So after “warming up” last February, I (think) am ready to dive-in full blast with a strict diet.
I just did my groceries and here were my food items:
1. Yogurt
2. Bananas
3. Non fat high calcium milk
4. Melon
5. Cereals
I hope I can do this! Wish me luck! Moreso, please pray for me!
The HCG diet plan, a weight loss plan which uses HCG drops to help you lose weight, has been experiencing an increase in popularity. Aside from taking in HCG drops every day, this diet plan requires you to take in only 500 calories per day. This can be a challenge for most people especially in coming up with foods that will let you take in calories efficiently. Below are some suggested foods you can eat while on the hcg diet.
• Take your coffee black. For coffee-lovers on the hcg diet plan, it is best to take your coffee black. You will save on a few calories that the sugar and creamer often contributes. For those who prefer tea, take organic green tea or organic chamomile tea.
• Remove the fat. For meats, make sure that you take them without the fat. Buy lean meats as much as possible and cook them without oil. It is healthier if you bake or grill them.
• Eat lots of veggies. Plenty of vegetables should be regularly a part of your menu. Avoid fried vegetables and go for boiled, grilled, or steamed. Include a fruit as well for each meal.
• Avoid processed foods. Whenever you feel hungry, you may drink coffee or tea. Do not consume processed foods even as snacks.
We cannot deny that the sun’s UV rays are more harmful today than ever. Even sunblock with the highest SPF is no match for staying under the sun during its peak hours. It is very important to take care of your body’s largest organ, your skin but do not forget to take care of your eyes too. Wear sunglasses to protect it from glare and hats to keep off direct sunlight. There are many specialized men’s sunglasses for sports too – like golf sunglasses and fishing sunglasses, and men should take advantage of the polarized lenses that go with it.
Here are some benefits of wearing sunglasses:
1. A good pair of sunglasses offers guard from ultraviolet rays of the sun. Ultraviolet (UV) light damages the cornea as well as the retina. Good sunglasses could eradicate UV rays completely.
2. Sunglasses protect your eyes from glare. Certain surfaces, such as water, could be reflecting a harmful amount of light, and the bright spots could be disturbing or could conceal objects. Good sunglasses can solve this problem with polarized sunglasses.
It really does not matter whether you get designer sunglasses or the expensive ones, as long as the style fits you and it has protection from both UVB and UVA rays, then it’s good for you!
If you are looking for a coffee brewer that brews coffee better, you should get a bunn home coffee maker. One might say that a good coffee depends on the beans, and while it is true, coffee brewers play a huge role in ensuring that these coffee beans are brewed to its precision to extract the best possible taste!
Here are the reasons why BUNN coffee makers brew coffee better!
1. With a typical coffee brewer, coffee brews at an inconsistent temperature. When this happens, the flavor of the coffee suffers. It the water gets too cold, the flavor gets left behind. If the water gets too hot, the taste of the coffee can become bitter. With BUNN brewers, the water-to-coffee contact is timed precisely so that your coffee is not over-extracted and never bitter!
2. When you use a typical coffee maker, the water is heated DURING the brew cycle, dripping it slowly to the beans. It makes the brew cycle longer so your coffee eventually tastes bitter. BUNN brewers ensure that water is consistently brewing at the temperature of 200F, the optimal brewing temperature.
3. When water is dripped slowly over the coffee beans, it doesn’t wet all the beans evenly, overextracting some of the beans. This will result in bitter coffee. With BUNN, water is quickly released all at one to create the needed mixing action to extract evenly the flavor from the coffee grounds!
It seems that weight loss is foremost in many people’s minds nowadays. A lot of people I know are either trying to lose weight or at least trying not to gain any. Some of my friends have already taken up different sports and one of them is considering ping pong. According to him, table tennis is a great way to lose weight. By playing only 15 minutes of table tennis, you could burn around 105 calories already. If you continue regularly playing this sport for twelve months, the calories that you burn will be equivalent to around 11 pounds of body fat. It makes me want to have my own table tennis table too.
Just like most sports, table tennis does not only help you lose weight, you also get a lot of extra health benefits like improved circulation, strengthening of leg and arm muscles, and increased energy levels. Keeping up with a sport will also increase your metabolism so that the long term effect of weight loss is more permanent; you do not have to worry too much about gaining the weight back. I hope my friend will be successful at his weight loss goal. Maybe if table tennis works for him I just might take it up too.
Building a new house for you and your family? A contractor with superior skills and understanding can give advice on what would give your polished concrete flooring the best result. Having grand flooring in a residence is an excellent investment. If you have concrete, it can be polished to a high standard for stunning floor covering which needs no outside layer or waxing. You can grind fresh or aged concrete floors to a high glossy finish.
A polished concrete floor looks like polished stone and is extremely tough. It is ornamental, sensible and also reasonably priced. Concrete is polished with sanding pads and grinders up to the point that it becomes sleek and silky. This also goes the same for epoxy flooring. If kept dried out and spotless, a polished concrete floor is no more slippery than standard concrete. In fact, it is less slick than linoleum or polished marble. Almost any concrete floor may be polished but if it is new, you should hang around a month more before polishing it. Existing floors might need some cleaning before being polished. The flooring business is experiencing requests for polished concrete right now from business facilities to show rooms to private homes.
Instead of going over the quotes I have with me and decide on the cheapest car insurance for our car, I searched for turbo chicken recipes I can try.
The following is a quick, very common and no-fail way of preparing Turbo Chicken here in the Philippines, using ingredients and spices that are most readily available (read: household staples in this part of the world).
You will need:
* Calamansi (calamondin), 2 pieces, squeezed and seeded
* Toyo (soy sauce), about a tablespoonful will do
* Salt and pepper to taste
* Garlic, a couple of cloves to a full head, depending on your preference
* Sugar (optional)
* a medium-sized raw chicken, thawed
Procedure:
1. Mix all the ingredients (except the chicken) into a marinade. Give the chicken a good rubdown with it, taking care to massage it inside and out. If you prefer a stronger flavor, you can let the chicken soak in the marinade for an hour but this is really not necessary. The strong taste of the soy sauce will already provide it with enough flavor.
2. Place a small baking pan at the bottom of the oven, this will be used to catch the drippings (don’t throw this after the chicken is cooked! You can use it to make gravy, or see the rest of my explanation below). Place the wire rack that comes with the Turbo above the pan and put the chicken on top of it.
3. Cover your turbo broiler. Set the temperature to 180 degrees celsius (or 375 degrees fahrenheit) and set the timer to go off after 45 minutes. The light inside will go on.
4. Keep checking the chicken (through the see-through glass) every 15 minutes or so. If you think it looks dry, get a pastry brush and baste the chicken with some of the drippings.
5. It should be nicely crisp and golden brown after 40 minutes. You can turn it over if you want the underside to be crispy too. Just be careful not to leave it under the broiler for too long.
How to serve Turbo Chicken, Filipino-style
Turbo chicken is usually cut up into pieces, like in the above photo, and served with steamed rice. It’s also commonly served along with the drippings which we Filipinos like to put over our rice (This practice is not very healthy but it’s really delicious. Just be careful not to overdo it.)
Chicken Inasal is a very flavorful chicken dish that comes from Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental which is a province in Southern Philippines. Unlike the usual Filipino-style "barbecue" or grilled chicken that only uses soy sauce, this dish uses a variety of native ingredients and seasonings for its marinade and basting sauce, giving it a delicious spicy-salty, slightly tangy flavor. Inasal is traditionally cooked over a hot charcoal grill and this method is said to enhance the flavor of the marinade, making the dish tastier. This dish is also known for its yellowish color, achieved through the use of achuete (annatto seed oil).
Chicken inasal has since become popular all over the country including the Philippines’ capital, Metro Manila with many restaurants now serving their own version of the dish. It is commonly served in halves or quarters, still on their wooden skewers and lying on top of a banana leaf. Inasal is usually paired with fried garlic rice and a dip of soy sauce, vinegar, calamansi and if you’re brave, some crushed small red chili peppers.
Authentic inasal preparation is quite fussy but who says you can’t enjoy this delicious dish even when you don’t have the luxury of time? Yes, now you can do it yourself in the comforts of your home. the ubiquitous, all-purpose Turbo Oven has come to the rescue once more.
Turbo Chicken Inasal Recipe
Adapted from the authentic chicken inasal recipe
Serves: 3-6 people
You will need:
1 whole chicken
A marinade made of
1 head garlic, macerated
2 tbsps. chopped ginger
1 tbsp. brown sugar
1/3 cup sinamak (native coconut vinegar)
10 pieces calamansi, juice extracted
3 stalks tanglad (lemon grass), juliennes
salt and coarsely ground pepper
Basting Sauce
1/2 cup Star Margarine
1/4 cup achuete (annatto seeds) oil
salt and pepper
large bamboo skewers
charcoal for grilling 
Procedure:
1. Mix together garlic, ginger, sinamak vinegar, a small amount of sugar, lemon grass, calamansi juice, salt, and pepper in a large bowl.
2. Rub the chicken with the mixture. (You can choose to leave the chicken whole or cut it up into pieces.)
3. Place chicken in the chiller and let it sit. After 30 minutes, turn the meat and then let it sit for another 30 minutes. It is not ideal to marinate the meat overnight since the acid of the vinegar will completely break down the enzymes of the meat.
4. Meanwhile heat the margarine and annatto seeds in a saucepan over low fire. Continue stirring for a few minutes until the margarine melts and the annatto seeds are well infused and have developed a deep orange color. Turn off the heat and add a small amount of salt and pepper to taste.
5. When the chicken is done marinating, put it on a wire rack and place it inside the turbo oven. Place a pan under the wire rack to catch the drippings.
6. Set the temperature to 180 degrees celsius (375 degrees fahrenheit) and set the timer to 45 minutes.
7. Baste the chicken with leftover marinade every 15 minutes, turning it over every now and then for an even roast. (Don’t worry you can lift the turbo’s cover every now and then and it will continue cooking.)
Serve your Turbo Chicken Inasal hot together with garlic fried rice and sinamak or soy sauce with calamansi and siling labuyo (small red, very hot chili peppers).
To help me eat healthier, we bought a stove top grill and a turbo broiler. A turbo broiler is a popular appliance in the Philippines. It helps you cook meat and chicken (even fish) without the oil. You can think of it as a cross between oven baking and grilling. This way, I will not eat too much food with oil and would not need hoodia gordonii pills to help me lose weight.
A Turbo Oven
A Turbo Oven / Cooker / Broiler
You can also prepare healthy and delicious dishes with it. There is no need to rub meat with oil or butter for a tender and juicy roast because the circulating hot air perfectly browns and sears the outside of the meat, sealing in the juices to preserve flavor and moisture. You can opt to let the fat drip onto a baking pan, placed under the wire rack in the oven, for a flavorful, delicious and satisfying meal minus the guilt.