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I hope you will find some time to apply this wonderful diet. I am sure you will like the results.

In order to be beautiful and healthy you need to include foods that can cleanse your organism:

+ carrots, asparagus, beet, corn, rice; and fruits like figs, apples, strawberries, peaches, blueberries, raisins.

Sometimes you get nervous, like we all do, but in order to cope with your anger easier you need to eat more foods rich in cooper and these are:

+ cucumbers, radishes, green salad; and meats like sea food; and of course cereals made of oats, wheat germ; more foods you need to include in your menu are: potatoes, apricot, pear, grapes.

Scorpio

Avoid fatty foods. But that is valid for everyone who wants to lose weight no matter what zodiac sight they are.

- Exclude butter and cream from your menu.

+ Instead include more fish and sea food rich in proteins; also eat more eggs, milk products and game.

You will feel much better and in very good health if you eat plenty of fresh and dried fruits. They aid in toxins excretion, support your immune system and help you be in high spirits.

These are the foods you need to include into our daily menu (or if you are already eating them – you should increase the amounts you eat):

+ Beet, celery, cauliflower, spinach, onion, mustard, radishes, carrots, cucumbers, dates, apples, lemons and walnuts.

Using more from these foods you will cope one and for all with the nasty headache and nervousness you experience sometimes.

You need enough amounts of iron and proteins to keep you muscle tissue in good condition, so no more muscle aches if you eat plenty of beans, lentils, peas and of course – meat.

Taurus

You are known for your passion for sweets and pastry. Your metabolism is slower and needs a boost, so it is recommended to eat more foods rich in Vitamin A such as:

+ meat (pigs liver), cod liver oil, liver pate, raw carrots, sweet potato.

To cope with the excess amount of water your body keeps you need to eat more:

+ spinach, beet, cauliflower and cabbage, onion, pumpkin and radishes.

You need more Vitamin E (sun flower seeds, almonds, tomatoes) and iodine (haddock, cod, condensed milk, eggs).

Gemini

To keep your neuro system in good condition you need more calcium, so eat more milk products and cabbage.

What else you should add to your menu is:

+ Protein rich foods, lean meat, fish, eggs, cheese, walnuts, sesame and soy.

You also need extra potassium for your heart from:

+ peas, beet, carrots, cauliflower, corns; and fruits like apricots, peaches, plums and pineapple.

Cancer

In order to lose weight you should not overeat with too much sweets, pastry and fats (but that applies for all the zodiac signs).

You need more proteins and sea foods, which supply your organism with enough iodine.

These are the foods you need to include in your daily menu (or to increase their consumption if you are already eating  them):

+ More milk products, citrus fruits, raisins, cabbage, onions, pumpkin, and rye bread.

Leo

To balance your diet plan and make it healthier you need to include the following foods to your menu:

+ Lemons, plenty of fruits and vegetable, salads, wholegrain rye bread, almonds.

You should avoid animal fats as they can cause arteriosclerosis.

Milk products are very healthy for you, as well as lean meat, soy and fruits rich in Vitamin C.

Virgo

Virgos are tender beings, so heavy foods are not for them. They should include more protein foods into their diet:

+ soy, eggs, cheese, and especially foods rich in Vitamin B like beans, meat, oat milk flakes, barley groats.

It is recommended if you start drinking morning tea instead of your morning coffee.

In order to keep your slim fit and fresh and pure skin, you need to eat lean meat (beef), almonds, wholemeal foods, rye and barley grains.

With this test you will find out if your dream for slimmer hips and attractive body may come true with less, more or extra efforts from your side.

Answer honestly to the following questions and give 1 point for every “Yes” and 0 points for every “No” you answer.

Questions:

Q1: Do you exercise regularly?

Q2: Do you know your calorie intake from the foods you eat every day?

Q3: Do you eat often but small portions (5 – 6 times a day)?

Q4: Do you weigh yourself at least once a week?

Q5: Do you always have at hand (mostly at home) diet foods like fruits, vegetables, curds, boiled meat, diet cheese?

Q6: Do you resist the temptation when you are not hungry but someone tempts you to try it anyway?

Q7: DO you keep sweets and other tempting snacks for long at your home or they are being eaten in no time?

Q8: Do you leave some portion of your meal if you are already full?

Q9: Do you dream from time to time for food – some favorite meal of yours?

Q10: How do you feel about yourself at your current diet regime – do you like yourself, do you feel good?

Results:

You have less than 3 points:
You must change your lifestyle generally, otherwise you will never lose weight.

You have 4 to 6 points:
You are close to achieving you goal to lose the excess pounds, all you need to do is to emphasize a little bit more on exercises or sports, and be stricter about the foods you eat. Include more healthier foods and losing weight will be easier.

You have 7 to 10 points:
You have strong will and it’ll help you achieve your goals no matter what. Losing weight is not a problem for you, because you are already determined to shed those excess pounds and this time keep them off for good.

You will probably lose some pounds even more than you expected but then it becomes even more difficult to keep them off for good. If you don’t live healthy lifestyle it’ll be very hard for you to maintain your current healthy weight. Without healthy eating habits and the knowledge how to choose your food and how to prepare it into delicious healthy meals you will gain back most of the lost weight sooner than you’ve expected.

The Five Star Weight loss Program I am taking about here is completely different and has nothing to do with 5 stars hotels. It is a very simple program you should follow, in fact it’s exactly a program but more like a plan of 5 important things you need to do in order to start living healthy lifestyle, which inevitably will help you get healthier and lose the excess pounds, feel better and more positive about your life and well being.

For each of these 5 things you do right – give yourself one star – this way at the end of the day you will have all 5 stars truly and honestly earned/deserved. It is as easy as 1-2-3-4-5. Here’s what you need to do:

Sleep
Eat Right
Stretch
Exercise
Encourage yourself

Sleeping at least 7 to 9 hours at nights is the best thing you can do for your organism and I am sure it would greatly appreciate that.

Why is sleep so important?

In a huge study with more than 60 000 women, those who slept at least 7 hours at the end of the study weighed a few pounds less than the women who dozed less than 5 hours. While sleeping your body produces more of the hormone leptin (the hormone of fullness) and less of the hormone ghrelin (the hormone of hunger), so the more you sleep the less hungry you will be when you wake up.

Sleeping enough helps you cope better with depression, which as we all know often leads to emotional eating which only puts on extra pounds. Try to go to bed 15 to 30 minutes earlier every night (give yourself a star every time you do that) and you will definitely see how much better you will feel in the morning.

Eating right is a problem for everyone who has problems losing weight. Give yourself a star every time you eat in a way that makes your body feel great. For example instead of pastry for breakfast you can eat a cup of yoghurt with fruits, or drink a cup of milk with fruits. For lunch chose a salad with fish or other lean meat, or tofu. For diner it’s always better to choose fish or lean meat again over fatty steak. And please skip the sweets straight after meals like candies, ice cream or cookies (if you can’t resist wait at least an hour or two before eat anything else). Don’t eat those snacks late at night as well just before bed.

Stretching is a good muscle exercise for great relaxation in the evening after a busy day at work. It will also help you make exercising easier, and enjoy it more and do it more often. Yoga is great for that purpose, but you don’t need to learn it if you don’t want to. Stretching is simple there’s nothing you can go wrong with it and don’t invest too much time in it. Just give yourself a star every time you do it.

Exercising even without breaking a sweat is great for everyone who really wants to lose weight. Walking is great 30 minutes to one hour a day is perfect. Exercising not only reduces stress and burns the calories form the unhealthy fatty foods you might have eaten, but it also may curb your food cravings, prolong your life and make you more positive towards your life and family. And that’s not all the benefits you get…

While I am walking it makes me think about my life what I’ve done wrong, what can I do to make my and my family’s life better. Give yourself a star every time you fulfill your daily exercise practice, either with walking or other favorite workout – you deserve it.

Encouraging yourself is probably the most important of all five stars you can get from your five star weight loss plan. Even if you skip one or two of the other stars, don’t miss to give yourself a credit (star) for trying to be healthy, positive and strong toward achieving your weight loss goals.

Encourage yourself and you will be much more confident it a lot more areas of your life not only about losing weight. Being positive will help your overcome emotional eating, which is great by the way. Give yourself a star just for loving your body, if you don’t accept the way you look nobody will like you. Trying to change the way you look, in the good positive way, is the only healthy way you should proceed in order to get the result you want.

I just read my previous New Year’s wish to you and I hope it came true for you all!

For the New Year 2009 I wish for me, my family, my relatives, my friends and to all you my dear readers all the luck in the world, to be healthy and happy with who we are!

I hope for the New Year you will keep coming back for more useful information, tips and advices on how to lose weight, keep it off for good and maintain great shape and spirits all year round.

I wish you all the best for the New Year and stay healthy!

Yours truly,

Galia

Then I thought… What if you could have your favorite fruit drink or smoothie ready in about 1 to 3 minutes? I’d be great!

This is possible if you use WonderSlim Protein Smoothies and Fruit Diet Drinks and it gets even better for you to know that those protein diet drinks are actually WonderSlim Diet meal replacements.

WonderSlim Diet Smoothies are high in protein, low in fat, and full of essential vitamins and minerals. You can enjoy their rich and creamy taste all year long, anywhere you like. As they are well balanced and nutritious you can take them instead of your regular meals or just as a quick and healthy snack.

These protein diet smoothies are the perfect solution for any busy dieter on the go who doesn’t want to sacrifice taste or nutrition and yet gets everything they need to lose weight healthy way or maintain your lost weight.
They are the ideal supplement to your WonderSlim Diet plan.

Preparation is easy – poor the contents of one packet (100 calories) into a glass, shaker cup or blender. Add 8 ounces of cold water and stir or shake vigorously until dissolved…

…Or you can use both the Berry and Strawberry Smoothies to make a frozen pudding pops like Liz (one of the many happy users of these wonderfully flavored protein diet smoothies):
She combines fresh or frozen fruits, adds plain yogurt and blends. Delicious and nutritious these could be great frozen snacks for the hot summer days.

1. Is cinnamon bad for the liver and the kidneys?

Coumarin is a chemical compound contained in Cassia (Cinnamomum aromaticum – aka Chinese Cinnamon) and is known to cause liver and kidney damage in high concentrations. True Cinnamon (Cinnamomum zeylanicum – aka Ceylon Cinnamon) has negligible amounts of Coumarin, so no worries here folks as long as you use the True Cinnamon.

Coumarin toxicity is 275 mg/kg, which is relatively low compared to related chemical compounds. We humans are able to largely metabolize Coumarin to a compound that is of lower toxicity.

Also pay attention to the key phrase here “high concentrations” – half teaspoon a day is not high concentration. So if you’ve been using a half teaspoon of Cassia to prepare the drink, instead of the Ceylon Cinnamon, you don’t have to be worried, just try to find true cinnamon.

2. How long should I take it?

Important notice: You should not over use the honey and cinnamon drink, meaning you can’t use it forever.
If you reach your weight goal within a couple of weeks or a month – that’s fantastic. If you need more time, just use it for about 2 to 4 months tops.

3. Should the honey be added after half an hour (when the water cools)?

I know that in my original post I wrote to make a paste from the honey and the cinnamon powder and then to poor the hot water in the cup. However, I should agree with that the honey is better to be added after the water and cinnamon mix cools (in about half an hour).

This means that you do not pay for the patches (they are totally free) but you must pay as little as a couple of bucks for shipping. You will probably use the weight loss patches for one week (usually that’s how long free trials last); you will see the promising results (curbed appetite, more energy, etc.) and will return for reorder of a full pack (usually for one to six months).

At least that’s the way it works for most of our customers who have tried the one week free trial of Hoodia Weight Loss Patch. If you wanna give it a try, you can do it immediately at Hoodia Diet Patch official website.

First of all let’s remind us the number of calories contained in fats, proteins and carbohydrates:

1 gram of fat = 9 kilocalories ~ 37 kilojoules

1 gram of protein = 4 kilocalories ~ 16 kilojoules

1 gram of carbohydrates = 4 kilocalories ~ 16 kilojoules

And some more calorie values:

1 gram of alcohol = 7 kilocalories

1 gram of dietary fiber = 3 kilocalories

Having all these values in mind you can easily calculate the number of calories in food you eat every day. And how much calories you need a day is another question:

How to estimate your daily caloric needs

You can estimate your daily caloric intake with the Harris-Benedict formula. It helps you calculate your basal metabolic rate (BMR), i.e. the optimum amount of energy your body needs to function.

Let’s calculate your BMR

To do that you need to use your current weight, height and age in step ONE. It’s easy:

Harris-Benedict formula for Women:

655 + (4.3 x weight in pounds) + (4.7 x height in inches) – (4.7 x age in years)

Harris-Benedict formula for Men:

66 + (6.3 x weight in pounds) + (12.9 x height in inches) – (6.8 x age in years)

Take your daily activities into account in step TWO:

• Add 20% of your BMR to your current BMR if you are sedentary: (0.2*BMR) + BMR

Means you spend all day sitting in a chair: for example working with a computer in a bank, home, office, etc.

• Add 30% of your BMR to your current BMR if you are lightly active: (0.3*BMR) + BMR

For example if you exercise 2-3 times a week.

• Add 40% of your BMR to your current BMR if you are moderately active: (0.4*BMR) + BMR

For example if you exercise 4-5 times a week.

• Add 50% of your BMR to your current BMR if you are very active: (0.5*BMR) + BMR

If you exercise every day of the week or for prolonged periods of time. For example if you are a fitness trainer.

• Add 60% of your BMR to your current BMR if you are extra active: (0.6*BMR) + BMR

If you are a professional athlete or if you work hard labor job.

How knowing your BMR will help you lose weight?

Knowing your BMR means you are aware of how much calories you need a day to keep your current weight. However, if you want to lose weight you need to cut your daily caloric intake (eat fewer calories) or burn the extra calories (through some activities). As a result you should keep your daily calorie intake lower than your BMR. How much lower? That’s the question: But before that you need to know:

Some more nutrition facts from Wikipedia:

Because human adipose (fat) tissue contains about 87% lipids, one kilogram of it stores the caloric energy of roughly 870 grams of pure fat, or 7800 kcal. In principle one has to create a 7800 kcal deficit or surplus between energy intake and use to lose or gain 1 kg of body fat, respectively, or 3500 kcal per pound. However, if one eats 7800 kcal more than the body needs, one won’t necessarily gain 1 kg of fat, since muscle and other tissues may be built. In the same way, if one eats 7800 kcal less than their maintenance level, they may not lose 1 kg of fat, since muscle and sugars may be metabolized to generate energy.

In short and still roughly speaking – in order to lose 1 pound a week you need to eat 500 calories less a day or burn those calories through exercising or other activities. For optimal results you should combine the two methods – eat 250 calories less and burn the rest 250 exercising.

Gradual weight loss is the healthiest way to achieve your desired weight

More than 2 pounds a week is not very healthy and the lost weight is not permanent. 1 to 2 pounds a week is natural weight loss – good for you and your body. You will be loosing weight with a smile on your face and won’t even notice you are dieting, because you will be dieting naturally.