Overall, the feeling is great. However, you can only do this diet plan once every one or two months. Overdoing it is not good, as only consuming apple cannot provide our body all the essential nutrition.

My Progress Report

Day 1:
Ate 6 apples and drank plain water

Day 2:
Ate 6 apples and drank plain water
BUT ate an ice-cream bought by Orange!! (breaking the chain!!)
Soya bean drink

Day 3:
Ate 6 apples and drank plain water
Wheatgrass drink
Soya bean drink

My body weight scale is really not accurate, so I can only say I lost around 2~3kg.

If you can read Chinese, you can read this article.

I hope I can have strong determination to finish this 3 days apple diet. I will only be eating apples and drinking plain water. This diet plan will start from 15.06.2009 to 17.06.2009.

I have successfully complete Day 1.

What is CTS?

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), or median neuropathy at the wrist, is a medical condition in which the median nerve is compressed at the wrist, leading to paresthesias, numbness and muscle weakness in the hand. The diagnosis of CTS is often misapplied to patients who have activity-related arm pain. – wikipedia

The misuse of mouse and keyboard will result in CTS. Take a look at the following CTS surgery. Not for the fainted heart.

OMFG….

Ouch ouch…

To prevent such thing happen to us, we have to make sure we use the keyboard and mouse correctly. Refer to the instructions (images) below:

We can also do hand exercise to prevent CTS:

Let’s take good care of our hands and remember the correct way to use mouse and keyboard, as well as correct sitting posture.

Thanks Cherry for taking this photo for me.

Speaking about water, when we want to bring water along with us, we need to use bottles. Beware of what bottles you are using, especially plastic bottles! I don’t know if you have already read this article which I posted some time ago, but I hope all my readers can spend a little time to read it.

Today I read an article from my inbox and would love to share with all of you. It’s about plastic. Is plastic toxic or safe for our health?

Links for More Detail

Recycle Symbol Info
Water Bottles
Baby Bottles
Safer Options

In conclusion, the higher number in the triangle, the better / safer is the plastic.

Apparrently, I’ve lost weight (but still fat oustanding belly). My exercise ball which I bought early has puncturerd due to accident. But I’m really lucky enough to get a new ball replacement without extra charges.

That’s my most recent photo (taken on 17th evening). My chubby cheeks make me look young but look at my arms!! Oh gosh!

I’m not a medical student, so based on my understanding after reading some articles on progesterone, I learnt that it can be treated as a birth control method. This hormone can help during early pregnancy. Birth control pills that contain progesterone, can essentially “fool” the body into thinking it is pregnant, because it detects a higher level of progesterone. This means ovulation does not usually occur.

Progesterone is not only for menstrual cycle but also serves several other important functions in the body:

• Aids in immunity
• Reduces swelling and inflammation
• Stimulates and regulates the production of the thyroid gland
• Keeps blood-clotting levels at normal values.
• Keeps bones strong
• Produces collagen
• Helps keep nerves functioning at appropriate levels.

There are plenty of exercise you can perform with the exercise ball. However, you have to learn to balance yourself on the ball or else you may injure yourself from falling down from the ball. You can find a lot of free exercise ball workout tutorial in Youtube.

The following video is one of my favorite workout and I practise that daily. May look for another few more sets for the next following weeks.

Wish me luck, I really want a flat tummy.

The easiest way is to jog. But jogging in the sun can really tan my skin. We have no 4 seasons here so it will be rather hard to have fair skin texture again.

I’ve always wanted an exercise ball, so yesterday I finally get one for myself!

A Gymnic Classic Plus 55cm exercise ball, a blaster pump and a tutorial VCD. All together cost me RM176.00 which I think is still affordable and I’m lucky to buy these things when they are having a sale.

There are only 2 colors left for the 55cm exercise ball – green and red. You must be thinking I will purchase the green one, right? Nope, I bought the red one. The green is a bit dull that’s why I didn’t purchase it. (By the way, green is not my favorite color. My blog theme is green but my favorite color is blue )

It can be addictive to bounce on top of the ball. It feels so “shiok”. Exercising with this ball is not easy at first. But there are plenty of tutorial available for using the ball. Guess now I have something new to learn. Hope this can help flatten my abdomen when time passes.

If you also think of getting an exercise ball, then the following information will be useful.

Before purchasing an Exercise Ball you need to pay attention to 2 things:
1. Size of the ball
2. Quality of the ball

What ball size should you purchase? It depends on your height:

For the quality of the ball, make sure you get those made of higher quality plastics that are anti-burst or burst resistant.

What effect will Psorisasis bring?

Psoriasis has been shown to affect health-related quality of life to an extent similar to the effects of other chronic diseases such as depression, myocardial infarction, hypertension, congestive heart failure or type 2 diabetes. Depending on the severity and location of outbreaks, individuals may experience significant physical discomfort and some disability. Itching and pain can interfere with basic functions, such as self-care, walking, and sleep. Plaques on hands and feet can prevent individuals from working at certain occupations, playing some sports, and caring for family members or a home. The frequency of medical care is costly and can interfere with an employment or school schedule.

Individuals with psoriasis may also feel self-conscious about their appearance and have a poor self-image that stems from fear of public rejection and psychosexual concerns. Psychological distress can lead to significant depression and social isolation. – Wikipedia.

It’s not the end of the world, psoriasis treatment is available for those who suffer from the disease.

Although this is not the best translation, I do hope you can understand it. All photos and findings are credited to Renge. Photos can be clicked for larger view.

Not long ago, read an article called Chopstick Alert from Apple’s blog. The article is about the making of disposable chopstick (also known as hygene chopstick) and other related information. While cleaning my room, I found some disposable chopstick that I brought back from school. So, I decided to do the experiment.

This is the result of soaking the chopstick for one week. Do you see a layer of grease stain alike object on the surface?

Closer view.

In fact, the grease stain alike object is the dirt (impurity) left inside the chopstick After soaking, it will emerge to the water surface. As that layer of impurity will dissolove when being touched, I was not able to remove the whole piece of that “layer”.

The bottle contains the impurity layer and the water that used to soak the chopstick. The “layer” is transparent and is slightly light brown in color. The water is transparent as usual.

During the making of such chopstick, a lot of chemical has been used. So when doing this experiment, it’s better to put on your gloves during the whole process, to avoid skin allergy.

These are the chopstick that I used for the experiment. Around 24 of them.

I used the washroom of the upper level of my house as the “lab” (normally, no one use that washroom. So its safe there and nobody will complain me.) As a result, the “lab” was filled with exotic smell.

I believe that the smell is from the combination of the Sulphur, which is embedded in the chopstick, and the water, and release Sulpher Dioxide (SO₂) which is harmful to our bodies.

Luckily, the smell was gone when I disposed all the chopstick.

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So tell me now, will you still use disposable chopstick eventhough it seems so convinent?