Master Cleanse Day 1

Weight 208

Yesterday I started my lemonade diet. The drink actually tastes pretty good, the cayenne gives it the flavor of the little mexican candies. It's pretty difficult to not eat for a day, it's a habit to eat. I snack a lot or so it seems. I did take a few bites of a rice cake, I have to admit.

Every time I feel hungry I just drink the lemonade mixture and the hunger goes away. It must be the maple syrup. I haven't felt any pain after a day, however I was extremely tired and slept until 11:30 am! I couldn't believe the clock when I woke up.

Good news is I've already lost 3 pounds.

Rid Your Body of Built-Up Waste and Toxins

Blogging the Master Cleanse Diet

After seeing it on LA Ink I have embarked on the task of trying to survive on the master cleanse diet.

The cleanse is a lemonade drink made with lemon or lime juice, maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and water. While you are on this diet you aren't suppose to eat any food, just drink this drink.

• 2 tablespoons FRESH squeezed lemon or lime juice (approx. 1/2 lemon)
• 2 tablespoons genuine organic maple syrup, Grade B (the darker the better)
• 1/10 teaspoon (a small pinch!) cayenne pepper, gradually increase
• 300 - 500 ccm (10-14 oz) pure water

Instead of making it by the cup, I made a large pitcher, the recipe is easier, just takes a while to squeeze that much lime!

• 60 oz water per day (or 10 oz per glass)
• 12 tablespoons Organic Grade B Maple Syrup (or 2 tbsp. per glass)
• 12 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice (or 2 tbsp. per glass)
• a little over half a teaspoon of cayenne pepper (or 1/10 tsp. per glass) or to taste

I will be blogging my progress.

Rid Your Body of Built-Up Waste and Toxins

Contest Round-up

Blog about your Blog is trying to get into the top 5,000 blogs on technorati and to do so they are running a contest. All you have to do is mention BAYB somewhere on your blog, new post whatever and you can be entered to win 1 of 3 great prizes. The winners can chose from a MP3 player, a 125x125 banner ad for a month, or a full site review by adsense tracker.

David Airey has put together a great competition

The prizes include:

• Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill of Nate Whitehill dot Com. It’s vital to set yourself apart from the crowd, and Nate will help a great deal with your very own custom WordPress theme.
• Personal marketing / advertising plan from Maki of Dosh Dosh. Maki is an expert where blog advertising is concerned, and he is kindly donating his time to help you make the most of your new custom blog.
• One year’s hosting and blog setup from John Boardley of I Love Typography. John has kindly donated his time and will do everything you need to get your new custom blog hosted on one of Media Temple’s dedicated servers.
• Signed copy of Blogging Tips by Lorelle VanFossen of Lorelle on WordPress. David bought this book himself, and it contains excellent blogging tips for beginners to pros.
• A second logo design from Tara Roskell of Graphic Design Blog. You only need to visit Graphic Design Blog to realise that Tara really knows a lot about great design.
• Website critique from Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design. If you want some expert advice on how to improve your website design, you won’t be disappointed by this offering.
• One hour SEO consultation with Lyndon Antcliff of Cornwall SEO. Lyndon will conduct a Skype consultation with the winner of this prize, and he comes highly recommended for search engine optimisation and linkbaiting.
• $60 of books from Amazon courtesy of Darren Rowse of ProBlogger. Is there a book you’ve been meaning to buy on Amazon? How about getting it free? A great donation from a professional blogger.
• Logo / blog header design from Jonathan-C. Phillips of Smart Wealthy Rich. Jonathan has donated his expert skills to help your blog stand out from the crowd.
• One hour blog optimization consultation with Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips. This consultation will cover design, SEO, monetization and blogging strategy, from the author of one of blogging’s most useful resources.
• Revolution Premium WordPress theme package (personal package) from Brian Gardner, WordPress designer and consultant. Brian’s WordPress skills are second to none.
• Blog review and email interview published on Make It Great! with Phil Gerbyshak. The man to ‘make it great’ will critique your blog and feature you on his very own PR5 blog.
• Behringer Podcastudio USB Podcasting Kit, kindly donated by Fraser’s Affiliate Marketing Blog. Looking for a new way to express yourself? Ever wanted to be a famous producer? Then podcasting is the answer and the BEHRINGER PODCASTUDIO USB bundle has all you need to make high-quality podcasts and home recordings.
• $25 via PayPal courtesy of Gayla McCord of Mom Gadget. Free money! Who doesn’t want free money? Very kind of you Gayla.
• 2GB USB storage key x 3 courtesy of Jamie Clague at Terinea Weblog. Three USB sticks will make up three separate prizes, with free worldwide postage. Jamie, Edinburgh Computer Services, has also kindly donated his valuable time to helping with the prize draw administration.
• Full blog review with deep links and images published on Blog-Op with Chris Lodge. Chris knows how to piece together an excellent blog review, giving you an added insight into the impression your website is giving.
• Blog review from Aaron Russell of miLienzo. Aaron has been coding WordPress themes for a while now and certainly knows his stuff where blog design is concerned.
• Expert WordPress blog help from Lakshmi Mareddy of Chilligavva. Have you ever had any ideas for your blog that you haven’t been able to incorporate? Lakshmi has kindly agreed to offer her WordPress skills, helping you out with either code or graphics.
• Blog review from Hock Ng of Marketing Tools Review. Hock will focus his review on your blog content, design, SEO and usability.
• Blog makeover from Charles Jordan of The Queer Chef. Charles is proficient with design for the Blogger platform, and can also design WordPress. He’ll tantalise your taste buds with one of his blog makeovers.
• Blog writing consultation with Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog. Ben has offered his expertise to review 3–5 of your articles, providing tips and giving suggestions on writing, plus a quick guide to social media and how you can benefit from it.
• Two 45 minute coaching consultations with Mark McGuinness of Wishful Thinking. Mark specialises in coaching creative professionals, and is a real expert in his field. The first session will involve goal setting, with the second session reporting on progress and making adjustments.
• 4 hour business growth consultation with Rebecca Caroe, via telephone / Skype, or face-to-face in London / Cambridge. Rebecca is a business growth consultant for creative agencies, so if you’re looking to expand your company then this is the prize for you. If you want Rebecca to visit your offices simply pay her travel expenses.
• Tele-Coaching with Tammy Lenski. A one-hour, private telephone consult with professional mediator and conflict coach Tammy Lenski. Figure out how to deal with a challenging client, strengthen your contract negotiations, or confront difficult conversations with more confidence and success. Free call within the U.S., via Skype outside the U.S.
• One hour product launch consultation with Design Translator (DT) of Design Sojourn. Whether you’re launching a line of t-shirts, custom furniture, electronics, or any other product, DT will lend you his product launch expertise.
• Blog improvement or monetization advice with Easton Ellsworth of Business Blogwire. You choose, do you want to generally improve your blog or do you want help making money from it? Easton has kindly offered his help.
• Two premium quality books designed and produced by David Hyde of david the designer. John Hinchcliffe, internationally acclaimed designer-maker, is the subject of the richly illustrated first of two quality books. Crafts in the 20th Century is the second book kindly donated by David.
• Copy of Brand Aid by Brad VanAuken of The Blake Project. Brand Aid is a practical how-to guide on building winning brands. Derrick Daye was kind enough to offer this great prize.
• Watercolour print from Ed Roach Watercolours. Ed has quite a talent, and will graciously ship your favourite print from his watercolour studio.
• 728px by 90px banner ad for 30 days above the fold on The Blog Experiment, courtesy of Sara. This is quite a new forum for bloggers, but already there are approximately 5,000 posts! You must supply your own artwork.
• 125px by 125px image ad for 30 days on Smart Wealthy Rich. An excellent donation from top blogger, Jonathan.
• Ad icon located site-wide in the top left of Blog-Op, courtesy of Chris Lodge. Another kind gift from a fellow blogger in Scotland.
• 30 day text link ad shown site-wide on Contest Blogger. This is a great way to advertise your very own blog contest. Blogging is about giving something back, so get your contest featured.
• 125px by 125px image ad for 30 days on Freelance Folder. Another superb offering from Jonathan a.k.a Smart Wealthy Rich
• Lifetime membership to the paid membership site that Andy Beard, WordPress SEO and Niche Marketer, will launch on Andybeard.eu (eta and value yet to be determined). If the prize winner already qualifies for membership (some people will), then Andy will kindly come up with an alternative prize.

End of Summer Sale

Online Discount Mart is having an end of the summer sale. There are tons of varieties to chose from, ranging from house decorations to lawn arrangements like windmills and garden gnomes.

One good thing about summer ending is that the holidays are coming up. I am particularly looking forward to Halloween and dressing up with my son. Online discount mart has a great selection of Halloween items to help you fix up your house for the occasion.

This post has been sponsored.

Real Estate Class

Directories can be helpful for a lot of things, but I never would think of a directory for Real Estate Classes. Fastclass offers a huge map that allows you to find schools that offer real estate courses. The idea is to make it easier for students across the country to find the right school for them. When searching for schools in California, I only found one. I hope to see more of a variety listed soon, this website can be very marketable for people interested in real estate.

Get a Tutor

Education becomes more and more important. The United States has really fallen behind in the area, and students are struggling. They need more attention, and with giant class sizes, teachers can't give that. Thats where tutorvista.com can help. They offer help in many subjects including math and english.

For those studying for exams like the SAT's and CAHSEE there is also a section for that, however they appear to be really expensive. Basic help starts at 24.99$ for your first month, you can find great value. A private tutor would cost 8-10$ per hour! At least, thats what I would have charged.

TutorVista offers 24/7 services and you can get instant online tutoring sessions whenever you need them, and as often. Whether you need homework help, have writers block for an essay, or just simply need help in a subject they are available.

Musical Theatre Contest

Musical Theatre is offering you the chance to win a free DVD and CD. The winner will get the choice to pick from 4 Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals.

These include:

• Phantom of the Opera
• Evita
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreammcoat
• Cats

To win all you have to do is post on your blog announcing the contest and link to the contest post, and the homepage. Make sure you alert them that you have entered the contest.

The winner will be randomly chosen on September 1st!

The Problogger Test

Daily Blog Tips has started their own questionnaire where they ask "blogging" questions.

I got a pretty low score, however I don't agree that their questions really determine your blogging knowledge. Of course the "true" blogging questions I got right.

At least you will learn something.

Just for fun, check it out.

Whats your score?

Halloween the Movie

With October right around the corner, scary movies are starting to surface.

My personal favorite scary movies are the Saw series, I was never much for scary movies. The movies are twisted and well written, you never know whats going to happen next. Even a little jumpy at times.

Halloween has similarities to those movies. It becomes a fight for life. Halloween the Movie has all the makings to join the rest as a classic scary movie. With new director Rob Zombie you never know which way he may take the movie. He is taking the Michael Myers character and storyline and really making it his own. I don't think it will be like any other Halloween movie before. Michael Myers is a classic and will always be for the scary movie genre. My girlfriend is very excited to see Halloween the movie, I can't wait.

Halloween the Movie is going to be released on August 31st.

Check out the 2 minute trailer:



Rob Zombie stakes the story and make it his own. This may be the bloodiest Halloween ever. After murdering a family and not speaking for 15 years, Michael Myers breaks out of jail, or wherever he was held. Halloween night he comes back with a vengeance.

Evil has a Destiny

Its All Free Online

It's All Free Online is a new blog offering freebies, contests and more. Recently we've ran our own contest where the winner's prize is a Baby Einstein DVD. Other contests are in the works, with a cash prize coming next. Our most recent freebies include a Free Coffee Mug, a free aquafresh sample, and a free sample of an atkins snack bar.

Inkers

Inkers offer high quality ink and toner for a cost effective alternative to brand names. Their inkjet cartridges and toners come 100% guaranteed against defect for a complete year, which includes a thirty day no questions asked return policy.

With their free ground shipping the offer sounds real good. I wish they offered an affiliate program because I am constantly getting affiliate purchases with such products. I think that may be beneficial for them to look into, but in the meantime check out the site for low cost inket and toner cartridges.

Farreys

With it being summer in San Diego, I get so hot I have my mini-fan running all night. Unfortunately there isn't any ceiling fans in the bedrooms. In our previous apartment I had a very generic looking ceiling fan.

Farreys.com offers thousands of 'unique' ceiling fans from tons of manufacturers. By using the search tool on their website you can find exactly what you are looking for. Whether it is a certain brand like fanimation or "modern ceiling fans".

Its So Good to be Bad, Superbad

I am really excited to be blogging about this new movie coming out, Superbad. I have seen several previews on television about this, and I think it will really be a funny movie. It has a couple of the same people from the 40 year old virgin that I liked.

If you are still unsure of which movie I am referring to one of my favorite previews is when they check the kids fake ID, and all it says is "McLovin'". Of course the dumb cop believes it. There are several silly, yet funny scenes shown for this movie.

I'm not sure if I will be able to get to the theater to see this movie, but it is definitely on my to-do list.'

Superbad hits theaters Friday August 17th. The more I see these previews and movie clips the more I want to see it.

Make sure to go to youtube to watch 5 superbad movie clips on the homepage. They will only be there for a limited time, so make sure to check them out today.

If you are looking for ringtones or downloads from the movie go to the Superbad homepage.

Are you ready to be superbad?

No Inspiration

I was reading my list of RSS feeds and really nothing inspired me on what to write about.

Mostly people are doing their monthly summaries with their top commentors. I was on several lists receiving links to Blog about your Blog. As the list resets I will be changing our keyword to Blog Tools, hoping to get some different google searches.

As the month ends, seemingly contests are ending as well. I have been winning several prizes lately, and I can't wait until they come. The more prizes I win, the more I can give away, so I will definitely be keeping updates on the latest contests that I am hosting.

Rate your Day

Rate your day and let the world know how you feel! At I Rate My Day you can log on and rate how you are feeling each day.

To get you to feel even happier you can win a Microsoft Zune! The contest ends on August 31st so make sure to get entered. Start referring your friends!



To gain and retain popularity for their websites, site owners are concerned to keep their audience right from the choice of a quality website hosting service up to every single seo step. By following a proper internet search advertising plan owning a site can earn one big bucks through one way of paid placements or another way of pay per click advertisement. A point of caution is to go for a webhosting domain with high uptime to ensure adequate presence in the cyber space.

Invesp 400$ Giveaway

Invesp is giving away 400$ just for subscribing to their RSS feed. They aren't going to give away 400$ for nothing, you have to work for it.

Here's how you can win...

Subscribe to their RSS Feed. Sometime before the end of August they will post a secret word in their RSS feed. You can't know the exact date, that would be too easy. When you see the word you email it to contest@invesp.com. From there they will pick one entry at random and the person will win 300$.

If the person chosen to win is also a part of their mybloglog community they will get another 100$. That brings the hefty total up to 400$

To enable those not well versed with the concept of internet marketing some marketing consultants offer the services of affiliate marketing to help them reap the benefits of global audience. Google’s adwords affiliate program is the source of income for Google that offers a number of advertising options to businesses e.g. pay per click ppc advertisement and site target advertisement.

A Review of Ultimate Paintball

I have never been able to play paintball , but it definitely sounds like fun, minus the pain of getting shot. I don't know much about it I wouldn't know where to start. What guns are good? What equipment do I need? What exactly is a paintball markers? However I found a good place to start learning at Ultimate Paintball.

They sell brand name gear and have a variety of guns. Some of these guns really seem hardcore, and they could definitely do some damage in a paint ball battle. Taking a look at the Tippman A-5 and some of the other guns, are looking pretty powerful to me.

A great feature they do offer when purchasing from their website is the free UPS shipping on all paintball orders of over 200$ or more. If you are an avid paint baller I can definitely see spending that much on this website. You can get a complete paintball gun package for about that much.

Win a Laptop Briefcase

At Blog about your Blog we are hosting another contest where you can win a great prize. A 180$ laptop briefcase is up for grabs, and all you have to do is blog about the contest. Just add a small bit of text mentioning the contest and you can be entered to win. There aren't many rules, but we would like you to linkback to Blog about your Blog and the contest sponsor Eco-Handbags.

Eco-Handbags produce products from rescued materials. Not only is each one of their items unique, they are also fashionable and made from recycled materials. I am glad to have been sponsored from such an eco-friendly website.

California Mortgages

Chances are if you have a home, that you also have a mortgage loan. When you are getting, or trying to get your loan, you really want to have the best mortgage rates. Looking at California Mortgages there are several mortgage companies you can use. My mother in law recently purchased a home in San Diego. I know San Diego mortgages can really be tough to qualify for and really process. It took nearly a month to get everything close to set up for the purchase.

This is a sponsored post.

Don't Have Just a Cocktail, Have a Super Cocktail

I use the internet for a lot of things, and I have to admit, finding drink recipes is one of them. It can be difficult to find good ways to make mixed drinks like a mojito or a daquiri. You really need good mixed drink recipes for it to come out right.

Whether your drinking shots or a mixed drink, it's always fun playing drinking games. I actually have several that I've played.

After looking around at Super Cocktails, I will definitely be returning to use their drink recipes when I am blending, stirring, or making a cocktail.