Showing posts with label NuSkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NuSkin. Show all posts

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Health: Home Remedy for Cough & Fever

Date:  Nov 3, 2013

Yesterday, my young son Kay Kay suddenly have fever and was coughing a lot.

He, different from his brother Jay, doesn’t like to eat a lot.  He does not eat veggies too.  So, his immune systems is much weaker than his brother.

Jay Jay has been taking anti-oxydant supplements for almost a year and he has not had any fever or cough or cold/flu, just like me.  We have been very healthy for one whole year.  But Kay Kay is a problem.

Today, we are going to talk about Nuskin’s Galvanic Body SPA.  

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What is it for?  It is actually for slimming purpose.  :)  It help to make your skin to absorb those fat burning gel/cream.  It is very useful for women who wanted to get rid of the stretch mark.  But this is not today’s topic.  

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Today’s topic is how to use this as a Chinese Sensei tool.   Yup!  中医经络养生.  This is the book published by one of the Hong Kong’s Nuskin folks.  And I found it so interesting.  That is why I decided to use it.  And it actually works.

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What do you mean by that?  What is Galvanic Current?

Galvanic current is used by beautician so that it can expel toxin and dirts from your skins.  There is a special gel that you use so to apply on it, and then, you simply use the Galvanic body SPA to roll over the skins.  That gel will go under the skin and then, magically, covered the dirts and then, bring the dirts and toxin out from your body.  I also don’t know how it works.  But it does work as described in the following photos.

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Some how, this Galvanic Current at the same time will make the circulations of blood flow more effective too.

And in Chinese Medical terms, all the veins in our body has represent special blood flow systems, and if you can find a method to make the blood flow smooth, then, you become more healthy.  Traditionally, Chinese Sensei uses acupuncture, as well as the Ba Guan (i.e. Fire Cupping).

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After the fire cupping, usually, you will have blue black marks.  And that is the mark that represents how heaty your body are.  The darker the color your body has more heat.  (photo from google).

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What if I say… you now no need to go see Chinese Sensei and you can do your own Ba Guan (Fire Cupping) at home without using the fire cup?  Huh?

Yes, using the Galvanic Body SPA, we can achieve almost the same thing.

Here are some of the common veins that you need to know.

1.  Inner Hand, blood flow go downwards.

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2.  Outer Hand, the blood flow of the veins goes upward.

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3.  The inner leg, the blood flow in the veins goes upwards direction.  (this is opposite of the inner hand flow direction)

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4.  The outer leg, the blood flow goes downwards.

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5.  For both side of the spinal cords, the blood flow downwards.  

6.  But the Center Spinal cords itself (between the two veins besides which goes downward) is going upward.

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6.  (no pictures) As for the back neck portion.  The veins will go downwards for each side (left and right towards the back).

Basically, what you need to do is to apply the Galvanic Gel, and then, use the Galvanic Body SPA to “brush” or “sweep” thru the veins/direction.  It is either the neck, the inner or outer arms and legs or the back (spinal cord or the two sides).

Then, there is this I-Ching thingy that you will try to follow.  

Yes, the number 6 is Yin 阴 (cold), and the number 9 is yang 阳 (heat).  So, when you do the “sweeping” using the Galvanic body SPA, you should do a multiple of 9 times, i.e. 9, 18, 27, 36, 45, 54, 63, 72 or 81, etc.  I usually will do a 9 x 9 = 81 times.  Means you do up-down 81 times or you do down-up 81 times depending on which veins you are targeting.

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After Golf

So, every time after my golf, my finger, my arms and hand will feel very tense and tired.  My neck will be tight too.  So, I usually will use this to brush it.  This is the outer hand veins.  So, it is from the index finger down-up to my shoulder.  (you can clearly see the vein route visually).  And after doing a few times, you can see the “red spots” started to come out.  And that is precisely the place where I feel sour and pain after my golf game.  

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After golf, the muscles here is pain.  But after you sweep thru using the Galvanic body SPA, you can see the redness of the skins.  That is the same effect like the Ba Guan (Fire Cupping), except that the color is not so red and blue black.  After the treatment, my arms feel very relaxing.

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Now, you might have noticed the “gel” has turned into white bubbly thingy after you sweep thru the veins.  That means your body is very heaty and all the toxin has been expelled out.  These white stuff are bad stuff.  So, normally, you will need to wipe that off immediately.  The more toxic your body, the more heaty it is, the more white stuff going to come out.  Which is good.

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Now, you switch to do the inner hand veins.  So, it is up-to-down direction.  From the front shoulder down to the thumb.

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After you have done it.  You can see that your veins are a bit bigger.  That is because blood flow thru these veins very smoothly.  Your blood streams is circulated.

(Warning:  I think, if you have any heart conditions, please do not do this, as it may worsen your conditions.  You have been warned!)

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Fever, Cough, Cold & Flu

Magically, this is used to treat the above mentioned symptoms. 

Fever.

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Flu and coughing.

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This is Kay Kay.  Who has a mild fever, with coughing symptoms.  So, for both sides of the spinal cord, you do a neck to waist up-down direction.  Do for 81 sweeps for each side.  Then, you do a down-up sweep from the waist to next on the spinal cord routes.

As you can see, he is quite heaty.  And all the red spots starts to come up.

He has just completed his right blood veins beside the centre cord.  Notice that the centre spinal cords there does not have “red spots”.

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Then, when you do the centre spinal cords, it is from down to up.  And you can see the red spots all come up.  Just take note, when you sweep, you do not apply any force, just lightly sweep the Galvanic Body SPA head over the skin.  Your aim is to touch the skins lightly only, but not pressing hard on the skin and sweep.

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So, after doing this, Kay Kay felt quite sleepy.  And his head is not so warm, as the blood circulation has bring down his temperature.  And the cough is much lesser.

Here is a quick video showing how it was done.  :)  Thanks Kay Kay for being the model.  hahahaha.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/KmAR6wpvstI

OK.  Now, let’s try it on a healthy person.  (don’t worry, it does not promote extra blood flow on the healthy person, whahahaha).  Jay Jay, come!

A healthy person does not have a lot of red spot.  He also does not have any pain at his back or what so ever, no fever, no coughing, so no “red spot”.

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Look closer, the gel also not turning white and milky.  So, Jay Jay basically has no heaty stuff inside his body.   So, he is very healthy and not much problem in his muscles and veins.  Very good.  :)

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Nuskin is a MLM company.  I used to have a very negative views and opinions about MLM.  However, after I have used a few of their products and prove that it works, I start to change my mind.  MLM not necessary produce con products.  So, this is another product that I used and I felt that it is useful.  And they are a listed company on NYSE.  And look at their stock performance, it is keep going up for the last 12 months.  I believe they have some technology and these technology have help them to sell their product - the direct way.  It is a very interesting product lines that have change my life style and it makes me very health aware.  Cool product!

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Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Health: What is Free Radicals?

Date: Sep 25, 2013

This is a collection bookmark of what I wish to learn about Free Radicals.

After watching a few of these, I now understand what is Free Radicals, which exist in the environment, and our body systems. Pollution has lots of things to do with it. It is bad, and it cause illness.

And the cure is to take lots of anti-oxidants to neutralise it.

What is Free Radicals?

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/XPNRU8FDaHU

This doctor uses layman term to explain Free Radicals.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/wfQvlJcJdgQ

I love all these test.  It simply shows how the supplement pill helps in solving your anti-oxidant problem.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/To1CpfboR6U

More products are tested.  Take note, the video is produced of course by some "superior" supplement.  So, whether it is true, is for you to believe.  HaHaHa.  But if you take multiple supplements, so you can do your own simple test.  HaHaHaHa.  So, just watch those portion that they explain what is Free Radical, and how supplement can help.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/5ddJNnpKi8A

Then, they use Banana to do the testing.  Got to love these test.  Simple and you can do it for yourself.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/ipgP6Q-r5I8

This guy selling for his product.  But he explained a few things well too.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/87r3B842TZU

The patented Biophotonic Scanner is one of the method to determine how much anti-oxidant level you have in your body.  This is the one I am taking since last October until know.

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/v/tY6jEk_8jtA

Last year, october, I got mine scanned.  And I scored a way below average scores.

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Yesterday, I went to get mine scanned again.  And I have become much better with whatever I am eating now.  I feel great, and have not got flu for almost a year, and I know my anti-oxidant is increasing.  Yeah!  Let's try to increase more.

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More coming...

Monday, May 13, 2013

TRA Diary - 7 months later

Date:  May 13, 2013

I took the Weight Management program from Nuskin - The Right Approach (TRA) in last October for 3 months.  

During that 3 months, I have lost around 10KG.  I have also build stronger and heavier muscle at the same time.  So, the fat that I have lost must be more than 10KG.  The weight I have before I took the program is around 92KG.  So, after the 3 months course, I was 82KG.

On Sep 22, 2012.  I look like this.  My tummy is round and huge.

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On Oct 6,2012, I look like this.  You can clearly see the double chin, and so on.

Most importantly, I felt very unhealthy.  That is why I determined to take on the TRA program and try to lose some weight.

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During that 3 months time, I made some changes to my life style.  And I reduced 10KG.  

After that, for the last 4 months, I have been practising almost some thing.

1.  I will never skip breakfast and make myself hungry again.  Because hungry stores fat.

2.  I will eat fruits, follow by veggies, follow by meat and lastly carbo at the back.

3.  I eat my fist size fruits, my palm size veggies, my fist size meat, and by the time I reach my carbo, I eat a little lesser than my fist.

4.  I usually have full breakfast.  Means, I eat BBQ chicken in the morning too.  haha

5.  I most of the time, eat light dinner.  Or meal replacement using protein powder milk.

6.  I eat whenever I hungry.  Do not let body hungry.

7.  I eat what I want to eat.  No one can stop me from eating.  Yes, I am eating chicken skin too.  hahaha 

8.  I take supplement such as fat blocker.  When I anticipated I am going to have huge fatty meal.

9.  I take lots of vitamins supplement to counter the radicals that it produced when my muscle burning the fats.  So, I am proudly to say that I have not been sick for 7 months or so since I took Nuskin program.

10.  I do my morning walk almost every day.  I try to golf 4 times a month.  I play badminton too.  So, exercise is to increase my cardio as I "used to" have heart problem.

11. I do not weight myself every day as I know I am confident what cause me fat, and how I can reduce it whenever I wanted to.

As you, I love to eat.  I like to eat.  And you know what I like to eat.  From the past 4 months, I try to be 自暴自弃 mode, eat a lot of chocolate, eat a lot of things.   (But still keep to the same principal I had above).  And surprisingly, my weight when back up to 85KG, and then reduce it back.  This has never happen before.  And I purposely do so to try to see what can makes me fat.  And can I reduce it back?  And the answer is yes.  

It is all in your mind.  And as long as you still have that conscious, then, you will be fine!  And I actually proven it.  And it is a good feeling.

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This is taken during my wife's birthday.  As you can see from my chin, it has reduced.  I felt my tummy flat.  And I am lighter, and I got more energy to do stuff.

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So, today, I took some measurement which I long time never take.

So surprise to see my weight to be maintained at where I left 4 months ago.  81.6KG.

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The fat I measured is 26.5%.  Used to be mid 30%...

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OK.  Body Age is still 54.  Which is so much older.  But I used to be > 60 age.  hahaha

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At least the BMI is no longer mid 30s.  I still eat a lot of chicken skins and pork lard.  haha 

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Reduced significantly too.

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As a result of still eating lots of fatty food.  Still trying to fix this.

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Hahaha not enough muscle.  I need it to be >33% I think.  hahaha

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Overall, I am still satisfy with this.  I have lost 10KG.  And I feel younger and lighter.  And after I eat a lot, I can always comes back to this point.  So, that is a good news to me.  

So, remember, it is all in the mind.  

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Something Has Changed Me. TRA or R2? or G3?

Date:  Nov 20, 2012

Almost 30 days I have survived the NuSkin TRA (The Right Approach) fat loss program.  Another 60 days to go.

My bicycle tyre punctured.  So, my wife sent in my bike to Trek for repair, change tyre and servicing.  What?  Trek needs few days to fix my bike because of a long queue.  OK, what shall I do for the new few days?  Walk and slow run lor.

So, I have been running for 3 days straight now.  And I have noticed something that is different about me.

Usually for the past 42 years.  I can only run or jog for a while.  Like every 200 meter, I have to rest a while, and my heart is beating very hard, and cause a bit of slight pain here and there.  This is true when I last run at Cebu ACC's 3KM run.  I know my conditions, so, I always take it easy when I jog.  And end up walking 90% of the time.

For the past few days, when it is my 2nd, 3rd and 4th jog/running of the year.  I can run 2KM without stopping, complaining about my heart, and I have enough energy to complete the 2KM.  It has never happened to me before in my whole life.  

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I started to walk from my house to the Sungei Ulu Pandan point.  that is about 3.5KM walk.  Then, I start running along the Sungei Ulu Pandan until the road head back to Park West Condo.  So, that stretch, I run non-stop.  And it is amazing feelings.

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Although I don't run fast.  But it is good enough for me.  And I like it.

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So, is it because TRA?  I don't think so.  Because TRA is to help your body to get in shape, and cut down the fat, lose the weight.

I suspect is the R2.  Or the G3 which is rich in antioxidant.  

But I felt good, that is the good thing about it.  and I have been running for the past few days and I feel energetic.

That is why I have to blog this down.

The body fat has been reduced from 30.75% down to 27.5%.  The ideal should be < 20%.  A long way to go.

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How about this.  Body age used to be 60 years.  Now dropped 4 years to 56 years.  My ideal is 37 years old (actual - 5 years).  Also a long way to go.

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The visceral fat.  Used to be 20, now cut to 17.  I need to figure out how to reduce that more faster.  Ideal is < 5.  Normal is 1-9.  Above 9 is high risk.  > 12 is highest risk.

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The BMI is 30.3.  Used to be 30.78.  This indications is not useful.

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The RM is 1807kcal.  Used to be 1867kcal.

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Thanks to my friends, Alice & Azmi, visit me, eat 2x buffet, eat cote du beouf, drink 9 bottles of wines, 盆菜, 10 course meal, straits kitchen @ Hyatt, etc etc.  Walau eh.  Miss all my medications, and supplement.  But luckily the method of eating still remains the same.  So, I actually gain 1KG out of last week, but I quickly reduced it back to 84.4KG as of today.  Once you know the method, you keep it in mind with you.  And the most importantly you will notice, only weight gain, but the V. fat still in tact.

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OK.  I need to gain muscle.  So, I am getting there.  30% now.  Starting from 28.5% skeletal muscle.  I just need to gain another 3% more.  

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So, so far so good.  And I felt quite good actually.  :)

As you can see, what is the different?  I can still eat.  and I eat damn a lot.  I added in breakfast too.  hahaha

TRA Detox Diary - Day 20-28

Date:  Nov 17, 2012

Day 20 (Nov 11, Sunday) - Breakfast

Got to love my Air Fryer.

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My lovely breakfast.  Of course, I will not eat the skin.  a pear, Cumcumbers, yellow Cherry Tomatos, a Japanese healthy kids noodle and my lovely chicken.

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Day 20 (Nov 11, Sunday) - Lunch

After 3 weeks, I am 3 years younger.  And my weight first time reach below 85kg.

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We went for hair cut, after hair cut, we ate at Paradise Restaurant.  As usual, I ordered my 3 eggs veggies and the Thai Veggie.  And I order a fish for my family, and some tofu.

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Day 20 (Nov 11, Sunday) - Dinner

I had a pear.  I love this pear.

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Boon Ching cooked these food… I ate only the Veggie plus my Trim Shake.

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Day 21 (Nov 12, Monday) - Breakfast.

Some turkey breast meat with my favourite wholewheat bun, corn flakes, pear and tomatoes.

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Day 21 (Nov 12, Monday) - Lunch.  We stopped by our favourite Yong Tou Fu place.  But by 12:30pm, they have already sold out.  Hock Koon managed to get a bowl, and I go order 2 veggies, 2 meat and less rice from the mixed veggies cooked food shop.

Day 21 (Nov 12, Monday) - Dinner.  OK.  Today I went to TRA class, they are introducing the Galvanic SPA.  I was rushing, so, I only eat 1 apple before the class, but I did not manage to eat any food.  Felt a bit hungry.  So, when I went home, I straight away drink the Trim Shake.

Day 22 (Nov 13, Tuesday) - Breakfast.  Happy Deepavali.  Breakfast with blueberry wholemeal flakes, tomatoes, pear, and a chicken.

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Day 22 (Nov 13, Tuesday) - Lunch.  Then, Alice came to my place and cook.

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She and her team, cooked many dishes for me to taste.

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So, it was a disaster.  As there are very tasty chicken, lala, steam fish, steam egg, cabbages, spinach, steak, roasted pork, binjal.  I every thing eat a bit.

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and I also drink ...

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and these.  So, there is a lot of food.  And 3-3-3-3 are not followed today.

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Later, I went for a run+walk for 1 hour.

Day 22 (Nov 13, Tuesday) - Dinner.  1x star fruits.

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A bowl of vegetable soup with ox tail.

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Day 23 (Nov 14, Wednesday) - Breakfast.

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Day 23 (Nov 14, Wednesday) - Lunch.  Azmi is in town.  So, I ate buffet lunch at his hotel.  First, the veggies.

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Then, the meat.

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Day 23 (Nov 14, Wednesday) - Dinner.  Another buffet at Hyatt's Strait kitchen.  Ate green apple.  two bowl of veggies.  duck meat, satay, indian chicken, etc.

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Day 24 (Nov 15, Thursday) - Breakfast.  Decided to cooked 6 eggs and eat.  Some chicken and rice too.  

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Day 24 (Nov 15, Thursday) - Lunch.  Eat at Skinny pizza.  a bowl of corn soup.

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Squid ink pizza.  With lots of veggies.

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Day 24 (Nov 15, Thursday) - Dinner.  Oh dear, we were at Le Bristol du sommelier.  Two bottle of wine and...

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And my favourite, 1KG of cote du beouf.

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Day 25 (Nov 16, Friday) - Breakfast.

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Day 25 (Nov 16, Friday) - Lunch.  We ate at the Taiwanese restaurant.  We order some veggies, chicken, meat, and many more.  A lot of food.

Day 25 (Nov 16, Friday) - Dinner.  The iCook cookware came.  So, we used that to cook.  I eat only one piece of chicken.

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Star fruits.

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Kailan

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Cabbage.

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Steam egg.

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Day 26 (Nov 17, Saturday) - Breakfast.  A roast chicken.

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Day 26 (Nov 17, Saturday) - Lunch.  Alice come and cook Pen Cai.  

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Drink some wine...

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and this...

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and some side dishes.

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And chocolate lava cake.

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Day 26 (Nov 17, Saturday) - Dinner.  We went to Tanglin mall.

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Apple plus celery.

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Day 27 (Nov 18, Sunday) - Breakfast.  Cook a piece of steak.

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Day 27 (Nov 18, Sunday) - Lunch.    I only eat meat, no carbo at Monster curry.  plus an apple.

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Day 27 (Nov 18, Sunday) - Dinner.   

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Beef veggie soup.

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Day 28 (Nov 19, Monday) - Breakfast.

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Day 28 (Nov 19, Monday) - Lunch.  

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Day 28 (Nov 19, Monday) - Dinner.  

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The meat is so good, and I cannot resist it.

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It was a very disaster week.  But one thing glad is after all those buffet, these nice beef, 盆菜, and wine, cheese, etc.  

VFat still remain.

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Weight more heavy by 1KG.

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But not the fat.  Cool.

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