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Author: Jennifer Jolans

Here’s how to speed up your metabolism to lose extra weight. Speeding up your metabolism is one of the simplest ways to accelerate your weight loss. There’ll be nothing hard with what I’m about to say. Just do what it mentions and you’ll speed up your metabolism to lose extra weight faster.

1. Jump on a mini-trampoline during tv commercials: Listen, jumping on a mini-trampoline by itself is good for weight loss, but by breaking it up into 2 minute mini-workouts, you speed up your metabolism big time. Each time you do it, you are teaching your metabolism to work at a faster pace. Do it often enough and the accelerated pace becomes the normal pace of your metabolism.

Not only that, you get the side benefit of saving a ton of time. You save driving time to and from the gym. You save time from blocking out a whole workout at once. And you are allowed to watch TV.

Pretty good deal, huh?

2. Walking on an inclined treadmill: You can walk on a 10-15 degree inclined treadmill or find a hill, it doesn’t matter. But walking on an incline is incredible for weight loss and speeding up the metabolism due to the huge oxygen deficit it creates.

Because of the oxygen deficit, your body is forced into burning fat for immediate energy needs.

3. Drink cold water: Drinking cold water has been proven to boost your metabolism temporarily anywhere from 8-30%. That’s huge! I hate the boring type of “drink more water” advice as much as you, but it does work. So do it.

Anyway, those are a few ways to speed up your metabolism to lose extra weight faster.

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Jennifer Jolans

About the Author: I’m just a down-to-earth Midwestern girl who found her passion in life… to help women lose weight and get healthy without starving themselves or making weight loss feel like a boring and painful chore.

I get excited seeing big changes in the lives of my clients… the things that go beyond losing the weight. Weight loss can create a total transformation of your life… a new more exciting lifestyle, a contentness with who you are, a more connected personality to your friends, family, and co-workers.

A lot of times, weight loss is the missing piece in a person’s life. That’s how I look at it. I don’t just look at it as someone losing weight and that’s it. It’s much more than that when done correctly.

Jen

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Author: Kacy Carr

Would I be right in saying that you are looking to lose weight or get back in shape after being shapeless for awhile, maybe through over eating or after giving birth. What is it with fat loss mania so as to speak that when we see a little excess fat, it`s like the end of the world. Sometimes flab can be toned and firmed without having to go without food as some people explain the diet. This is not true about diets because there are many dieting programs that help you lose weight while eating what you like, but within moderation. If firming and toning is not an option for you because your flab ripples then it is possible you will need to diet before toning and firming is considered.

The most vital issue to be addressed when you`re looking to lose weight is, choosing a diet that works and not one that poses a threat to your health. Yes you heard right, even though you may look to lose weight to better your health it can it fact twist this and cause more serious problems, even death. Continue Reading »

Author: jamiehanson

Weight loss is the latest mantra. Actually it does not make one wonder. The western countries are reeling heavily under the pressure of obesity. It’s as if a giant junk machine is piling pressure on us continuously. We live very hectic lives. This does not give us enough opportunity to take meals at time.

The ideal meal plan tends towards leaner meals at a higher frequency. This means that our large glutton meals at fairly large interval are just what the body does not need. It is difficult for the body to process such food. People try various diet pills as a panacea. Unfortunately, there is no such miracle pill to date. Weight is gained over a life time of over indulgence, its only natural that it takes sometime to lose weight. The psychological trauma of being overweight is such that people take resort in crash diets. There is the Atkins diet, Hollywood diet, burst diets like belly shock method and much more. These are the very unsafe methods of losing weight and only causes serious relapse apart from fatigue, metabolic reverses, immunity loss and strong seizures. It’s not only about weight loss. It’s also about losing it in away that brings no poor side effect or withdrawal symptoms. Continue Reading »

Author: Paris Hilton

Rose quartz is a beautiful stone that is translucent pink to rose red in color, and is one of the crystals that have traditionally been used to help improve relationship luck. Widely recognized as the ‘Love Stone’, Rose Quartz is most desired for its ability in accelerating the process for those seeking true love, mending cracked relationships and jazzing up your existing romance life. Rose Quartz is also an excellent stone for someone who has trouble loving themselves or receiving love from another because they do not believe that they are worthy of being loved.

Wearing a rose quartz is easy since it is sold in many forms and kinds such as a cabochon stone and as an accent in assorted types of jewelry such as pendants, bracelets and necklaces. Rose Quartz is relatively cheap and also easy to find. Continue Reading »

Author: Rosalind Baker

I started Entre Nous Introduction Agency Melbourne, Australia (later changed to Entre Nous Relationship Consultants & Educators) 13th March 1991. We were successful in introducing couples who formed relationships almost immediately and business ran smoothly until 1996 when we heard of our first divorce – shock, horror. How mortifying! This couple seemed so happy. She was a doctor and he a scientist. It seemed like an ideal relationship at the time. They married in 1993 - the marriage lasted three years. The worst part was that this couple had a beautiful little one year old daughter. In 1997 there were 2 more divorces, again at the three year mark.

I felt personally responsible, I had accepted the praise for good matching and now I had to take blame for the failures. The divorces weighed heavily on my conscience. Continue Reading »

Author: Aaron Patterson

Searching for a good diet, especially one that will act fast, is like looking for a needle in a haystack. There are a thousand diet programs out there, and some are just the stock “eat more vegetables and fewer sweets” regimen, while others offer up bizarre remedies for obesity, like eating lots of peanut butter.

How do you know which rapid weight loss programs work?

To pick a diet program which gets results, you need to understand the basic concept underlying rapid dieting: it’s better to burn more calories than to try and eat less. Eating less makes you crabby, tired and hungry all the time, and it isn’t kind on your metabolism, either. Your body will slow down and try not to burn calories-it literally will try to burn less fat when you eat less! In the long term, it’s possible for a plan like this to work, but only with a lot of pain and time.

We’re not interested in slow, painful diets. Our goal is to figure out how to lose weight quickly and painlessly. Here’s what to look for. Continue Reading »

Author: Ernie Fitzpatrick

It’s a time, a season to celebrate. Into the world a child was born. Was it a virgin birth or a natural one. Where was this individual between the ages of 12 and 30? Was he the Isha of India and Tibet? Was this child that grew into a man crucified and resurrected at age 33 or was it 55? None of those questions altar the most visible manifestation of God known to man.

God is most defined in Jesus, but not confined to Jesus. What would make a person think that an infinite Creator could be confined to anything or would want to? So, let us bring JOY to the WORLD because the Spirit of the Creator is with us- Emmanuel.

As Richard Rohr wrote, “God is the Alpha and the Omega, but we are the beta, delta, and gamma. We are not the fulfillment of God, but a piece, a piece that resides within. Theological doctrine we can deal with, but ourselves we cannot. It is comparatively easy to admit to a historical divine/human integration or personification, but it is apparently difficult to accept that same integration or personification within our own remembered and regretted lives.” Continue Reading »

Author: Mindy Tulsi

Cold and snowy days, long nights, colorful lights, festivals, parties and shopping can only signify one thing- the holiday season. With hundreds of different celebrations throughout the world, December is the official month of holidays. Here in the West most people decorate trees and give each other gifts to commemorate the birth of Christ. But many people don’t know where the tradition originated or what the other major holidays around the world are.

It started with the sun

Originally the month of December marked a hard and difficult time for people. With the harvest season officially over and winter quickly approaching, people living in northern latitudes had to live off whatever food they had stored and any animals they were able to hunt. Not only did they have this to deal with, but on top of that, the sun got lower and lower in the sky during this time and the days got shorter. People feared that the sun would disappear and leave them in a permanent state of cold and darkness.

However, after the winter solstice which occurs on December 21, they noticed that the days started getting longer and the sun went higher in the sky. This, of course, was reason to celebrate. Granted, there was still many months of winter ahead, but this event reassured everybody that the coming of spring was inevitable and only a matter of time.

Throughout the world and across many different religions and belief systems people had their own ceremonies and traditions to celebrate the solstice. Candles were lit, trees were decorated, people gave thanks, sang songs and said prayers. Continue Reading »

Author: mastersifu

Feng Shui Tips 1:

Sleep is very important for the overall health of a person; so if you have difficulty sleeping, it is always better to follow these feng shui tips for better sleep and health. A very important feng shui tip is to avoid sleeping with the head towards the door. This is because according to feng shui, the best place to position the bed and to sleep is a position where you can see the door, without actually being across from it. This is why you should also avoid sleeping with your feet right in front of the entrance.

Feng shui tips also state that it is not healthy to sleep under a window as this has a bad impact on your chi. It may make you lose some positive energy by dispersing it. In addition to this, by sleeping under a window, any bad chi that enters the room directly affects you. If you have no alternative than sleeping under a window, it is better to hang a curtain on the window to prevent bad chi from entering the room.

Feng Shui Tips 2:

Feng shui tips are indeed effective in inducing effective sleep. Besides the feng shui tips mentioned above, it is also better to ensure that there are no pictures of water in your bedroom. This is because according to feng shui, pictures of water in the bedroom not only causes insomnia, but is also taught to bring bad luck to the people sleeping in the room.So if you find that there is a picture of water in the bedroom, either remove it or at least, ensure that it is as far from the bed as possible. Another feng shui tip to remember for effective sleep is to ensure that there are no poisoning arrows pointing towards your bed.

You can find out if there are any poisoning arrows in your bedroom by looking for edgy elements or corners pointing to the place you sleep. And if you find some elements like this, and find that it is difficult to get rid of it, try to work at neutralizing its bad effect. This can be done by either covering the edge or by placing a plant in front of it.

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Too funny to be missed, this is by Dave Barry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning humor columnist for the Miami Herald.

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an  appointment for a colonoscopy. A few days later, in his office he   showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through  Minneapolis.

Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough,  reassuring and patient manner. I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn’t  really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, quote, ’HE’S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!’

I left Andy’s office with some written instructions, and a prescription  for a product called ‘MoviPrep,’ which comes in a box large enough to  hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now  suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of  America’s enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being  nervous. Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my  preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn’t eat any solid  food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water,  only with less flavor. Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You  mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you  fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric  system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then, you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am  being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just  a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great  sense of humor, state that after you drink it, ‘a loose watery bowel  movement may result.’ This is kind of like saying that20after you jump  off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don’t want to be too graphic, here,  but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the  MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you  wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours ; pretty much  confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything.

And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink  another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your  bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have  not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep. The next  morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only  was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing  occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, ‘What if  I spurt on Andy?’

How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would  not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood  and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led  me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a  little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those  hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you  put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked.

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand.  Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was  already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in  their MoviPrep. At first I was ticked off that I hadn’t thought of this  is, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy  to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire  Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room,  where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not  see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there  somewhere I was seriously nervous at this point. Andy had me roll over  on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to  the needle in my hand. There was music playing in the room, and I  realized that the song was ‘Dancing Queen’ by ABBA. I remarke d to Andy  that, of all the songs the at could be playing during  this particular procedure, ‘Dancing Queen’ has to be the least  appropriate. ‘You want me to turn it up?’ said Andy, from somewhere  behind me. ‘Ha ha,’ I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been  dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare  yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly  what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was  yelling ‘Dancing Queen, Feel the beat of the tambourine,’ and the next  moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood.  Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt… I felt  excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all  over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.