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The 3 Day Diet Meal Plan This diet is also known as the British Heart Foundation Diet and the Greenland Diet and has been circulating for many years. The diet has circulated in the form of a one page sheet that claims you can lose 10 pounds in 3 days. The diet has been popular in the UK - but its exact origins are unknown.

Long term weight loss can only ever be achieved through sensible changes to diet and the introduction of regular exercise.

But…..there is that party/wedding/christening/holiday coming up and the long term diet plan hasn’t quite got you where you want to be yet! And you don’t want to be captured on those photographs when you are not feeling that you look your best.

Every now and then we all feel the need to resort to a strict, short term weight loss eating plan to see immediate results. While a very strict diet meal plan is never something that is advisable to do regularly or for long periods of time, kick start style diet plans can give you the confidence boost and the motivation that you need to continue to maintain a healthy weight loss plan.

So with this in mind, below we have the details of a free diet plan, to be followed for 3 days. For obvious reasons it is commonly known as The 3 Day Diet! And as the name suggests the diet plan should not be followed for any longer than that.

This weight loss plan works because calorie intake is lowered but the diet meal plan still gives some nutritional balance. One of the things that makes this plan popular and relatively easy to follow, is that ‘normal’ foods such as ice cream and hot dogs are incorporated and there is some variety.

DAY ONE

DAY TWO

DAY THREE

*Low calorie sweetener should always be used instead of sugar

CONDIMENTS ALLOWED

Lemon juice
salt and pepper
mustard
cooking oil spray

VARIATIONS

If you really don’t like any of the foods included you can make some changes;

Orange instead of grapefruit
Tuna instead of cottage cheese or vice versa
Frozen yoghurt instead of ice cream
Cauliflower instead of broccoli and vice versa
Green beans instead of broccoli or cauliflower
Beetroot instead of carrots
Toast instead of 5 plain crackers

Follow the plan for 3 days with strictly no cheating and you should get the immediate results you want. When you see the differences to the new slimmer you, you should feel encouraged to continue with a healthy lifestyle!

I am quite frustrated with the house. A family house that needs huge amount of work. Even the handyman who came and did the quote told me if he has the house he will knock it all down because there are just too many things needed to be done. He quoted just the front balcony door reshapeing plus the 4 rails at the front will cost $ 920. He is a honest man and he is normally half price as other handyman according to my friends. but that $920 is not even 0.1 % of what is needed to be fixed around the house. If we knock it down where am I going to live and work. I can buy an apartment cause I am looking for one now anyway. However the 60 plus families in my studio within walking distance to me will be very hard to maintain and I need to keep the income too. To pay for handyman for instance. Gee life is stressful.

i really can't think about anything that can be added to the blog. You see, i even start writing out 7 days of the week schedual. Oh God. running out of interesting materials.....what else can we talk about ah....

I don't know if you ever feel like this. After you stay in Taiwan for a long time and the first day you arrive sydney, the people and life here in Sydney feels so far away. Speaking English feels funny and most funny thing of all is that you feel like you are not belonging to Australia. How did I work here...how come they look so OZ and so blonde..?Do I eat that healthy crap for lunch all these years? The food in Taiwan is so much nicer....

I always have that kind of feeling for at least 2 full days. The same thing applies to Taiwan too. You are in Australia all this time, seeing Australian talking in English without thinking. Then you arrive Taiwan. You feel like a tourist for a little while. The people in metro look so different from you (i think they look different, of course they are not). Even though your language is very good you still feel like an outsider. That will then go away after 1 or 2 days. Is it just me or do you feel like that too? Taiwan and Australia are both homes. They are also both not my homes. I want to live in Argentina. Maybe that will be better.

Not long ago one of my friend got dumped. She was upset and I was upset for her. It took a long time to get her out of it. To have the guy out of her life too.  A few days ago she mentioned that guy's name again. I asked, so what is it now? What kind of relationship is it after he said it's not going to work out? She told me in a very strange voice "we are just f***ing friends now HAHAHA". To be honest I really don't think there is anything funny about it. Obviously thats not what she wants only and that guy really is a bastard to take advantage of her. Sometimes its sad to see your friend is like that because you know it does nothing to her self esteem. She was just totally being controlled by the guy. Or by the lust I should say. I am staying out of it this time. If she gets dumped again (which she will), I will no longer be there for her. This is totally stupid. I can't cope with double stupidity.

The economic in Australia doesn't look too good. Yesterday the big brand of Bonds got rid of their 1850 jobs. You can imagine how many people got the shock suddently. It's funny though. I am not sure if the economic is really bad because yesterday i went to see an open house for an apartment. It was sold before it was on the market. Last week I saw another apartment you should see the people outside waiting to go in and check it out. There must be more than 30 people waiting outside just wanted to go in!!! Everyone wants to buy it and the apartment was sold on the spot too. People seem to go to restaurant less now because the economic is not good. But then my business has never been so busy ever. This is the first time I start having a long waiting list for students. However at the same time my whole share profolio dropped to nearly nothing. The weather is going mad too. One minte is boiling and the next hour we will be freezing. This world is going mad...

I have been telling monica about all the funny tooth fairy business that the kids told me. In Australia tooth fairy is the only resource of income for a 6 year old. Yes, when you pull out your wobbly teeth, you put them next to your bed that night because tooth fairy will come and take them. They will also leave money to you to buy your tooth, exactly like Santa. The only thing is that Santa doesn't get goodie from you in return, tooth fairy wants your tooth.

Of course the tooth fairy will be the poor old mum and dad la. The kids have been comparing how much they got. I heard one complained about it because it seems that his tooth fairy is quite poor. he only got 2 dollars. Other kids get 5 or 10!! Then another kid told me that if you want to keep your tooth and you still want the money. There is a way. You just write tooth fairy a note. And he did. Yes he got both. What a smart kid.

Also the kids have been saying that if tooth fairy forgot to collect it on that night, the kid can get more money depends on how many days the fairy has been delaying the work. GEES.....isn't that hilarious.

How come we don't have tooth fairy in Taiwan. In the old days we just bloody throw away the thing. AIYA>>>>

This is the awesome theme music from "The Thorn Birds". All the hot themes are in this clip, most important of all the music makes the whole thing even stronger. I love this theme music.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvMJEDzY304

If you can sight read on the piano easily (this is easy to play anyway) go to

http://www.4shared.com and search "Anywhere the heart goes" (by Henry Mancini) You will be able to download and print it for free. Such a brilliant one to play for leisure.

This is what happened when everyone joins a new health club. You have to pay once fornight regularly so the best thing to do is to go everyday to get your money worth. Lucky my working hour is very different to normal people. And my friends too. So our weekdays are sometimes like weekends. In order to get rid of all the fat, so far we have been going everyday. Monday aero bliz (gee this class makes my body so sore) Tuesday Pilates, wednesday belly dancing (we have belly dancing in the gym too...very cool), Thursday Hatha yoga Friday power plate saturday Lyrical Jazz sunday meditation. I taught students early in the morning first. Then drove straight to the health club. After that I took a shower there and brought back the free sydney morning herald from there everyday. I am sure i got my money worth so far. 2 kgs fat are off now. 3 more to go.

I taught Natasha how to sing and play even before she got pregnant. Then she got pregnant so our repertoire at one stage was lots of music therapy songs for unborn babies. After her baby girl Meja was born last Sep Natasha stopped lessons for a while. Yesterday she came back again (Meja is 5 months). Gee don't you think she is keen. If I am the new mother I probably don't feel like doing anything for a while (or I should say "can't do anything for a while?"). Anyway so I got to meet Meja for the very first time. Amazing. Hopefully by the time Meja has kids I hope I am not still teaching. Not the usual "time flies comment or sense of contribution of achievement in education that sort of comment. The moral of the story is..... I want to retire rich and early. HAHA

Another first time in life experience. Little Maddy starts her piano lesson. She already learns singing and flamenco dance with me on the weekend class. Now she starts private piano lesson too. I think she looks rather gorgeous.

I went to see Briedie for piano lesson this morning. Haven't seen her for nearly two months. She teaches me lots of new Jazz and blues repertoire and its really great to have a mentor constantly guiding me. But I think I am better than her in business part of things because she has no single clue about money. Not that I have a lot of sense. At least better than her. She is a real jazz musician. So free spirit, so brilliant at improvisation.

Today she told me that this year she is so busy. She has 82 students a week. I though I have a lot with my good business this year running 7 days a week. She has 82. she charges me $72 ($1800 taiwanese dollars) for one hour lesson. Another violin teacher friend of mine charges $88 ($2200) per hour and have more students than Briedie. They must be working so hard like a dog!! They don't earn too badly though considering they have so much spare time too. Maybe I should work harder.

I phone is awesome. Monica said she can't see how i can live without it. Even in Gold coast I was constantly communicating with enquiries since this is the beginning of the term. A lot of things I was shopping and changing clothes in the shop, or at the beach when students call me. It's quite tricky to sound professional under circumstances like that!! Everything seems going very smooth today. I want to advertise casual teachers who can do singing and dancing for my talent class.....kids come back looking so grow up, especially the teenager boys. Its so amazing. I feel my aging process is quicker whenever I see them!!

I told all the kids that i need another week for holiday because we are off to Gold coast!! But this week is busy enough. Everywhere is very dirty. I think last time I washed my curtain was probably 10 years ago!! HAHA. This week I have been organising the timetable for kids. Normally at the starting of the year its often quiet but this year the timetable is fully booked 7 days a week. Not bad for a start! Then I enrolled the ice skating class, flamenco class, back the gym membership plus contact my piano teacher. Lets get back to work next Thursday!!! this is a 2 month holiday....long enough ah....

Don't you love this Italian style apartment? This is in the middle of Italian town. We were waiting for Monica to finish work so we could go for dinner. The only downturn for living here is that you will hear the airplane passing by almost once every 10 mins. How annoying!! Nevertheless it's beautiful. Just like in Italy.

I have upload all the photos to my file as you taught me in Taiwan (xp method) but I want to show them on this pixnet blog. How do I do that? I can show them on blog directly as it indicated but they only showed the msn blog for me to click. so what's next ah....

Also a note to aria meimei!! My brother said you don't need wireless for internet phone. ADSL is enough. You connect the cord from the modem to the phone...not the computer. So no need for wireless.....

So many things happened here in Sydney....coming soon.....(after I learn how to upload photos..)