Weekend Makeover -- Beauty

Getting healthy is a work in progress. sometime ago i bought this fantastic book called weekend makeover and every so often when i have time on the weekend i read a chapter and attempt to make over another aspect of my life, the first few chapters will be a work in progress for a long time as they discuss healthy eating and exercise. This past weekend i read the chapter BEAUTY MAKEOVER !!! WOW eyeopening. This weekend i didn't have the time to put into this chapter into motion but it keeps floating around in my mind so while i workout and eat healthy this week i am also going to work in the time to make some of these changes.
LETS DO IT TOGETHER!!!

WOW some of my items i have had a lot longer than just a year  --- share your pictures of your pile

Time to purge all the old remember to get it all, the bathroom, your purse, your overnight bag, anywhere you keep make up

Product	Toss it . . .
Mascara	One year
Foundation	One Year
Concealer	12-18 months
Powder	18 months
Blush/bronzer	18 months
Cream blush	12-18 months
Eye shadow	18 months
Eyeliner	18 months
Liquid eyeliner	Six months
Eyeliner	18 months
Liquid eyeliner	Six months
Lipstick/lip gloss	18 months
Lip liner	One year
Nail polish	One year
Makeup sponges	Wash after each use, then throw away after a month.

Getting Healthy

5. Call friends and family more.
Yes, on the phone, not just a text message! Where would you be without those people? Relationships feel more meaningful when you're up to date on others lives. My Bluetooth is my best friend; I make use of driving time while maintaining my relationships with the people I care about. Going for a walk while talking is a double whammy.


****I am sad to report of the 10 people i called last week only 1 answered the phone. I am sad to report that we live in an era where it is okay to text and avoid talking to people :(

The Calorie Myth

We’ve been taught for decades that counting calories is the truest path to weight loss and better nutrition. In reality, it doesn’t take much experiment to realize that this theory is too simplified and missing many other aspects of weight loss through nutrition.
If calorie consumption was all it took to achieve our ideal weight, then eating 1400 calories of chocolate cake for a 5’4 woman ought to gain her the same benefits as eating 1400 calories of broiled veggies, nuts, lean meats, and fruits. On the flip side, for those desperate to gain weight, eating more and more calories doesn’t necessarily lead a person to gaining pounds! The theory of calories in, calories out is illogical and the cause of many people’s struggles to lose weight…and Jonathan Bailor takes on this science in his new book, The Calorie Myth: How to Eat More, Exercise Less, Lose Weight, and Live Better.
Collaborating with top scientists for over 10 years, analyzing over 1,300 studies, and garnering endorsements by top doctors from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Yale, and UCLA, Jonathan Bailor is a nutrition and exercise expert and former personal trainer who specializes in using high-quality food and exercise to simplify wellness.
Bailor explains the flaws in the calorie-counting approach that doesn’t work:

If calorie math added up, 100 calories of vegetables = 100 calories of candy. That doesn’t seem right–because it’s not. While some calories fuel weight loss, others work against us. Why? Because eating high-quality foods, like who whole-food plants, proteins, and fats, balances the hormones that regulate your metabolism.

Fortunately, Bailor is not the first person to address or realize this issue. His work is supported by the works of Dr. Mark Hyman, Michael Pollan, Dr. William Davis, Dr. Sara Gottfried…and many others! 
Better yet, Bailor isn’t pushing a new fad diet, but instead educating readers with support from research studies while explaining the simple science behind concepts such as:

• what prevents your body from burning fat for fuel
• why dietary fat does not make you fat
• the difference between dietary cholesterol and blood lipid cholesterol
• why low-fat does not mean healthy
• why more and more exercise is not the answer to weight-loss

This excerpt is clarifying the science of dietary fat’s impact on cholesterol levels:

Eating whole foods containing fat has never been proved to lead to risky levels of cholesterol. The effect of natural dietary fat on cholesterol has never been proved to cause heart disease. Studies have actually shown the opposite. The high-starch, low-fat and low-protein diet promoted by the government’s guidelines has been proved to worse the risk of heart disease. For example, a 2009 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine went so far as to call HDL [good cholesterol] cholesterol ‘a biomarker for dietary carbohydrate.’ In other words, the more ‘low-fat’ carbohydrates we eat, the lower our levels of the type of cholesterol that is beneficial to heart health.

Get more founded research from Jonathan Bailor’s book, The Calorie Myth: How to Eat More, Exercise Less, Lose Weight, and Live Better….and be sure to check out his podcast interview with Abel James at the Fat-Burning Man where digs deeper into the many misconceptions we’ve been taught around calories and nutrition.

Easy Diabetes Diet Menus

Diet help for people with newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes!

Looking for a reliable source of easy to follow diet menus to help you or a loved one cope with Type 2 diabetes? Want to lose some weight safely to help bring your diabetes under better control? Easy Diabetes Diet Menus- Menu Me! is the answer!

•  Book Highlights Include:

• Easy Diabetes Diet Menus shows you exactly what to eat for 1200,1500,1800, 2000 and 2200 calorie level diets. Proper carbohydrate amounts are provided for each meal  and snack. Knowing your carb target will help you make better choices when dining out.
• Menus include easy to prepare meals using "everyday" family-friendly foods taking the worry of having to prepare special recipes each time you eat.  Each calorie level has over a week of menu ideas like omelets, cheese grits, breakfast burritos, spaghetti & meatsauce, tacos, chef's salads, hamburgers and potato skins.
• "Meal Planning 101" section explains the "nuts and bolts" of proper meal planning for the diabetes diet.
• "Portion Control"will teach you those foods you must be sure to measure for best glucose control.  Learn an easy way to "visualize" proper portions when you eat out.
• "Ask the Dietitian" section answers your questions regarding proper beverage choices, fast food, non-diet related factors which can cause your glucose to rise and best foods for ideal glucose control / foods to minimize in your diet.
• Use the meal planning template when you want to  learn to create your own diabetes diet menus and stay on track.
• Keep hunger away between meals with our list of 40 Low Carb Snack Ideas.
• Tips for reducing belly fat and controlling blood glucose.
• How to help a loved one with diabetes.
• Takes the guess-work out of following your doctor's diabetes diet advice. 
• Bonus Book: Includes the Easyhealth Diabetes Grocery Shopping Guide!
• Diabetes educator approved!

Easyhealth Nutrition with over 20 years experience providing diet and diabetes education to all ages. Get your physician's recommendation on which calorie level is right for you then let our expertise and knowledge help guide you to success!

Getting Healthy

STOP
think 
then proceed
 

4. Sympathize more.
This will help you to get angry less. Technically, you allow anger to arise, but you choose to not react. Of course there will always be frustrating and unfair people or situations, but how you react is your choice. Think of one reason, in every situation, why that may have understandably happened. This always helps me leave the situation peacefully. For example, what if that driver who cut you off is someone’s grandma? You wouldn’t want someone to flip off your grandma if she made a mistake! Sure, it could have been a jerk who always drives like a maniac, but you don’t know that. Give people the benefit of the doubt, assume they’re trying their best even if it doesn’t show. For your own sanity if nothing else!

saturday i was at a park for exercise and really needed to pee the older gentleman working in the maintenance shed would not allow me to use his restroom told me that the center opened at 8 it was well after 8. I told him thank you and that i hope someday someone treats his wife and daughter as poorly has he has treated me. He was speechless and i still had a full bladder thank goodness for nice gas station attendants :)

Getting Healthy

3. Cook at home more.
I truly love to wine and dine, but I appreciate it more if I've worked hard all week to feed myself healthily, budgeting my funds and avoiding add-ons to every meal like drinks and dessert! Buying and cooking large batches of everything and having leftovers available is a good way to avoid the urge or need to dine out or stop on the way home to get food. You also won’t want all your groceries to go to waste!

MENU PLAN has been implemented again and eating out has gone to once a week and once a weekend and only twice a week for lunch so far so good :)
Please share your menu plan ideas

Getting Healthy

Do you volunteer?
How often do you volunteer?
To what organizations do you volunteer?


2. Give more.
Volunteering your time is a great way to do this, especially if you’re tight on money. Think about who and what you enjoy being around — animals, children, elderly, special events — and combine that with your strengths or availability. If you’re available during afternoons, you could tutor at an elementary school. If you never know when you’ll have some spare time, become a volunteer to socialize animals at the local shelter, where you can likely drop in. The time commitment may seem overwhelming at first so treat it like a real part of your schedule. The rewarding feeling is unmatchable.