforts and reading these papers are the only barriers for the knowledge about it. When people are otherwise ready to do experiments only based on some anecdotes, there should be no reason to not to believe on this plan which is evidence based for starting this experiment.  
14. It's a great feeling to be part of this revolution. Yes, I am using that word! revolution! This plan is a revolutionary thing and I am sure it will reduce as well as prevent many diseases (mainly NCDs) dramatically. 

Answers to some questions and criticisms / possible criticisms 

1. One need not do this plan as a revenge against Dr. Dixit. He is not our enemy. He is our friend if we can see it. If one cannot understand or like what he is doing, no one is forcing them to change their habits. We must understand that this diet plan will bring awareness about food and that awareness will help us to plan further to reduce weight. This is not a magical trick to reduce weight if we decide to have revenge against him by trying to prove him wrong. We can always prove him wrong if we cheat in this plan by taking too many calories which we were not taking earlier. But if we can understand this much, we should be able to understand further what he is trying to do. If we will decide to take revenge of Dr. Dixit, people will doubt our intentions for sure. Hence this plan must be followed as an aid for weight reduction and not to prove him wrong. 
2. This plan is not for healthy individuals. I mean one can always follow this if they like it but no one is asking healthy or normal people to follow this as a part of fun! Obesity is a disease and reason of many other diseases and hence this plan is to be followed by obese people for weight reduction.
3. This is not some fad. This diet plan is based on carbo-insulin connection theory as I understand. It was shared by late Dr. Shrikant Jichkar and Dr. Dixit tells more about it in his lecture. People interested in understanding what it is should try to study from medical textbooks and research papers and need not ask to the people who are following it. If they are doctors or researchers themselves then they should try to share the logical flaws in it (if they can find any) in medical journals and not in some blog posts or other discussion forums. It is fine to ask queries about the plan but when one decides to criticize it, people should know better forums which are medical journals. 
4. Lets not spread lies about the plan. I would not like to name the person and place where it is written but in one of the posts it is written that Dr. Dixit asks people having diabetes to eat sweet foods in his English lecture. I had not listened to this English lecture so I kept quiet then when I read it, but when I listened to it, I found that he actually talks the opposite. When I shared this fact to the person who had published it, they did not answer to my comment. We can imagine by this incident that people can and are spreading lies about the plan. Or they are making up their minds without understanding it. Study, study and study is the solution to these kinds of problems. We cannot study for others. They have to study on their own and have to find out the answers to the problems on their own. We can help them by telling them to study properly if they have not but we need not listen to the people who have some agenda while criticizing this plan and are criticizing it without studying.
5. Its okay to not to understand everything about the plan. We do not understand everything about our body. We do not understand everything about the world. So what's the big deal if we do not understand everything about the theories behind the plan? It is enough if we understand what the plan is and work on it. We still will get benefits. I do not understand the mechanics of the car but I still can drive it and can reach where I want to reach. So we must understand that lack of understanding of some people and their unfulfilled curiosity is not the proof against the plan! 
6. This plan is not against common sense. We know that calorie restriction and burning of calories is the ultimate solution to the problem of obesity. This plan does not tell against it hence this plan is not against common sense. This plan shows us a way as how to achieve it. Some people might like it and some people might not but there is nothing against common sense in this plan is what I can tell you after studying  this subject for hundreds of hours! 
7. There is no craving for food in between the meals for me. Let's  not ask hypothetical questions and waste our and other's time! At least I did not experience any craving of food in between the two meals till date after starting the diet on 9th December 2018. I will see what to do if I will have it in future. But it is not there now and there is no point in asking and answering hypothetical questions because they will be unending and we might enter into a 'paralysis by analysis' loop. If we are convinced a little, it is enough to start this plan as we always have overeaten at some point of time in life, so eating it once while starting this plan won't be a big harm and human body can surely survive for about 3 days without any food! So no emergency is likely to take place if there is fasting in between two meals for the first time! 
8. Are you eligible to criticize this plan? Please see if you are really eligible to criticize this well thought plan before criticizing this! The first requirement will be to listen to and to understand to what the plan / lifestyle Dr. Dixit is proposing. The second stage will be having the ability to understand the implications of this plan meaning the ability to imagine the changes in physiology this plan will bring. For that, one needs to be the student of physiology, so they should have read the physiology at least once in their life. The third criteria is little difficult and that is having the authority like that of Dr. Dixit by way of qualifications and experience and training. I have no issues if people having more qualifications and understanding in this field than him criticize him because that constructive criticism is also necessary but at least I will not listen to people who have some agenda and negligible qualifications in comparison to him! 
9. Don't forget 45 minutes walk! Please note that in his plan / lifestyle, Dr. Dixit mentions about 45 minutes of walk daily. Many people who criticize this plan forget this fact. Once they are made aware of this, they take their words back but its not his fault if we do not listen to him carefully. He himself tells to listen carefully what he is saying in his talk but for that we will need to listen to him.
10. Study, study, study and study We intuitively know there is no substitute for study but we try to find out shortcuts by gaining knowledge in discussion. My suggestion is not to do so about this plan especially if you are daring to criticize it. Even he will like if you criticize his sayings by studying I guess but no one will and should listen to you if you just criticize for the sake of it. Please be aware that you are being laughed at and your intentions are questioned when you challenge the plan without study and educational qualifications!

(Please feel free to share if there are any spelling mistakes or grammatical mistakes in this post so that they can be corrected immediately).

Thanks for reading this long blog post.

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai

The risk of solving a problem by means of violence

Problems can be solved my multiple ways. One of the ways to solve them is by temporary violence or by threat of violence. It is said that, in democracy, the right of violence is only with the police. They do solve certain problems as well. We can't deny that. Even the threat of violence is a big thing and many problems can be solved by this way. If the threat is created by a good person and if it is used for a good purpose, against the bad people, it is justified in our minds up to great extent. As we subconsciously justify it, it is used by good people in certain instances to keep bad behavior under control and to keep bad people under control!

However, there is a risk with this approach. The risk is little subtle and hence is not recognized or is not understood in most of the cases. The risk is that, while using the violence to solve a problem, the solver might get the 'taste' of violence! He might start liking it in fact! The person who came to solve the problem created by violence, might end up getting trapped in the vicious circle of violence himself! He might justify it too. He will show the inevitability of violence if he is very intelligent. So he might be able to justify it. So no action can be initiated against him at least at that point but in the process he has in fact damaged himself because he has started liking violence and feels that it is the only way to solve the problem. So in fact he is increasing the extent of problem.

That is the risk we take when we try to solve a problem by means of violence.

So, what is the solution? Should violence not be tolerated at all at any level? How we define violence?

I think that when we will come to this question of definition of violence, we are in the process of making some progress. The value of nonviolence is to be followed at the level of 'mind' hence there is no point in saying that psychological violence is not real violence. In fact, the level at which we need to practice non violence according to Indian philosophy is at the level of mind and not that of body! Hence classifying violence as physical and psychological is wrong in my opinion! We need to understand that violence is always at the level of mind! What we see at the physical level is the consequences of such violence. Hence though we might not be able to understand this subtle thing all the times, we must recognize that the seat of the violence we see is at the level of mind!

- Dr. Abhijeet Safai