I am not too sure how good a 10 day miracle diet is but thought I would post this diet that seems to be making it’s rounds on the internet. What do you think? Has this or anything like it worked for you in the past?

Just a note from me is that I think that this is a very short term diet, very high in veggie type vitamins and high water foods and very low calories. As they say in the end this is more like fasting more often then not and one more thing, I am not sure about so much coffee. Coffee screws with your metabolism.

The 10 Day Miracle Diet

Here, is the swiftest safe slimming program that is scientifically sound-a diet that wages lightning warfare against fat in true blitzkrieg fashion. It is a low-calorie, high-protein diet with sufficient carbohydrate to burn up fat but it contains an absolute minimum of foods furnishing fat calories since your object is to consume these from your ample corporeal reserve.

Lose 10 pounds in 10 days

The fatter you are, the more you can expect to lose on this diet. The average overweight person who is reasonably active physically can anticipate an actual fat loss of about 5 pounds in 10 days. Total loss of weight should be even greater and immensely gratifying. An average loss of a pound a day, or a total of 10 pounds at the end of the io-day period is not too much to hope for as the readjusting tissues begin to eliminate surplus water. Your actual weight loss will depend upon physical activity, previous caloric diet level, rate of metabolism, tendency of tissues to retain water, and other factors. In rare cases of extreme water retention it may take four or five more days to show maximum weight loss, but when it does show up it often does so with pleasing suddenness. If you don’t get results on this diet-we hate to say it -the suspicion is in order that you’re doing between-meal “piecing” or sneaking in an extra snack here and there. At its level of approximately 750 calories, weight loss is inevitable. Read the rest of this entry »

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Caffeine is one of those drugs that we just tend to accept in society and there are reasons for it. Caffeine is in coffee and coffee is one of those popular drinks that people accept as social and not dangerous, a little jolt can help you at work and lots of research indicates that caffeine can improve concentration.

Thats Fit has an article about how the elderly can be helped in various ways using caffeine.

It turns out that drinking a caffeinated beverage raise blood pressure to what researchers referred to as a “healthy level” after someone has consumed a meal. This rise can counteract the temporary drop in blood pressure that typically occurs after a meal. This drop is most commonly known to occur in the elderly.

The researchers point to their findings that people who consumed four or more servings of caffeinated beverages daily had a 53 percent lower risk of death from heart disease than did those individuals who consumed less than half a serving a day. And, with respect to the people who only drank two or three servings of caffeinated beverages a day, they had a 32 percent lower risk than those who drank less than half a serving a day.

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OK I guess this year is an open book for me, no real burning plans but lots of little things that I want to do, see, and experience. I try to share whatever I can on this blog so I thought that I would share some of what I am hoping to do this year. Just in point form, you wouldn’t want to see all the writing that went into these goals/resolutions for the year.

Run a 10k - This has been on my list for years but I have never been able to run long enough to get my self ready to run one. My crap knee gets sore and swollen and I stop my running workouts. This year I am going to try to cross train any way that I can so as to avoid too much actual running until race day. This is I know stupid as I will not continue the running beyond that one race but this has been one of those lofty goals to me for year…I want to get it done.

Lose 10 pounds of fat - I have been holding on to this ten pounds of fat for a few years. I am not really lean but I know that the 10 pound loss to pring me weight around 190 will make me feel better and look better if only for the summer (it’s hard to see a 6 pack in Calgary in the Winter).

Reduce the bad stuff - Dropping my intake of chocolate, pop and coffee. I will not be quitting them as we all know that is a certain path to failure but I will instead be very conscious of the times that I have any of these things and will reduce on a weekly basis the amount that I am taking in.

Work, Play and Family - I have all three although I often blur the lines between them. This year I will be shutting off the computer more and staying away from the blackberry when I don’t need it. Reading with the kids more and going out to do my own fun stuff as well. Over the last three years or so I have been trying to juggle and multitask myself into doing a lot of things and in the end I have let my family suffer by doing stuff with them while thinking about the web or how I resent not doing more fun stuff.

These are all fitness, home and health type resolutions. I have lots more for career and earnings and other things that are not related to this. I am going to be moving again this year and want to travel more as well. One of my big goals this year will also to be to make more money online so that my IT work is not the only income source that I have. I also want to be leaving free time all over the place to do things like writing a book (non fitness related) that I have been apparently working on for years as well as making it a focus to type faster and with fewer mistakes and finally to make sure that I have the time to try new things. There are always opportunities in life for new adventures and new skills but when you are too busy you just have to let them pass by. This year I am going to let less things pass me by.