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Weight Loss Motivation – You Will When You Believe!

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

Rephrasing a famous saying of Mark Twen we can say that “it’s easy to start losing weight, I’ve done it a million times!” I start losing weight every other week, but by the end of the week I already forget about it. Every month I meet one of my friends, who tell me about this wonderful diet they just found out about. I try it out and quit on it after a few days, even before I could find out, if it was effective or not.


I can’t even remember, how many times I decided to start going to a gym. Several times I even went on the Internet to check out the websites of gyms in my city and find out the membership prices. I can even remember several times, when I actually called some of the gyms nearby my house to ask about their working hours and other stuff. I even went to some gyms with my friend to see how they look and to choose one. I even remember wasting money and actually getting gym memberships, but was I using them? – No more than a few times.


There are so many reasons and causes, why it’s so hard for me, as well as for anybody else, to lose weight. And these causes are very common for many people. It takes lots of effort, determination and courage to start losing weight, but it takes even more to continue doing it. And even if you have already started dieting a million times and failed, there is no reason why you cannot succeed next time and you should keep trying. The main thing is weight loss motivation. If you find the right one for yourself, you can be sure that you are half way through achieving your weight loss goals.


First of all, when starting a diet, learn to set real goals and small-term points. Do not set a goal of losing 50 pounds, as you will mostly likely quit in one week, as you will only be able to lose about one pound if you are lucky. Set small goals from the beginning. If you decide to lose two pounds in the next month, and you will actually lose three, then you will be even more motivated for the second month of your diet. If you meet your goals or if you do better than you planned, award yourself with small pleasant things (but not food!). Keep track of the portions you eat and the goals you reach. This way it will be much easier for you to control the process and be able to analyze your progression. When after a few months you will look at your progress, I can assure you, it will make you motivated to continue! You will not want to go back to your old habits, as soon as you will see the results and will know how much effort it took you.


Another important skill, when starting a diet, which will help you start losing weight and not quit after a few days, is mastering emotional eating. Ask yourself, when do you overeat? Is it when you are starving? Or when you are frustrated? Or when you see a tasty desert? Be frank with yourself. Answer these questions sincerely and don’t try to trick yourself. Understand your triggers of emotional eating and avoid them, eliminate such things from your life or learn how to control your emotions.


Be ready that there will always be people around you, who will encourage you to forget about your diet “just for this evening” or “just for this delicious cookie”. You have to confess, this one time, will then repeat again and again. So you have to learn to control it, otherwise you will have to start dieting all over from the beginning every other week, which, believe me, it way to hard to perform!


Do not try to just lose weight to look good. One of the greatest motivations for weight loss is tour health. Don’t forget, that being lightweight and staying in shape and the main things to do if you want to be healthy and live a long life. Do not go on an extremely strict diet, as it will not be any good for your health. But losing a little bit every month on a regular basis will help you feel much better in very near future.

5 Weight Loss Dances

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

As they say, there are three things that you can watch for the eternity. These are the starry sky, blazing fire and a dancing woman. Today every woman can learn how to dance. Besides this, a dance can help you to correct your body shape. Dancing is the most pleasant and inspiring type of physical exercises. While dancing you don’t count every minute till the end of the dance. While dancing you don’t get such ideas as “going to the sauna instead”. When dancing you are not shy because men enjoy your grace and don’t notice your sweating back.

Fitness studios offer a big variety of dancing programs. If you are able to control your body you can try all of them. Right now let’s get acquainted with the 5 most popular dancing styles and see what matches your interests.

1. Club Dance

Yes, club dance means “club dancing” when you learn different moves that you can apply at every party, disco or in night clubs. Club Dance includes different styles such as house, disco house, trance, funk, 2-step, go-go, etc. A thought that such dances have nothing special is a mistake. Use your fantasy and combine all the moves and steps the way you like it, and you will become the most popular dancer at any disco or party. It’s important that you can dance club dances alone or with a partner. You can even make a whole group of people dancing the same dance. You don’t have to go through a special physical training in order to start learning club dancing. This style is appropriate for every age and it can use any music.

Club Dance Advantages:

- you are free because club dancing is an ideal way to fight stress;
- your body gets a nicer shape;
- this kind of dance helps to train your respiratory system and feet muscles.

Club Dance is ideal for those who wish to dance a lot and look modern.

2. Latina

Latina or Latin Dances are often shown in the movies. Emotional and effective moves of Latin Dances help to achieve a great physical form and provide excellent mood during and after the training. You can feel the energy even in Latin Dances names – samba, mamba, rumba, cha-cha-cha, jive, pasadoble, merengue, and salsa. All these unusual for us turns and steps are full of emotions. This dance style becomes more popular in music, literature and films. A lot of clubs hold out parties in Latina style.

Latina Advantages:

- this dance burns many calories;
- you can improve your flexibility and coordination of your moves;
- Latina dance helps to get a wasp waist.

Latina Dance is ideal for emotional women.

3. Irish Dance

The art of Irish Dance combines an ability to knock heels and a variety of moving manners both group and individual. Group dances are divided into “long” and “round” dances. In long dances dancers make moves standing in long lines and facing each other. In round dances couples stand in a circle. Many of those who have started dancing Irish dances love it so much that they want to dance more and more and even join Irish dancing groups. It is an unforgettable feeling to be a part of a huge dancing group. Irish dances are not only moves and rhythm but also theatrical performances, decorated shows, endless improvisations and immersion into the atmosphere of Riverdance that is very spectacle and amazing. These have helped Irish dances to conquer the world.

Irish Dance Advantages:

- this dance is good for your posture and patience;
- Irish Dance helps you to feel the rhythm.

Irish Dance is ideal for those who can’t dance at all.

4. Belly Dance

Belly Dance is one of the most mysterious dances. It’s interesting that a dancer can manage her hands, feet, body and head moves perfectly well and control her every muscle. They say that this dance appeared because of a usual women’s desire to capture men’s attention. Belly Dance has many interesting and useful features. For example, it can help you to cure almost all diseases. It helps to develop every muscle even if a woman is unaware that such muscle exists in her body. But the main secret of Belly Dance is that it enables every woman regardless of her age and appearance to feel desirable and tempting. All men who watch a woman dancing Eastern dance can’t take their eyes of her. A husband can open something new and unexpected in his wife while watching her dancing in delight. It turns out that Belly Dance is a direct way to admiration and love in all the senses.

Belly Dance Advantages:

- it positively influences your spine, muscles and waist;
- it trains muscles of small pelvis being a wonderful prophylaxis to many women’s illnesses;
- Belly Dance helps to recover after births.

Belly Dance is ideal for women who have recently given birth to a child.

5. Strip Plastic

Strip Dance (Strip Plastic) is a women’s ability to temp men in a dance. Men can’t their eyes of women dancing a Strip Dance. This dance becomes more popular every day. It’s not surprising. Strip Plastic is the most pleasant way to burn extra calories. It doesn’t require many physical efforts, but it trains your belly, breast, feet and buttocks muscles and gives your body flexibility and sexuality.

Strip Dance Advantages:

- this dance teaches how to move confidently and beautifully;
- it involves all muscle groups;
- Strip Plastic helps to quickly pump up your buttocks.

Strip Dance is ideal for those who desire to perfectly control their body.

10 Unusual Weight Loss Tips

Friday, May 14th, 2010

In order to get slim and perfect body a person should do regular exercises and follow a healthy diet plan. These are two main conditions that can help you to lose extra weight. However, exercises and healthy food are no the only way to a slender body. There are other weight loss recipes that we would like to share with you. They are very effective. Of course, you have to choose yourself what tips suit you the best.


1. Make a Colorful Revolution. Use paints to achieve your ideal forms. Remember that yellow color is associated with slenderness. It can help you to control your body weight. It helps your organism to get rid of toxins. It can be used instead of expensive medications to treat the swelling of your body. Surround yourself with more yellow colors and you will see the difference!

Maybe you have noticed that restaurants with Swiss tables use many dark blue tones in their design. If you put meals on a blue-green plate you will eat much less and you won’t ask for more. Dark blue color in nature means uneatable things. So you can use this color as a herbal medication to block your appetite. Orange color, vice versa, excites your appetite.

Blue color cannot help you to lose extra pounds because it doesn’t encourage you to make changes. If you want to become more slender get rid of all blue jeans and blouses from your wardrobe.


2. Read. A magazine is an excellent way to say ‘good-bye’ to your extra weight. One hour of reading helps your organism to burn 71 kkal. If you start intensively thinking about measures that can help you to lose pounds, your body will consume up to 128 kkal of energy which is great. Physiologists say that every person has a chance to become a bit more slender just thinking about it. Unfortunately, they haven’t shown any volunteer to prove their theory so the experiment is still not finished. Lets concentrate on this word ‘just a bit’. If you spend ‘just a bit’ time on running you will burn 485 kkal! After running you can dream about an ideal body. If you follow this order your dreams will come true much quicker.


3. Sleep more. You can always use a natural way to stay slim and not gain extra pounds. This is a healthy sleep. Authoritative scientific magazine Lancet writes that violation of sleep provokes obesity because it leads to a hormonal disbalance. Sleeplessness reduces the amount of Leptin, protein hormones that are responsible for appetite reduction and stimulation of physical activity. At the same time the amount of Neiropeptid Y increases and your body asks for more food. You can gain more pounds in one week in you don’t sleep enough. If it happens you must immediately go through a prophylactic procedure and sleep at least 8 hours every day.


4. TV’s Off.This is the advice of Chicago Medical School. Their professors have found out that those who spend more than 4 hours a day in front of a TV set consume 30 % calories more than those who turn TV off. Medics from Harvard agree with this theory. They say that even two hours of a daily TV session can increase the risks of obesity development on 23 %. The reason for this is simple. News and thrillers are more entertaining when you eat chips, nuts and sandwiches with tea. If you sit in front of TV for a long time, you wake your appetite up. The most ‘high-calorie’ programs are melodramas and horror movies. Worries, strong emotions multiply the amounts of extra fats and carbohydrates. ‘Dietary’ programs include films about nature and traveling. Watching them we eat 2.5 times less food.


5. Look at the Moon. When the Moon wanes your organism easily gets rid of all unnecessary surpluses. It loses weight without our help. Every astrologer says this. Every dietitian confirms. Moon influence on humans is very strong. When the Moon is on the way to a new Moon every person reaches the peak of physical form; metabolism works in the optimum mode; you need much less calories to maintain your energy, and the feeling of hunger goes down. Your organism is working hard on getting rid of all the surpluses. If you start your diet program at this time you will achieve a better and quicker result. You can fasten it if you sit on a diet at the New Moon. Your body will get rid of at least one pound of fats and toxins. When the Moon is on its way to a Full Mood you must not argue with nature that makes your body accumulate more energy and pounds. Just try to maintain your desirable body mass.


6. Brush Your Teeth More Often. This is useful for both your teeth and your body. Those who brush their teeth three times a day much rarely suffer from obesity. This is the theory of Japanese scientists. How can a simple procedure burn fats? The answer is simple. When you brush your teeth with mint toothpaste you low down your appetite and protect your teeth from destruction. This also helps to correct food assimilation. Besides this, people who care about their teeth health are more attentive to themselves. Just think about it. Only 9.7 % of Russians brush their teeth at least twice a day. What about you?


7. Forget the Classics. Affection to the classical music speaks about a good taste but not about a slim silhouette. All these fugues, cantatas and preludes are nice to your ear but rude to your body shape. Classical music wakes your appetite up. Listening to Antonio Vivaldi, Ludvig Beethoven and Iogan Bakh people eat much more than those who listen to others accompaniment. Classic’s admirers order additional dishes and drinks that are refined but high-calorie. English physiologists from Lestera Medical College have noticed it during the experiment hold in several British restaurants. Of course, you can still attend conservatory. But it’s better to choose popular music or silence to accompany your dinner.


8. Say ‘No’ to Moving. Do you want to change your address? Don’t hurry! According to California University scientists, the risk of obesity development is 18 % low if you live within 20 km area from the place where you were born. The results of this research are very curious. However there is still no scientific explanation for this theory. Maybe ‘aborigines’ don’t worry as much as ‘cosmopolitans’ who have to change their address several times during their lives. Every moving causes extra stress. And many people like to eat when they go through a stress.


9. Inhale Slenderness. How does a perfect body smell? It smells like vanilla, specialists from Chicago Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation say. This aroma reduces appetite and lows down your ‘need’ in sweets. Citrus smells are similarly effective. Strong-smelling molecules are caught by special receptors in your nose called olfactory mucosa. Received data is transformed to olfactory nerve in your brains. Cerebrum processes sweet-scented signal and sends your organism a command: “Lose weight”. For a visible result it’s better to inhale concentrate smell before the meal. During the meal you can use fragrant candles. Scientists assure that only two weeks of aroma diet can help you to get rid of 2 extra pounds.


10. Eat on the Dates. The best way to refuse sweets and deserts is your man. Yes, sweets don’t let women achieve ideal forms 90-60-90, but dates can do magic. All women love sweets. However experts have noticed that only 11 % of women eat sweets when they dinner with a man. It can be your friend, colleague, classmate or boyfriend. Every man can be useful in this particular case. Specialists explain this interesting fact by women’s wish to demonstrate their adherence towards healthy food and care about a perfect body. If you minus chocolate mousse or apple pie you will add plus to your slenderness.

And be happy :)

Obesity Treatment Affects on Erectile Dysfunction

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Male sexual health can be affected by some obesity-related conditions. There are studies that prove that obese men often have erectile dysfunction problems and can’t achieve and maintain an erection.

Will health lifestyle help men to improve their sexual intercourse? Are there other ways to recover lost virility rather than popping a pill? These are the questions that might be interesting to many males all over the world.

How Obesity Causes Erectile Dysfunction?

Even in Byzantine era people linked male potency with the size of men’s stomach. A large stomach could influence the sexual intercourse, people thought back than, and weight loss could help to solve this.

Today the problem has become even bigger because there are too many obese people, and this number increases very every year.

Overweight men with ED have low levels of testosterone, according to Medical News Today (http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/134731.php). Besides this, excess fat, diabetes and cardiovascular illness characterize metabolic syndrome. This condition is associated with ED. Low testosterone levels low down the amount of penile blood flow and add to the problem of achieving an erection.

Obesity can have a significant impact on erectile dysfunction. Still it doesn’t play a chief role in obesity-related ED development. Doctors say that sexual health depends on overall health. That is why it is so important for men to stay healthy. It’s their chance to improve erectile function.

How to Lose Extra Pounds?

It’s interesting that over 60% of obese Americans didn’t lose interest in having a regular sex life. Still over 80% of men with ED are also overweight. And this is what has interested Italian researches who conducted a 2-year study at the Second University of Naples.

Patients from a weight loss hospital participated in this survey. They all had some degree of ED and obesity, no high blood pressure or heart problems. There were two groups of obese men. One control group was supervised by dietary specialists who educated patients about fitness and diet plans. The other group just listened to general facts about the need of exercising and healthy dietary choices.

The results were amazing. Men from the first group lost weight and improved their erectile function. Most men from the second group still suffered from extra pounds and ED.

You can make a conclusion that it’s important to lose weight in order to improve your sexual function. You should do this with professional supervision. Besides this, in order to achieve your goal you should desire to lose weight and make efforts to reach your goal. The right support does make a big difference and you are able to reverse ED by losing pounds.

Education is Your Goal

While millions of dollars are invested in Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs, most governments could have invested money in public education and taught men with ED that they could solve their problem without risking their health.

If fitness and weight loss can really help men to fight erectile dysfunction in a risk-free way, why not do this? This is a natural key to a healthy sex life you can’t lose. And if it doesn’t work, you can always take a pill, right?

Even walking 2 miles a day can make a difference. Just give it a thought, and maybe you will help yourself to change your life for better.

Treat Obesity and You Will Improve Erectile Function!

List of Fattest Countries in The World

Friday, May 14th, 2010

Have you ever given a thought to this? What countries have the most number of obese people? I guess you know that the answer is USA. Too many Americans eat fast food. They do not cook themselves and don’t exercise that much. What scares me the most is that they don’t care about their looks and appearance. However Americans are not the only people who are overweight. Researching this topic, I found out that top-10 obese nations live in America, Mexico, United Kingdom, Slovak Republic, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Hungary, Check Republic, Canada and Spain.

It’s known that up to 31 % of people in these countries are overweight. Why are they so fat? What should you do to stay healthy and skinny? How to fight obesity and achieve effective results? Let’s try to answer these questions.

Fat Food – Fat You

Healthy nations prefer healthy food. They don’t eat hamburgers or French fries. They don’t eat quickly spending 5 dollars on their lunch. No way! They know the importance of chewing and devote to lunch at least 15 minutes. Healthy nations buy vegetables and fruits. They make salads and soups. They avoid fat foot, and this is their secret.

It’s not difficult to stay healthy. But you need a desire to live a healthy way of life. And if you are already obese, you must exercise and find out a good diet that will help you to lose extra weight. For example, you can use diet pills. It’s a great solution for heavy people. These unique diet pills give a permanent result in 1.5-3 months. A lot of people have already proven this!

How to Escape?

In order to stay healthy, you must not count the calories in your food. If you do this you will go crazy. Just find the best diet program and follow it. My choice is diet pills. It might not suit everyone, but it’s the best decision for most obese people.

If you live in America and Canada do not let yourself stand in one row with those 24-31 % of obese people. It’s better to win your place at 69 % of healthy and good-looking people. Do you agree?

Of course, people who live in Korea or Japan don’t need diet pills to stay fit, because they eat food that is low on fat. If you start eating rice, vegetables, sea food, it is not likely that you gain extra pounds. And if you combine your diet plan with exercising, you will achieve amazing results. But it will take much time to get a good shape. If you are too heavy you can add diet pills to your plan, and your weight will go away much quicker.

Take Decision Now

Take a look at skinny people. They look slim and great. And now take a look at most Americans and obese people from other countries. Do you want to look like they? Or will you fight the overweight and lose extra pounds to stay fit and healthy?

I am sure that you will take the right decision. Talk to your doctor about using diet pills to help your centimeters go away faster. Find a fitness studio close to you and start exercising. Of course, it will take some time before you see the results. But it’s worse it! Join forums with other obese people. Together you will achieve your goals easier! The support is very important at all stages of saying “good-bye” to extra pounds.

Decide now. Otherwise you will promise yourself to take this decision tomorrow, then the day after tomorrow and so on. That’s what I did, till I read about the statistics of obese people in different countries. I was so shocked that I immediately called my doctor and asked him to subscribe me diet pills! He suggested taking diet pills. And I am really happy that I finally started my diet program.

Good Luck!

I know that diet pills is not the only medicine that helps to treat overweight. But this is what helped me. I will be glad to hear your opinion on obese nations and how to fight those extra pounds! Feel free to leave comments!

Rank Country % fat
1. Nauru 94.5
2. Micronesia, Federated States of 91.1
3. Cook Islands 90.9
4. Tonga 90.8
5. Niue 81.7
6. Samoa 80.4
7. Palau 78.4
8. Kuwait 74.2
9. United States 74.1
10. Kiribati 73.6
11. Dominica 71.0
12. Barbados 69.7
13. Argentina 69.4
14. Egypt 69.4
15. Malta 68.7
16. Greece 68.5
17. New Zealand 68.4
18. United Arab Emirates 68.3
19. Mexico 68.1
20. Trinidad and Tobago 67.9
21. Australia 67.4
22. Belarus 66.8
23. Chile 65.3
24. Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) 65.2
25. Seychelles 64.6
26. Bahrain 64.1
27. Andorra 63.8
28. United Kingdom 63.8
29. Saudi Arabia 63.5
30. Monaco 62.4
31. Bolivia 62.2
32. San Marino 62.1
33. Guatemala 61.2
34. Mongolia 61.2
35. Canada 61.1
36. Qatar 61.0
37. Uruguay 60.9
38. Jordan 60.5
39. Bahamas 60.4
40. Iceland 60.4
41. Nicaragua 60.4
42. Cuba 60.1
43. Germany 60.1
44. Brunei Darussalam 59.8
45. Slovenia 59.8
46. Peru 59.6
47. Vanuatu 59.6
48. Finland 58.7
49. Jamaica 57.4
50. Israel 57.3
51. Saint Lucia 57.3
52. Austria 57.1
53. Azerbaijan 57.1
54. Turkey 56.8
55. Tuvalu 56.6
56. Dominican Republic 56.5
57. Slovakia 56.3
58. Cyprus 56.2
59. Saint Kitts and Nevis 56.1
60. Costa Rica 55.8
61. Colombia 55.6
62. Antigua and Barbuda 55.5
63. Switzerland 55.4
64. Montenegro 54.9
65. Serbia 54.9
66. Serbia and Montenegro (The former state union of) 54.9
67. Albania 54.8
68. Fiji 54.8
69. Bulgaria 54.2
70. Luxembourg 54.2
71. Croatia 53.9
72. Bosnia and Herzegovina 53.8
73. Portugal 53.8
74. Armenia 53.3
75. Grenada 53.3
76. South Africa 53.3
77. Iran (Islamic Republic of) 53.2
78. Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 53.2
79. Lithuania 53.1
80. Lebanon 53.0
81. Czech Republic 52.9
82. Syrian Arab Republic 52.8
83. Spain 51.8
84. Hungary 51.6
85. Panama 51.4
86. Tunisia 51.0
87. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 50.6
88. Brazil 50.5
89. Belize 49.8
90. Sweden 49.7
91. Norway 49.1
92. Russian Federation 49.1
93. El Salvador 48.7
94. Lesotho 48.5
95. Suriname 47.8
96. Paraguay 47.7
97. Guyana 47.5
98. Poland 47.5
99. Latvia 47.3
100. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 47.2
101. Ecuador 47.1
102. Turkmenistan 46.8
103. Ireland 46.6
104. Belgium 46.3
105. Marshall Islands 46.2
106. Netherlands 46.0
107. Uzbekistan 46.0
108. Denmark 45.8
109. Mauritius 45.6
110. Oman 45.6
111. Italy 45.5
112. Iraq 45.4
113. Georgia 44.8
114. Ukraine 44.8
115. Solomon Islands 44.0
116. Botswana 43.6
117. Honduras 43.5
118. Equatorial Guinea 43.0
119. Morocco 42.9
120. Dem.Republic of Timor-Leste 42.7
121. Mauritania 42.5
122. Estonia 42.2
123. Republic of Korea 42.0
124. Swaziland 41.8
125. Kazakhstan 41.4
126. Republic of Moldova 41.1
127. Bhutan 40.9
128. France 40.1
129. Cameroon 39.9
130. Maldives 39.9
131. Algeria 39.8
132. Dem.People’s Republic of Korea 39.4
133. Kyrgyzstan 39.2
134. Romania 39.1
135. Lao People’s Democratic Republic 38.9
136. Cape Verde 38.2
137. Tajikistan 37.3
138. Gabon 36.5
139. Myanmar 36.3
140. Liberia 35.6
141. Sierra Leone 33.4
142. Haiti 32.8
143. Zimbabwe 32.1
144. Thailand 31.6
145. Papua New Guinea 30.2
146. Malaysia 29.9
147. Ghana 29.2
148. China 28.9
149. Benin 28.5
150. Comoros 28.0
151. Angola 27.5
152. Nigeria 27.1
153. Yemen 27.0
154. Senegal 26.4
155. Philippines 25.2
156. Djibouti 24.9
157. Mali 24.1
158. Togo 24.0
159. Guinea 23.5
160. Sudan 23.1
161. Cote d’Ivoire 22.9
162. Singapore 22.9
163. Japan 22.6
164. Namibia 22.5
165. Pakistan 22.2
166. Sao Tome and Principe 21.4
167. United Republic of Tanzania 21.2
168. Malawi 19.3
169. Congo 18.9
170. Niger 17.6
171. Madagascar 17.4
172. Mozambique 17.3
173. Guinea-Bissau 16.7
174. Gambia 16.6
175. Indonesia 16.2
176. India 16.0
177. Somalia 15.8
178. Chad 15.6
179. Afghanistan 15.1
180. Uganda 14.8
181. Kenya 14.3
182. Burkina Faso 14.1
183. Rwanda 13.7
184. Zambia 13.0
185. Burundi 12.9
186. Central African Republic 12.9
187. Cambodia 11.3
188. Dem.Republic of the Congo 9.1
189. Nepal 8.4
190. Sri Lanka 7.4
191. Vietnam 6.4
192. Bangladesh 6.1
193. Ethiopia 5.6
194. Eritrea 4.4