Joining the American Cancer Society's Great American Health Challenge can help you get and stay on the road to looking good, feeling great and reducing your cancer risk. They have 4 ways to stay health and reduce your risk with cancer.
1. CHECK Learn More about cancer screening. I was having pain in my lower adomals and I got dianose with uterus cancer. I did not know you can get cancer just being over weight. I thought it was a history genic in your family. Learn now before its too late in the stages.
2. MOVE Of coarse, this mean to be active and exercise. Just doing 3 times a week of exercise is a great move for your part of life of living. Learn more about activites to do with your family.
3. NOURISH Have an apple or carrot for a snack. I know its boring food to eat but you will feel better afterward instead of feeling bloated or tired. Learn more about what foods are good for your body.
4. QUIT Smoking is a bad habit and hard to quit but its never hurt to try to quit. Its only hurting you if you are not. Learn more about quit the bad habit.
Great American Health Challenge
Book: Never Be Fat Again
Raymond Francis is the scientist people turn to when diets don't work. His groundbreaking approach treats excess weight for what it reall y is--a disease caused by malfunctioning cells. As Francis explains, many of the foods we eat every day, especially the 'health' and 'diet' ones we dutifully buy to lose weight, have the opposite effect . Full of hidden toxins and lacking nutrients, they actually poison your cells and alter your weight-control genes, causing your body to put on the pounds. Like he's done for thousands of other people, Raymond Francis can help you turn this fat cycle around and reclaim your waistline--and your health.
This is a very interesting book for dieters who want to learn how to loose weight and how our body reacts on fat and sugar foods. If you are a vegetian or a RAW diet person, this book will be a great beginner for dieting. Here is an article where I found about it. Chick here.
Bargin Coupons
Aw...Coupons. My favorite relaxing thing to do on Sunday is to cut out those wonder savings that are called coupons. I like to save my money for special thing but most of all is to try different things for loosing weight. For example, I bought the 10 minute trainer from BeachBody.com. Also, I bought expensive Organic foods, breads, crackers and oils which are more healthier than the fatty foods like vegetable oils which is cheaper. (I used the oils for my salads and for cooking.)
Beside the Sunday paper, you can go to coupon.com, retailmenot.com, couponcabin.com, mycoupons.com and buy some coupons on ebay which ebay is OK buy you can't trust if they are expired or not. Also, what you can do is to make a list of your favorite food that you always buy and call or email that company/manufacture and ask them if they can mail you coupons. Tell them that you really like their product and you don't want to do to the other generic (their competiors) version. My Mom always told me that it doesn't hurt to ask. Plus, check your product website and see if they have any coupons to download or print.
Buying the right product and better healthy choice will make a different in your health.
3 Little Steps to a Successful Weight Loss
1. Learn to build slowly: Be realistic about your abilities. Don't start out huge by lifting 50 lbs of weight and throw your back out. Work out small, you are still working out those muscles even if you are walking in place or getting up from the couch.
2. Keep a log: Keeping a log of your activities and food in take that will help you stay on track and keep you on it. So, buy a small journal, nothing fancy, and write in your exercise, calories and positive thoughts that you did that day to keep you motivated. Plus, write down your goals, so that you are reaching you success and reminds you WHY you are doing this in the first place.
3. Reward yourself: When you reach your goal, reward yourself by going out or get something that make you feel happy. Splurge a little, you deserve it.
Depression
This weekend I was very moody, lonely and depression that I didn't want to do anything and didn't care about anything. It was very hard to get out of the mood just to feel happy or feel normal. I tried to go out and have a picnic and tried to go shopping to a mall and do some walking but nothing worked. I even went out to saw a movie, "Wall-E" which is a good movie but it made me more sadder cause I was alone. I can't have pet cause I live in an apartment.
So if you are in a moody mood, my best way to get out is to call a love one which I called my mommy. OR do something that you like doing like I like to look at craft workshops like go to an store that have art supplies and I think more about creativity. Do something that makes you think and meditate/focus that thought towards what you like. OR listening to your favorite music to get you up and running which is a great motivator.
Very Busy
Sorry to all my reader and bloggers, I have been very busy with work and trying to figure out how to make extra money to pay for the bills and buying a home. I did see a website for 'Women for hire' which I did saw an interview on tv and an article on abc tv. But it's very hard to found out which ones are a scam or not. Its hard to live in our time of spending money with all the gas prices and everything else has gone up. Getting a second job is impossible when you don't know what night you are staying to work late hours.
What do you all do for extra money?
Nutrition Data
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A Cool Down Treat
Smoothies are a great and healthy treat to cool down this summer. You can make a great strawberry and yogurt smoothies for you and your family instead of the boring ice cream on the cone. The yogurt is a good source of immune-booster and nutritious ingredient for you. Here is a great recipe for a "Creamsicle Smoothie" that found on Prevention.com:
Creamsicle Smoothie = 170 calories
1 navel orange, peeled
1/4 cup fat-free half and half or fat-free yogurt (option of orange flavor)
2 tablespoons frozen orange juice concentrate
4 ice cube
Breakfast Berry Smoothie = 225 calories
1 banana, cut into chucks
1/2 cup fat-free milk
1/4 cup frozen unsweetened blueberries
1/4 cup frozen unsweetened strawberries
1 teaspoon peanut butter (optional)
1/2 teaspoon honey
My Favorite Smoothie = 290 calories
1 cup plain nonfat yogurt
1 banana
1/2 cup orange juice
6 frozen strawberries
Pineapple Smoothie = 290 calories
1 cup low-fat or light vanilla yogurt
6 ice cubes
1 cup pineapple chunks, fresh
Strawberry-Kiwi = 90 calories
1-1/4 cups cold apple juice
1 ripe banana, sliced
1 kiwifruit, sliced
5 frozen strawberries
1-1/2 teaspoons honey
Banana-Blueberry-Soy = 125 calories
1-1/4 cup light soy milk
1/2 cup frozen loose-pack blueberries
1/2 frozen banana, sliced
2 teaspoons sugar or 2 packets artificial sweetener
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Papaya = 300 calories
1 papaya, cut into chunks
1 cup fat-free plain yogurt
1/2 cup fresh pineapple chunks
1/2 cup crushed ice
1 teaspoon coconut extract
1 teaspoon ground flaxseed
Peachy = 340 calories
1 large ripe peach, sliced
1 tablespoon sugar
1 cup fat-free vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup orange juice
pinch of ground cinnamon
Lastly,
Green Tea, Blueberry & Banana = 135 calories
3 tablespoons water
1 bag green tea
2 teaspoons honey
1-1/2 cups frozen blueberries
1/2 medium banana
3/4 cup calcium-fortified light vanilla soymilk
(In small glass bowl or cup microwave water on high until steam. Add tea bag and allow to brew 3 minutes. Stir the honey in the tea until it dissolves. Crush the ice in the blender and combine the berries, banana and soymilk. Add the tea to the bender and then blend to smooth.)
