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On Boxing day… Get a lesson in gratitude & self love from a girl who’s been called the ‘Ugliest Woman In The World’

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Hope you had an amazing Christmas day yesterday!  Want a lesson in gratitude?  STRUGGLING WITH YOUR WEIGHT & THE WAY YOU FEEL ABOUT YOURSELF? Get inspired by A GIRL WHO CAN’T GAIN WEIGHT and who’s been called the ‘Ugliest Woman In The World’

This VIDEO: http://youtu.be/c62Aqdlzvqk made me laugh and cry! VOTE “YES” or “NO” below.

24 year old Lizzie Velasquez was born with an extremely rare genetic syndrome that has (1) doesn’t allow her to gain weight, the most she’s ever weighed is 62 pounds (28kg) (2) causes her to age much more quickly than normal and (3) she’s blind in her right eye. When she was in high school, she found a video online that called her “the Ugliest woman in the world”. It had 4 million hits and people left comments like “do the world a favor and put a gun to your head”, “kill yourself”, “burn it with fire”.

Did Lizzie lay down and die? No!
Did she succumb to depression, hate or anger! No.
Instead she decided that she had a choice… We all do. We get to define ourselves.
She also decided to get grateful for what she has not obsessed with what she doesn’t.

— ARE YOU FEELING DEPRESSED BECA– — USE YOU ARE “TOO SKINNY” OR “TOO FAT”?
Well, first thing’s first… Find things about yourself that you do like! I actually clapped, when (in the video), Lizzie says, “I’ve got great hair!”
Find reasons to LOVE yourself TODAY! Right NOW, regardless of your weight!
Watch the video, I don’t want to give everything away but she really is an inspiration.
Check it out!
love,
Kara
The Lifestylista
xox
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2 SURPRISING, SEXY GIRL’S SECRET SLIM TIPS – HOW TO GO TO THE SUPERMARKET

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— 1) Girl! Go to the supermarket in your sexiest dress or your skinny jeans and heels. Really go there looking your most fabulous, lipstick and all. This’ll remind you who you are and what you’re going for and you’ll get WAAAY better treatment from the staff. Heck, if you’re single you might even meet a potential new dude (supermarkets can be great for that!) and if you’re not single you might get reminded that you’ve still got it baby heheheheheh.

It’s been said that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise (obviously this varies from person to person – if you’re an Olympic swimmer consuming an extraordinary amount of calories in your regular daily life this really won’t apply!). The point is… If what you eat is crucial, then your weight loss lives or dies based on what you put in that shopping trolley. So who you’re being when you’re buying that food will be a big factor in determining who you’re going to be that week or that month. You can almost predict your fat or slim future by looking in that trolley.

— 2) And whatever you do, go to the supermarket with a full stomach. If you shop hungry you’ll buy more and you’ll buy different kinds of food too.
That said, don’t go shopping with an “I’m deprived” attitude. You can buy whatever you want, any sort of play food, just remember that you’re really looking to be eating cleanly and healthily – a nutrient dense diet – 75 to 90% of the time. So it’s not that you “can’t have a donut”, it’s that you’re not living on donuts! Heck this is for your health not just weight loss – you’ll live longer, look younger, have more energy, go to the bathroom more regularly (LOL), feel sexier, have better skin and hair… The list goes on! And you’ll be slimmer.

Love yourself today – whether or not you’ve got weight to lose. You are more than fat or thin. You are you. I saw that when I looked at my ‘before’ pictures recently. It took love for me to transform myself and I had to love myself before any change was possible. The egg had to come before the chicken (not sure about that metaphor girl but you know what I mean!). Hating yourself because you’ve got weight to lose doesn’t help you lose the weight. But loving yourself makes anything possible because you know you’re worth it.
I love you and I’m here rooting for you.
Kara
The Lifestylista ®
xox
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Belly fat bothering you? Watch this video to find out how sleep deprivation makes you fat, especially around the abdominal area…

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According to scientific researchers, we need to get enough sleep to lose weight and keep it off for good… That’s 7 – 9 hours per night ladies! Get that sleep and rewards you will reap!

WHY?
1) Research shows that if you lack sleep, you make more ghrelin (a hormone that makes us hungry, stimulates our appetites). So people who lack sleep are HUNGRIER!

2) The body’s stress levels increase when you don’t get enough sleep and when you’re stressed you secrete more cortisol (stress hormone). Increased cortisol levels cause you to store more fat around the middle section… BELLY FAT.

3) Sleep deprivation not only makes us stressed, we’re also more likely to be depressed, grumpy, less optimistic… Perfect candidates for some emotional eating! And when you’re exhausted, it’s harder to control your impulses… “Huge bag of potato chips??? Yeah why not!”

4) The longer you stay up, the more time you have to squeeze in an extra snack or two or three… This is especially the case if you are watching TV. One study showed that people who stay up late at night to watch TV tended to eat 500 calories more per day (of high calorie foods) when compared to early sleepers / early risers.

The bottom line is… GET SOME SLEEP!
I’m staying up to write this article for you, so I’m going to take my own advice and I’m going to go to sleep too!

I’m here rooting for you!

love,
Kara
The Lifestylista ®
xox
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Wow! ANOTHER WAY STRESS MAKES US FAT… IT ACTUALLY MAKES JUNK FOOD TASTE BETTER! #ScientificStudy

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A recent clinical study at Hacettepe University in Turkey took groups of participants and tested how they related to sweet and salty foods normally.

Then the scientists gave the test subjects challenging mental tests in which the scientists used several methods to increase the participants’ stress levels. The scientists used increased heart rate and blood pressure as a way of measuring how truly stressed the participants were and then they fed them again…

This time, the subjects related completely differently to the sweet and salty foods! The study discovered that there is a distinct relationship between our perception of taste and our anxiety levels… The bottom line is the scientists found that, WHEN WE ARE STRESSED, SWEET AND SALTY FOOD TASTE BETTER to us. The stress makes these taste even more appealing than normally and so it’s no wonder that when we’re stressed, we want to eat JUNK FOOD that’s mucho salty and mucho sweet. And, not only are we drawn to different food… because it tastes so much better to us (‘sexy salt’, ‘yummy sugar’ :-(, WE WANT TO EAT MORE OF IT!
Jeez Louise! The only way to beat this is to let the air out of the balloon of your stress…
Here’s one way:
Go to www.TheLifestylista.com and search for “FEELING STRESSED AND WANT TO OVEREAT” – there’s a GREAT BREATHING TECHNIQUE in this article that fights stress and cravings… Just try it! It works.
I am here rooting for you girl! You can so do this.
love,
The Lifestylista
xox
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WEIGHT LOSS SECRET: 3 surprisingly effective ways to tell PHYSICAL HUNGER from EMOTIONAL HUNGER and BEAT CRAVINGS…

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TaggedSquare2PhotoBEFOREandAFTERKnowing the difference between physical hunger and emotional hunger could make the difference between you having the body you want and you not! Remember always that YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL & LOVABLE RIGHT NOW! And knowledge is power…

1) BELOW YOUR HEAD
– The symptoms of physical hunger happen below your head. e.g. your rumbling, growling tummy!
– Emotional hunger is in your head, in your thoughts, and in you have a feeling of it on your tongue… “I need to taste a bit of macaroni cheese / fried chicken / chocolate / cake!”

2) TIME
– Physical hunger builds up gradually but emotional hunger comes on so suddenly, it’s like you’ve been hit by a train and you NEED TO EAT RIGHT NOW!
– Physical hunger happens hours after you last ate but emotional hunger doesn’t give a damn.
YOU: “But I just ate half an hour ago.”
EMOTIONAL HUNGER: “So?”
YOU: “But–”
EMOTIONAL HUNGER: “But what B*&%tch, that your problem not mine. Just buy some bigger jeans and get me some wings / icecream / jollof rice / curry goat / lasagne!”

3) WHEN IT GOES AWAY
– Physical hunger goes away when you’re full. You have a feeling of true satisfaction.
– Emotional hunger is never full. Even though your stomach may be bursting, even though you may feel uncomfortable even… YOU STILL WANT TO EAT. You may even feel badly about it but the emotional hunger is in your head and it’s saying “FEED ME SEYMOUR…” If you don’t get that Little Shop of Horrors reference, check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7SkrYF8lCU

Knowledge is power! The next time emotional hunger comes a calling…

EMOTIONAL HUNGER: “Feed me! You’re so hungry right now…”
YOU: “No I’m not! I know who you are!”
EMOTIONAL HUNGER: “No, I’m for real. I’m physical hunger and–”
YOU: “And what B*&%tch, I ain’t buyin a bigger pair of jeans and I’m not your fool or your slave. I just ate, I feel full and I don’t need you.”
EMOTIONAL HUNGER: “Oh…”
YOU: “Goodbye.”
Emotional hunger skulks off into the night with head down… Defeated. :-)

[For a quick, clear STRATEGY TO DEFEND YOURSELF FROM CRAVINGS, emotional eating, stress eating… check out my article “Feeling Stressed & Want to Overeat”… https://thelifestylista.com/?p=1794 ]

love,
Kara
The Lifestylista ®
xox

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2 SURPRISING, SEXY GIRL'S SECRET SLIM TIPS – HOW TO GO TO THE SUPERMARKET

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LetHeadsTurnblackplussizemodel— 1) Girl! Go to the supermarket in your sexiest dress or your skinny jeans and heels. Really go there looking your most fabulous, lipstick and all. This’ll remind you who you are and what you’re going for and you’ll get WAAAY better treatment from the staff. Heck, if you’re single you might even meet a potential new dude (supermarkets can be great for that!) and if you’re not single you might get reminded that you’ve still got it baby heheheheheh.

It’s been said that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise (obviously this varies from person to person – if you’re an Olympic swimmer consuming an extraordinary amount of calories in your regular daily life this really won’t apply!). The point is… If what you eat is crucial, then your weight loss lives or dies based on what you put in that shopping trolley. So who you’re being when you’re buying that food will be a big factor in determining who you’re going to be that week or that month. You can almost predict your fat or slim future by looking in that trolley.

— 2) And whatever you do, go to the supermarket with a full stomach. If you shop hungry you’ll buy more and you’ll buy different kinds of food too.
That said, don’t go shopping with an “I’m deprived” attitude. You can buy whatever you want, any sort of play food, just remember that you’re really looking to be eating cleanly and healthily – a nutrient dense diet – 75 to 90% of the time. So it’s not that you “can’t have a donut”, it’s that you’re not living on donuts! Heck this is for your health not just weight loss – you’ll live longer, look younger, have more energy, go to the bathroom more regularly (LOL), feel sexier, have better skin and hair… The list goes on! And you’ll be slimmer.

Love yourself today – whether or not you’ve got weight to lose. You are more than fat or thin. You are you. I saw that when I looked at my ‘before’ pictures recently. It took love for me to transform myself and I had to love myself before any change was possible. The egg had to come before the chicken (not sure about that metaphor girl but you know what I mean!). Hating yourself because you’ve got weight to lose doesn’t help you lose the weight. But loving yourself makes anything possible because you know you’re worth it.
I love you and I’m here rooting for you.
Kara
The Lifestylista ®
xox
#BeautifulAsYouAre
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Belly fat bothering you? Watch this video to find out how sleep deprivation makes you fat, especially around the abdominal area…

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According to scientific researchers, we need to get enough sleep to lose weight and keep it off for good… That’s 7 – 9 hours per night ladies! Get that sleep and rewards you will reap!

WHY?
1) Research shows that if you lack sleep, you make more ghrelin (a hormone that makes us hungry, stimulates our appetites). So people who lack sleep are HUNGRIER!

2) The body’s stress levels increase when you don’t get enough sleep and when you’re stressed you secrete more cortisol (stress hormone). Increased cortisol levels cause you to store more fat around the middle section… BELLY FAT.

3) Sleep deprivation not only makes us stressed, we’re also more likely to be depressed, grumpy, less optimistic… Perfect candidates for some emotional eating! And when you’re exhausted, it’s harder to control your impulses… “Huge bag of potato chips??? Yeah why not!”

4) The longer you stay up, the more time you have to squeeze in an extra snack or two or three… This is especially the case if you are watching TV. One study showed that people who stay up late at night to watch TV tended to eat 500 calories more per day (of high calorie foods) when compared to early sleepers / early risers.

The bottom line is… GET SOME SLEEP!
I’m staying up to write this article for you, so I’m going to take my own advice and I’m going to go to sleep too!

I’m here rooting for you!

love,
Kara
The Lifestylista ®
xox
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My secret confession! The 7 excuses I used to tell myself…

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TaggedSquare2PhotoBEFOREandAFTER“I didn’t seem to realize that many excuses were as good as no excuse…” WHAT ARE THE EXC– — USES YOU TELL YOURSELF for not transforming your health? SHARE BELOW! My excuses were:
1) I need to wealthy to be slim – personal chef, menus planned by others etc
2) my genetics – everyone in my family is big (the women at least)
3) maybe I have a slow thyroid… (I didn’t even get it checked by a doctor I just added it to my excuse bank!)
4) I don’t have the time to get healthy -“I mean you have to research, learn new things. Too complicated and time consuming…”
5) secret excuse: if I change the way I live (and the way i look) I will be the odd one out with my friends and they won’t like me anymore
6) another secret excuse: being big is who I am. My identity. Who will I be if I am slim? It’s just “not me”.
7) I assumed the only way to be slim for life was to live a life of sacrifice and deprivation. Now I know the opposite is true!
GO TO http://bit.ly/10dayfitness to take the first step to losing the weight and keeping it off… A free, fun 10 day challenge. Go on!!! You can do it!
I love you
love,
Kara
The Lifestylista
xox
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