Just for fun!!

http://s7.bitefight.tw/user/bite/16671
This is how I look now.
After almost half year I ...

Really?

人啊... 是個很低賤的物種!
在無失去前都不懂的珍惜
所以
當有人跟我說
:[不管男生抑或是女生,先表現出不在乎的那位,你就贏了]
我不太想承認但是
好像他說的沒錯ㄟ

所以古語有言
好漢不走回頭路
好馬不吃回頭草
是有道理的

Dear Chris

Dear Chris,
I finally made up my mind. It's time to rock which means it's time for me to translate for those who dose not want to read English. Don't you think it is a good idea?

Should I translate into Chinese? After all Chinese is my home language. Tell me the answer Pliz

比賽了

網路暱稱: Andre the Light Keeper

部落格名稱: Shih-Chun Lee

部落格網址: http://andre8281987.blogspot.com/

部落格介紹:

我從106公斤成功減重到現在78公斤

我在部落格中分享自己減重的方法以及介紹一些減重相關的文章的摘要

希望有興趣閱讀英文並同時想知道我如何成功減重

歡迎光臨我的部落格

Teacher and me

Me and my teacher

A review of my blog so far

I was very fat－ 106 kilogram, but I have fixed this problem: I am 86 kilograms now.

In my blog, I share my experience of losing weight and good articles matching my experience. I, a successful dieter, recommend you all the methods I have already practiced for one and a half years. I do three things a day: I have banana diet and tomato soup: the former, breakfast; the latter, dinner; I drink lots of water－2000CC; I also exercise thirty minutes every day. Having lots of vegetables and fruits, less carbohydrate and no alcohol is a good way. I think the motivation of exercise is very important. Doing interesting exercises like WII makes me feel no pain but fun. Just remember not to practice any strange diet methods hurting your health, such as cigarette diet. Now I am very proud to name myself Andre the Light Keeper because I keep myself light.

You can control your weight as you quit smoking

People use different ways to cut weights. Some of the ways are good, but some of them are weird. Have you ever heard that smoking diet? I think it is a stupid act because once you begin to smoke you will addict to cigarettes─quit smoking difficulty, and gain more weight quickly when you try to quit it, and get lung cancers easily. Trust me that I was a smoker before and I gained about 20 kilograms when I unwillingly quitted─I was in a coma, and I was disabled later, and I can reach no cigarettes any more─the cigarettes. Now I am healthy, fit without bad habits

You can control your weight as you quit smoking

I have found a good article on

http://www.pueblo.gsa.gov/cic_text/health/w8quit-smoke/index.htm

Here is the summary of this article: You can control your weight as you quit smoking

Many ex-smokers do gain weights; some, a few pounds, but only a few, lot of weight.Quitting smoking is much more important than gaining a few pounds. Just some simple changes, like developing healthier eating and physical activity habits can help you control your weight when you quit smoking. Averagely, people quitting smoking gain only about 10 pounds if you have smoked for 10 to 20 years or smoked one or more packs of cigarettes a day.

The reasons of gaining weight are: when nicotine, a chemical in cigarette smoke, is in your body that causes you have low or no appetite for food; therefore, when you quit smoking your body turn back to normal and back to the weight you would have been had. During first week after quitting, you might gain 3 to 5 pounds due to water retention. After you stop smoking, you may burn less calories than when you were smoking.

Smoking causes more than 400,000 deaths each year in the United States. When you smoke the heart rate increases, and about 4,000 chemicals in cigarette smoke pollute environment around you, and 40 of these chemicals cause cancer─high risk to get lung cancers.

Here is some data:

Men are 22 times more likely to develop lung cancer, women, 12. Smokers are twice as likely to have a heart attack as a nonsmoker. Smoking cigarettes are hurting not only smokers’ health, but also the health of anyone who breathes the smoke─smokers or nonsmokers. The smoke could cause heart disease and stroke, chronic bronchitis and emphysema, lung cancers and some types of cancer.

Adapted from the National Cancer Institute's "Smoking: Facts and Tips for Quitting"

You can control your weight as you quit smoking

Here is some advice: to avoid gaining weight when you quit smoking, you need to do physical activities to burn your increasing calories, changes your eating habits to control the total amount of calories you input. In one study, women who stopped smoking and added 45 minutes of walking a day gained less than 3 pounds. Besides controlling weight, exercise can increase energy, promote self-confidence, improve your health, relieve the stress and depression caused by the lack of nicotine in your body. Try to do at least 30 minutes of physical activities a day on most days of the week, such as gardening, housework, mowing the lawn, playing actively with children, taking the stairs instead of the elevator.
Try to gradually improve your eating habits. Eating a variety of foods from each group in the Food Guide Pyramid each day.
Think before you act, friends. Choose a healthy, safe, effective way to keep you healthy and lose your weight.

vocabulary:

Chronic 慢性的 lasting for a long time; difficult to cure or get rid of

Emphysema 肺氣腫 a condition that affects the lungs, making it difficult to breathe

Pyramid 金字塔 a large building with a square or TRIANGULAR base and sloping side that meet in a point at the top. The ancient

Egyptians built stone pyramids as places to bury their kings and queens.

Bronchitis 支氣管炎 an illness that affect the bronchial tubes leading to the lungs

Stroke 中風 a sudden serious illness when a blood VESSEL (=tube) in the brain bursts or the loss of the ability to move or to speak clearly.

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?

Recently, my mother pushes my father to lose weight because he is over 80 kilos, but he is only 168 centimeters tall. Of course, Mom makes him to have the banana diet as I do. He has practiced the banana diet for about five weeks. It is very strange that my father’s does not reduce any weights after two weeks; although, it is not gaining more. Last time when we went back home, Dad suggested that they should go to Costco to supply his wine inventory. Mom found out that in the storage, Kaoliang wine, red wine, whisky are all gone. “There must be a big mouse in our home.”, said Mom─ My dad was born in the year of Mouse. No wonder he can not lose his weights; he drinks a small cup of wine every supper, and he thinks it does not matter. For improving he is wrong, I decide to search some articles for him to understand that alcohol contains high calories and no good for dieters.
The article: Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?is on http://www.sparkpeople.com/resource/nutrition_articles.asp?id=563
The author directly told us that alcohol is the enemy to dieters. Although many experts say a single drink a day may be good for people’s health, such as reducing the risk of high blood pressure. But the truth is if you drink any kind of wine daily, you might ruin your diet plans.

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?

The author points out some reasons. First, alcohol is metabolized differently than other foods and beverages: the former does not have the process of digestion; the latter has slow process of digestion.

The alcohol is absorbed quickly in the stomach and arrives at liver and brain in few minutes. In another hand, other foods and beverages which are after slow digestion change into body fat waiting to be stored in our bodies.
Second, alcohol is a diuretic which causes water loss and becomes dehydration. Alcohol not only burdens liver’s work but also makes our body lose important minerals─such as magnesium, potassium, calcium and zinc along with the urine. These minerals are important to keep the fluid balance, chemical reactions, and muscle contraction and relaxation of our bodies.
Third, alcohol lowers your inhibitions, which ruins your diet plans because alcohol actually stimulates your appetite. People can be full from a certain amount of calories from food, but several drinks can’t. There is a paper pointing out that if you drink before or during a meal, both your inhibitions and willpower are reduced. In this situation, the more you drink, the more you want to eat, especially ─greasy or fried foods—which can make you bigger and bigger. If you can not resist having a drink, at least you should wait until you have finished your meal, and then you can order your drink. A tip here: snacks (peanuts, pretzels, chips) which are salty accompany with drinks encouraging you to drink even more; you should drink some water between each alcoholic beverage.

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?

Forth, other negative effect of alcohol.
People use drinking some wine to help them sleep, but the sleep won’t be very deep; as a result, people get less rest. Alcohol makes the stomach produce more acid causing the stomach inflamed; moreover, alcohol abuse leads to serious health problems－ stomach ulcers, liver disease, and heart diseases.

If you are going to have a drink later, you should eat a healthy meal first. Do not drink wine with an empty stomach. In this way it not only can protect your stomach but also can avoid overdrinking. Just as you drink out with friends, so you can do exercise over thirty minutes to balance your calories—but not skipping a meal.

Dieters need to watch calories, for you to know that one gram alcohol contains 7 calories; moreover, there is no nutrition in it. There is another important thing to pay attention is not mixing alcohol with other drinks, which will gain more calories. If you are going to mix liquor with anything, you should choose a diet or club soda, not fruit juice or regular soda; furthermore, dry wines usually have fewer calories than sweet ones.

The author provides a chart which lists the wines with the calories for people to think what kind of the wine they should order.


Drink Serving Size Calories
Red wine 5 oz. 100
White wine 5 oz. 100
Champagne 5 oz. 130
Light beer 12 oz. 105
Regular beer 12 oz. 140
Dark beer 12 oz. 170
Cosmopolitan 3 oz. 165
Martini 3 oz. 205
Long Island iced tea 8 oz. 400
Gin & Tonic 8 oz. 175
Rum & Soda 8 oz. 180
Margarita 8 oz. 200
Whiskey Sour 4 oz. 200


I took a diet program two years ago, the instructor warned us not drinking any wine, including beer. According to my father’s case, I think my instructor is right about it. As I mentioned before, I (as a successful dieter) recommend you water to drink, not juice, coke or soda. Therefore, my dear friends who are reading my blog: If you are on a diet, if you still want to have a drink, then you have to choose wisely.

Alcohol and Weight Loss─Can You Have Both?

Vocabulary:

metabolize 使新陳代謝 to turn food, minerals, etc. in the body into new

cells, energy and waste products by means of

chemical processes.

diuretic 利尿劑 a substance that causes an increase in the flow of

urine

dehydration 脫水 losing too much water from your body

inflamed 發炎的 (of a part of the body) red, sore and hot because of

infection or injury

club soda 蘇打水 soda water

(調酒用)

magnesium 鎂 mineral

potassium 鉀 mineral

calcium 鈣 mineral

zinc 鋅 mineral

Wii Fit

I play Wii Fit to control my weight and practice balance.
Here are films introducing Wii Fit games.

Doctors Use Wii Games for Rehab Therapy

Except the diet of food, I suggest people who want to lose weight should have more exercises to burn the extra calories. Averagely, the figure as I was－183 centimeters tall, 105 weight－needs 2000 calories input a day. I can not do many activities as normal people do; therefore, my parents bought the exercising equipments as the therapists have offered to help me exercise at home. I love to play Wii－occupational therapy when I was in the hospital and back home. Playing and rehabilitating at the same time; moreover, Wii helps me lose weight, too.
Therefore, I would like to introduce you an article “Doctors Use Wii Games for Rehab Therapy” By Lindsey Tanner, from The Associated Press, February 9, 2008.
http://conversation.cgu.edu/ebhc/files/519/2880/WiiTherapy.pdf

Here is the summary of the article:
"Wii habilitation."－ Nintendo's Wii video game system becomes popular. It is not only the teen TV games but also becomes a trend in rehab therapy for patients recovering from strokes, broken bones, surgery and even combat injuries.
The traditional physical therapy: stretching and lifting exercises－painful, repetitive and boring－but they help the sick or injured regain their strength, and they have to do them. To tell the truth, many patients think PT (physical therapy) really is a “pain and torture”, said James Osborn who works at Herrin Hospital Illinois.

Doctors Use Wii Games for Rehab Therapy

On the contrary, using the Wii game－ motion-sensitive controller, the movements are so similar to traditional therapy exercises, but patients become so interested in the game. As Osborn said, “In the Wii system, because it's kind of a game format, it does create this kind of inner competitiveness. You may be boxing or playing tennis against some figure. On the screen, it's amazing how many of our patients want to beat their opponent...When people can refocus their attention from the tediousness of the physical task, oftentimes they do much better…" The most popular Wii games as physical therapy as sports－baseball, bowling, boxing, golf and tennis are fun to operate. Patients wave a wireless controller which directs the actions of animated athletes on the screen and at the same time patients achieve movements with fun.


The Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital at the west of Chicago recently bought a Wii system for its spinal cord injury unit. Pfc. Matthew Turpen who is 22 years old; he paralyzed from the chest down in a car accident stationing in Germany last year－playing Wii golf and bowling from his wheelchair at Hines. “A lot of people don't have full finger function so it definitely helps being able to work on using your fingers more and figuring out different ways to use your hands and arms”, Turpen said. It is the same situation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the therapy is suitable to patients injured during combat in Iraq, who tends to be in the 19 to 25 age range－a group that's "very into" playing video games. WakeMed Health has been using Wii games at its Raleigh, N.C.Hospital for patients from 9 years old to people in their 80s. "They're getting improved endurance, strength, and coordination. I think “it's very entertaining for them”, the therapist Elizabeth Penny said. “It really helps the body to loosen up so it can do what it's supposed to do”, said Billy Perry who is 64 years old, a retired police officer, received Wii therapy at WakeMed after a stroke on Christmas Eve.
Although there's plenty of evidence that Wii games help in rehab, researcher Lars Oddsson, a director of the Sister Kenny Research Center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, wants to put the games to a real test. The center bought a Wii system last summer working with the University of Minnesota to design a study measuring patients' function before and after this “Wii hab as someone called it…You can certainly make a case that some form of endurance related to strength and flexibility, balance and cardio would be challenged when you play the Wii, but hard scientific proof is needed to prove it”, Oddsson said.
Wii actually can provoke the motivation to the patient, but overuse becomes a big problem. As Dr. Julio Bonis of Madrid spent hours playing Wii tennis and got tendonitis as a real tennis player can get. People should pay attention to overuse Wii.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/09/AR2008020900956.html 03.11.2009
After reading the article, I think the motivation of exercising is very important. Doing fun exercising like Wii makes me feel no pain but lots of challenges and pushes me to do the exercise again and again.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary

1. rehab

=rehabilitation 康復 the process of helping to cure somebody who has

a problem with health

2. animated 栩栩如生 alive; of pictures, drawings, etc. make to look as if they are moving as real

3. Pfc. (陸軍)

一等兵 soldier: private first class

4. paralyze       癱瘓             become powerless and unable to function

5. tendonitis      肌腱炎        inflammation of a tendon

Amazing Tomatoes

Tomatoes are very popular in my family. Mom cooks them as a vegetable, not a fruit. When I decided to lose weight, tomato soup becomes one of my best friends. Except eating bananas and drinking water, I would like to recommend my favorite dish. I eat tomato soup when I go back home in Kaohsiung. Before I tell you how to cook, I would like you to read the article from http://www.tomato.org/ .

There are different names of Tomatoes― Tuh-MAY-toh, Tuh-MAH-to― all mean a delicious, nutritious fruit, more widely known as a vegetable. Tomatoes are not a kind of vegetables; they are actually a fruit, a kind of berries. China, United States and Turkey are the top three countries produce tomatoes, more than 125 tons in the world.

Tomatoes are easy to be planted in the garden; therefore, they are most common plants you may find in many U.S families’ garden. People can plant seeds or small tomato plants. Heirloom tomatoes are most popular among home gardeners and organic producers; they seem to resist more disease and produce very tasty, interesting fruits. There are many different tomato plants, red fruit mostly, but also ―yellow, orange, pink, purple, green and white― they are all tomatoes’ varieties.

Some facts for you to know:

※Tomatoes are the state vegetable of New Jersey

※ In Arkansas, it is both the state fruit and state vegetable.

※ In the state of Ohio, tomato juice has been the official beverage since 1965.

※ Joseph Campbell mass produced the first tomato soup in 1897.

※ The first recipe is credited to Maria Parloa for her tomato chowder in the book, the Appledore Cook Book, in 1872.

There are hundreds of tomato recipes for everything from tomato marmalade to fried green tomatoes, and they are good for your health. Tomatoes contain an antioxidant, excellent source of lycopene, which fights free radicals to prevent─ cancer, heart disease and premature aging─ when tomatoes have been cooked such as ketchups and tomato products. What is lycopene? Lycopene ― an antioxidant ― can fights free radicals which can potentially cause cancer, heart disease and premature aging. It commonly exists in tomatoes and carrots; it also can interfere with normal cell growth and activity.

Vocabulary

1. chowder 海鮮雜燴濃湯Chowder is a thick soup containing pieces of sea food.

2. antioxidant抗氧化劑An antioxidant is a substance which slows down the damage that can be caused to other substances by the effects of oxygen. Foods which contain antioxidants are thought to be very good for bodies.

3 free radicals 自由基 atoms that contain one or more unpaired electrons. Free radicals are believed to be a cause of ageing, heart disease, and some cancers.

4. premature 早熟的 mature or ripe before the proper time.

5. marmalade 含有碎果皮的果醬marmalade can mean preserves made with fruit other than citrus. The recipe includes sliced or chopped fruit peel simmered in fruit juice and water until soft; indeed marmalade is sometimes described as jam with fruit peel. Marmalade is often eaten on toast for breakfast.

6. lycopene茄紅素 a red crystalline substance, C₄₀H_56, that is the main pigment of certain fruit, as the tomato and paprika, and is a precursor to carotene in plant biosynthesis.

the Therapy and Taboo of Taiwan’s Medical Vegetables and Fruits .

After reading the article, you must understand how important tomatoes are. Now let me introduce a good book for you, and you can take this book as a nutrition guard book―the Therapy and Taboo of Taiwan’s Medical Vegetables and Fruits .

It contains clear pictures and illustrations. You can easily know the therapy and taboo of vegetables and fruit in Taiwan. I show you some pages which I scanned from the book. Here is the ingredient of the traditional tomato soup from my mom’s family. I eat the soup when I am at home in Kaohsiung.

steps of cooking tomato soup

Here are the steps to cook a pot of delicious tomato soup:

steps of cooking tomato soup

Then, put a sliced onion, carrot, Jew’s-ear, and mushroom.

steps of cooking tomato soup

Cook with tender fire after boiling about ten minutes

Steps of making tomato soup

Put sliced pork, broccoli, celery, and it is ready to serve.
I know that my mom claims that I can eat as much soup as I want, that the calories are not high enough to over daily needs, that the nutrition is in full, but I still dare not eat too much. This pot is my dinner. My dear friends the tomato soup is really a cuisine for dieters. I (a successful dieter), recommend you my family tomato soup which is delicious, which is easy to cook, which makes you feel content after you finish your soup.

How to Lose Weight with the Amazing Japanese Morning Banana Diet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25XAkuqsT5o

I love Banana Diet

I read an article"Banana Diet"on http://www.everydiet.org/diet/banana-diet

In March, 2008 there was a Japanese social network site “MIXI” introducing the morning banana diet which was created by Hitoshi Watanabe; the morning banana diet becomes popular worldwide. It is very easy to practice the morning banana diet: eating bananas and drinking room temperature water for breakfast. You can lose weights, no matter what you eat and drink the rest of day.

Bananas are said to be good for digestion; moreover, they can speed up bodies’ metabolism. Another reason is bananas contain rich fiber which can make people feel full and prevent certain carbohydrate to be absorbed. But it would be better if dieters eat their suppers before eight PM and avoid dessert; a piece of fruit is acceptable. Furthermore, dieters should go to bed before midnight every night.

In this article it also provides Sample Diet Plan, Excise Recommendations, Costs and Expenses and Pros and Cons. If you are interested, you can visit this website.

According my own experience, the morning banana diet really works. I have practiced the morning banana diet for one and half years. I eat a banana which is raw: it is not cooked or frozen; I drink 600cc room temperature water; I exercise three times a week, and I also sleep before 11:30. As a result, I have already lost over 20 kilograms. But I wonder about what the author said you may eat and drink as you like in the article. I pay lots of attention to the food I ate. I do not have carbohydrate food; I do not eat candies; I drink water only─ 2000cc a day, but tell the truth, I will let myself relax to enjoy some junk food occasionally. Still I think it’d better to be careful if you want to lose weights, even having banana diet.

Would you like to try?

Vocabulary:

digestion 消化the process of digesting food

metabolism 新陳代謝 the chemical processes in living things that change food, etc. into energy and materials for growth

carbohydrate 碳水化合物 a substance such as sugar or starch that consists of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Carbohydrates in food provide the body with energy and heat.