HAPPY SUNDAY! VOTE “yes” or “no”… “Sure the past hurts but you can either run from it or learn from it.” What in your past do you need to learn from? What are you running from?
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love,
Kara – The Lifestylista
xox
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UPLIFTING & INSPIRING
WHAT ARE THE EXC– — USES YOU TELL YOURSELF for not having the body, the energy, the life you want?
TELL THE TRUTH! COMMENT BELOW & VOTE ‘yes’ or ‘no’…
WHAT ARE THE EXC– — USES YOU TELL YOURSELF for not having the body, the energy, the life you want? SHARE BELOW! I love you so I’m going to bare my soul… My secret excuses were: 1) I NEED TO BE 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 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 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 (incorrectly) 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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YOU HURT YOURSELF (& others) WHEN YOU CAN’T TAKE A COMPLIMENT… “‘If You’re Fat, Then I’m Humongous!’: Frequency, Content and Impact of Fat Talk”
VOTE “yes” or “no” below! YOU HURT YOURSELF (& others) WHEN YOU CAN’T TAKE A COMPLIMENT… Have you ever been “guilty” of this? Be honest girl 🙂
THEM: Hey [Name] you look gorgeous! Oh my goodness that dress is beautiful.
US: This thing? I got it at [Shop name] on sale for $3. It’s a stupid dress and I had to safety pin the hem… See?
Them: Ahm, well you look good in it. And your sandals look so good.
US: Hmmmm – you obviously haven’t noticed the hard skin on my feet, it’s like stone.
Them: Well, you look great anyway.
US: My stomach’s bloated at the moment.
THEM: OK.
And then they give up.
— Maybe this example is extreme but have you ever said any of these types of things???
Someone says something nice to you about the way you look and instead of just saying a gracious ‘thank you’ like a sane human being… you bat their compliment away by making a list of what you think could be wrong with you.
Many of us feel uncomfortable when someone says something wonderful about our appearance, maybe we feel we don’t deserve it BUT what we don’t realize is that if we keep doing that, we’ll be chipping away at our self esteem… It’s toxic!
— A study published in ‘Psychology of Women Quarterly’ (Title: “‘If You’re Fat, Then I’m Humongous!’: Frequency, Content and Impact of Fat Talk”) found that “Fat talk (women speaking negatively about the size and shape of their bodies) is a phenomenon that both reflects and creates body dissatisfaction.”
So it’s a vicious cycle… If you keep going on (even just to yourself), about how much you don’t like your appearance, everything gets worse!
And if you can accept compliments and say nice things to yourself (find nice things to say!), accepting and loving yourself where you are right now, you can avoid a whole load of heartache (including, according to studies, depression!).
AND
— Think of the poor person that complimented you!!! They put themselves on the line to honestly say something nice about you and because of your $%&*ed up view of yourself, you act like what they are saying is nothing, just garbage! You have rejected them bigtime. Get a grip girl! Let’s do better. The next person that says something nice to you… Just reply, “Thank you. I really appreciate it. That makes me feel great!” and leave it at that before I have to come over to where you are and give you a piece of my mind in person 🙂 LOL.
Now, in the comments box below, please tell me 3 to 6 things that are GREAT about yourself! Don’t hold back.
Here are my 6 things:
1) “I love the way my behind jiggles when I walk…” LOL
2) “My skin is beautiful.”
3) “My teeth aren’t perfect but they’re mine and I like them! They suit my face. Tooth chips and all 🙂 ”
4) “I am loving. I care about people.”
5) “I love dancing to soca music. Carnival. In the sunshine and with a smile on my face!”
6) “I’ve discovered I don’t have to perfect anymore and so I have a lot more fun and I’m much more honest with people. It feels good – makes me feel like dancing! Heh heh!!!”
I love you and I’m here rooting for you.
Kara
The Lifestylista
xox
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A SIMPLE & EFFECTIVE WEIGHT LOSS STRATEGY THAT DOUBLES HOW MUCH WEIGHT YOU LOSE…
— How do we know this actually works?
One of the longest running and largest scale weight loss maintenance trials ever conducted: a Kaiser Permanente study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health. Published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
– 1700 study participants
– 44% African American
Guess what it is..? A FOOD DIARY!
Now ladies, I’m not saying you’ll need to do this darned boring thing forever! How flipping annoying would that be??! I’m suggesting that self awareness is key. So many of us just aren’t aware of what we really do eat… Some of us remember the main meals we have and totally blank on all the snacking, all the grazing. IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DITCH THOSE POUNDS… for the first few weeks of deciding to change your lifestyle, of deciding to lose weight… just keep a food journal, write down everything you eat (even the stuff you don’t want to write down!). This is time consuming but writing down everything you eat, even for just a few weeks, for many people, can be the key to taking the pounds off and keeping them off.
— “Can writing down what you eat really help you to lose weight?”
According to the leader author of the study (Jack Hollis PhD), “The more food records people kept, the more weight they lost. Those who kept daily food records LOST TWICE AS MUCH WEIGHT as those who kept no records. It seems that the simple act of writing down what you eat encourages people to consume fewer calories.”
— “But I am on the road a lot, I don’t have a way of keeping a formal journal”
Dr K. Bachman who was also a part of the study said, “Keeping a food diary doesn’t have to be a formal thing. Just the act of scribbling down what you eat on a Post-It note, sending yourself e-mails tallying each meal, or sending yourself a text message will suffice. It’s the process of reflecting on what you eat that helps us become aware of our habits, and hopefully change our behavior.”
So there you have it. Are you willing to ‘sacrifice’ two weeks of your life to food journal to really get self aware and to work out how much food / what you’re actually putting into your body?
I used to be about 70 pounds heavier (approx 32 kilos) and when I started my weight loss journey, I did a food journal for a few weeks so I could work out exactly what I was eating. I have to say it was a darned eye opener! I had been extremely un-self aware. And as I’d been gaining weight steadily over the years, I used to blame the washing machine for shrinking my clothes! I felt blindsided by the constant weight gain, so confused about why / how I was getting fatter and fatter. The food journal helped me to see what I was actually doing. And Knowledge is power baby!
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love,
The Lifestylista
xox
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MELT THE FAT GIRL! Secret Celebrity Strategies to LOSE WEIGHT BY… DANCING!
Want to MELT THE FAT & DANCE your extra weight off? Secret Celebrity Strategies to LOSE WEIGHT… CLICK VIDEO http://youtu.be/nmft4wpjxgw to see an example! FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW TO MAKE IT EFFECTIVE. Dancing has been shown to be hugely effective at helping people to lose weight. And what’s more… it’s free and you can do it anywhere, anytime.
— Life is short so let’s bring the joy, the love and the fun! And if you don’t enjoy your exercise, you won’t do it…
1) CHOOSE SOME FAST MUSIC
Make sure it’s a playlist of songs you LOVE! This will get you moving! You want to get your heart rate up. This isn’t the time for a romantic, slow song… 🙂 You’ve got fat to burn and muscles to tone!
2) DANCE FOR AT LEAST 20 MINUTES
3) MOVE YOUR WHOLE BODY to burn fat / calories
This is not the time for a shy, side to side shuffle! You need to move your legs and move your ARMS ABOVE YOUR HEAD to get the blood pumping and the circulation going. Move like you’ve got ants in your pants. Lose yourself in the music and raise your knees up high too! Don’t stop, keep moving.
30 minutes of dancing to hip hop can burn approximately 250 calories…
4) THINK OF IT AS INTERVAL TRAINING
Interval training – short bursts of very very intense exercise put together with less intense exercise is great for many reasons, including the fact that it helps you to burn calories much, much faster than when you exercise at a continuously moderate rate.
Dance to a fast song and GIVE IT YOUR ALL! And then you can dance to a slower song – keep moving while you recover, don’t stop – and then back to a fast one.
5) — — USE YOUR HIPS, BEHIND AND QUADS!
These are your most powerful groups of muscles and if you work them well, they’ll continue to burn calories for hours after you’ve stopped dancing (afterburn!).
The bottom line is you have my permission to GYRATE like it’s going out of style. Shake that behind / booty / a** and laugh out loud while you’re doing it.
6) ADD WEIGHT TRAINING
Hold a couple of weights, cans or water bottles while you dance. You want to build muscle for lots of reasons… including the fact that muscle burns more calories than fat does.
Remember to warm up before you dance. You don’t want to get injured now do you? 🙂
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor so be sure to check with one before starting any new exercise program.
I’m here rooting for you!
love,
The Lifestylista ®
xox
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'And Still I Rise…' This Maya Angelou poem, recited by her, may make you LAUGH and CRY!
Want to LAUGH & CRY?! Listen to #MayaAngelou RECITE this poem ‘And Still I Rise’. R.I.P. Auntie Maya you gave us so much!
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‘Still I Rise’ by Maya Angelou
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
I love you,
Kara
The Lifestylista ®
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