Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Wordless Wednesday- Ferris Wheel


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Monday, October 27, 2014

The One Thing You Should Know Before Starting a Diet



Most Diets Fail

That's right. The one thing you should know before starting a diet is that most diets fail.




There are thousands of people dieting right now but the general consensus is that nearly 95% of them will not be able to lose the weight and keep it off.

Here is an interesting post called Do 95% of Dieters Really Fail?

I honestly believe most diets do fail because I just so happen to be one of those people who has tried and failed. Well maybe that wasn't a diet. More like change my eating habits. I'm doomed.




These are the Most Common Reasons that Diets Fail:

1. Many diets are way too strict.
When a diet puts too many restrictions on the types and quantity of food it becomes practically impossible to stick to it.

A diet that bans my favourite foods like chips, chocolate, ice cream, or cheese leaves me feeling like I am torturing myself. 

I might last a few days or weeks but I always give in and over indulge on actually anything yummy I can get my hands on. I mean life is too short to deny myself the simple pleasures.

Can you stick with a strict diet?



2. Many of us see a diet as temporary.
We've all done it or heard it. Haven't we? I need to lose 10 pounds before the wedding or before summer... And so we'll do just about anything to reach that goal even if it means starving ourselves.

I'll bet there even are many success stories to go with that. Yahh for us. Problem is the diet was only temporary. We go back to eating the same way we always do and before we know it the weight has snuck back on.


3. Diet is only half of it. 
Maintaining our ideal weight isn't just about what we eat. It's also about the amount of physical activity we get each day.

Now the amount of activity needed depends on who you ask. My doctor suggests 30 minutes a day while others may recommend up to 90 minutes a day. 


4. Inadequate Sleep.
There are more and more studies proving the link between inadequate sleep and heart and kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, and obesity, as well as depression and other mental health concerns. 

To me this makes sense. If I'm sleeping I'm not going to want a midnight snack.


5. You’re too impatient.
I don't know about you but if I'm on a diet I want to see results. I want to see the pounds just falling off me like all those women in the advertisments for weight loss.

Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. I'd be lucky to lose one or two pounds a week which I understand is a healthy amount.

I'm sorry but it just doesn't seem worth all the aggrivation for one or two pounds a week. Would I even see that on my scale?

I give up. At this rate I'll be obese forever.


6. It's an all-or-nothing diet.
I have to say I personally don't think this way but I have seen it many times. And it just isn't for dieting. It works for other goals like quitting smoking.

This is a good example.You're on a diet and for what ever reason you eat a forbidden food. You now have two choices.

One, you think oops I messed up but if I stop right now I can continue trying to eat healthy.

On the other hand, someone who thinks it's all or nothing with think oops I messed up. My diet is ruined so I may as well forget the diet for now. I'll start again next week.

Do you see the problem with this way of thinking?

7.Your metabolism slows down.
Most people who battle with their weight have a history of losing weight then gaining it back again. 

What has dieting done to your body? Your body thinks there is a famine so it teaches your body to be as efficient as possible with every little calorie. Your metabolism has slowed down!

So what does that mean exactly? That means that you now burn fewer calories no matter what you are doing. Whether your resting or exercising you just don't use up those calorie like you used to.

Then when you over eat your body stores as much fat as possible so that it can sustain you through the next famine (diet). 

This is known as the famine reaction. You may think this only happens to lean people after rapid weight loss to protect them from wasting away but this isn't the case. It happens to overweight and obese people when they lose as little as 6% to 12% of their body weight. 

Get weight loss tips at Best Health Magazine


8: Underlying causes of weight haven't been addressed.

8a. Addiction
Research suggests that sugar addiction is real. Very few people realize they have an addiction to sugar let alone acknowledge it. Like any addict there are steps that must be taken to change the addicts behaviors.

8b: Emotional Eating
I'm sure you've seen the girl in movies who is upset about something sitting on the kitchen floor eating a tub of ice-cream. 

Some people are emotional eaters. They eat when they are depressed or stressed out or over eat at social functions.

If you are an emotional eater you have your work cut out for you. 


And so those are my top reason for diets failing. I'm sure there are more. If you can think of any let me know, I'd love to hear them.



To find out how to avoid diet failure check out this book -  Why Diets Fail (Because You’re Addicted to Sugar).



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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Wordless Wednesday - Saying Goodbye to Summer










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Sunday, October 19, 2014

When Life Gets Sour Sweeten it With Gratitude - A Free Printable

Bad things happen to good people.


We can't control everything in our lives but we can control our reactions. So when life gets sour, sweeten it with gratitude.





This is a great printable to post some where you can see it often.

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"When Life gets sour...Sweeten it with Gratitude - A Free Printable at Let It Shine. Darlene is offering a free printable about 'Gratitude' that serves as a wonderful reminder to reflect on all the good in our lives during difficult times.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Wordless Wednesday - It's My First

I've never done this before - a Wordless Wednesday. I hope that I am doing it right. I'm sure if I'm not, someone let me know. Right?









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Monday, October 13, 2014

Can You Name 10 Benefits from Performing Acts of Kindess?

We all know that Random Acts of Kindness improves the lives of the recepients but did you know by performing an act of kindess improves your life too?

There are in fact several benefits. I can list ten. How about you? Can you name 10 benefits from performing acts of kindess?


























"If there is any kindness I can show, any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again."
William Penn


I have to admit I had help. There are researchers who have studied this exact subject. They found that when you are kind to others, you are rewarded in several ways. 

For example, researchers in Great Britain had participants take a survey (Journal of Social Psychology) measuring life satisfaction, the group that practiced kindness experienced a significant boost in happiness.


And in 1991, Allan Luks (former Executive Director of The Institute for the Advancement of Health and Executive Director of the Big Brothers and Big Sisters program in New York City) documented a study about kindness in a book called "The healing power of doing good: The health and spiritual benefits of helping others".


"When we feel love and kindess toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace."

Dalai Lama


Some of the most significant findings of 
Allan Luks' research include the following:

1.) Helping others contributes to the maintenance of good health and can diminish the effect of minor and serious psychological and physical diseases and disorders.

2.)  After performing a kind act 
there is rush of euphoria often called a “helper’s high.” The initial rush is followed by a longer period of calm and improved emotional well-being.

3.) The health benefits and sense of well-being return for hours or even days whenever the helping act is remembered.

4.) Stress related health problems improve after performing kind acts. Helping others:


  • Reverses feelings of depression. Supplies social contact.
  • Reduces feelings of hostility and isolation that can cause stress, overeating, ulcers, etc.
  • Decreases the constriction in the lungs that leads to asthma attacks.

5.) Helping can enhance feelings of joyfulness, emotional resilience, and vigor, and can reduce the unhealthy sense of isolation.

6.) The awareness and intensity of physical pain can decrease.

7.) Attitudes such as chronic hostility that negatively arouse and damage the body are reduced.

8.) A sense of self-worth, greater happiness, and optimism is increased, and feelings of helplessness and depression decrease.

9.) When we establish an “ affiliated connection” with someone (a relationship of friendship, love, or some sort of positive bonding), we feel emotions that can strengthen the immune system.

10.) Caring for strangers leads to immense immune and healing benefits.



Regular club attendance, volunteering, entertaining, or faith group attendance is the happiness equivalent of getting a college degree, or more than doubling your income.


Just like a smile, kindness is contagious. Your act of kindness will brighten someone's day who then in turn performs a good deed. The good feelings spread from one person to the next - rippling through your community. In the end it improves the lives of everyone.



"When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world."

Harold Kushner 



To find a Random Acts of Kindness list please click HERE.

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