To all you dieters out there, this review may help you in deciding if you want to give this diet a go.
The GM (General Motors) Diet in a nutshell:
It is rumored as the diet that the General Motors Company set for its employees, but apparently there have been no official claims. It's just a week-long diet- for the purpose of detoxyfying or "flushing out" whatever it is you need to flush out. But it could reportedly make you lose 7-14 lbs too. Ready?
Prepare for 7 days of hell.
Under no circumstances should you consume alcohol during this time. And water intake should be at least 2.5 L per day.
Day 1: All fruits. No banana. If you have watermelons and cantaloupes, capitalize on those.
I thought this was easy. I had tried a high-fiber vegetable diet before and I actually adapted to it very well. In fact, I liked it. But when I actually got into the all-fruit first day, I realized vegetables and fruits were really different. And my, what a BIG difference it was. For this first day I was hungry the whole day, and felt very weak and light-headed. Even if I ate until I felt my jaw would drop. Also, since fruits were sweet, I had a constant craving for savory food and junk food! In the end I cheated and bought myself a small pack of chips.
Day 2: All veggies. One potato may be included in your breakfast. Concentrate on high-fiber veggies. Only olive oil and some vinegar may be used as dressing if you eat salad.
High-fiber veggies would be the green leafy ones. Of course I wolfed on my salad. I LOVE SALADS. However, I cooked my veggies with butter. Like I learned in school. Big effing deal. Anyway, I liked this day because I love veggies.
Day 3: Fruit and veggie combo. Still no banana. No potatoes.
It was only this day that I felt enough strength and energy to go for a workout and run though.
Day 4: Minimum of 3 glasses of milk, and at least 8 bananas.
This made me less hungry compared to Day 1.
Day 5: Small portions of lean meat and cheese. You can make them into sandwiches. Consume a minimum of 6 tomatoes, and increase water intake by 25%.
Day 6: Unlimited amounts of lean meat, cheese, and veggies.
By this time, it was very similar to my usual diet that it felt normal. However, by the end of the day I suddenly felt light-headed and when I walked a little, my lips apparently turned blue and just a little more would have caused me to collapse. Fortunately I got home in time and lay down. After which I ate a mango for dinner- since I wasn't in the mood to cook anything and I wasn't too hungry. If this were my normal diet it would have been fine. I don't know why this particular day though, I threw up.
Now here were some factors:
- I slept until 5 am and woke up about noon for every day during this diet.
- I nursed a sick boyfriend and maybe I caught his fever.
- By day 6, it was my 2nd day of menstruation.
Day 7: Brown rice, veggies and beans.
I figured I'd just go for rice because I couldn't find brown rice where I was at the moment. It was 2 am- I still had an empty stomach because I threw up all the mango. I ate chicken and rice. I ended up throwing up again. Dammit.
Conclusion: You know, whatever factors caused the throwing up, I decided I didn't like this diet. I'm a fairly active individual as of late, and not being able to do exercise because I felt too weak or hungry really annoyed me. Besides, despite the strict following of the rules (except that small pack of chips on the first day), I lost only about 4 lbs. Anyway, I don't feel too good about it because I only stayed inside the house, when ordinarily I should have been outside running or walking. I was lying down all the time and now my muscles in my ass must have died.
My recommendation? Don't do this diet. It's stupid. If you're already on a high-fiber, low-carb diet, stick to that and eat because it makes you happy. If you're already eating a lot of high-fiber veggies (which I am), there's not much of a difference when you do this diet. And you get too weak to do anything else.
References:
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/~jajoo/gmdiet.html
http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2009/march/11/yehey/life/20090311lif2.html
http://www.healthmad.com/Weight-Loss/General-Motors-Weight-Loss-Diet.56927
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I heard this over the radio sitting in some cab on a random day some few months ago:
In this day and age, it's a sin to be not beautiful.
Well, at that time I was sporting a huge pimple on my nose. What a day. But, when I thought about it, I kind of agreed. If you guys don't remember, this had a lot to do about my thesis, and I actually hate having to argue about anything related to my thesis. An online friend once tried debating with me about beauty and female oppression and I logged out. Bullshit. We were going around in circles, and a guy should never debate about beauty and fhis supposed female oppression with a girl. A girl like me.
I went jogging today and kept thinking about what I was doing this for. Recently I had been having problems about what kind of person I was becoming, so concerned about shopping, clothes, and being fabulous. I once thought this Nike poster "Be Beautiful" showing women running was mean. Sadly I couldn't find that particular poster anywhere in the net. It rubbed me in the wrong way. Here was this universal concern about teenage girls and women not feeling good about themselves because of all these depictions of beautiful women all over the magazines, and Nike was like affirming this concept of beauty. I thought, man, if I didn't get to look hot like that in them short shorts, what chance have I got?
The reason I started working out was because I was already having problems breathing, got tired easily, and wanted to just sleep all day. Back then, I had this mantra: die happy. But when I started feeling the signs, I thought it might change to: die sooner.
Now that I actually started losing weight, I was loving the changes happening to my body. In effect, I became very engrossed to looking better. And I hated to admit, I thought about the Nike ad and then concluded, I wanted to "Be Beautiful" even more. I repeat the quote "In this day and age, it's a sin to be not beautiful." With all the pills and L-carnatine about, the gyms and videos, the cosmetics and lotions and random fruit extracts and animal placentas, brazilian waxes and spas, how could someone bear to be not beautiful?
Therefore, as a concerned individual aware of the averse complications of being not beautiful, one ought to have a kit with all instrumentations necessary to avoid it and improve physical appeal. When I finally got my severance pay, I scoured the aisles of Watson's to equip myself for the journey to being beautiful.
Here are the stuff in my kit:
1. Neutrogena Ultra-sheer Dry-touch SPF 50 sunblock
Olay Total Effects Moisturizer
Scentio Milk Skin-refining scrub
Skin Food Black Sugar Scrub mask
Belo Pore-refining toner
Johnson's Baby Milk Lotion
- A few days ago, a friend texted me. "We're getting older. Let's wear sunblock." Truly, the piercing UV and heat rays because of complications from pollution would cause skin to age a lot faster.
2. Del Monte Fit and Right drink
Vitamin C
- I always thought I was eating the right stuff but my metabolism had to be enhanced. Metabolism does change, and my mom's testimonial tells me Fit and Right should be effective. And to further protect myself from disease I pop a vitamin C pill. Plus, vitamin C helps in the overall health of the skin.
3. Clean and Clear Speed Gel
Garnier Dark Spot corrector pen
- Like I keep in mind: I shouldn't have pimples like "other" people. But I am prone to have blemishes easily, so I need that spot corrector. I don't know if that works on eyebags. There's only one thing I know for a fact that makes eyebags dissappear: concealer. But I don't want that. I want eyebags gone f.o.r.e.v.e.r. For the record, I actually don't own a concealer.
4. Johnson's Baby Powder
Nivea Double Effect deodorant
- Beautiful women reportedly don't sweat. And they have smooth underarms.
You know, this world lives on physical appeal, and acts based on judgements made by preconceived notions of it. If someone tells me to disregard physical beauty, then he or she is telling me not to live in this world.
Sirs, I am beautiful, therefore, I exist.
Baboysai reads One Piece (vol. 24)
I went clubbing for the first time last night. Good to know I was still saleable. I wasn't worried I wouldn't be, thus going clubbing to reassure my insecure self. Just to clarify. I went clubbing with some friends because I was Godang bored at home. My speakers got busted, I couldn't watch the Hayden Kho scandals in full quality, etc. etc.
For a very long time, I had always been curious about what kind of life these "party-goers" led. In conclusion my boyfriend told me: it's to get laid. LOL. led, laid. What about the people who just wanted to have fun and dance? What about the people like me? I thought hours later, I knew a different meaning to the word "party".
So here I was, just dancing in a corner, talking to a friend who recognized me in all the chaos and darkness, when this American guy just approached me and kissed me. 
What the f*ck, man? was what I said. To apologize he bought me a drink. A vodka tonic. He spouted some French stuff. Sorry hun, I wasn't the type who swooned over French. I happened to think the French language was gay. Whatever.
I went back to my friends, when I thought, maybe I was too mean. I went back to him and he was already talking to this girl. I interrupted him, said that I felt like talking to him, and he got my number. After which he asked me if I was horny.
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No. I decided this was stupid, got out and bought myself an overpriced Bacon and Eggs breakfast, waited for the sun to rise, promised to purge all promiscuous fantasies I might have considered in my youth. I was too good for this.
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