I just found a very simple utility for getting music off my iPod. It is easy enough to get music onto your iPod but the other way around – not. I have tons of music and other material on my iPod that I transferred from my computer. Then my computer crashed. So, finding something that made it very simple and downloaded very quickly and didn’t crash my computer was a nice bonus.
You can check download the trial version here: www.EasyiPodTransfer.com
It’s all about manners. Whether you are holding the door for someone or moving out of the way on the highway so the person behind you can pass. The dangers of driving vehicles slowly in the left lane of the highway are obviously not apparent to everyone. The people that do this will probably not read this whole article. In case you do …
I hear the reasons like, “I’m going the speed limit” or “They don’t need to go that fast.” for sitting in the left lane of the highway blocking traffic. I’m very certain, given normal traffic flow, that if more people used the left lane only to pass, then traffic would move more smoothly and quickly. What I’ve observed is that when someone is cruising in the left lane more slowly than the general traffic, it prompts others to weave dangerously.
Some drivers I’m sure are not confident enough and just stay in one lane (the left lane) so that they are not moving back and forth. I would suggest to these drivers that they get someone to somehow help them become more confident drivers. There are many ways to do this. I’ll try and post later something to help with this.
There are probably as many different reasons that people are fat as there are people. Well, maybe I exaggerate a bit. But there are bad eating habits – which covers a lot of different ground – to hormonal confusions in the body. So, not every ‘diet’ is going to work for everyone. I don’t really like the word ‘diet’ anyway – I prefer the necessity of changing one’s lifestyle. If you go on a diet and lose weight then go off the diet, very likely you will go back to what you were doing before which was probably contributing to your excess weight. I’ve always felt that the goal should be a healthy lifestyle first and if you are doing that you’ll most likely be OK even if over a few pounds.
Here are some things that I do to stay healthy and keep my weight down.
Water: I drink quite a bit. If I’m hungry I will sometimes drink a glass of water – it handles the hunger. I drink a glass or as much of a glass of water when I get up or as I awake. I always have a glass beside my bed. If I’m thirsty I drink water not soda or tea or anything else.
This one is one of the most important: I NEVER eat till I’m full. I always stop before then. If I’m having a salad, I’ll try and eat it before my main dish – it will help me eat less. I don’t eat bread with a meal. I don’t go more than 2-3 hours without eating. Otherwise I get too hungry and eat too much. If I eat 2-3 meals or dinners till I’m full then I start putting on weight. I think the reason for this is that there is a lag with the food getting to the stomach. If you stop before you are full then wait a few minutes, you will be full. If you don’t stop then your stomach will end up over full and stretch.
I rarely eat dessert. If I eat well I’m usually too full. If I want something sweet, it will be a very small piece.
Deep breathing. I started doing this when I was a teen. I don’t necessarily use the breathing every day but I think this helps with metabolism – not sure – but you can look up on the web exactly how …
At least some exercise regularly – I cycle or swim, walk or do yoga exercises.
Ration my sweets. If I’m having a glass of wine later, I won’t have the dessert.
I seem to do ok with potatoes but try and limit pasta. Probably because it is over-processed.
I never eat ‘fat-free’ food. I hadn’t eaten these types of foods for years and was reading Adele Davis some years ago and found something very interesting. She says in one of her books – probably “Let’s Get Well” – that if you were to take the fat out of foods people would crave carbohydrates. Makes so much sense to me – I see ‘fat free’ food that is loaded with sugar. Go figure!
I rarely use butter on bread.
Fresh vegetables at least 3-4 times a week.
And when I cook my food – I really try to not over-cook it – particularly vegetables.
I’ll try and eat plain yogurt with honey and flax seed (ground up) at least 3 times a week – usually 5-6 times.
I lost quite a bit of weight once using the South Beach Diet – not very rigorously but it was keeping me away from pasta and being too heavy on the carbs.
Whatever you do, pay attention to what works. Do your own research and find out what is good for your body. If you listen to everyone else’s opinion on what to do and what is wrong then it is easy to blame them if whatever you try isn’t working.
Good Luck!
I have a friend. Well, actually I have a few friends but this particularly one is American. And he’s black. Very nice guy. He told me a short anecdote. He grew up black in America and through the course of his upbringing became a black militant. He “knew” that when white people spoke to him they saw mainly the color of his skin and he felt everything that he said was filtered through that. It didn’t make for a pleasant life.
Several years ago he came to Canada for a company he worked for. Shock may be a bit strong of a word but very quickly he realized that when people in Canada spoke to him they did not see the color of his skin. They were just speaking to him. They did not have any bias or already formed opinions about the type of person he was. It changed him.
He is no longer a militant and even being back in the US of A he finds because he has experienced more tolerance that he can be more tolerant.
Yea Canada!
When you get a moment look up Spencer Jones on the Internet Movie DataBase – he’s up there for one movie and should be for a second in the next month or two. Cool.