I believe there are many diets out there that work and generally
I can not blame the particular diet for my failed attempts in
the past. Everything boils down to attitude.

All my life I have been somewhat overweight and oversized. I
remember on the day of Princess Diana’s wedding some of the kids
in my class asked me how much I weighed and I told them 72Kgs.
This is not so bad, except that I was in grade 7 (12 years old).
I stopped growing in length about 2 years after that, but by
then I stood 1.92M tall. The problem is that I did not stop
“growing” in weight. By the time I left school I weighed around
105KGs.

While I was at school, my mother, sister and I tried every
possible diet under the sun, but nothing lasted and soon
afterwards we would pick up the bit of weight we had lost during
the diet.

By 1996 I had moved to Johannesburg and my mom moved up there
for 1 year to fill the position of national director for Child
and Family Welfare and we decided to share an apartment. On the
first of February 1997 I bought a book called Unlimited Power by
Anthony Robbins. Many of you will probably know Anthony Robbins
who, in my opinion, is the greatest inspirational speaker in the
world. I sat down in a restaurant to start reading this book and
I could not get myself to stop reading. Eventually, by midnight,
the restaurant closed and they chased me away, so I returned
home and continued reading Unlimited Power, which I finished
during the course of the next day.

The book is not dedicated to weight loss at all, but Anthony
does mention how he lost 36 pounds (16Kgs) in a couple of weeks
and he gives one piece of advice regarding weight loss: “If you
want to loose weight, buy a blender” (paraphrased). That was all
the motivation I needed. The book had inspired me so much that,
at that moment, I believed I could achieve anything. I took off
to the shops and bought a blender, a scale and a bunch of fruit.
When I got home, I told my mom what I had read in the book and
that I would only be eating (drinking) fruit for the next couple
of months until I had lost at least 10KGs. I also threatened
that I would move out of the apartment and leave her alone in
this big, scary city if she prepared any food other than blended
fruit for me. Being the angel that she is, my mom agreed to this
and decided to join me on my fruit diet.

On the second of February 1997 I weighed 122KGs.
That was day 1, a Sunday, and I was still inspired from the
book, so it went fairly easy. I don’t believe it matters what
fruit you use. Many people say that bananas are fattening, but I
have found that I need at least 1-2 bananas in every mix to
enjoy it. Generally I add 2 apples, 1-2 oranges, 2 bananas and
something like watermelon or “spanspek” into a blender and mush
it all together into a fruit “goo”. Add a cup of water in the
beginning to thin the mixture and add a dash of lemon juice to
prevent the mixture from turning an unbearable brown color
within a couple of hours.

On day 2, the Monday, I took a 2 liter bottle of fruit goo to
work. This raised a couple of eyebrows as the mixture does not
look very appetizing. Those few that agreed to taste it though,
admitted that it actually tasted much better than it looked.
However, all the stares and frowns did not bother me, as I was
determined to make this diet work. The interesting thing was
that by the time I got home on the Monday afternoon, I was still
not hungry. Yes, in my mind I could imagine enjoying a juicy
piece of steak, but physically I did not feel hungry.

I lost more than 2 Kgs in the first 2 days On the
Tuesday morning I jumped on the scale and was pleasantly
surprised to find that I had lost more than 2KGs. The needle on
the scale rested halfway between 119 and 120KGs. In 2 days I had
lost 2 KGs and I still didn’t feel hungry or deprived of food as
I had on previous diets. This inspired me again and I could not
wait to get to work and tell all those skeptics about my
progress. Strangely enough, by the time I got to the office, I
had decided not to tell anybody that I had lost 2KGs, but rather
to push through and see how quickly I could loose another 2. It
would, after all, be far more impressive to say that I had lost
4KGs than 2. 2 Kilograms had always been my limit on previous
diets. I would loose the first 2 kilograms fairly quickly and
then it would stop there. I did not have the discipline to see a
diet through, but this time I was determined to get further. So
I quietly walked in and tried not to draw too much attention to
myself or my 2 liter bottle of fruit goo.

By the Wednesday morning I could not help myself and jumped on
the scale again. My original plan was to only weigh myself once
a week, but I was hopeful and again, I did not have the
discipline to wait another day. Fortunately, the scale-needle
god smiled on me and decided to rest just below the 119KG mark.
That was 3 kilograms in 3 days!!! And I still did not feel
hungry or feel the need to eat solid foods. I was on a mission
here. Anthony Robbins’ advice was working and he had lost 36
pounds in a couple of weeks, so I could do the same!! Whenever I
felt hungry, I simply poured another glass of fruit goo and when
we got home in the evenings, my mom prepared another bottle of
goo for us to share during the evening.

Less than three weeks later I had lost 10
kilograms!! Everybody at work knew and could see that I
had lost weight and now, instead of laughing at the mixture I
was drinking, they asked me about my diet everyday. How do you
do it, what fruits do you put in that mixture, don’t you get
hungry and may I taste it? Instead of laughing, these were the
questions they were asking now.

During that third week, I got home one afternoon to find my mom,
who had also lost around 7KGs by then, sitting in the lounge
with an unusually guilty look on her face. I asked her what was
wrong and she immediately looked down at the empty plate in
front of her. She had bought some salty cracks (biscuits) and
yes, by that time I was quite eager on putting some solid food
in my mouth as well. We agreed to eat some salty cracks with
cheese and tomato from then on and a week later we decided to
give the diet a break, but simply to try and maintain our
weight. By the 28th of February I weighed 111KGs, so I had lost
11KGs in 26 days.

During the first couple of days, I was loosing 1 kg every day.
Pretty impressive, but obviously you can’t expect to keep that
up. At some stage I remember my weight standing still for about
3-4 days. The scale-needle god was not smiling so brightly
anymore. One morning when I got on the scale and noticed that
the needle was still stuck on the same weight, I decided to move
to the next level (whatever it takes, remember). Now, I’m not
very big on exercise, but we did live in an apartment on the
ground floor of a 10 or 12 storey building. So I jumped off the
scale and ran out the front door with only my sleeping shorts
and my slightly reduced stomach sticking out and proceeded to
run (okay, I lie… I walked most of the way) up and down the
stairs of this building. By the next morning I could see that
the needle had moved a little and I continued walking/running up
and down the stairs every morning. Everyone knows that exercise
will help you lose weight, so that is not the great revelation I
want to share with you. The point that I do want to make is that
my attitude was right. I was going to lose weight!! There was no
question in my mind and I believed that absolutely. Therefore,
when I ran into a bit of difficulty, I did not give up as before
but I simply changed my plan of action, by adding a bit of
exercise to my routine and continued on.

The results I had booked a 4 week holiday in
Greece for May that year and decided that I would continue to
weigh myself every 2 days or so and ensure that I don’t pick up
any weight before the holiday. By the time I left for Greece, I
still weighed 111KGs. This may not sound important, but how many
times have people told you that you should loose weight slowly
or you will simply pick it up again, and more. Well, here’s my
answer. I had a motivation to ensure that I don’t pick that
weight up again because I wanted to look good and feel good
about myself during my holiday. It worked. I don’t know how to
express in words how I felt when I walked onto that beach on
Myconos (the first island I visited).

Firstly, being from South Africa where we don’t have nudist
beaches, just being there was quite a treat for me. Walking
around without a shirt and not feeling embarrassed about the
size of my stomach was absolutely amazing. For the first time in
my life girls actually came up to talk to me and when I went to
talk to them, they did not immediately give me a cold shoulder.
On IOS, the party capital of Greece, I met a Swedish girl and we
actually had a mini fling there for a couple of days. Something
I had never experienced before. I left to go visit 2 other
islands, but I went back to IOS and she was actually happy to
see me. Again, something I was not used to before. I don’t
believe anybody treated me differently because I had lost a bit
of weight. In fact, I was still overweight and could have done
with losing another 15-20KGs. Added to that, if you’ve seen my
pic on my weight-loss blog, you’ll know that losing a bit of
weight can’t change that face. Instead, I believe they treated
me differently because I was more confident and at peace with
myself and my own body.

In 1997 I was earning a pretty good salary, considerably more
than most of my friends. Even so, between February 1997 and June
2000 my salary trippled without changing jobs. Generally people
say you have to change jobs to get those sized increases, but I
believe I achieved it within the same company simply because I
had a newfound confidence in myself.

Success breeds success!!

I got a message from a woman tonight who told me, “I just wish I could be able to tell from a guy’s online profile whether or not we’ll have chemistry. There must be a simple way to be able to read a profile and know if we’re going to get along?”
Let me tell you something: profiles lie. People write the most ridiculous things in their profiles – I think of online profiles as Fantasyland half of the time.
It’s like an advertisement for a new weight loss pill: “lose 300 pounds in two minutes!” In their online profiles, everybody seems to write things that express who they want to be and not who they really are.
For instance, if someone is in his or her late forties, they always write, “I’m 48, but I’m a young 48. I don’t look like I’m 48.” Nobody thinks that they look like their age. You either look good for your age, or you don’t.
I’m 46 years old, and I look good for my age. I know people who are my age that don’t – and they admit it. Some of us look good for our age, and some of us don’t. It’s the way life is. The way we are depends on the way we take care of ourselves – our exercise routines, our genes, everything.
So stop building yourself up on your profile. Let the reader make a decision based on your photo about if you look good for your age. When you build yourself up like this, you’re setting yourself up for failure. If you say, “I really look great for my age,” and somebody upon seeing your photo disagrees, then you will take it as a personal insult.
Profiles are just fantasy – and often nothing more. People write whatever they want to write. They don’t tell you the truth! If someone is slightly overweight, they aren’t going to tell you that in their profile! They will give you this beautiful picture of who they are.
We’re people, and we all have our faults. We all have flaws. And the only way to find that out is to go out and meet people. If you took the amount of time you spend online dating and actually went out into the real world to talk to people, you wouldn’t go back to spending so much time with online dating.
You can’t make one thing your only resource. You need to do what I call the ‘20-20-20-20-20 rule.’ 20% of your life can be online dating, 20% can be meeting men or women in supermarkets, 20% can be meeting them in coffee shops, 20% can be parties… whatever it is.
You have to diversify your portfolio – your dating and people meeting portfolio. If this year, all you invested in was the S & P 500, you’d be down about 20% in the stock market right now.
If you bought real estate in 2005 thinking the market would get better, you’d be down about 40% – 80% right now, depending on the market that you’re in. Life is all about diversification.
The next time that you are angry with the internet, or angry with people in their online dating profiles, ask yourself: are you diversified in the way you meet people? If you’re not, you are never going to meet anybody.
So get out there and diversify!

Throat cancer is one of the cancers which occur in the throat. This is disease is found with different names like vocal cord cancer, throat cancer, laryngeal cancer, cancer of the glottis. This is the cancer which is found in both men and women. The throat cancer is the cancer which appears in the upper part of the throat. It is the cancer which appears in the throat that is vocal cords, voice box (larynx), or other areas of the throat. This cancer spreads not only occurs in the other parts of the throat also. This is cancer which can occur in both men and women. This cancer involves the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that have mutated from normal tissues. This growth can kill when these cells prevent normal function of vital organs or spread throughout the body, damaging essentials systems. For more information meet: dr jackThis throat cancer has some alternate names like vocal cord cancer, laryngeal cancer, cancer of the glottis, cancer of the pharynx, vocal cord cancer and others. This cancer as it occurs to the throat and the parts related to it so it is named after it. This cancer also occurs when the normal cells undergo a transformation whereby they grow and multiply without normal controls. This cancer involves tumors on the tonsils, vocal cords, voice box (larynx) and at the base of the tongue. The main cause for the exposure for this cancer is the consumption of the tobacco that plays a significant role in many of the cases. The causes for this cancer are the heavy smoking of cigarettes, chewing tobacco, excessive use of alcohol is also one of the causes for its occurrence. But if the man is addicted to both smoking and consuming alcohol then he is at higher risk of getting the disease. But this is more occurred in men than women. This disease can occur to any age but mainly occurs to the age group who is above 45 of age. This can be controlled with herbal products Some of the other factors for the occurrence of this cancer are the enlargement of the thyroid gland called chronic goiter. This cause may be due to the radiation exposure and the family history of cancer or the genetic predisposition. The symptoms of the hoarseness, sore throat, neck pain, difficulty in swallowing, swelling in the neck, unintentional weight loss, cough, coughing up blood, abnormal breathing sounds, numbness or the paralyses of the muscles in the face, swelling of the jaw, shortness of breath, chest pain and many other reasons also. This cancer also has some of the common symptoms like fever, chills, night sweats, weight loss, loss of appetite, fatigue, malaise.The above symptoms are not to be considered as a serious one as these may also be the causes for some of the common health upsets also. But if the person is adult then he has to undergo a medical checkup and have a take care of his health. The signs and tests can be done when an examination of the neck and the throat may show the cancer of the throat. The symptom may appear bloody or lump on the throat which appears on the outside of the neck. Biopsy and the analysis of tissues that appear abnormal may conform the presence of the cancer tumor. If you experience any of the above throat cancer symptoms it is advised that you see your healthcare provider for a more thorough check so the proper diagnose and treatment can be apply in the initial stage. the best way of preventing this cancer is to quit smoking and preventing the consumption of tobacco. Many cancers can be prevented by avoiding risk factors such as excessive exposure to sunlight and heavy drinking. We should cultivate a habit of taking healthy diet that is the consumption of fresh vegetables and fruits. Keeping the health fit by doing the exercises, meditation, yogasanas, cultivation of morning jog or walk, having the nutritious food in the diet, protecting ourselves from bad atmosphere may make us to be free from the diseases also. Some people at high risk for developing certain cancers can take medication to reduce their risk. But yet the treatment must be aimed at destruction of the cancer and prevention of its spread to other parts of the body. The treatment of the cancer depends on certain issues like the age of the patient, general health condition, the size of the tumor, extent of the cancer and others. This is the cancer which may be found at its advanced stage. So it is an urge need that the patient should be careful while choosing the correct physician for his treatment. This treatment is aimed at destruction of the cancer and prevention of spread of the cancer to the other parts of the body. The earlier it is diagnosed the earlier it is treated. Treatment is aimed at destruction of the cancer and prevention of spread of the cancer to other parts of the body. The earlier throat cancer is diagnosed, the better the prospect of recovery. If the treatment is not given then it can grow and can cause to death. So it is better to get treated at its initial stage. The treatment needs long term recovery but if have a hope of conquering it then you can have it. You should be mentally firmed and be prepared to achieve in curing it. The people who come to our center have a hope of curing the disease and becoming healthy. We support you with this attitude of yours as we use the alternative supplements which are natural and cure the disease with no side effects with miraculous improvements in your health condition. We make you feel ease and get away from your suffer.

Did you enjoy the holidays a little too much this year. You may have enjoyed the holidays and were sad to see them go but aren’t happy with the extra pounds that stayed around. The warm weather is approaching and Spring Break is creeping up on you. Its time to loose those extra pounds and be bikini ready for Spring Break. Is it possible? Anything is Possible! Follow the simple tips below and you will be wearing your bikini on Spring Break in no time. Spring break Bikini Tip #1: PrepareSpring break is right around the corner, so you need to be prepared to give this weight loss plan your all. The best way to accomplish this is to get yourself motivated. You need to prepare yourself for the hard work and dedication it is going to take. You need to visually picture the body you want and keep that vision implanted in your head throughout this program. A big part of loosing weight is mental which is why its important to mentally be prepared when you begin a weight loss program. Spring break Bikini Tip #2: Buddy PowerLoosing weight is hard and it is difficult to stay motivated which why having a weight loss buddy can be beneficial. Find a friend that has similar weight loss goals. Together you can motivate each other and work together to get ready for Spring break. Spring break Bikini Tip #3: Say Good Bye to Junk FoodNow that you’ve found your motivation, it’s time to focus your mind on eating healthy. Eating healthy in college is not easy. College is king of junk food and unhealthy food which makes this one of the most difficult parts of this plan. However to succeed in weight loss it is one of the most important. You need to learn what are healthy food choices and to stick with them. Convincing yourself that the celery stick you’re eating is ten times better than some greasy French fry will not be easy but just keep envisioning yourself in your bikini and it will make those decisions easier. To help keep the junk food cravings under control it is important to plan your meals and snacks. By doing this you won’t be left hungry and eating the first thing you see. You can bring healthy snacks with you to class and a bottle of water which will satisfy your hunger. Spring break Bikini Tip #4: No Beer BellyCollege is also King of Beer and parties. As your friends are downing beer by the gallons, remind yourself that beer is laden with calories your body doesn’t need. Save the beer guzzling for your spring break parties. If you are out partying and want to drink try a diet soda with vodka or rum(my favorite is diet coke and rum). This has much less calories but still allows you to be social.Do not give in to your cravings for junk food. Ask yourself before putting that garbage into your mouth, “Is this food more important than looking great for spring break? Keep a supply of healthy foods available so temptation won’t get the best of you. Make sure the healthy foods you stock are easy to prepare (or, better yet, pre-prepared for you) and taste good if you want to realistically fight off those junk food temptations.Spring break Bikini Tip #5: Couch Potato, time is OverThe last step in Spring break weight loss is exercising. I know those are dreaded words but words we must follow. There are many different ways in which you can incorporate exercise into your daily routine. Most colleges have a gym that is free for students to use. If you are not familiar with the equipment in the gym or what type of workout to follow ask a trainer or someone that works at the gym. They tend to be knowledgeable and can help you out. If the gym is not for you another option is to get outside. You can go for a walk, rollerblading, hiking anything that gets your heart rate up is good. If you don’t want to leave your dorm room the last option is working out in your room. There are a million workout DVDs that you can purchase which you can do right from the comfort of your room. You can also download workouts onto your Ipod and do them as well. The options are endless for working out. Pick and option, try something new, get off the couch. Remember it takes hard work to be that look smoking hot girl walking down the beach but there is no reason why that can’t be you. Follow the weight loss tips provided above so that all eyes will be on you and your sexy body as you grace the beaches, clubs, and parties.

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When I started this blog I really wanted to share my own personal experiences with food, weight loss, health and fitness. I started reading some other blogs out there and was kind of shocked at how different I am from a lot of them. There are a lot of really healthy people out there!! I’m the type of person who would probably eat one or two chocolate bars a day if they didn’t make me gain weight. I usually choose to eat healthy foods because they make me feel well physically and emotionally but I still like to eat unhealthy foods in moderation, otherwise I’ll be tempted to binge on them. To me, part of life is enjoying those special treats once in a while: cheesecake, chocolate bars, a fast food burger. Sometimes I feel like I’m constantly testing myself to see how much or what kind of food I can get away with everyday while maintaining my current weight.So I’ve come up with a fun, interesting list (I love lists) about why I’m not like the ‘typical’ health blogger out there:

So, I guess my point is that you can enjoy healthy foods and some unhealthy foods in moderation and still be fit and maintain a healthy weight like me. If I thought the only way to lose weight was to become vegan, drink green monsters, work out 7 days a week and eat bland, tasteless foods I would rather do 1000 sit-ups… and I really hate sit-ups.

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