All About Diet

I read from an article that Beyonce reportedly lost 20 pounds in preparation for her role in Dreamgirls.

The Diet:

Upon waking up: Drink an 8 oz glass of cold water w/ 1tbsp sea salt

Thru out the day:
Mix the following ingredients w/ an 8oz glass of very cold water.
-2tbsp fresh Lemon juice
-2tbsp pure maple syrup grade B
-a pinch of cayenne pepper
Also take 8 glasses of water during the day.

Before going to bed: Take 1 serving of smooth move tea.
The diet is between 3-14 days.

My Holy Week Diet 4-day vacation:

Since pure maple syrup grade B is very expensive, I replaced it with muscovado sugar. And I also replaced the smooth move tea with Kankunis since I cant find one in stores here.

Day 1
I wake up in the morning and my maid already prepared the salted water, Oh God! one gulp and i feel like drowning in the beach! I didnt finish it.

Then started my lemon diet after an hour. I feel ok until 5pm. I started feeling dizzy so I slept my hunger off. I woke up and drank the Kankunis at 7pm and saw my folks eating! Hehe I cheated and ate 3 spoonful of rice and adobo. Drank my milk and gone to sleep.

Day 2
I wake up at 8 and gone straight to the bathroom, effect of the kankunis tea, my made handed me a glass of salted water! And I said you want me to drown again? No way to salty water again. Drank my lemon as usual, internet all day! Wow I did not feel hungry at all. At 5pm, here comes hungryness again. I ate too many at night and my detox diet? Flop! But I took the Kankunis and got to sleep feeling heavy.

Day 3
I wake up feeling better coz bathroom time was good. I drank a glass of milk then proceeded to the mall to buy my groceries and distracted myself on shopping. Then went home at 3pm, Gosh! my feet was cold and I feel like the room was spinning!
I had to eat! Forget that diet. Im taking Kankunis anyway!

Day 4
Wake up and had my normal day, i had breakfast, bread and scrambled. Then cooked my favorite Nilagang Baka for lunch. I did not eat my dinner and just drank my milk.

My detox wasnt very succesful, I think partial detox is the one for me wherein you can replace 1 or 2 regular meals with a serving of lemonade with 1 or 2 light meal. But the results are not dramatic as the full detox.

I highly recommend this detox program for those who are really decided to jumpstart to a healthy lifestyle.

Breakfast really is the most important meal of the day. When we go to bed, the body has to work to keep us alive and that burns calories. We need to replenish our body when we wake up. Breakfast will help our body and mind function better during the day and help boost our metabolism to burn more calories.

Drink tea instead of coffee. Tea is known as nature’s 'wonder drug'.  Scientists say that the extremely high content of flavonoids makes tea a really healthy choice, whether it’s green tea, black or some shade in between. The plant-derived compounds are very powerful antioxidants, which help in fighting cell damage and may reduce the risk of heart disease and certain cancers. Tea is the second most widely consumed beverage in the world, exceeded only by the most necessary of all liquids - water.

Here are few benefits derived from tea:

• Help fight against mutagenic agents
• Delay aging
• Help fight high blood pressure
• Help fight against viral and bacterial infection
• Help improve the functions of the digestive and excretory systems

To sum it up - by drinking 2-4 cups a day of tea, you can reap in the numerous curative and preventive tea benefits.