Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Effects of 'skipping' a day?

Interesting. I was craving garlic earlier - had a garlic dill pickle. :-)

Ginger *juice*? Never heard of it...not sure where I'd get it. Also, how long would that mix keep without spoiling, do you think?

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> There is a "magic potion" for colds that consists basically of fresh garlic,
> cayenne, vinegar, ginger, horseradish. I don't make it, because that's
> pretty much the ingredients of the "hot sauce" I use with my meals. But
> whenever I have those foods, I don't get a cold. When I stopped this while
> travelling, a couple of years ago, I got this horrid cold!
>
> What I do is squeeze fresh garlic into a dish, add some honey, vinegar, soy
> sauce, pepper sauce, wasabi, and chopped ginger. (Not all of them all the
> time, it varies) Which is the dipping sauce I use with my meals. It is very
> yummy!
>
> It's a common dipping sauce in Asian cooking. But if your cooking style is
> more European, a fresh garlic clove mixed with vinegar/honey/oil makes a
> wonderful salad dressing. Or make some fresh garlic butter (kids often like
> it, surprisingly: I did as a kid!). I like to make some "crunchy"
> gluten-free toast and just rub a garlic clove over it, then add some olive
> oil. Anyway, garlic is a pretty potent antiviral, esp. when it is fresh. I
> often add fresh garlic to a dish of food I am serving to the family, just
> before serving, so the garlic doesn't get "cooked out". The family loves it,
> surprisingly. We haven't had any colds this year, and only one person got
> one last year. We buy garlic in the big bag, from Costco. I add a piece of
> bisqueware to the bag to help keep it fresh, but the cloves can be frozen
> too.
>
> Ginger/honey tea helps too, and it's actually rather tasty (kids like it).
>
> There are a bunch of recipes on the web, but mostly they are about making
> the garlic and ginger easier to eat:
>
> http://aoc777.blogspot.com/2009/06/miracle-cure.html
>
> Some top doctors have revealed that the combination of *garlic, ginger,
> lemon, apple cider vinegar and honey* is a wonderful drug that can cure
> everything from Cancer to Arthritis, and makes you lose extra body fat and
> weight.
>
> Amazing studies from respected universities around the world prove the
> miracle home remedy that costs just pennies a day to make, a super way to
> fight just about any affliction. Experts have verified that this health
> restoring trick of garlic,* *ginger, lemon juice, vinegar & honey can wipe
> both our common & not so common ailments.
>
> ...
>
> BASIC RECIPE
>
> Here's how to make your own miracle medicine.
>
> In a bowl, mix together half a cup of lemon juice, half a cup of ginger
> juice. Now put twenty five cloves of chopped garlic in a blender and mix at
> high speed. Add one cup of vinegar (use only apple cider vinegar), as you
> blend and after it has mixed nicely add one cup of honey, and mix the whole
> mixture in the blender again. Now pour this mixture into a glass jar (no
> plastics) and leave it in the refrigerator for a minimum of five days.
>
> Normal dosage is two teaspoons in a glass of warm water or fruit juice.
> (Grape or orange juice is best before breakfast). A second dose if desired
> can be taken in the evening. For treating specific conditions or ailments,
> use the potion as recommended.
>
>
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> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 8:07 AM, flippetskater <flippetskater@...>wrote:
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> >
> > Hi - new here. [image: :)]
> >
> > I started doing what amounts to fast-5 a little over two weeks ago - I had
> > had enough, and decided that if I eat fewer calories than I burn, the body's
> > only choice is to lose weight, so I was only going to eat one meal a day.
> > After doing that for a few days, I poked around the web to see if anyone
> > else was doing the same kind of thing, and finally ran across this, which
> > matched up so perfectly with what I was already doing instinctively - I was
> > pretty excited.
> >
> > So, it's been since Thanksgiving-ish, and I feel I'm doing really well.
> > Not so hungry during the day that I can't deal, and mostly eating well in
> > the evening. Still tweaking exactly how much food is enough, without being
> > too much, but it's settling out.
> >
> > Today, though - my kids are starting to get the sniffles and a cough, and I
> > can feel that I'm getting stuffy/post-nasal drip as well. I've made some
> > orange juice for them...and I kind of feel like maybe I ought to be drinking
> > juice/eating some grapefruit/pushing other liquids etc, just to prevent or
> > shorten the life of this incipient cold. (We have an event to go to
> > tomorrow as well, so I can't just stay in bed all weekend.)
> >
> > I'm so torn - because I'm not hungry right now. But I know that if I drink
> > some orange juice...I'm going to be hungry. And at that point - fast is
> > broken anyway, might as well eat something? Might as well just make it a
> > 'normal-meal' day?
> >
> >
> > For those of you who don't fast every day, or don't fast on the weekends or
> > whatever - how do you find it affects you, or affects any weight loss?
> > I've been doing so well, that I don't want to set myself back at all,
> > either with weight loss (six pounds so far), or with managing hunger.
> >
> > On the other hand, I don't want to be sick and miserable either. It's a
> > dilemma.
> >
> >
> >
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> --
> Heather Twist
> http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
>