126. Back To The Food

2 Fried Eggs
Truck load of Bacon
8 pork sausages
Fried Bread
3 Croissants

then for lunch
pizza,
ice cream...

I'm kidding of course.

To be honest I can't remember what I ate today because I'm writing this in a week's time on August 8th! So how come it says July 25th?
Ahaah! I have found a way to travel through time, but sadly only on blogs!

I will get back to my routine asap (I have been good, except for when I ate tuna late last night and couldn't sleep at all).

125. Don’t Punish Yourself

You should never ban foods completely if you are only intolerant to them, because elimination diets lead to cravings.

If you are allergic however, the reactions are a lot more serious and could do you harm, but then you would already know that and stay well clear.

If you’re intolerant to wheat or sugar for example, then having them once in a while is not going to have a lasting detrimental effect to your health, but you may see signs that your body is protesting. With me, I get itchy skin whenever I eat wheat.

If you have terrible will power, then one might lead to two or three, etc, and you’re on the slippery slope, but if you need to, apply common sense in these cases.

But never feel guilty for having the occasional treat. Guilt leads to low self esteem which can make you fall off the wagon completely. Emotions have a lot to do with over eating, or eating the wrong types of foods, and we need to look after our emotional health as well as our physical health.

I’m a great believer in the two being interlinked anyway, and there is a lot of evidence to suggest this too. I definitely ate the wrong things when my emotions were all over the place.

124. Food Diary

Porridge

Apple

Decaf

Pizza (yeah, but it tasted a thousand times better than if I ate it every day!)

Apple

Green Tea

Cottage cheese, flax oil, onion and chives with 2 x Ryvita

2 plain oat and rice cakes

cornflakes and soya milk

123. Owning a Dog Will Improve Your Health

I know only too well that dog walking is brilliant exercise for you and a great way to improve your metabolism, so you’ll lose weight, but Patti Lawson’s book The Dog Diet goes into much more detail of how her dog Henry helped her improve her figure.

For more details go here:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/FEATURES10/70719054/0/FEATURES10

122. Food Diary

Cornflakes (run out of oats)

apple

Camomile Tea (run out of Green tea)

Prawns mayo and Baked potato

Cranberry juice

Strawberries

Avacado

2 dried figs

omelette with mushrooms and mixed peppers, goats cheese

Camomile tea

121. Test Your Nutritional Knowledge

Here’s a test to see if you’re doing everything you can to improve your diet. I got most of them right, but not all of them.

Although some of the answers made me laugh out loud.

http://www.denverpost.com/fitness/ci_6376039

120. Food Diary

Porridge

apple

Half avacado

Green Tea

Flax oil cottage chees and Ryvita x 2


Green Tea
beetroot

apple

Baked Potato with chicken and green beans

Green Tea

Porridge

119. Garlic Healing Properties

I’ve found an interesting thread on various people’s experiences with using Garlic for its healing properties.

It’s at: http://www.earthclinic.com/Remedies/garlic.html

People use it to cure colds, moles, herpes, toothache, and to prevent mosquito bites, and fleas and ticks on animals!

There is also a benefit to crushing raw garlic, as opposed to simply cutting it. The anti oxidants are released only when the cloves are crushed, so it is good just to chew a clove of garlic.

118. Food Diary

Porridge

Green tea

Apple

Beetroot

Omelette with mushroom and red pepper

Banana

Green tea

Apple

3 bean salad with salmon and broccoli

Porridge

117. The Secret Revealed!

Ok, How can I put this delicately?

Flatulence is caused by sugar! It’s true. I’ve been carrying out a very precise experiment all last week and for the last three days I have eaten broccoli and brussels sprouts, and not had the slightest rumble or trapped wind.

I’ve discovered that the dreaded fart monster is only around in the presence of sugar. I will highlight the details of today’s diet later, and you will see that fruit is ok, and let’s face it – sugar is in many natural foods, and our bodies all need sugar, but ADDED sugar seems to be the main culprit.

I tried the experiment with baked beans, but it didn’t work the first time, as they are drenched in a cocktail of sugar and salt. I then tried beans rinsed in water and it worked. Try it for yourself. You’ll be amazed!

And like I said earlier, the consequences of cutting out all added sugar from a diet will drastically cut down the chance of many horrible diseases, not to mention keep weight down.

It takes a bit to get used to, and the hardest for me was cutting out all sugar from tea and coffee, so for now I just have green tea.

But how disciplined are you? My friend claimed to join my experiment, saying it didn’t work after only two days. Why? She’s been eating chinese food! It’s FULL of sugar! And all processed food is. I stuck to non-processed food, mainly fruit and veg (which most people associate with flatulence), protein and smaller quantities of complex carbs.

116. Breakthrough Discovery!

I have just dicovered something that will rock your world!

Not only will it enrich your life, but it will stop bloatedness, and therefore pain, it will make you lose weight and prevent hundreds of potential illnesses.

But I'm not divulging my secret just yet - I've been testing it out the last few days, and am going away for the weekend, where I will continue to test it out, and bring you my verdict next week!

115. Food Diary

Apple Juice
Porridge
Peach

Decaf Coffee

Plain rice cake

Banana
Cottage cheese and flax oil with Ryvita

Fennel tea

Apple
Baked potato with goats cheese

114. Food Diary

Porridge

Green Tea

Apple
Omelette with goats cheese, mushrooms and red pepper

Banana - (that I just kept having a bite of throughout the day)

Green Tea

Apple
Chicken and broccoli

Green Tea

113. Natural Appetite Suppressant - No Pills!

I told you about Hoodia Gordonii, the African appetite suppressant plant that you buy as pills. But they are quite expensive and can cause bloating. Other chemical pills that claim to do the same thing could have unknown long term side effects, and are also expensive.

But you can create the same effect - (without the bloating!) with just a bit of light exercise every day.

All you need is a bit of discipline and you can suppress your appetite substantially enough to eat up to a third less.

You need to walk as briskly as possible for 20 minutes three times a day. On the third day (or whenever it is comfortable to do so) you tighten your stomach whilst you walk - not immensely, just mildly. This all depends on your level of fitness, but it should never be painful.

You then stretch for another 20 minutes as soon as you finish each walk. A ten minute low impact arms and legs routine followed by ten minutes of abdominal crunches - NOT sit-ups. Again - only doing what you are comfortable with.

Never attempt the exercises without the 20 minute walk. You need the warm-up to limber up the muscles, and make stretching a lot easier.

It's better to do exercises that feel too easy, than too hard. It's the regularity that is important. If you do these ab exercises three times a day, you will naturally feel full quicker, after a meal.

I often do this routine when I start to feel hungry too often and on the very first day, the only carbs I need are fruit! It's THAT effective! I did it today in fact - check out what I ate today - and I feel great. Actually if I were disciplined enough to do this every day, I'd have a six pack stomach in no time!

If you work fulltime, you may only be able to manage twice a day - before and after work, but you could always go for a ten minute walk in your lunch break - best to do this before you eat though. Never exercise on a full stomach.

This routine will also provide many other health benefits, such as improved sleep for starters. Give it a go!