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Watsons Buy Generics and Save + NOW Foods Launch

Last week, Watsons, Asia’s No. 1 Pharmacy brand, launches the Buy Generics and Save advocacy. Starting June, Watsons will bring together all of their generics medicine offer through a very visible counter, the Buy Generics Counter:

This section at Watsons will help consumers determine the generics counterpart of their branded medicine. The counter will carry the Watsons Compliance Packs (for chronic and acute diseases), Watsons Health Packs (for common ailments like headache, stomach ace, allergy, etc) and a wide range of generic products only from trusted manufacturers like Unilab, Ritemed, Pharex and others.

During the launch, Aida Lapez, Watsons Trade Control Unit, said that the Generics medicines being offered at Watson is still part of Watson’s advocacy in giving health solution that’s affordable and of good health quality. She also discussed the criteria to determine if a generic product can be trusted or not:

  1. Manufactured by a trusted pharmaceutical company
  2. FDA approved
  3. Sold by a reputable pharmacy retailer

Aside from the launching of Watsons’ Buy Generics and Save advocacy, Watsons also introduced their newest offering: NOW Foods.

NOW Foods is one of the top-selling health food brands in the U.S.A. It offers a wide range of health supplements that uses natural ingredients. The launching of NOW Foods here in the Philippines includes introduction of the first ever NOW Foods Filipino Ambassadors:

Model and vegetarian Isabel Roces; Erwan Heussaff, celebrity foodie and health buff; Sam YG, popular DJ and TV host; and Melanie Siy Tan, a full-time mom and yoga instructor.  As the NOW Foods product range caters to all lifestyles, the ambassadors hail from diverse backgrounds, but are united by their exemplification of healthy living and their unique drive to live life with passion.  Most importantly, Erwan, Isabel, Melanie and Sam have personally experienced and have benefitted from NOW Foods supplements.  As role models of holistic well-being, they are living their passion fully, thanks to good health and nutrition.

To find out more about NOW Foods and updates from NOW Foods’ Filipino Brand Ambassadors, please visit http://www.nowfoods.com or “like” NOW Foods on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NowFoodsPH).

 

Trellis and More Pots

as mentioned in my last gardening update, my Okra’s flowering.. not really flowers but you know tiny buds that will eventually grow into flower.. and today.. TADA!

I am one happy gardener!

I said that I will be buying bigger pots and I did. Last week, I braved Divisoria to buy uniforms and other school supplies and of course to buy bigger pots. Here, bigger pots would cost me 45 pesos each or more than a dollar each. I knew I can buy the same pots at Divisoria at a lesser price.

Plastic pots and other plastic supplies wholesalers can be found at the back of Divisoria Mall (along Commercio street).. from Divisora street vendors, pots are priced at 35 PhP each, from the wholesalers, it’s 25 PhP each. That’s a huge savings! I bought 24 pots.

Finally transferred the chili plant to the bigger pot:

And because Chinese Kangkong’s very useful, I plant some more.. this time, I plant it straight to the bigger pots:

Trellis for my sigarilyas.. those are kawayan stick from the pabitin that we used from birthdays.. talk about recycling 🙂 hihi

I bought more seeds after I bought the pots.. bought string beans that I planted outside. I also bought a few more okra and eggplant and Chinese Kangkong (sprouts above).

Some of my eggplants are sick, will have to bu the organic pest control I saw at Megamall a few weeks ago..

Now…where can I buy more soil?

Immuvit MetaFit Challenge Final Week

Allow me to humiliate myself…. 

Now, let me justify.. the first photo, that’s 4 kids, 5 hours a day on the PC (lunch included), there’s frappe in there, and can you see the nutella? or how about the doughnuts and cups of rice? not to mention ZERO exercise. Wag nyo na ako kutusan, I already did that more than once. Yes I acted like as if I don’t care about my health and my body. When I was diagnosed with Kidney Stones, that was my wake up call. I became more conscious with my health and the food I eat. That was also the time that I started moving and exercising. So when I was invited to join a one month weight loss challenge I did not hesitate. See the result? (obvious naman di ba)

Let me make it clear ha, the challenge, I learned was not about loosing weight but more on getting fitter (and losing weight was one of the benefits). And as you can see, my tummy’s reaping the reward 🙂 Aside from the big change on my bulge, I also feel a lot stronger (note: hindi na ako hinihingal magpanhik panoog sa mga overpass sa Makati! woot!) and my resistance is better too, not to mention that I got a lot compliments on how young I look nowadays (teehee).

Say hello to MetaFit.. old time readers are familiar with this by now.. been blogging about it every week. This week is the final week for the challenge, hence I posted my photo. Here’s a short  summary (short lang promise) on how I achieved a smaller tummy (without going under the knife hehe):

Of course I do Metafit every day (or almost, I think I missed one or 3) and with the help of Immuvit, I was never out of energy. Immuvit is a herbal dietary supplement that contains 2 kinds of ginseng that gives energy boost.

Aside from MetaFit and taking Immuvit, here are some other things that helped me:

  • No colored drinks (coffee, milk tea, juie, etc) as mush as possible, stick with water. It was hard, specially the first week, then I learned that cold turkey is not my game, so I allow myself to have a taste of drinks from time to time. And if I do, I make sure that I do MetaFit more than once.
  • I also avoided sweets and count my calories intake, I limit it to 1200-1500 calories a day. Yes I spent some hours researching about calories.
  • I also sleep earlier and drink more water.
Coach Jim also told us to eat 6 small meals a day, and though it’s hard, specially that I am used to eating 3 heavy meals a day, I obliged. I usually have cereal drink and banana in the morning, banana and bread for 2nd meal, 1/3- 1/2 cup of rie + viand for 3rd meal, bread on the 4th, banana on the 5th and rice and viand as my 6th meal. There were days that I missed but my body and stomach got used to it after some days.
As for doing MetaFit, I record the rounds I did for the day (example, 5 rounds + 5 push ups). In that way, I can tract my progress as well as beat myself the next day (or next MetaFit). There were times that I do MetaFit 2x a day. My ultimate goal is to do it 3x a day. It’s only 4 minutes, so there is no reason why I should not.
I do my first set in the morning, as soon as I wake up. You know we all have the tendency to put it off, thinking it is only 4 minutes, but we end up not doing it. So it would be better to do it as soon as you wake up… it’s only 4 minutes! Another advantage of doing it as soon as you wake up is, you still have enough energy to do MetaFit unlike when you delay it and then you’d be too weak to even raise your hand that you need to eat in order to gain energy and of course if you eat first, you still have to wait 2 hours before doing since to allow digestion of food. Got the point?
After MetaFit, I drink Immuvit then eat my breakfast. I learned that eating right after doing MetaFit is very effective specially in weight loss management. Right after working out, your body’s still burning calories, so just imagine the benefits of eating while your body is burning calories.

Lastly, a tip from Coach Jim: if you feel like MetaFit is easy, then you’re doing it wrong. It should feel like the longest 4 minutes of your life.. ung tipong minumura mo na ung 4 minutes, bakit ang tagal tagal?!? 

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You might wonder why only 4 minutes? and no warm? no cool down? MetaFit is a short  high-intensity cardiovascular exercise that was designed to reverse Somatopause. This is a health condition where our body’s  production of growth hormones decreases. Short, high intensity work out is a way to reverse somatopause as during the work out, when oxygen debt has been reached, it triggers growth hormone release. Oxygen debt is the time when you are almost out of breathe, your body answers by trying to replenish oxygen through raising heart rate.

The one month Immuvit MetaFit challenge involves doing different kinds of exercise every week, two alternate exercises on the first week and on the fourth week, it is an alternate of the exercises from the past week.. Here’s a short summary:

Week 1: (alternate Set a and set b for week one: read my Immuvit MetaFit Week 1 experience here)

  • Set A exercise: 10 jumping jacks, 10 squats, 10 push ups, 10 lunges (both legs)…10 jumping jacks, 10 squats, 10 push ups, 10 lunges (both legs)… 10 jumping jacks, 10 squats, 10 push ups, 10 lunges (both legs)… until 4 minutes is up
  • Set B: 10 sealed jacks,  10 power squats &  10 push ups…10 sealed jacks,  10 power squats &  10 push ups…10 sealed jacks, 10 power squats & 10 push ups…until 4 minutes is up

Week 2: (click here to read my Week 2 experience and to watch my video for week 2 routine)

  •  10 touch toes, 10 squat jumps and 10 alternate lunges…. 10 touch toes, 10 squat jumps and 10 alternate lunges…. 10 touch toes, 10 squat jumps and 10 alternate lunges….until 4 minutes is up
  • 10 mountain climbers, 10 half burpees and 10 ski jumps…10 mountain climbers, 10 half burpees and 10 ski jumps…10 mountain climbers, 10 half burpees and 10 ski jumps…until 4 minutes is up.

Week 4: Alternate the routines from week 1 to week 3..

  • Day 1 is week 1a  routine, Day 2 is week 1b routine, Day 3 is week 2 routine, Day 4 is week 3 routine and so on.

After a month of doing it, I actually have no idea what to do next but if I would not get an update from Coach Jim, I guess I will have to continue doing the routines, beginning again from week 1 routine and so on. I guess it will be some kind of a cycle every month and will just have to beat my record every time.

Let me give you a little run down of how my week 4 transpired. Based on my record, this is the most routine I can do in each rotuine:

  • Week 1 Routine A: 4 rounds + 2 lunges
  • Week 1 Routine B: 5 rounds + 5 power jacks
  • Week 2 Routine: 5 rounds + 6 squat jumps
  • Week 3 Rotuine: 5 rounds

On Week 4 where I have to do it alternately for a week, I made it a point to beat my record:

  • Week 1 Routine A: 5 rounds + 10 jumping jacks
  • Week 1 Routine B: 6 rounds
  • Week 2 Routine: 5 rounds + 6 alternate lunges
  • Week 3 Rotuine: 4 rounds + 10 mountain climbers

Hopefully, each week I can do more rounds. I also have to work out on achieving the oxygen debt stage.. which sometimes do not happen. So I really need to be more intense with the routines.

I will post another update after 2 weeks and we’ll see if by the end of second month, I’ll be reunited with line of 2 waistline.. (I lost 5 inches on my waist line by the way).

FYI, from being Large in race singlet, I am now Medium! After a month, let’s see if SMALL will fit me 🙂

 

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