A new book on weight loss was recently released. The book, ‘Wake Up to your Weight Loss: Using the Art of Personal Narrative to Achieve your Best Body’ by author Alyson Mead presents a new perspective on weight loss. The book offers an innovative and effective alternative to fad diets and the endless supply of diet pills. The book provides insight into why you may have trouble losing weight, while offering methods to fend off common pitfalls. The book could be considered the perfect companion for those looking to effect permanent weight loss.
Inside the pages of this weight loss manual for real people seeking answers you will find motivating words, personalized advice, and an instruction guide for meditation and exercise. The book gives you tools to help battle the damaging conversations that lead to diet failures. This book is not another diet book. This book is an opportunity to evaluate what has caused your weight problems and your weight loss failures and then helps you manage the emotional battles that have led to both.
If you are really serious about losing weight and want a book that will help you succeed, check out this new book by Alyson Mead! The book will be released through Amazon and major book retailers. Don’t miss this book. Finally there is an author who realizes that weight loss is about a lifestyle change and not a diet. You can find more information at the website: http://www.wakeuptoyourweightloss.com,/
You may be shocked to learn that one of the all time favorite summer past times has been linked to cancer, asthma, and reduced lung function. No, I’m not referring to tanning. Swimming regularly in pools may actually increase your risk of certain health conditions. How can this be? Regular exposure to chlorine increases your risk of certain cancers and other chronic conditions.
The disinfecting chemical, chlorine, is often used to keep swimming pools clean. But studies have found that individuals exposed to chlorine on a regular basis have an increased risk of bladder cancer. When chlorine is combined with the leaves and dirt that often find their way into pools, they combine to form a toxic substance that can even increase the risk of miscarriage and birth defects. Children that have a predisposition to asthma will be at even higher risk if exposed to chlorine regularly.
So what can you do to avoid these problems? Consider using an alternative method for cleaning your pool. Silver-copper ion generators are a viable alternative. If you are not the person responsible for choosing the disinfecting agent, you can take other precautions. Limit the exposure to chlorine. Swim in outdoor pools. Avoid highly chlorinated pools. And don’t swim in pools with chlorine daily.
1. Wayne McLaren, the first owner of the Marlboro Company, died of lung cancer.
2. A smoker’s reduces their chances of having a heart attack to the equivalent of someone who has never smoked three years after the smoker quits.
3. If you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day you can expect to lose an average of two teeth every ten years. I’d hate to see a two pack a day smoker’s dental records after twenty years of smoking.
4. A smoker’s life span is said to be an average of six and a half years shorter than a non-smoker. You might want to take that into consideration when planning your retirement savings.
5. At least 7% of all health care costs in the United States are attributed to smoking. With that said, perhaps your retirement savings should be increased to cover the health care expenses you will require.
Creatine became popular in the 90’s after two Olympic athletes revealed their use of the supplement. The athletes credited Creatine with helping them train harder and perform better. Following this revelation, supplements containing Creatine became a staple of many weight lifters and body builders supplement regiment. Many of the body builders and weight lifters agreed that the use of Creatine did in fact increase their energy levels and size.
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“Why can’t I do it,” you wonder every day. Why can’t I go without eating? Why do I still want to eat? Where is my willpower? Why am I so weak? One day I can go the entire day without eating, and the next day I fail. I feel so good about myself when I overcome my disgusting need for food. But still I fail. I read stories about people that can go without eating for longer periods of time and get down to weights I know I’ll never reach. Yet I don’t even have the ability to avoid eating half the time of these others. What is wrong with me? Why can’t I do this?
If I eat two tablespoons of ice-cream, I just need to exercise for an extra 45 minutes. Since I exercised today, I can eat. If I miss my workout, I will have to wait until tomorrow to eat. If I eat and I don’t exercise, I will have to take laxatives. If I cut my workout short, I will have to cut the amount of food I can have at my only meal of the day. If I rest too long between sets of exercises, I will have to exercise longer.
These are some of the thoughts that run rampant through the mind of someone who suffers with an eating disorder. Every food related decision requires careful analysis. Each action has a dire weight consequence. It is never as simple as ‘getting help’ or ‘just eat’. Your mind screams at you. Your emotions overrule your stomach and fatigue. Depression results from every perceived failure. And every morsel of food eaten is a failure of will power.
“You need to get help if you think you are fat.” That is what everyone says to the skinny girl still trying to lose more weight. What you don’t understand is what ‘help’ means to the person suffering with an eating disorder. Help is someone telling you to eat. Help is someone forcing you to gain weight. Help is getting fatter and losing the progress you made through painstaking efforts. Help is turning over your body to someone who wants you to be fat and calls that ‘healthy’. You don’t need help gaining weight. You need help losing weight. You need to finally reach the goal you have been striving to accomplish.
If someone you love is suffering with an eating disorder, you must understand that reason will not help the person overcome an eating disorder. Only love and understanding will help. Don’t belittle or minimize the agony the person is suffering through. Eating disorders are emotional issues, not physical problems. If you don’t keep this in mind when trying to help the person you love, you will fail. You will not reach them because they will not believe you could ever understand what they are going through each and every day. Talk to an expert about how to reach out before trying on your own. The insight could make the difference you need to help.