Lemon & Lime Water

It's a very simple concoction that helps with cleansing all the toxins in your body.

Ingredients
1 lemon
1-2 limes
Water :)

Procedure
Cut both lemon and lime into 1 mm or half a milimeter slices.
Take out the seeds (we don't want those seeds floating around do we)
Drop the lemon and lime into a bottle or jar that you wouldn't mind using for 48 hours.
Add in the water
Stir it around a bit, and you're done!

This lasts for 48 hours and can be refilled.

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My uncle was the one who introduced this to my mother, who then introduced this to me. Honestly, I wanted to try it out because I thought it looked pretty. With all that yellow and lime green color... (Bright colors.. O.O)

This is what I found when I did some research on it.

The Ten Reasons Why

1) The warm lemon water helps purify and stimulate the liver. (Yay liver!) Lemon/lime water liquefies bile while inhibiting excess bile flow.

2) Warm lemon/lime water aids digestion. It's atomic composition is similar to saliva and the hydrochloric acid of digestive juices.

3) The liver produces more enzymes from lemon/lime water than any other food.

4) The lemon/lime water helps bowels eliminate naturally and easily. (I am currently waiting for this to happen)

5) Lemons and limes are high in potassium. Potassium is an important mineral that works with sodium for smooth electrical transmission in the brain and nervous system. Depression, anxiety, fogginess, and forgetfulness can often be traced to low potassium blood levels. (Negativity BE GONE!) That same nervous system needs potassium to assure steady signals to the heart. So your heart health is improved from the lemon water's potassium.

6) Calcium and magnesium are plentiful in good ratio to each other in lemon/lime water. Magnesium is important for heart health and calcium prevents rickets.

7) Lemon/lime water can help lower blood pressure.

8) Lemon/lime water has an alkalizing effect in the body as it is buffered. Even if you drink it just before any meal, it will help your body maintain a higher pH than if you didn't drink it. The higher or more alkaline your pH, the more your inner terrain is resistant to minor and major disease.

9) Helps dilute uric acid, which if it accumulates it creates arthritic pain or gout.

10) Helps reduce phlegm in the body. (Ew...phlegm)

Here is the link to rest of the article:- http://www.naturalnews.com/033383_lemon_juice_digestion.html#ixzz2YkZsfwS9

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I drink this while I'm working out - I don't really know how relevant that was to this entire blog post but yeaah... xD

It's good for ya! Try it out! xD

It'll keep you healthy! 

My days

Hello my dearest readers!
What's up?

I thought I'd update y'all on the recent events that have occurred in my dull life lately.

Well since I've been done with university (with the classes and such) I have been doing absolutely nothing for the entire January besides going out occasionally in the weekends. I basically have been sitting home watching TV Series; most specifically Merlin, for the entire month.

Other than that I've been attending Toastmaster meeting twice every month.

I thought I'd share a picture. I'm over there on the far left corner with the chopsticks in the hair. 

This was taken during our latest meeting and the theme was "Chinese New Year"

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So yea. Now I am somewhat temporarily working for my dad. While I'm unsure of what I want to do next, I'm working for him. Helping out with managing the business and other stuff. 

I've been meaning to write a Valentines Day post but I somehow couldn't put myself up to writing it, I just wasn't feeling it. But I want to write something about Relationships and Love and all that. 

I can say that I somewhat have my ideal body. I'm alright with my body right now. There are some parts of it that I treasure and some that I wish that weren't there but I learn to love them through time. Like my tummy. xD

One thing I learned about getting to your ideal body is to find what you love about yourself, cherish it and love it to death, and you'll find more things that you love about yourself through time. I loved how my hands looked and from there I started loving other stuff on my body, and gradually I noticed my body changing to how I want it to be. 

I am and will forever be grateful for losing 18 kilograms in 3 years. 

When you're lost in life, just stay put and relax a bit. Love what you have now, and enjoy it. Soon you'll find the way. It may take time to reveal itself to you but it will come. Ideas will start popping up in your head, opportunities will start coming up, more people will acknowledge how good you are, and you will get there. Just keep on believing that there will always be a way

Run Run Run

I have been going walking/jogging/running outside with my sister for a about 3-4 days now. We would go and do that for about 30 minutes or so. And these 30 minutes include a little bit of jogging, power walking and just normal walking.

Let me tell you this, If you want to loose weight, if you want to have your ideal body and become your ideal weight, then all you need to do is to get off your butt and work for it. Get motivated. Stay motivated.

Going out for a walk or run alone may seem a tad bit scary for some of us because sometimes people stare and you kind of get freaked out by them, or probably because we don't like going alone. I suggest going with someone so that both of you can motivate each other.

After you take that 20 minute or 30 minute run or walk, you will feel tired and exhausted BUT, you will feel great and fantastic after your done and it will inspire you to do much more with your day and more with your life, because I know I felt the same way by the end of my run.

What you're going to do:
What I want you all to do right now is to go and call up a friend and ask if they want to go jogging with you. Plan when you'll go and for how long. Trust me you'll feel great by the end of that run.

If you want to get somewhere, take action my lovelies.

The Worlds Fastest Workout Experiment

We all have at least extra fat we want to get rid of and we're too busy to fit "working out" into our busy schedules. 


The worlds fastest workout is only 4 minutes long and it's a full on body work out. Take a look.

I personally tried this workout, and I was surprised that I couldn't really finish the 4 minutes. But once I keep doing it I'll be able to do at least 8 minutes of this. 

I am going to try to do this at least twice a week. During Fridays and Saturday mornings. I am going to do this right after I do yoga and meditation for a month and see the result. 

This workout said it would increase the metabolism for 36 hours. I just had to try it, and so far it's going great. 

So, I just weighed myself and I am now 75kg (June 30th 2012). I know it's the same as January 1st but I've got to start some where. I am going to keep going until I get there. 

I started this workout yesterday morning. (June 29th 2012, Friday) but I did not check my weight before I did it though...and I did it again today morning (June 30th 2012, Saturday). I'll do it again until July 28th 2012, and see the results

The Worlds Fastest Workout Experiment

Start: June 29th 2012 

Start Weight (as of June 30th 2012): 75kg - 165lbs

Proposed End: July 28th 2012

Proposed End Weight: 50kg - 110lbs

I know some of you may thing that this is unrealistic, but I am going to try and see if it is possible to actually loose 25kg in a month with this full body 4 minute workout, plus doing my everyday activities. 

Lets see how it goes.

Health and the flu

I had a cold for 3 days straight. It was a good thing it was already the end of my exams.
My sister had a cold before me so I got it from her. She lost her voice and I some how could not stop imagining myself having the same voice. The night before I got the cold. I felt horrible. So I did healing meditation before bed. I felt great and healthy when I feel asleep. But then I woke up in the middle of the night feeling terrible. I started to think like I would just come home early from uni, and that I had a fever. I then tried to go back to sleep. Then woke up again an hour later feeling even worse, and felt as if I had a fever, plus I was shivering. That morning, I eventually woke up with a fever and that day right after my exam I went home early, but I was a day we planned an outing with friends. I couldn't just abandon that, so I started to think positively. I said "I will feel better, I will have fun, I am healthy" and other positive things to help me feel better.

My advice to you about health and the flu. Before you get it, as in when you feel it coming. Drink hot tea, and do something that makes you feel good. Say that you'll stay healthy. When you have it. Drink whatever prescription the doctors gave you, have some tea, and tell your self you'll get better. Distract yourself with a book in your hand. Or a drawing book.

Don't forget to love yourself, and be grateful for your healthy body.
Have fun! ^.^

What I've been doing lately

If you're all wondering what I've been doing lately,

well i finished my prelims on Thursday so I'm totally free, until midterms.
during the week of my prelims, I've studied but when I was done, I've done nothing but feel grateful, believe, feel the feelings of already being my perfect weight, I saw myself getting on that scale, looking down and saw that the red arrow was right on the 50, I felt excited, I felt so happy.

But then, before I would check, I would think about how much I actually weigh, I felt scared and I thought i would regret checking it, I would feel bad to see how much i still weighed. Whenever I would see that my current weight hasn't changed, I felt so bad, I felt depressed, but I tried my best to cheer myself up again, and so I did, by thinking of my perfect weight, thinking of me living in my perfect body, I thought of getting lifted by almost everyone I knew, I thought of them saying "WaW, Nada your so light", as i was thinking of those thoughts I would feel grateful, I would feel excited, I felt so happy.

No matter what I do, I will never give up.

right after my exams, we went over my sisters apartment, but I didn't really want to go, since I was tired and wanted to go home, but then I thought, 'maybe this is the universe telling me to go', every time we would go over my sisters apartment, she would always make us clean, and move stuff around for her, since her house isn't completely organized. I knew that she would make us move things around, so I took the offer as the universe offered it to me.
I decided to take any offer in which I know that will help me take a step forward to what I want.

We did move things around, we cleaned up a little and it became more organized, I felt happy that what I did was for a good cause, I did feel tired but then happy and proud of myself.

The next day I've decided to dance again. I've grown interest of Hula dancing, I tried it and realized that it was pretty hard, but I had fun, even if I'm alone in my room, I would laugh at myself because I couldn't get the right step. I might be crazy laughing at myself but I felt good, happy, joyful. I was smiling. After my attempt of Hula dancing, I decided to relearn what I learned before. Kat tun dance moves. I re-watched their videos, and relearned everything, but they weren't perfect, but I had fun. I did it over and over again, because I couldn't get some parts right. It was joyful even though I was alone. After all that, I wasn't really tired, I wanted to do more, so I just put on Kat tun's new song D-motion, and started to dance to it. I watched their performance at Music Station Japan, and decided to copy a few steps, then feel proud of myself when I got them.

I got hungry, but saw that there was nothing in the fridge, so I called out to my mom. "MOM IM HUNGRY!" in a hyper playful tone. "Go eat apples, its good for you" she replied. I thought 'Apples sound nice', when I thought of apples i felt a warm breeze inside me. When I got 2 apples out of the fridge and started cutting them, I felt good and healthy, even if i didn't put them in my mouth yet, but when I did, I felt even better. I felt so healthy that I wanted to eat more. I forgot that apples taste so good, and made me feel healthy. But i couldn't finish it for some reason.

I do things that make me happy and feel good about myself, like dancing and moving around for a good cause, doing things that you know are for a good cause, and knowing that you want to do them.
I eat things that make me feel good and healthy.
I realized that eating fruits makes me feel healthy and warm inside, they make me feel good about myself, unlike when I eat mc donald's or other greasy foods make me feel oily and weird inside, even though they taste really good, they don't make me feel as good on the inside. I still eat these foods but I only focus on the taste.
You can eat what ever you want, Food is your friend.
Do things you want to do, and that make you feel good. Know that what your doing is going to take you a step forward to your goal.