I’m slowly developing my own philosophy on what a marriage blog should be about. I really like the Red Pill Philosophy written by Athol Kay of MMSL,
Red Pill Philosophy (Sexy Christian Wife style):
Men need to be alpha (manly, attractive, dominant, teasing, financially stable, the captain of their marriage, physically fit, entertaining) and beta (kind, servant-like, loving, good father, responsible)
Women need to be alpha (pretty, crazy into sex, feminine, physically fit, entertaining) and beta (keeps home clean, cooks meals, kind, loving, respectful to husband, submissive, good mother, responsible)
Showing posts with label Self-Improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self-Improvement. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 November 2012
Thursday, 12 April 2012
'Drop Dead Healthy': Is the Perfect Healthy Lifestyle Possible?
By JOHN BERMAN and MARY MARSH | Good Morning America
There are thousands of diet and exercise studies for how to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle: Don't eat that, drink more of this, run hard for this length of time then rest, but wait, maybe try a walk-run combo, or extreme yoga, or perhaps meditation. The tips constantly change when new studies are published.
For his most ambitious project, author A.J. Jacobs followed the latest medical advice about getting healthy -- all of it -- and found out what really works.
"I was in bad shape," Jacobs said. "I had a huge stomach. I looked like a snake that swallowed a goat. It was sort of the skinny fat, and you know, my diet was terrible. I ate sugar, salt, fat. Those were my three food groups, so I really wanted to -- I needed to do a big revamp."
Following the success of his book, "The Year of Living Biblically," in which he tried to follow every rule in the Bible for a year, Jacobs, 44, spent two years trying out every diet plan, every workout routine, every self-improvement trick and technique out there. He documented his journey in his new book, "Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Quest for Bodily Perfection," which he wrote while walking on a treadmill, by the way -- a chapter every 12 miles or so.
"More and more research shows how horrible sitting is for you," he said. "It's really bad. It's like a Paula Deen bacon doughnut. It's just so ... if you are sitting for more than six hours a day, that'll increase your risk for heart disease by 60 percent."
Jacobs is now a walking encyclopedia of health insight, from applying sunscreen daily, to having certain plants nearby to filter the air -- even proper water bottle care.
"Holding a cold bottle is actually good for your workout," he said. "It keeps your core temperature lower, and you can increase your endurance."
It could get a bit annoying, his wife, Julie, admitted.
"There were certain things that he would like to look over my shoulder when I was eating -- white bread and say, 'enjoy your empty calories,'" she said. "I'm having my everything bagel, please let me be."
So what did work? Over the course of two years, Jacobs developed definite opinions about how to maintain a healthier lifestyle. He said people need to exercise more, sit less, meditate, pet dogs -- because studies have found it lowers blood pressure -- and cook their own meals instead of eating prepared food.
Jacobs now has a healthier diet, mostly vegetables, fish and eggs. The dietary revelation came not with what he eats, but how he eats it.
"I chew as many times as possible, because you'll eat less and we eat way too much as a nation," Jacobs said. "There's actually a very passionate movement on the Internet called 'Chewdaism,' and they believe you should be chewing as many as 50 times a bite."
And then there were those health regimens that Jacobs said didn't work for him, such as colonics and juice fasts.
"I was not a fan of either one, and luckily the science is not there," he said. "There's really very little science that colonics are good for you. You don't really need them. The body cleans out by itself."
But the calorie restriction diet is what Jacobs called "one of the worst experiences of my project."
"This is the group that believes that if you eat very, very little, like if you are on the verge of starvation, then you're going to live 140 years," Jacobs said. "The obvious joke is why would you want to live 140 years if you're only eating, you know, five flax seeds a day."
His favorite workout: boulder tossing, log carrying and sprinting, part of the so-called "caveman workout."
"The caveman didn't do a lot of leisurely jogging," he said. "They did a lot of sprinting, running away from tigers."
At the end of two years, Jacobs said he managed to lose 17 pounds. His body fat dropped from 17 to 7 percent and he said he is now bursting with energy and feels great. He added that he has backed off doing some of the dozens and dozens of daily healthy rituals -- for example, he no longer does the colonics or juice diets anymore, and he doesn't do the caveman workout regularly -- because, Jacobs said, there just aren't enough hours in the day to be that healthy.
"I'm a bit of an 'obsessional' person, so I guess I might go too far," Jacobs said. "[But] being too obsessed with health is not very healthy."
Jacobs also said that the most detrimental part of the pursuit of being healthy is that he had to give up seeing his friends and his family because there wasn't enough time in the day for both.
"I had very little time to see my friends because I was being too healthy, and that turned out to be unhealthy ... Social interactions are such a crucial part of our health you know they really contribute to your longevity," he said.
A.J. Jacobs shares some of his tips for being healthy. Here's what he says:
Chew! There's a movement I discovered on the Internet called 'chewdaism' where people believe you should chew each mouthful of food 50 to 70 times. This is a bit much if you have a life. Twenty or thirty times works pretty well. And basically it slows you down to give those satiety signals enough time to reach your brain so that you realize you're full before you've overeaten. It really helped me eat less.
Self-tracking -- such as using a pedometer or keeping a food diary -- makes all the difference. Just something as simple as a pedometer can make you walk one mile more per day on average, because it becomes a game. Even just writing down what you eat changes your behavior.
Don't be sedentary. Sitting is so bad for you. I like walking better, which surprises me. I have more energy. So I run errands, literally. I run to the store for toothpaste and run home. I squat down to talk to my kids, which means I do 50 to 70 squats a day.
Stress truly affects your help. I thought diet and exercise would solve everything. But keeping stress down is important. You do that by making time for friends and family, making sure to laugh. And you know what is a big stress-inducer? Noise. That's why I got some noise-cancelling headphones (which were a stress-inducing three $300.)
Respect your future self. An app online aged a picture of me, showing me what I'd look like at 70. I keep the picture on a desk and look at it to remind myself to make things better for me in the future.
http://gma.yahoo.com/drop-dead-healthy-perfect-healthy-lifestyle-possible-224109928--abc-news-health.html
There are thousands of diet and exercise studies for how to achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle: Don't eat that, drink more of this, run hard for this length of time then rest, but wait, maybe try a walk-run combo, or extreme yoga, or perhaps meditation. The tips constantly change when new studies are published.
For his most ambitious project, author A.J. Jacobs followed the latest medical advice about getting healthy -- all of it -- and found out what really works.
"I was in bad shape," Jacobs said. "I had a huge stomach. I looked like a snake that swallowed a goat. It was sort of the skinny fat, and you know, my diet was terrible. I ate sugar, salt, fat. Those were my three food groups, so I really wanted to -- I needed to do a big revamp."
Following the success of his book, "The Year of Living Biblically," in which he tried to follow every rule in the Bible for a year, Jacobs, 44, spent two years trying out every diet plan, every workout routine, every self-improvement trick and technique out there. He documented his journey in his new book, "Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Quest for Bodily Perfection," which he wrote while walking on a treadmill, by the way -- a chapter every 12 miles or so.
"More and more research shows how horrible sitting is for you," he said. "It's really bad. It's like a Paula Deen bacon doughnut. It's just so ... if you are sitting for more than six hours a day, that'll increase your risk for heart disease by 60 percent."
Jacobs is now a walking encyclopedia of health insight, from applying sunscreen daily, to having certain plants nearby to filter the air -- even proper water bottle care.
"Holding a cold bottle is actually good for your workout," he said. "It keeps your core temperature lower, and you can increase your endurance."
It could get a bit annoying, his wife, Julie, admitted.
"There were certain things that he would like to look over my shoulder when I was eating -- white bread and say, 'enjoy your empty calories,'" she said. "I'm having my everything bagel, please let me be."
So what did work? Over the course of two years, Jacobs developed definite opinions about how to maintain a healthier lifestyle. He said people need to exercise more, sit less, meditate, pet dogs -- because studies have found it lowers blood pressure -- and cook their own meals instead of eating prepared food.
Jacobs now has a healthier diet, mostly vegetables, fish and eggs. The dietary revelation came not with what he eats, but how he eats it.
"I chew as many times as possible, because you'll eat less and we eat way too much as a nation," Jacobs said. "There's actually a very passionate movement on the Internet called 'Chewdaism,' and they believe you should be chewing as many as 50 times a bite."
And then there were those health regimens that Jacobs said didn't work for him, such as colonics and juice fasts.
"I was not a fan of either one, and luckily the science is not there," he said. "There's really very little science that colonics are good for you. You don't really need them. The body cleans out by itself."
But the calorie restriction diet is what Jacobs called "one of the worst experiences of my project."
"This is the group that believes that if you eat very, very little, like if you are on the verge of starvation, then you're going to live 140 years," Jacobs said. "The obvious joke is why would you want to live 140 years if you're only eating, you know, five flax seeds a day."
His favorite workout: boulder tossing, log carrying and sprinting, part of the so-called "caveman workout."
"The caveman didn't do a lot of leisurely jogging," he said. "They did a lot of sprinting, running away from tigers."
At the end of two years, Jacobs said he managed to lose 17 pounds. His body fat dropped from 17 to 7 percent and he said he is now bursting with energy and feels great. He added that he has backed off doing some of the dozens and dozens of daily healthy rituals -- for example, he no longer does the colonics or juice diets anymore, and he doesn't do the caveman workout regularly -- because, Jacobs said, there just aren't enough hours in the day to be that healthy.
"I'm a bit of an 'obsessional' person, so I guess I might go too far," Jacobs said. "[But] being too obsessed with health is not very healthy."
Jacobs also said that the most detrimental part of the pursuit of being healthy is that he had to give up seeing his friends and his family because there wasn't enough time in the day for both.
"I had very little time to see my friends because I was being too healthy, and that turned out to be unhealthy ... Social interactions are such a crucial part of our health you know they really contribute to your longevity," he said.
A.J. Jacobs shares some of his tips for being healthy. Here's what he says:
Chew! There's a movement I discovered on the Internet called 'chewdaism' where people believe you should chew each mouthful of food 50 to 70 times. This is a bit much if you have a life. Twenty or thirty times works pretty well. And basically it slows you down to give those satiety signals enough time to reach your brain so that you realize you're full before you've overeaten. It really helped me eat less.
Self-tracking -- such as using a pedometer or keeping a food diary -- makes all the difference. Just something as simple as a pedometer can make you walk one mile more per day on average, because it becomes a game. Even just writing down what you eat changes your behavior.
Don't be sedentary. Sitting is so bad for you. I like walking better, which surprises me. I have more energy. So I run errands, literally. I run to the store for toothpaste and run home. I squat down to talk to my kids, which means I do 50 to 70 squats a day.
Stress truly affects your help. I thought diet and exercise would solve everything. But keeping stress down is important. You do that by making time for friends and family, making sure to laugh. And you know what is a big stress-inducer? Noise. That's why I got some noise-cancelling headphones (which were a stress-inducing three $300.)
Respect your future self. An app online aged a picture of me, showing me what I'd look like at 70. I keep the picture on a desk and look at it to remind myself to make things better for me in the future.
http://gma.yahoo.com/drop-dead-healthy-perfect-healthy-lifestyle-possible-224109928--abc-news-health.html
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Self improvement and motivation-The Best Self improvement tip
In the mundane world it is the failure that is all set to engulf you. But if you surrender to it you are certain to get baffled in the prolonged run. Failure could come in your way but you have to be prepared to fight it, encounter it in the way it is to be faced. Again it is not the everlasting simple fact that you are confident to fail all the time. The day is positive to come when the deity of ultimate good results is certain to crown you. All you want are self-improvement and enthusiasm. If you are not motivated how you can be the ultimate winner.
You need to have to be wise and cool. You have to accept the failure. You must retain it in thoughts that no one particular succeeds in the quite original phase. It is the challenging toil and his perseverance that make him effective in the lengthy run. You are to be all set to encounter the situation that you by no means have expected. But if you have to face this sort of a horrid scenario would you lag behind? No all you have to do is to march ahead so extended the faint beam of hope is not situated in the horizon.
All you need to have in this crucial phase is the self-improvement and enthusiasm urge that comes from within your soul.
All you have to do is to struggle challenging without expecting what outcome is awaiting you. It is effortless to say but it is extremely difficult to accept failure following failure in a steady manner. But what would you do? If you do not understand to accept failure you are confident to be a victim of depression and depression would suck your vitality in a slow manner in a gradual approach.
Now how can you strengthen oneself? Is it really simple to do so? Actually when you are in a desperate spree are trying challenging to coin power what would be the outcome? I am right here supplying some self-improvement suggestions that would be of good assist to you when you are hiding your encounter in the veil of desperation.
I am right here providing you some self-improvement guidelines that could make you motivated all the way.
one. You can maintain a diary. You compose down there how you have tackled the problems that came on your way.
2. Now adhere to properly how you started and how you reached your dream location.
3. Usually mix with these people who dwell on good pondering. Only the optimistic, motivated people can lead you to the road of eternal pleasure.
four. By no means halt your journey all on a sudden. If you are thwarted on the techniques never ever drop your heart. It is your internal spirit that is to increase you all the even though.
5. By no means step back from your goal. Stick to your dreams in a hearty manner. The tougher your clutch to your dream the faster you are going to have it in your wallet.
Failure might come in your way but you have to be all set to combat it. Self improvement and inspiration are the two items that may assist you to fight against the damaging electrical power. Do not neglect to check out the self improvement ideas also.
You need to have to be wise and cool. You have to accept the failure. You must retain it in thoughts that no one particular succeeds in the quite original phase. It is the challenging toil and his perseverance that make him effective in the lengthy run. You are to be all set to encounter the situation that you by no means have expected. But if you have to face this sort of a horrid scenario would you lag behind? No all you have to do is to march ahead so extended the faint beam of hope is not situated in the horizon.
All you need to have in this crucial phase is the self-improvement and enthusiasm urge that comes from within your soul.
All you have to do is to struggle challenging without expecting what outcome is awaiting you. It is effortless to say but it is extremely difficult to accept failure following failure in a steady manner. But what would you do? If you do not understand to accept failure you are confident to be a victim of depression and depression would suck your vitality in a slow manner in a gradual approach.
Now how can you strengthen oneself? Is it really simple to do so? Actually when you are in a desperate spree are trying challenging to coin power what would be the outcome? I am right here supplying some self-improvement suggestions that would be of good assist to you when you are hiding your encounter in the veil of desperation.
I am right here providing you some self-improvement guidelines that could make you motivated all the way.
one. You can maintain a diary. You compose down there how you have tackled the problems that came on your way.
2. Now adhere to properly how you started and how you reached your dream location.
3. Usually mix with these people who dwell on good pondering. Only the optimistic, motivated people can lead you to the road of eternal pleasure.
four. By no means halt your journey all on a sudden. If you are thwarted on the techniques never ever drop your heart. It is your internal spirit that is to increase you all the even though.
5. By no means step back from your goal. Stick to your dreams in a hearty manner. The tougher your clutch to your dream the faster you are going to have it in your wallet.
Failure might come in your way but you have to be all set to combat it. Self improvement and inspiration are the two items that may assist you to fight against the damaging electrical power. Do not neglect to check out the self improvement ideas also.
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