Days 7 8 of Metamorphosis

So, days 7 and 8 went well. Both days managed to do the workouts, kept to the diet. I dont seem to progress very fast now, as I cant really increase the number of reps for instance much from day to day, and I am still doing those naughty exercises 3 and 4 very slowly. But I feel great! I feel light, healthy, energetic. Right after the training I am a bit tired of course, but a shower does miracles, and I am back to good mood. Today was tough though. I didnt want to workout for some reason, and it was really hard to even start, to find the strength to do one more minute of DC, then one more... Ah. It felt good though to get over it. I had to say many many many times through sometimes gritted teeth "You CAN do it, Liuba" (yes, I sometimes tend to talk with myself).

The diet... Well, I cant say I am happy with this week. Yesterday (Monday and first week of Week 2) I felt hungry all the time. And I mean it: all the time. It wasnt horrible hunger, but it was always there. Today, however, I dont feel hunger at all and have to convince myself to eat. I just hope, it is not some sort of body adjustment to under-nutrition :)))) Cos that would be bad. I decided to increase the portions just a little bit, so I actually feel NOT hungry after I finished eating - particular for meal 3: make bigger salads, take a piece of chicken a little bigger. Right now my chicken is boiling (yes, I prefer boiled chicken than grilled) and salad is ready (half avocado, some tomatoes and celery - I am addicted to celery these days, so put it in almost everything...).

Dinner:

And the full day diet (its more than it looks actually...) After the first day, it is enough for me - but then again, my salad is quite big, but I thought I cant harm much with salad. And I added a carrot: I like to chew on something when I work...

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The Three Week Diet How To Trim Down Quickly

If you have ever kept an eye on any of those wellness related TV shows like Dr. Oz or The Doctors, you would think that its extremely perplexing to shed pounds fast. Theyll tell you that it can take month after month to shed the pounds, and in some cases even years. But Im here in the present day to tell you that it is simple not true.

 

My name is Brian and I am the creator of The 3 Week Diet. I have spent several years researching and teaming up with nutritionists and dieticians to develop a diet system that is so state-of-the-art and successful that it has the capacity to help you relinquish 1lb of pure body fat each and every single day. Over the course of 3 weeks on the diet regimen, you can lose more than 20 pounds of fat off your waist, butt, hips, and hams and attain the physique of your dreams with little to no exercise required.

 

How is this possible?

 

As you would know, the human body is highly versatile. If you cut your finger, the human body would heal itself in a matter of days-- regenerating new cells as early as the change is detected. Well, if you make a significant enough change to your diet, the body can adapt immediately too by burning fat in your body at a swift speed. But what you need to do to kick start this change? Is it exercise? Cutting certain meals out of your diet plan? Drinking a special tea? Eating certain berries? No, it is not one of those things. It is much more simple than you d think.

 

 

You see, the human metabolism resembles a furnace for your body. It dissipates every source of fuel inside your body-- from food you have consumed, to fat that has been put in storage. But, something you will have to know about the metabolism is that it will burn what was last eaten first, before it starts burning the fat on your body. As a result, by the conclusion of the day, despite what you have eaten, your body wont have had time to start burning the fat from around your body.

 

What if you could change this? What if you could make it so your metabolism actually prefers to burn the fat in your body first, and then burns the food you have eaten? Think about a campfire. What would happen if you poured a gallon of gasoline onto the fire? It would ascend in flames and burn a thousand times more! Well, fat is a fuel source much like gasoline. If your metabolism gets that fat from your body and begins burning it, it makes the metabolism even stronger and more powerful, so it continues to burn much more fat in the process. You see, it functions like a cyclic effect. The more fat your metabolism burns, the more fuel it will need to burn, and consequently it will burn even more fat!

 

What do you do to get this started?

 

To make the switch so that your metabolism starts burning body fat first, you need to include some very specific foods into your diet. This doesnt mean you have to restrict yourself to eating certain forms of foods like low carb or high protein, but it just means you need to add some classified foods to your present diet. These foods are quite mysterious, but they contain metabolism-shifting resources that commence the fat burning system. You can get all these foods at your local market and they wont cost you any more than a candy bar. Plus, they dont taste bad either!

 

I have produced a list and plan all of these foods on my online site at The Three Week Diet. I clarify how each of them works, and just how much fat they manage to melt. Bear in mind, this is all based off several years of scientific research and there is medical information to back this up. So, if you are seeking to lose weight promptly, The Three Week Diet is the ideal way to do so. Not one other diet allows you to lose this much fat as quickly, and lets you keep it off permanently. Check out The Three Week Diet today and start slimming down!

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Most Effective Weight Loss For Men

When it comes to losing weight, men have a slight advantage over women. Women have been saddled with a hormone that can actually inhibit weight loss. Its called estrogen. Maybe youve heard of it. So pertaining to men, unless theyre loaded with estrogen, the real secret to losing weight is simply eating less calories when compared with they use. But its not really that simple.
Simply eating less everyday may cause you to lose weight but in order to know which youre eating less you either will need to go on a strict regimented planned out diet or perhaps count calories in everything you corrode. Who wants to do that? Often times men will try something else that really wont work for very long: many peoplell stop eating. Theyll skip meals during the evening and only eat at night with what they think is going to be able to cause them to drop a few pounds.
This will work for a little while but eventually their system goes into whats called starvation mode. The body of a human is an incredible piece of products. If youre trying to lose weight and you do so by feeding on fewer calories there will come a point where your body notices the lowered food intake and goes into panic style. When that happens, your body will do two things, slow down your metabolic process and start to store even more weight so that its there for times of particularly low food intake.
Obviously this is going to treat you. The traditional way to combat this problem is to eat 6 small meals a day thus keeping your metabolism upwards and your body out of misery mode. I find that this increases results for women than men, since men seem to be able to buy hours without eating and not realise it. Those six meals may change into only four one day then 3 the next, and then, oh sure, six the next day as we get back on track. Compounding that would be the fact the six meals day plan usually means six meals full of boring eating plan food.
Men are horrible at staying on eating plans.
Its a fact. We hate diet food, we like our beer and motherboards and our red meat. And gram calorie cutting gets boring, real fast. Can there be a way for men to lose weight without giving up the foods that they love or putting themselves on a restrictive diet? Yes there is. Following trying all the other strict methods of losing weight, and they all did work; I finally settled on intermittent fasting as being the end all, beat all, ideal opportunity for weight loss for men.
The concept is simple. If you consume what you normally eat most times of the week and then fast for brief periods you end up eating a lesser amount of calories, which causes you to shed weight, but your body never goes in to starvation mode. Your metabolism and energy levels stay high so that when you actuality lost the weight you need to, you can application your normal life without the position diet weight gain associated with traditional diet techniques.
Isnt fasting hard?
Actually its quite easy; especially for men, who dont seem to get as excitable as women when they go long periods without eating. Most men find it actually easy to head out twenty four hours without eating, merely because usually have plenty to do to help keep them occupied. Also, knowing that an individualre going to resume eating following your fasting period with the foods anyone normally eat means that you never really feel that youre on a diet.

Lots of weight loss programs will claim you can don join eating the foods you love merely my experience is that they necessarily mean in tiny portions only. Intermittent fast works even if you still refer to eating a half gallon of ice cream during the sport. I truly believe that when done correctly its the most effective weight loss for men plan available.

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Wise Strategies For Even Wiser Personal Fitness!

It requires a lot motivation and drive to obtain fit that its not hard to become frustrated. The below offers some tips about how to succeed.

Youll anticipate your exercise routine routine

Start with more compact machines when youre within the early stages of the workout.Small muscles exhaust prior to the large ones, so its logical to utilize small weights before moving onto bigger weights.

The fundamentals of growing muscle tissue would be to lift heavier weights for less reps and lifting excess fat. Begin by selecting a group of muscles.Begin with lighter than normal to preparation parts of your muscles. Your warm-up ought to be light enough that you could lift it 15-20 occasions. The 2nd set ought to be six to eight reps in a heavier weights with half the quantity of repetitions. Add about five pounds of weight every time. Ensure you have an excellent set of footwear before you begin your exercise. Whenever you don footwear which are inappropriate for any given activity, legs, ft or ankles.

You are able to improve exercise effectiveness with the advantages of your workout routines by practicing controlled breathing. Try vigorously breathing out whenever your shoulders peak throughout sit ups. The deep exhalation really forces your abdominal muscles to complete more work compared to what they would certainly. Flex your butt when weight lifting over your mind. This can exercise your chance of suffering an injuries which help the sofa obtain a great workout. It allows you lift the spine.

Would you like to look for a means by doing face-ups? Altering the way you see them can help greatly. Imagine you are tugging the elbows lower rather than tugging up when you are doing your entire body up. This little bit of mental sleight-of-hands could make doing face-ups feel less challenging and permit you to do them in greater amounts. Using individuals terms will make you dwindle motivated. Rather, title the particular activity, for example walking, cycling or swimming.

Lots of people believe that daily is really a positive thing. This isnt well suited for this group of muscles. Abs are just like every other muscle and want relaxation too!Make an attempt to allow your abs a two to three day relaxation about 48 to 72 hrs once you work them out. Attempt to stretch parts of your muscles you simply worked out between sets. Make certain to stretch not less than 20 or thirty seconds. Studies have proven that stretching between sets. Stretching may also lower your possibility of getting hurt. Always employ the correct form when youre working out your biceps. The proper way to strength train is by using your arms bent backward just slightly. Then, you need to release your arms to their normal position, release the position and permit your arms to unwind to their natural positions with you. This type will establish your bicep muscle correctly and effectively.

With the proper guidance and advice, fitness is really a obtainable goal. Even though it might be difficult, its possible. Theres nothing that cant be accomplished with the proper quantity of effort. Make use of the tips youve read above, and you may succeed.

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Day 13 of Metamorphosis

Day 13 went fine, a bit too busy: work, getting the groceries for week 3 (was a bit late as was celebrating on Saturday, and Sunday all the shops are closed in Germany), cooking, doing laundry, cleaning up... Now I still need to unpack - still havent done so since I came back from Sweden!!! Soon a month ago. Sigh. This is just me.

DC was easier today than ever I guess. I was sweating damn a lot, but at the same time, felt strong and cheerful throughout the workout. MS was also OK, but it is still hard to balance, and man I hate planks! They suck :) I can only do like 10 reps of exercises with planks, but well at least it is fun.

Today I updated my level 1 results with some pics, and honestly, was impressed myself! It is working and I am determined to keep it up!

Have a great day yall!

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I am BAAAAACK!

C 1.1.6

Day: 2

Hey there! :) I am a little back. Not for long. I might disappear again for some time. Or may be not. Right now I cant really say. But I decided to write a little update.

I have been a very bad girl. After my last post I havent much exercised. I basically had a month-long break from working out. It is not good, but I could not help it. And it is really hard now too.

First my sweetheart took me to Seuchelles for Christmas. It was a wonderful and great holiday. The beauty of that place is amazing, and only the story of sharks made me uneasy. The food was great and oh how I loved the fresh fish. We once went for a trip on a little yacht and the owner would catch fish right in front of us, and we would then eat it for lunch. A M A Z I N G! I have never had such good food. Generally though the Creole cuisine is pretty strange - lots of influences from Africa, India, a bit from France of course. But if you are a fan of seafood - it is for you. We had lobster for Christmas dinner, and it was my first lobster, I have to say I didnt much like it. All in all, you can imagine, I ate too much and didnt have time or opportunity to exercise - seriously if you have only 7 days in a pradise like this, you would not workout!

As you can see, I did add some weight, but not too much and I still fit everything. Back to workout damn it!

Next we flew back to Germany and I head out to Russia to visit my parents for the New Years celebration. Stayed there for two weeks and in all festivities I again overate like crazy. Both me and my sister were nearly crying from all the yummy foods. But it was good to be back with the family - not too short, not too long, just enough. Obviously, when you dont have enough space, there is no way you can workout - even though I had my Continuity DVDs with me... But I simply never got around to doing it.

Well, after all the travels and going from +30C to -30C I got a flu or cold. And was sick for one more week. And so here I am - this was a fast-forward of my workout-empty life - on the 22 January 2013 (seriously???? when did THIS happen???), Tuesday, and I have restarted workout on 21 January.

I have decided to slowly go back into DC - started with 10 minutes yesterday and will try to get up to the full 30 in about 20 days: I will go by 5 minutes up every fifth workout till I reach 30 minutes again. I think the main thing is to take it easy. Also, if I dont feel like DC, I would do something else for the same time + 5 min.

MS. Instead of repeating anything (after all I was off exercise for a MONTH!), I decided to continue. This decision was made for several reasons. First I was feeling if I go back and start with for instance Continuity again, I would get completely stuck and be completely unmotivated. And for me right now it is really hard to keep the motivation up. Second, I didnt find the level 6 too hard, so I decided to give it a try and see if I can manage. Tracy says in that level that we have to come to ALL the reps in that level as soon as possible. BOY! I realised I sometimes didnt come to all the reps in the previous levels!!! Even by the end of them! So I decided to work really hard. And after 5th day add weights for the second half of each level.

So, level 6 is hard, but to be honest - not undoable. Really. Even after a month break I could do it. Yes, I was sore the next day and doing MS the today was a true torture, but I managed - both times. It is similar to the levels where there is no real standing abs and no weights in the arms section (from level 4). So in the end of the day, it is not horribly bad. The moves are good, and I have to say most of them even enjoyable. Except for one - which is done in plank position. And boy - it is HARD! I only manage to do like 10 out of 20 reps, so beware! :)

Well, Ill keep you posted how it goes, and I really hope to get going with it better than before.

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Day 4 Week 2

I am happy that today is my Friday!  At my work we have every other Friday off as a company-wide initiative to save on energy and gas.  Yay for being environmentally friendly AND giving me some three day weekends :).  Since tomorrow is my day off and my mom is back in town, we are planning on spending the afternoon together and going to check out a spice store close by.  Im hoping to find some Indian spices I have been looking everywhere for!  Perhaps some new spices tomorrow will bring inspiration for a new recipe post.  But for now, on to my daily log...

Food Log:

• Breakfast: 1/2 small watermelon
• Lunch: whole wheat crackers, small cup of leftover chili, kale salad with cucumbers and ginger dressing
• Dinner: thai tofu lettuce wraps, a bite or two of creme brulee
• Extras: 1 beer, 1 Dr. Fuhrman brownie

Exercise Log: Be prepared to be proud of this blogger...

• 20 minutes on the treadmill, jogging for one mile and walking the rest of the time
• 5 minutes solid of ab workouts
• legs and hip flexer workout
• squats and lunges
• 5 sets of 5 pushups

How I feel:  Im happy that I was finally able to get my booty to the gym!  Positive talking is where it was at!  Yesterday I said, I will go to the gym, and I did not let myself down.  In the end, I felt great for sweating out some of my thoughts and stresses, and it was nice to feel my muscles warm and working.  As for eating today, I feel like I did pretty well at sticking to it, even though I had dinner out with some girlfriends tonight.  In the past I maybe would have ordered a pasta or pizza from the restaurant we went to, but instead, I ordered an appetizer of lettuce wraps.  Not only did this keep my check costs down, it kept my portion of food at a reasonable level.  Although I could tell the food was way over-salted, I was happy to have so much lettuce to offset it with.  Overall, I feel like I need to get more fresh fruits in, but I am needing to go to the grocery store to stock up tomorrow.  Perhaps Ill take a walk over to a local fruit stand about a mile from our apartment.  Exercise and fresh fruit?  Doesnt get much better than that!

What is your motivation to get yourself to go to the gym?  Do you find it a chore?  How do you feel when you are done?

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