December 2011
12 posts
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Creating the Fitness Habit
Perhaps the biggest resolution at New Year’s is to get fit — start exercising, start eating right, and all that jazz. But resolutions never last. As you might already know, I’m not a fan of resolutions.
Instead of creating a list of resolutions this year, create a new habit. Habits last, and they lead to long-term fitness (and more). They require more patience, but they are worth the wait.
Fitness...
Reflection day
We all have shadows. All of us, even if and especially when we think we don’t. Each shadow is a small bundle of death that we carry around us, the remnants of old wounds, of trapped emotion, burgeoning grief, raging anger and ravaging guilt. Shadows are collections of exhausted life, hurts and traumas and let-downs that have been experienced but not processed and have instead formed a blockage or...
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Tips to beat the Christmas Holiday Overeating...
While I’ve learned to eat much healthier over the last few years, one of my biggest challenges has been overeating on social occasions and the hardest of them all Christmas day!
There are holidays like Christmas, but there are many more: birthday parties, going out to dinner with my w family, get-togethers with friends, social gatherings of, drinking with best friends.
I’ve always tended to...
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Caffine
What is caffeine?
Good question! Caffeine is a methylxanthine. Other common methylxanthines include theobromine and theophylline, which are found in cocoa and teas (yes black and that earl grey and pajuna). Methylxanthines act as adenosine receptor blockers and phosphodiesterase inhibitors.If you have no idea what we just said, here’s some further explanation (I just wanted to sound...
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Acne and Nutrition
Acne is a multi-factorial disease. While each case is unique, you can greatly improve your chances of clear skin by eating whole foods; lowering inflammation and stress; getting a good fatty acid balance; and cutting down the worst offenders: wheat, sugar, and dairy. What is acne? Our skin is the largest organ in our body (but I like to differ), and it’s a complex organism made up of several...
Your Nutritionista: 10 Reasons to Stop Thinking... →
nutritionista:
Because every single women’s magazine can’t stop thinking about it. And they have absolutely no new advice for you.
Because I bet if you had to choose between “relaxing with friends and family” and “being 3 pounds lighter,” you’d choose the former.
Because spending time obsessing about it…
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Sitting and observing (A post on life)
Have you ever felt that we are rushing through life that we get so caught up in busy-ness that life is passing us almost without notice? I get this feeling all the time and in this past month even more so.
The antidote is simple: sitting and observing.
Take a minute out of your busy day to sit with me, and talk, reading this post means you have spare time to read this. Take a moment to imagine...
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Conquering the Self-Improvement Impulse
One of the driving forces of my life for many years was the need to improve myself. It’s an extremely insidious urge: we are always trying to improve, and if we’re not, that’s something we should improve.
It’s everywhere. Where does this urge come from? Benjamin Franklin to the early entrepreneurial titans, everyone is trying to better themselves. It goes deeper, to ancient Western ideals of...
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How to Build Muscles
PARADOXNUTRITION ultimate goal is to achieve positive gene expression, functional strength, optimum health, and extended longevity. In other words: To make the most out of the particular gene set you inherited. But that doesn’t mean packing on extra muscle can’t happen with additional input. I added 14 pounds of muscle, while keeping low body fat levels without really trying, so it’s absolutely...
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The secret of changing (habits)
I’ve learned a lot about changing habits over the years, and have always been to better myself in each and every area in my life.
The hardest habits to change, by far, are the ones people can’t seem to control. They want to change, but can’t seem to find the “willpower” (a term I don’t believe in).
Personally some of the things that seemed out of my control: eating junk food, overeating during...
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Getting back into it (Getting started)
People trying to get healthy and fit all around the UK or even the world in fact, where fat is a word becoming a 4 letter word by the great consequence of our sins toward unhealthy life styles. We feeling guilty today after indulging way too much on our comfort foods to — then there are the Christmas and other holidays.
You had a great feast and enough candy, chocolate and fizzy drinks to start...
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Another special post for the weeks has past. It is not Nutrition however nutrition for our relationships and hearts. Again a paradox, nut just food, nut let the food be words for our mind, heart and soul to nourish us. I’m sure many of you have stepped into these pitfalls yourselves. I know I have. I’ve learned from my mistakes, and have learned to recognize when I’m making a fatal error, and how...