How to Do a Fishtail Braid

1: Create a Ponytail To begin, gather your hair into a ponytail at the nape of your neck. Use a throwaway elastic -- one that you can snip away with scissors at the end.

 

2: Divide Your Ponytail Next, split your ponytail evenly into two sections. Unlike the classic plait, a fishtail braid only requires two sections. 

3: Begin Weaving Use your finger to separate a small section of your hair from the outer edge near the elastic and cross it over to the opposite side (overlapping just like you would if you were doing a standard braid). Re-grip your hair to tighten plait, still holding two sections. Repeat with a small section from the other side.

4: Maintain Evenness Continue overlapping pieces from both sides of your ponytail, all the way down to your ends. Be sure to pull small sections from underneath to cross over, and try to grab the same size (about a half inch)

5: Finish Your Look Once you've woven your hair down to the ends, secure the fishtail braid with another elastic. Then, use scissors to carefully cut out the elastic at the base of your ponytail. Finish your fishtail braid by gently tugging on your braid with your fingers to loosen it for an effortless look. 

 

How to make Choco Lava Cake

Dessert is mostly referred to a final sweet course that concludes a meal, but those with a serious sweet tooth will agree that anytime is dessert time. The array of ingredients that you can use to prepare these decadent delights gives you plenty of room for innovation and variety.

Prep Time : 11-15 minutes
Cook time : 11-15 minutes
Serve :
Level Of Cooking : Moderate
Taste : Sweet

Ingredients for Choco Lava Cake Recipe

·       Plain chocolate,broken 125 grams

·       Cocoa powder 1 tbsp + for dusting

·       Refined flour (maida) 1/2 cup + for dusting

·       Unsalted butter 9 tbsps + for greasing

·       Eggs 4

·       Powdered sugar 6 tablespoons

·       Baking powder 1/2 teaspoon

Method

Step 1

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas Mark 4. Grease the muffin moulds, dust with flour and remove excess flour.

Step 2

Put the chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl, add the butter and melt in the microwave oven on HIGH for one minute. Remove the bowl from oven and stir the contents briskly. Break the eggs into another bowl. Add powdered sugar and blend with a hand blender till light and frothy. Sift the cocoa powder directly in the mixture and mix.

Step 3

Add the melted chocolate-butter mixture and mix. Sift the flour and baking powder directly into the bowl and blend with the hand blender till smooth. Pour the batter into the muffin moulds, taking care not to fill up to the top.

Step 4

Place the moulds in the preheated oven and bake for seven to eight minutes. Take the moulds out of the oven, loosen the edges carefully with a knife. Carefully unmould the cakes onto a serving plate and serve hot.

 

 

Inspiration For the Bride Who Doesn’t Want To Wear White

The great thing about wanting to wear a non-white wedding dress, is that you can extend your field of exploration much further and wider than your local bridal boutique.  A non-white wedding dress doesn't strictly have to be a wedding dress and so you can incorporate designer dresses and evening or special occasion wear in to your shortlist of potential gowns, giving you much more choice ranging from affordable high-street designs to pricier gowns.

 

GM Diet

7-Day Meal Plan:

Before you begin, the best way you can prepare yourself for the GM diet is by making sure you have plenty of pure, clean water to drink every single day. This is an important aspect of the diet that cannot be overlooked. Drinking plenty of water throughout the day will keep you energized and boost your metabolism. It will also help prevent fatigue, any muscle pain or weakness, or increased body heat that can come with shedding pounds so quickly. You must avoid alcohol altogether for the entire week. Not even a skinny martini. Alcohol can trigger fluid retention and prevent the body from flushing out excess liquids in your body. The diet is meticulously designed to get results. Don’t mess with it or you won’t get the promised outcome.

Day # 1 –Consume only fruits throughout the day. You can eat all fruit other than bananas. Good choices include melon and watermelon. Drink plenty of water. Another option is to place a variety of fruit in a blender and pour in a thermos. This works great if you are headed out to work, school, the gym or wherever.
Day # 2 – Eat all the raw or cooked vegetables you can consume. You may start your day with a baked potato for breakfast with oil or butter. You can enjoy all your vegetables as a salad and use white or wine vinegar, lemon and herbs for flavoring. Do NOT use salad dressing. You’ll blow the whole diet.
Day # 3 – Combine both fruits and vegetables in any amount without bananas or potatoes. Fruits and vegetables can be combined in a blender as well for a quick way to consume them on the go.
Day # 4 – Milk and bananas are the choices for the day. Eat as many as 8 bananas and drink at least 3 glasses of any kind of unsweetened milk. The potassium in the bananas and the calcium in the milk are a key part of this diet. This is the day you can enjoy the special soup along with your bananas and milk. Most likely, you will not be able to eat all 8 bananas in one day.
Day # 5 - Enjoy a celebration meal of beef and tomatoes that includes two 10-ounce portions of lean meat or hamburger with six whole tomatoes. It is important to increase your water intake to help your body get rid of the uric acid that you will be producing on this day. Aim for an increase of water by one quart.
Day # 6 – On this day, you can consume unlimited amounts of high, lean protein and vegetables.
Day # 7 – Whew! The last day consists of eating all the vegetables you can consume, fruit juices and brown rice. No meat. Make sure the fruit juice is not from a concentrate or bottled with added sugar. If you have access to a juicer, the sky is the limit with creating your fruit juices.

 

GM Diet Soup Recipe’s:

1.Cabbage Soup Ingredients:

• Onions – 6 large onions
• Green Peppers – 2
• Tomatoes – 3
• Cabbage – 1
• Celery – 1 bunch
• Water – 22 oz of water

Directions:

• Start off with the onions and green pepper. Cut up the onions and green pepper and lightly sauté it with a few drops of olive oil till they turn a light brown.

• Next up is the celery, tomatoes and cabbage. Chop them up and add everything to a large pot with water.

• Bring it to a boil and slow cook it till everything is tender. You probably need to cook this for close to 60 min. Add salt, dried herbs or spices and pepper for seasoning.

2. Chicken soup with Mushrooms Recipe

Ingredients:

• Skinless chicken = 250gms
• Mushrooms - 1 cup sliced
• Celery - 1 stalk
• Spring Onions - 2 tbsn chopped
• Crushed Garlic - 1 clove
• Ginger - 1/4 piece (crushed)
• Green Chillies - 1 or 2 chopped
• Water - 5 to 6 cups (as per your requirement)
• Virgin Olive Oil - 2 tbsp

• Add salt and pepper to taste  

Directions:

• First of all, take a pan and fry the onions, garlic, ginger, mushrooms, green chilies and celery until tender. You can use virgin olive oil to fry the ingredients.
• Next, add the chicken pieces and fry them for another 4 to 5 minutes on a low flame.
• Pour enough water to boil and add the remaining spices (salt and pepper as req) into the bowl.
• Let the chicken soup be cooked for around 25 minutes in SIM mode or until 4 to 5 whistles if you're using a cooker.

Does the GM Diet Work?

While it has been a very popular diet plan over the years, there are still some questions about the effectiveness of the GM diet. According to recent studies, this diet plan is indeed effective in reducing excess pounds at a fast rate. While normal weight loss strategies induce at the most of 1 pound per week lost, the GM diet can help get rid of up to 10 lbs each week by simply following its food intake regimen.
At the same time however, this diet plan may prove to be overwhelming to first time users, as it involves radical change of diet intake that consists mainly of raw fruits and vegetables and reduced meat servings.
The effectiveness of the GM diet should also be supplemented by a regular exercise routine, as according to nutrition experts, the diet alone would leave the individual tired and weak. Through routine exercise of up to 10 minutes each day, the body’s metabolism would be sped up and be able to keep up with the diet requirements. Followers of this diet plan would also benefit from regular exercise as they get to enjoy normal energy levels and use the pounds they shed in more productive activities.

To those who are planning to follow the GM diet as their weight loss management regimen, they should be able to withstand excess sweating, occasional feeling of hunger, and momentary weakness, as these are among the common side effects during the first days of the diet routine.
One way to prepare for the GM diet is by staying hydrated. That is, regular water intake should be observed, at 8-10 glasses each day. This is because once the body welcomes the effects of GM diet it would require extra water for energy and metabolism. Those who instantly follow the diet system may suffer from incessant muscle pain and weakness, increased body heat, and malaise, and all of these could only be regulated by adequate amounts of water in the body.
Avoiding alcohol intake should also be observed when preparing for the GM diet. This is because alcohol prevents the effects of the diet from taking place, and followers would only end up stumped with their current weight even after a week of weight loss management. Alcohol also triggers water retention, which prevents individuals from getting rid of the excess fluids from their systems.