UPDATE: Big Breakfast Diet Not All It's Cracked Up 2B

Ok so I tried the Big Breakfast diet where I eat a big breakfast (800 calories is what I was eating) and you know it just made me a lot more hungry than I expected. So the idea that the body is on a cycle throughout the day and that hormones have a lot to do with hunger makes sense, but what I don't really agree with is how eating a big breakfast of mostly protein and a little sweet will curb the carb cravings in the afternoon. Typically I was having a protein shake in the morning, egg/sausage, oatmeal, and a small brownie. Well by mid morning I was craving food again even though I had eaten by 7 am. Before I tried this diet, I would eat coffee and a sweet by 7 am and this kept me feeling okay until 12 when I would eat lunch. I thought I would try eating at 6 am and then again at 9 am and increasing the breakfast size to 1000 calories. But this still resulted in hunger throughout the day for sweets.

As an experiment once or twice I tried my old diet of eating a sweet and coffee for breakfast and having a big lunch. The results of that were that I felt full through the morning and didn't feel the least bit hungry until 12pm. Ate a gut stuffing lunch of 1000 calories and that would last until 3 pm and I would feel a little hungry then. So a sweet kept me full til 6 pm. At least I know my food schedule even if it sounds like it's going to lead to diabetes!!!

The point of the Big Breakfast diet is really to get us on an eating schedule that jives with our biological clock. So that the hormones sync with the incoming food. I guess the only alteration to this "diet" that I have to make is to the timing throughout the day. I'll keep playing with it for now.

On that note, doesn't the breakfast picture below look yummy? or fattening? my guess is that a lot of skinny people would look at this and think, "ehhh, maybe it looks good once in a while but not every morning for breakfast." Fat people like me think, "Hey, no problem I could down that and still have room for lunch."

Picture credited to: findmeacure.com

About “Paul Green’s Instant Traffic Robot” system - 1st Review

WARNING: This post is totally off-topic for my usual blog.... but then again, my blog is all over the place usually so what the hell!

I received an invitation to join an affiliate program called Paul Green’s Instant Traffic Robot system. Supposedly by the guy in the video on the email. The subject of the email says, “This ENDS Today... (Final Call)” The email goes something like this:

>>This is closing today and you must act now to claim
>> your fast action bonuses...
>>Check The Details Here Now
>>This cool affiliate marketing video will show you a
>>cool method for making monney (Yes they spelled it wrong in the original email too) the same day!
>>It is a very unique method and you must check
>>this out before it closes.
>>Get All The Details Here
>>Be sure to check it out!
>>Talk Soon,
>>Paul
>>P.S. I was told that this will close soon so the time is
>>now, to check this unique profit method and tools...

Below the video is the headline, “Top Secret Push Button Software Makes $1,177,741.70 in 6 Months on autopilot Using Nothing But Floods of Highly Targeted 100% FREE Legal Traffic!” In the video he claims that these methods are “white hat.”

So far it’s totally crap for emptying my bank account! First they immediately upsell you on all kinds of extras including webhosting, pluggins, so-called upgrades to everything. Well, it’s advertised by a smooth talking guy that sounds extremely arrogant and also sounds like an actor. Oh, why did i purchase this program? Hopefully the plugins will pay off.

Once I purchased the product, and all the upsells they offered me, i then was asked to choose hosting. No lessons on finding a niche first, no lessons on keywords, just sign here for your domain name make up what ever domain name you want in whatever niche you want. Hmmm, will this work? I did my research on keywords and domain names and chose medical insurance. Something everyone needs and everyone complains about. I narrowed it down to California medical insurance reviews. Because everyone likes to know reviews about health insurance. But again, there was nooooo training on this system and what niche to pick they just say pick a niche and we will set up your website for free, “SURE!!” since you’ve paid $461 for software and training services “Why not?!!” Here’s how the tab breaks down:

• Instant Traffic Robot - $47  
• 10 Cash Magent Websites - $297
• Instant Traffic Robot - Unlimited License - $100 OFF! - $97
• Cash On Demand Training System - $19.97
• Experience learning how to actually implement all this? - Priceless (ha-ha)

So the training is very fluffy and not by the original actor (Paul Green??) in the first video that I watched. So I don’t know if that is a real guy or not that i received the original invitation from. I’ll keep plugging away on this crappy robot system and see if it works. Here’s what Paul Green looks like in his video.

Hey look, I’m very skeptical because I’ve been ripped off by guys in fake videos before, but I need money, so I'm just desperate enough to actually take this crap seriously. I’ll give it my best shot, I already took the first step, and invested a lot of money. We’ll see if it pays off in the long run. I’ll try to keep updating.


-------- UPDATE ------------
Yes, this system is very poorly put together, but Clickbank has a 60-day moneyback guarantee on all products so I asked for my money back and got it back within the week. 

Off The Fast, On to the New Diet

I've decided to start a new diet called The Big Breakfast Diet which is developed by an endocrinologist named Daniela Jakubowics. Her theory is to load up on a high calorie breakfast when you wake up to stimulate certain hormones such as seratonin to reduce later afternooon & evening cravings.

I'm a carb junkie in the afternoon and evening and i don't even eat breakfast, so the hormone explanation for my cravings made sense to me. Now, usually i eat about 2,000 to 3,000 calories per day so reducing my calories was always a problem for me on any diet. However, this diet has me on 1,600 daily calories and i'll see if i can survive on that little. I fasted on much less of course!

Here's a picture of what i ate for lunch tooday. A chimichunga, 8 oz of milk, 8 oz of plain coffee, 2/3 cup of mixed vegies = about 400 calories. Unfortunately, soon after lunch, i was tempted with brownies, so i had to have a few! A la, 400 calories more!

posted from Bloggeroid

Day 5 - Why I Chose to Break the Fast & How

I broke the fast today after 4 days and 18 hours. Even though this was not according to plan, I believe it was the right decision because most doctors recommend that a fast longer than 3 days should be medically supervised. On day 4 I was having a hard time sleeping due to acid reflux (heartburn) and pain in my hips and legs similar to growing pains. Now, although most fasting experts will say that it was normal to have these symptoms, and that continuing the fast would help to alleviate the symptoms, I felt that this was a good point to end a short fast. My plan for the future is to continue a weekly 24 hour fast 1 day per week. Scientific evidence proves that to be beneficial, and doctors generally believe that is not dangerous if coupled with a low-calorie diet. Total weight loss over the 4 days was a drop from 225 lbs to 215 lbs; equaling a 10 lb loss of weight.

So, in light of my decision to change here is how I broke my fast:
At 4 days and 18 hours I started to break the fast with a light soup made from organic herb seasoning called Bragg Organic Sprinkle (see picture below). I added that to a 10 oz cup of hot water and let it seep. Then I sipped it gingerly to see how my body reacted. This herb mixture has zero carbs and zero calories and is made from dried vegetables and herbs. I didn't notice any problems after that. An hour later I tried Sparkling Cider and jello. Normally they recommend to break a fast with fresh juice but I do not have a juicer. I presume that if I had fasted longer then I would need to buy a juicer to introduce my stomach to food more gradually.

An hour after the soda water and jello, I tried a piece of toast and some grapes. No problems from that and I had 310 calories at that point, so I decided to get some sleep. I slept for about 3 hours and when I awoke, I had some things to do so I ran some errands and came back to eat about an hour later. At that point the foods I ate were 6 oz of oatmeal with 1 tsp brown sugar, and 2/3 cup of cooked vegetables cooked in olive oil. Another 8oz of Sparkling cider. This equaled an additional 455 calories for a total of 765 calories by 10 am.

I have to mention that I only had about 3 hours and 41 minutes of sleep but that I had enough energy to make me feel like I had a full 7 hours of sleep. So in absence of food I slept a lot more, but when I added food back into my diet, then I regained more energy and needed less sleep. That makes sense in that calories are actually energy units.

In light of all of the above, here is a video on breaking a short term fast.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBkbh-B2eO0

Day 5 – A Little Acid Reflux

I’m blogging this one a half day early because officially I’m still on day 4 but I am having acid reflux pretty bad and can’t sleep. This is apparently a common symptom and I remember having it before. This time I decided to crush up a zantac 75 pill and drink it with water. I’m not sure if this will help, but I’ll give it a shot.

Keep in mind that previous to fasting I have had chronic acid reflux, so usually I take zantac 75 daily. I haven’t had one of these pills in more than 4 days.

Here’s some general research I found on heartburn (acid reflux) as a symptom of water fasting:

http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/water-fasting-heartburn-is-it-normal.html

http://www.fastingconnection.com/forum/40-day-juice-fast/2636-heartburn-on-34th-day-of-fast

http://myfasting.com/complication.htm

http://www.curezone.com/forums/am.asp?i=1097916

Day 4 - 10 Things I've Learned By So Far

Today is day 4 of my fast and I’m really not having any bad symptoms. I decided to look over all my personal notes about this fast and realized that there are a lot of things that I should have paid more attention to before the fast. Such as my waiste, which I did not have an accurate baseline measurement of my waist. I had some data as a baseline such as amount of sleep, but not water intake. But I’ll try to summarize some of my thoughts from my notes:

1. it’s easy to get a lot sleep, sometimes I feel like sleeping in the middle of the day and I can fall asleep within 6 minutes; which is just as fast as when I fall asleep at night.
2. I may have mentioned this before but there is a distinction between being ACTUALLY hungry and being TEMPTED to feel hungry. Most of the time it is only a temptation or a sense of food, which I think triggers a somatic reaction or maybe a thought of being hungry. Even if the body does not need food. Interesting to find out later in the fast what REAL hunger feels like. So as a result I really don’t like hearing, seeing, talking about, reading about, or smelling food as it triggers my response to want food.
3. When situations are stressful I feel hungry. So in a stress-free environment, fasting should be a “piece of cake.”
4. I’ve been getting symptoms of indigestion such as heartburn & acid reflux.
5. There was a sudden 5 lb loss on the fourth day. First 3 days I gradually lost 5 lbs, but then on the 4th day I suddenly lost another 5 lbs. Despite drinking over 100 oz of water per day.
6. I had a couple of aches similar to when you get growing pains as a teenager in my right leg and right bicep. (slight headache for a few minutes) This is probably due to lack of glucose to fuel the muscles and the shortage of glucose caused this slight pain. Again, I wish I paid more attention in anatomy class.
7. On day 3 I drank some carbonated water which has no calories or carbs but tastes strangely good, almost sweet. Instead of drinking 16 oz in an hour I drank it in about 30 minutes due to the possible flavor.
8. Morning of day 4 I had a sort of boost of energy but by 1 pm I was dead tired and had to sleep.
9. On the 3rd night I had a small bowel movement, but nothing like I would have on a regular day. It actually felt slightly constipated so I wonder if I am feeling stomach indigestion due to constipation.
10. Before I started to fast, I was also keeping notes on what made me feel good throughout the day. Most times, food made me feel good. It will be interesting to see how food makes me feel after the fast. Hopefully I will have a greater appreciation for the feeling of hunger and learn not to eat just to make me feel better.

So here's an interesting video of a man in India that has supposedly been fasting for 70 years. His name is Prahlad Jani. He claims that all he does in meditate and that a goddess feeds him with nectar through is mind. Strange stuff but maybe entertaining if you don't believe that stuff.

Day 3 - Extreemly Tired

Well, today is officially day 3 and I’m not particularly hungry, infact, I’ve made a distinction between feeling actually hungry and just merly being tempted to eat by one of the 5 senses. I am not hungry, but if I read about food, see a commercial on TV for food, or smell food, then I get and irritating feeling similar to hunger and probably most people identify it as hunger but it’s really not hunger. I don’t know if that makes sense because I’m really dealing with extreme fatigue (misspelled the word on purpose to emphasize how tired I am).

Yes you can die from fasting if you are very elderly and ill according to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. They say typically there is very little pain in the process of dying if a person is already very ill. “Since a reduced appetite and refusal of food and fluids are a natural part of the dying process, it is hard to differentiate “self-induced starving” from a natural death…” (Ganzini, 2003). Not that I’m trying to kill myself, I’m just trying to make the point that I will not likely die from fasting, however when you start to feel painful hunger pangs, you start to wonder.

Found a forum for fasting that tracked the statistics of people who fasted. The section linked below is a page of statistics of popular posts. Unfortunately it’s very hard to discern whether these stats are useful as they track only popular posts. Of note, 5,975 posts were under the topic “Attempting fast,” 3,895 posts under the topic “My First 30 Day water Fast.” One of the most popular posts here was “Dr Vlad's Dry Fast Diary Notes to Cure himself” – dry fasting (http://www.fitnessthroughfasting.com/absolute-fasting.html) is basically fasting from both food or water.

http://www.fastingconnection.com/forum/stats

As for me, my hunger is really not too bad on day 3. Last time it was the night of day 3 that I felt really hungry but this time it’s not too bad. Hunger feelings are still roughly once every hour but only mild and easily tolerated with a sip of water.

Ganzini, L., Goy, E.R., Miller, L.L., et al. 2003. Nurses' experiences with hospice patients who refuse food and fluids to hasten death. New England Journal of Medicine 349(4):325-326.

Another interview with Dr. Goldhammer from Raw Life Health Show Parts 1 & 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXvrrot0hnQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnrVrU0weCU