The Cups Diet

The Cups diet

Everyone’s on a diet. You wouldn’t need to eat if you fret you are not on a diet. You just don’t name yours. It’s quite customised. Mine’s called the cups diet. Well here are some tips for eating you might consider a bit useful.

·         Go easy on carbs. Don’t eat too much rice but don’t deprive yourself of it. I usually measure my rice on cups so I’ll be able to control my carb intake. Try this:

BREAKFAST- 2 to 3 cups (I sometimes eat cereal which cuts my rice by a cup.)

LUNCH- 1 ½ cups

DINNER- 1 cup

·         More meat! So if you’re a veggie well sorry, but meat intake should overtake the carbs. I recommend fish as primary meat in your diet since it’s less on fat and its got some nutrients not found in red meat.

·         Vegetables on the table. Have your dose of colorful veggies since it was proven that the more color a veggie has the more benefits unlike the pale colored potato.

·         Don’t eat between meals! Avoid excessive snacking.

·         Eat dinner before 5. If you’re loading kilojoules at the end of the day, you’re not getting rid of them.

·         Work it out! Exercising might be the slowest way to lose some weight but its better than some pills on the drugstore, it also cuts the risk of heart attack depending on the length of your work out.

SAMPLE MEAL PLAN

I am an advocate of the decreasing meal plan. It’s kind of effective.

HEAVY BREAKFAST

2 cups of rice

1 cup of my favourite Century Tuna (hey no carbs!)

Some fried eggplant

1 cup hot coffee with creamer

2 sandwiches, peanut butter and ham or maybe cheese

MODERATE LUNCH

1 ½ cups of rice

1 cup of chicken adobo

1 glass mango juice

LIGHT SUPPER

I usually eat oatmeal for supper nothing more.

1 cup of rice

1 cup of soup anything just soupy

A portion of pork chop

1 glass of milk, or chocolate

Yeah, you didn’t have to starve because of a diet. You just had to limit your once excessive food intake. And go on lose some load and don’t overeat!

                                                                                                                Icebreaker 13

Dream Missed by ¼ inch (hey now don’t dream its over!)

The Las Vegas Police Department. Crime Scene Investigation Unit. Detectives, Sleuths, Agents, Psychologists, Scientists, Coroners, Medical Examiners. I’m part of it. In the Behavioural Science Unit.

“But that was just a dream”-REM (Losing my Religion)

The job was for maintaining peace and order. Even it’s just a temporary solution. It is a noble job, only the intrepid and strong dares venture a career where your life hangs only by a thread. It is the backbone of law enforcement. It was my father’s job for almost 25 years.

            

            As a sergeant, my father had this ambition of becoming a general. He is dedicated to his job and he even had this “Most Industrious Non Commissioned Officer” award. He is an investigator and a prosecutor. He is also famous to the indigents in our town for his good treatment towards them. He told me once that he never dreamed of this job, but he loved it.

            My older brother failed the police service because of his ill health. My father was disappointed about it. My older sister can’t apply for this job. She didn’t tip the scale for the height requirement. I was even taller than she was.

            My dad handed me this Application Form for the

Police

Academy

. Only 17-21 years old are admitted. I’ll be 17 on the day after the exam. He was so excited and he told me I could pass the exam. He even gave me books to review. Chicken. But I felt pressured a week before the exam. I was thinking, “What if I failed?” I knew dad would be so disappointed again. But there’s another thing I was worried about. What if I wasn’t even able to take the damn examination? I stood up nervously on the scale. Shit. I knew it. I was 0.5 centimetres short. 157 centimetres. They require 157.5 cm. ¼ of an inch. Approximately. My father thought for a while. He said “that will do, some of my fellow cops are shorter than the height requirement.”  He was so sure about it. It was still dubious. I was still nervous. I wasn’t even able to have a good night sleep at the hotel. I was thinking about my ominous tomorrow.

            The next day, I wasn’t feeling that very well. I wanted to go home. And my mother bought to much for breakfast. I was about to puke but a candy stopped me. Here I am in a mob of people I barely know. This is a very big problem to me. I’m not good at making friends. So I just stood at a corner. With nobody to talk to. Well, it was quite a long wait. A girl on my side asked me if I had that self stamped envelope. And the next second I had a friend. I wasn’t able to ask her name. That’s another problem. I don’t ask for names. But she was just hopeful just as I am. She said she would die if she didn’t pass. That’s not exactly what she said, but she said something like that. And these people thought they had science on the exam. Morons. Its only English and Math.  Okay. So it’s my turn to be scaled. If I passed the height requirement. 5”2. “You can come back next year.” The examiner told me. Five words only. But it is enough to devastate me. And my dream. Well I shouldn’t really hope because I knew I was short but a fourth of an inch anyway. As the Scottish saying says, “A single leak can sink a great ship.” I missed the dream by one-fourth inch. It was my birthday the next day. What a drag. What a nice surprise. All I needed is ¼ inch. Just like this |      |. You could miss a dream by that. I can’t believe my luck. But on the bright side, I’m going to have enough time to build a muscular body and strong resistance and a high stamina. Maybe that’s the reason behind it. I’ll still be able to grow. And I hope higher than that. After all, what’s ¼ inch? Chicken.

I BET!!!

Betting is one of maybe the easiest way to gamble. Though I’m not really a gambler, I do play poker, but I think I’m good at betting. I bet who will win in artista searches, singing contests, and guess what, I bet it right! Like I bet who will win in Star in a Million, Erik Santos is my bet, he won! And Star Circle Quest, my bet is Hero Angeles, and he won. In Star Struck, my favourite is Rainier Castillo, I bet he won’t win, and he didn’t! Yeah, maybe I just use my common sense, but maybe my intuitions play a big part, or maybe what I really want to happen. I like betting. I bet if my cousin will shoot the 8-ball while we play pool, and she didn’t! Hahaha. My bets of course aren’t all right, but most of them, I get them right!

            My cousin is in the hospital for her first baby. My sister told me she’ll bet 200 bucks and her bet is it is a boy. Well, of course I bet it’s a girl, against hers. Afraid I might lose, I set the bet down too 100 bucks. But I’m quite sure it is a girl. Well, almost all the mothers in the maternity ward bore a baby boy. But I’m certain I won’t lose this bet. Well, I went out to snack, and when I came back, my cousin already bore a guess what! a baby girl! And that’s how I won the bet. But my sneaky cheating sister didn’t pay me the bet! So I told her to be careful with her wallet and maybe one day she’ll find one hundred pesos missing from it! She’s a big fat cheater, I say. 

            Captain Barbell. Well, I didn’t watch the whole show, maybe I just watched its last two weeks on air. I just watch it because I’m bored, and I find the show “baduy”.  The catch is who will be his girl. My bet is Lea. (well i bet for her because she and Teng look good together. but i knew all along that the writer will tolerate the friends turned lover plot). I don’t like Kit, because she’s Camille Pratts. Well, I bet with Rover, (I admit I find him cute) but with no money involved. His bet is Kit. I just watched its last episode last night. The day before, Teng dumped Lea. That was really mean for me because she’s my bet.Well well, on the last episode, Kit died! Hahaha! But Teng still loves her (err…) and he shot Lea twice. He told her that he never loved anybody just as he loved Kit. Ouch! And he walked out of her.I thought he’d give Lea a chance. Then Lea left for

Manila

and she’s still waiting for Teng. Sigh. Then Teng decided to go back to the future. F** it! Damn! He didn’t even say goodbye to Lea! So I got annoyed because I thought I lost the bet. But, hey hey hey, I didn’t bet it wrong after all. Because the villain lived again. And three years after Captain Barbell (Teng) left, a robot was harassing Lea. Then Captain Barbell saved her! Hahah! I bet it right after all. Maybe he got over with Kit. He said something like “Don’t call me Captain Barbell, Just call me Teng, I gotta run, and save

Manila

.” And he flashed her a big smile (he’s so cute!) when Lea thanked him. Well, one thing I don’t get is why Lea didn’t recognize Teng, or why she wasn’t surprised that Teng came back (I think she might have forgotten him already but that’s impossible) and I think he is already to love Lea again. That’s kinda weird. But I bet they’re meant for each other, in the story. So I bet it right. But Rover objected because he says Kit was Teng’s late girlfriend but i say "hindi sila nagkatuluyan kasi namatay si Kit saka d sila kinasal!!! haha Pilosopo! and I think Teng got over her and he’s ready to love Lea something like that) But I hope there is still a part 2. Please! I bet you will! (Nah, I don’t think so.) But I still bet it right! So don’t bet with me or risk losing! (yabang, yabang, hehehe) but I still want that part two,

I BET!!!

Betting is one of maybe the easiest way to gamble. Though I’m not really a gambler, I do play poker, but I think I’m good at betting. I bet who will win in artista searches, singing contests, and guess what, I bet it right! Like I bet who will win in Star in a Million, Erik Santos is my bet, he won! And Star Circle Quest, my bet is Hero Angeles, and he won. In Star Struck, my favourite is Rainier Castillo, I bet he won’t win, and he didn’t! Yeah, maybe I just use my common sense, but maybe my intuitions play a big part, or maybe what I really want to happen. I like betting. I bet if my cousin will shoot the 8-ball while we play pool, and she didn’t! Hahaha. My bets of course aren’t all right, but most of them, I get them right!

            My cousin is in the hospital for her first baby. My sister told me she’ll bet 200 bucks and her bet is it is a boy. Well, of course I bet it’s a girl, against hers. Afraid I might lose, I set the bet down too 100 bucks. But I’m quite sure it is a girl. Well, almost all the mothers in the maternity ward bore a baby boy. But I’m certain I won’t lose this bet. Well, I went out to snack, and when I came back, my cousin already bore a guess what! a baby girl! And that’s how I won the bet. But my sneaky cheating sister didn’t pay me the bet! So I told her to be careful with her wallet and maybe one day she’ll find one hundred pesos missing from it! She’s a big fat cheater, I say. 

            Captain Barbell. Well, I didn’t watch the whole show, maybe I just watched its last two weeks on air. I just watch it because I’m bored, and I find the show “baduy”.  The catch is who will be his girl. My bet is Lea. (well i bet for her because she and Teng look good together. but i knew all along that the writer will tolerate the friends turned lover plot). I don’t like Kit, because she’s Camille Pratts. Well, I bet with Rover, (I admit I find him cute) but with no money involved. His bet is Kit. I just watched its last episode last night. The day before, Teng dumped Lea. That was really mean for me because she’s my bet.Well well, on the last episode, Kit died! Hahaha! But Teng still loves her (err…) and he shot Lea twice. He told her that he never loved anybody just as he loved Kit. Ouch! And he walked out of her.I thought he’d give Lea a chance. Then Lea left for

Manila

and she’s still waiting for Teng. Sigh. Then Teng decided to go back to the future. F** it! Damn! He didn’t even say goodbye to Lea! So I got annoyed because I thought I lost the bet. But, hey hey hey, I didn’t bet it wrong after all. Because the villain lived again. And three years after Captain Barbell (Teng) left, a robot was harassing Lea. Then Captain Barbell saved her! Hahah! I bet it right after all. Maybe he got over with Kit. He said something like “Don’t call me Captain Barbell, Just call me Teng, I gotta run, and save

Manila

.” And he flashed her a big smile (he’s so cute!) when Lea thanked him. Well, one thing I don’t get is why Lea didn’t recognize Teng, or why she wasn’t surprised that Teng came back (I think she might have forgotten him already but that’s impossible) and I think he is already to love Lea again. That’s kinda weird. But I bet they’re meant for each other, in the story. So I bet it right. But Rover objected because he says Kit was Teng’s late girlfriend but i say "hindi sila nagkatuluyan kasi namatay si Kit saka d sila kinasal!!! haha Pilosopo! and I think Teng got over her and he’s ready to love Lea something like that) But I hope there is still a part 2. Please! I bet you will! (Nah, I don’t think so.) But I still bet it right! So don’t bet with me or risk losing! (yabang, yabang, hehehe) but I still want that part two,

I shouldn’t love you but i want to….

i love you if you only knew, i hope what you said is true, because i feel the same way too…