Baba's weight loss program

Baba was napping on the couch and woke up to ask me for the scale so he could weigh himself.  I've been somewhat of a food Nazi in the house when it comes to sugar and salt, and Baba has seemed to become motivated to lose weight.  He's been pretty good about it, but breaks down now and then.  

Last night I made a rosemary-lemon chicken with potatoes and broccoli.  I served the plates, only giving Baba two small wedges of potatoes and lots of broccoli.  We have salt in the house, and low-sodium salt in the house - but Tolga threw both of these across the room the other night when his father stubbornly continued to powder his food with salt.  In his sweetest voice, Baba asked Tolga to put the salt on his food for him.  A fair compromise.  Tolga did, but later, Baba couldn't finish his food because "Tuz suz" - there wasn't any salt.  

I made popcorn later - it's a light tasty food, and Gokhan added the reduced-sodium salt.  Baba sat at the table next to the bowl and eventually cradled the bowl on the couch keeping it for himself.  

I often here him scuffling along the hallway in the night to visit the toilet and the fridge.  We pass sometimes in our nightly outings, and I've caught him rooting around the fridge, drinking milk out of the carton, and eating bread.  This is why I am only slightly impressed when Baba is only having warm milk with two fake sugars for breakfast.  

This morning I was putting the breakfast dishes in the fridge, and he went to grab an olive - unable to resist its salty call.  I offered to leave the foods on the table, and with renewed determination he told me, "Sut, sadace sut sabah icin."  (Milk.  Only milk in the morning).  

Baba learned somewhere about the miracle effects of parsley tea.  He had brought home 4 kilos of parsley and boiled it.  Parsley tea has many benefits including helping with rheumatism (which he has), detoxification, digestion, lots of vitamin C,  and works as a diuretic - all things Baba desperately needs.  But when you ask him, the benefit he touts is a motion with his hand that indicates it simply makes him go to the bathroom quite effectively.  

When he weighed himself this morning, he was 113 kilos - about 250 lbs.  He actually squealed with excitement and gave me a kiss on both cheeks and then went and took a nap of contentment.