A cousin and his family arrived last Thursday and luckily Friday was a holiday so we spent it at the pool with more than a hundred relatives. So many people so it also meant so much food. Even days before they arrived I was already feeling depressed that i was craving for some food. By the time they arrived (they wanted to surprise me) I easily fell into their non-stop eating sessions. The more i felt bloated and heavy yet i don’t feel guilty being full all the time. Most of us in the eating session were in diet but we forget about our it for some days. We just wanted to bond so naturally we have to eat because tis a season of eating. There were days that rained so we are house arrest for some hours. Nothing to do except chatting and eating. I have thought of buying some appetite suppressants but if we would take that for sure there would be lots of left overs.

My cousins has gone back to Cebu Monday night and my menses started yesterday, so am back to small portion serving when I am eating.

I hope to lost again what i have lost months back. By hook or by crook ~~  i should do that.

Getting a news that someone close to you is having a cancer is devastating.  You feel sad for the person who is sick and as much as possible you would like to exhaust all your means trying to save up the person from the terminal ailment.    Lately, we heard that someone (distant relative) got cancer and it’s of the colon.  I then checked out what is colon cancer and i got this very precise but straight to the point answer – Colon cancer is a common type of malignancy (cancer) in which there is uncontrolled growth of the cells that line the inside of the colon or rectum. Colon cancer is also called colorectal cancer. The colon, also known as the large intestine, is the last part of the digestive tract. The rectum is the very end of the large intestine that opens at the anus.  So in order to avoid this kind of cancer the person should undergo colon cleansing so they have to use any of the best colon cleanser available in the market or what is being recommended by their doctor.

My friends and i were planning to do a colon cleansing one day but not with pills.  We plan to do weekend fasting and then whole week of JUST FRUITS.    We will see what would be the result

Just wanted to share what i read this morning. Comments by Dr. Mercola on what should be the type of exercise that is very effective to a person.

The NEW Peak Fitness Program

Dr. Al Sears first introduced me to his PACE concept but I always found his material to general and non specific and no information on the use of this exercise for growth hormone. I really started to understand this when I met Phil Campbell at a fitness camp earlier this year in Mexico. He wrote the book Ready Set Go which details how these exercises for super fast muscle fibers can increase growth hormone.

So that is the history and what we sought to do is to provide the material in a digestible format, just like we do with the medical news, to provide you with a simple to comprehend guide that can explode you into fitness and health. In addition the the peak cardio exercises promoted by Sears and Campbell, we are seeking to promote a holistic approach to exercise.

Peak fitness is a term I am coining to represent a comprehensive exercise program that includes far more than typical cardio training. The major change is that once or twice a week you do peak exercises, in which you raise your heart rate up to your anaerobic threshold for 20 to 30 seconds, and then you recover for 90 seconds.

You would repeat this cycle for a total of eight repetitions. These cycles are preceded by a three minute warm up and two minute cool down so the total time investment is about 20 minutes.

It has been my personal experience that using this approach is far more effective than traditional cardio for a number of reasons that I will describe below. I was able to use this to help me lose over ten pounds of body fat and get my percent body fat down to 12 percent, but my goal is single digits.

The intensity is absolutely individual. For some it may be as simple as fast walking alternating with slow walking.

You can improvise it into just about any type of exercise, and you really don’t require a gym membership or any equipment to do it. If you do have access to equipment, using an elliptical or recumbent bike work really well.

One of my favorites is to use a recumbent bike. It is extremely challenging, and I enjoy that! This is the one I chose and am personally committed to, but the alternatives are almost limitless.

They key is to push your heart rate into that training zone for 30 seconds and then recover slowly for 90 seconds.

We call it “peak fitness” because if you graph your heart rate, you will see that it peaks 8 times during the workout.

We should also note that peak fitness can normally increase the production of growth hormone meaning you have it without any side effects or expenses.

Benefits of Peak Fitness Exercises

Once you regularly participate in these 20 minute excises about twice a week, most everyone notices the following benefits:

* Lowers your body fat
* Dramatically improves muscle tone
* Firms your skin and reduces wrinkles
* Boosts your energy and sexual desire
* Improves athletic speed and performance

How to Properly Perform Peak Fitness Exercises to Increase Your Growth Hormone Levels

First of all, please remember that you can perform this with any type of exercise. While having access to a gym or exercise equipment will provide you with a larger variety of options, you don’t require either. You can easily perform this by walking or running on flat ground.

You will certainly want to work your way up to this point, but ultimately you want to exercise vigorously enough so you reach your anaerobic threshold as this is where the “magic” happens that will trigger your growth hormone release.

Whatever activity you choose, by the end of your 30 second period you will want to reach these markers:

* It will be relatively hard to breathe and talk because you are in oxygen debt
* You will start to sweat profusely. Typically this is occurs in the second or third repetition unless you have a thyroid issue and don’t sweat much normally.
* Your body temperature will rise
* Lactic acid increases and you will feel a muscle “burn”

If you are using cardio equipment like an elliptical or bike, you don’t need to reach any “magical” speed. It’s highly individual, based on your current level of fitness. But you know you’re doing it right when you’re exerting yourself to the point of typically gasping for breath, after a short burst of activity.

An added boon is that you’ll save a tremendous amount of time because peak fitness will cut your hour-long cardio workout down to a total of 20 minutes or so, including your recovery time, warm-up and cool down.

The actual sprinting totals only 4 minutes!

Here’s what a typical peak fitness routine might look like using a recumbent bike:

1. Warm up for three minutes
2. Exercise as hard and fast as you can for 30 seconds. You should feel like you couldn’t possibly go on another few seconds
3. Recover for 90 seconds
4. Repeat the high intensity exercise and recovery 7 more times

Be mindful of your current fitness level and don’t overdo it when you first start out.

If you are not in great shape and just starting this you may want to start with just two or three repetitions, and work your way up to eight, which is where the magic really starts to happen. You may need to start with just walking and when you do your 30 second bursts your legs would be moving as fast as possible without running – and your arms would be pumping hard and fast.

If you can do a peak fitness workout twice a week, and follow the dietary recommendations I’ll go over next, you will increase your production of growth hormone.

Dietary Recommendations to Maximize Growth Hormone Release

To maximize your growth hormone release you need to:

* Get a good night’s sleep
* Avoid a high fat meal prior to exercising
* Drink plenty of water
* Eat healthy carbs (think vegetables) and high quality protein
* Optimize your vitamin D levels
* Avoid sugar, especially fructose

The last part is absolutely crucial.

If you consume sugar or fructose, especially within two hours post-exercise, you will increase somatostatin which will in turn obliterate the production of growth hormone!

Click on this link (source of the article) to see the heart rate graph for a complete peak workout. Scroll down to see the graph.

I think stress is one great way to lose weight. hahaha. I thought it’s eating the right food, controlling the quantity is the natural way of dieting. But now mind stress can caused me to forget my meals so i think it’s natural dieting. I have several friends who lose weight when they are stressed…not just weight but also hairs. But i have also friends who are into diet pills like apidexin and they said that it’s one of the good diet pills in the market today. But i urge you to check out every ingredients in the pills you are using because not all will work for everyone.

Now am craving for an egg omelet shown in this photo:

that’s my daughter enjoying a lacto-ovo breakfast serving

I am really wondering which is the best of all the diet solution pills online.  I thought the product my cousin is using is already the best, but another one now is also saying that they are the best because it contains some ingredients that provide essential vitamins, minerals, and fatty acids to help you lose weight and improve the condition of your skin. And do you wanna know what is this? They call it Lipovox and it is now out in the market. My advice for those who are contemplating to buy to really check out which product that will work with their lifestyle and health. It is not healthy to just pick anything the market is selling. One has to check each component to avoid terrible side effects.

For sure it would be real funny if the pill says it’s going to help you lose weight and you will realized that after a month of taking it, you have add more weight instead of losing it. The thing with some is that, since they are into diet solution pills, they tend to eat more because the pills will help them eliminate the fats of the food they are taking. Well, i guess they have to be reminded that exercise, diet, and diet pills should work together to get the optimum weight loss result.

I was awaken early this morning as i have agreed with some girls that we will go out for brisk walking – to the City Hall.  I thought they will be up after 5 am so i also said that am not going when i could hardly open my eyes.  But then i thought that it is for my own good – so i went.

I had a great time!

Faithfully doing the 30-45 minutes exercise for the past 3 weeks, i can feel the obvious difference.  I now feel lighter, livelier, can i say sexier, too?  Oh well all the adjectives with “ier” at the end. Am not kidding, and am making a goal to do the same for the next 3 weeks.

Next Sunday, i thought of asking the girls to do the same route again and we will carry a camera for remembrance purposes.  The week after next week will be their finals, then we still have to move out of our dormitory, plus they are going home for a two-week vacation, so we better do our hiking up the Buhangin Hills this coming Sunday again.

How’s your exercise going?  I hope you are all having a grand time!

When i have time, i do take time to browse through the newspaper.  It’s not the same thing reading articles online and really holding on to material and settled comfortably in your chair or couch.  Last April 7, i got interested with this health article by Tetta Matera on the benefits of Exercise.  She entitled her write-up “It Ain’t Enough to be sknny, you gotta be Healthy.  The article is long and i don’t have the plan of copying the whole article word for word because i need time to check on some home insurance quote for my cousin who really have to see the dentist today. She told me that since i will be in office with the internet connection so she asked me the favor to do it for her. I will print them out later.

I am on and off from the gym even though I have a lot of unwanted fats to lose – really lose if i want myself to be fit.  Been doing on and off gyms for less than a year already (i was into it before and stopped it for more than a year and i just gone back last December) because i fall to Ms. Matera’s thought – i lacked the focus. She said:

Exercise is a commitment, not a hobby. A lot of people exercise at one point in their lives, failed miserably and gave up eventually without any long-term benefit because they did not make exercise a regular part of their lives.

I think so she is right. If we made “eating” an integral part of our living life, then i guess we should make “exercise” as part of our daily life, too.   She gave out the following practical tips on how to be healthy fit:

• Have the right motivation and stay focused (i am slowly into this since December)
• Start slow but set goals ( i have lost 10 pounds from December to March and i hope to lost the same amount 3 months later)
• Wear the right shoes and clothes ( i bet i don’t have the right shoes but still am enjoying my gym time)
• Warm up, cool down.
• Drink and eat right (I am trying to do this right)
• Listen to your body
• Make exercise a regular component of your lifestyle (I vow to seriously do this from now on)

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I said that was one last post but i better do this one because i want to share a photo of the food that is in my mind now.  Someone asks me if I am depress and i said i don’t think so but am craving for this -

Looks so yummy.  I think it can cure my depression for the moment. lol!  But the friend advice me to take natural depression treatment so that i won’t grow bigger than i am now.  I am controlling the quantity of my food plus am almost regular in my exercise so letting depression hold me in my neck will result to a very bad rebound on my lost weight.  I know i’ve lost some pounds and i am hoping to lost more.  But i know too that if i stop diet and exercise now i will gain back in double or triple the pounds i lost for the last 3 months.  So i better avoid my natural treatment (fatty foods and lot of carbs) to my depression.  They said they are comfort foods eh.

Would you believe that i already lost ten pounds?   The total weight loss since i started in January.  It made me happy because though am making slow progress but at least it’s happening.  Thanks to exercise limited rice intake this happened.  A friend introduced to me a fat burner because she know i wanna lost weight. I told her that she try it first and if it works for her i will use it too after i lost another 10 pounds.

I am happy and also i feel lighter but i know not very lighter like i’ve lost 20 or 30 pounds. Who would not lost some pounds when daily you got to eat blanch food such as this -

That’s the health educator’s advice for me.  My sugar was checked weeks ago and my the result was shocking!  It was abnormally high!  I am not much on meat but i love rice and anything pasta.  So they advice me to go on diet and rigid exercise. Because of time at work i can’t promise i will be faithful to my exercise schedule so i need a recommendation for the right weight loss pills. I really need one these days. Then am sure i will lose weight fast.  How fast?  As much as i can lessen rice intake and also do a 30 minute regular exercise.  I have to cut down on other pasta stuff like this -

and this:

photo credits: sunshineforlife