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If you’re like most women, you’ve been on a million weight loss diets, from Weight Watchers and Atkins to South Beach and celeb diets. You voraciously read magazines for their weight loss tips and gravitate toward the headlines that promise you can lose weight fast. The chances are good that you have, indeed, lost weight on many of these diets, but the chances are even better that you’ve gained it all back - plus some. Your skinny jeans become your tight jeans, and then they get tucked in the back of your closet, along with your fantasies of becoming a size 0. Weight Loss Diet Failure You’ve probably bought into the propaganda that says you’ve failed at dieting; a different - and more accurate - way of looking at it is that the weight loss diet has failed you. That’s because most diets focus on short-term changes that result in temporary weight loss, but never tackle the underlying factors that make you put on the pounds to begin with. In other words, they focus only on the “outside” problem - your body - and neglect everything below the surface - your emotions, your intellect, and your relationships. A diet for summer might work for swimsuit season, but if you don’t strengthen your foundations before you lose weight, those Diesel skinny jeans won’t fit when fall rolls around. Turning Failure into Success In order to lose weight and keep it off, you need a guide who will lead you on an exploratory journey to discover the power and control that you possess. Then, you need to be taught how to harness those powers to achieve all that you want in life - including fitting into your skinny jeans. You may have been told - either verbally or through insidious advertisements - that if you don’t have power over your eating, you have no power at all. Nothing could be further from the truth. Every woman is magnificent, and every woman has mental powers, emotional powers, social powers and physical powers just Read More This Post...

It is close to dinnertime and you are starving. You cannot wait and need something right now, but don’t want to sabotage all that you have accomplished. Your willpower is growing dim and you are struggling, yetyou must have something, just something that will tide you over. That cookie looks really good and that’s okay, but you just know that one leads to two, and three, and……..STOP! Don’t ruin it now. You have been working out for weeks and you are really noticing a difference in the way that your clothes look and feel. You have come too far for that and just think of that new dress that you want to wear to that special upcoming event. Instead here are some great snacks that will help you to squelch that rumbling tummy. Remember though…portion control is the key to success. Try eating these foods instead and you will get through those difficult times between meals. Here is a list of foods under 100 calories: Vegetables: Between 15 and 40 calories Celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, mushrooms, zucchini, green beans, radishes, green peppers, lettuce, pickles. Fruits: Between 40 and 70 calories Oranges, apples, strawberries, grapefruit, cantaloupe, tangerines, peaches, apricots, nectarine, ½ of a banana. Crackers: Between 30 and 90 calories Melba toast, Matzoh, pretzels (5), puffed wheat, puffed rice, Bran Chex, graham crackers (2 squares), breadsticks (1), vanilla wafers (5), rice cakes, cream of wheat, ½ a bagel, ½ of an English muffin. Miscellaneous Items: Between 10 and 90 calories Sugar-free gelatin, non-fat yogurt, low-fat cottage cheese, sugar-free popsicles, sugar-free fudgsicles, popcorn, hard boiled egg, a piece of toast, Italian ice, can of chicken noodle soup, slice of American cheese, fruit flavored yogurt, sugar-free pudding. Drinks: Between 0 and 90 calories Tea, coffee, seltzer water, diet sodas, grapefruit juice, orange juice, skim milk, apple juice, cranberry juice, carrot juice, Read More This Post...

It is well known that conventional dieting is not the best way to lose weight permanently. Yo-yo dieting involves constantly losing weight then quickly gaining it again, causing energy loss in your body and making it difficult to lose weight. Because your body changes to maintain its energy level, you will store more fat. Your body needs less energy while dieting, even when you exercise, making it more difficult to lose weight. You may try a diet that you have tested successfully before, but you will usually find that you won’t be able to achieve the same weight loss as before. Constant yo-yo dieting causes such a dramatic metabolism change that a noticeable reduction in calories is needed to maintain your new weight. Be careful of ultra low calorie diets as the body starts to eat its own muscle tissue through its defense mechanism. Just look at the slim fashion models with high body fat relative to their small stature. Because many of them have done little or no regular exercise, they fail to maintain a reasonable level of muscle mass. It is not uncommon to see skinny models with cellulite, a sign that they could be eating low quality food and that their bodies are retaining a higher fat percentage than they should. Being overweight has associated health problems. Diabetes, for example, is a main concern with overweight people. If you have diabetes, it increases the likelihood by 400% of you developing heart disease. Also, take note that diabetes is a chief cause of blindness and kidney disease. High blood pressure, high cholesterol and erectile dysfunction are also associated with obesity. Many people don’t realize that by simply slowing down the rate of eating food it can have a dramatic effect on their body weight. Taking a long time to eat your food means less food is needed to satisfy your needs. But what techniques are available to teach yourself to slow down? Well, for one thing, don’t just gulp down a mouthful of food, chew it longer Read More This Post...

Tantra is a loose term assigned to practices characterized by ritual, rites of passage, energy work, and the utilization of the mundane to reach the supramundane and understanding the relationship between the micro and macrocosm. These aspects of Tantra can be spiritual and/or material. A guru is often consulted to help the practitioner have a mystical experience and properly guide them through the associated rituals. Yoga is a vital part of Tantra as it awakens the ability to reach the divine in the practitioner. An integral part also of Buddhism, there is different forms of yoga in existence to meet a person’s spiritual needs - varying from vigorous to peaceful movements. Visualizations, evocations and mantras can also help the Tantra practitioner reach a point of spiritual awareness. Tantra has had roots in areas of the world such as China, Tibet, Japan, Cambodia and Indonesia. It is closely affiliated with religions like Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Hinduism, Tantra ties closely to Vedic tradition- or rather the rejection of the orthodox beliefs. Practicing Tantra is meant to bring the practitioner a blissful feeling of self awareness while sorting away illusions. The exact rituals associated with Tantra are difficult to pin down since they vary greatly depending on region and the available tantric community. Commonly employed rituals include the repetition of mantras and yantras (amulets) to invoke deities. Feasts and bodily functions can also be included in the rituals. Although it gets the most attention, sexual rituals play a very small part of traditional tantric practices. The term Tantra is of course most familiar to Westerners for the sexuality related to that small portion of rites. It is believed the sexual practices originated early in the Hindu culture as a means of forming body fluids that were thought to be transformative and a necessary offering to the deities of the Tantra. The fluid exchange often involved man, woman and guru Read More This Post...

There are five essential skin types: normal, dry, oily, combination and sensitive. Before buying your makeup, toiletries and other cosmetic products for skin care, do make sure that it goes well with your skin type. How to identify normal skin? It is soft textured and evenly toned with minuscule pores. This skin type has a reasonable oil and water content and gives you smooth and soft feeling. The color of the skin shines below the translucent face. This skin type definitely needs care if it is to last. All you need to do is regular toning, cleansing, and moisturizing to maintain its texture and feel for long. How to identify dry skin? This skin type requires both sebum and moisture. It looks fine textured, patchy, transparent and weak. This type of skin flakes and chaps simply compared to other skin types. Minuscule expression lines may be obvious. Signs of a dry skin are: a) Blistering patches that vanish with regular moisturizing. b) Finely textured with the minute openings not being observable. c) Small expression lines that do not disappear. d) The skin of neck and cheeks seems sinister. Keep away from harsh soaps to stop loss of natural oils and exposure to sun and air-conditioners which rob the water part of the skin. How to identify oily skin? This type of skin has over hasty sebaceous (oil-producing) glands, which formulates the face glossy particularly down the central panel-of your nose, forehead and chin. The pores of this skin type are puffy making it prone to black-head, spot and acne. Oily skin needs special cleansing to stay the pores unclogged. Women with oily skin require adopting a daily proper process of cleansing to stop accumulation of dirt on the skin surface. How to identify combination skin? This skin type is generally very general and necessitates separate cure for each area. It is oily down the central panel and parched on the cheeks. The forehead, nose and chin require additional attention as they may be prone to clusters of blackheads Read More This Post...