fad diets vs lifestyle change

A Diet is when you restrict your food intake (or a particular food ). At any given time half of the women in the U.S. are on a diet. You can find hundreds, probably thousands of diets in the world. People go on diets for either health reasons or they are trying to lose weight fast. Fad diets promise fast weight loss and a perfect body usually without working out and a lot of the time they just have you cut calories. Sometimes diets even have products to buy, like fiber bars, drinks, and frozen dinners. Only 5 percent of dieters will keep the weight off that they lost. People from the very beginning of dieting time have focused on everything except for the food you’re putting in your body. In the late 1800’s is when the first diet aids appeared. The ingredients in them consisted of laxatives, purgatives, arsenic, strychnine, washing soda, and Epsom salts. Obviously those aren’t trending diets today. The top five diets of 2011 include: 1) the HCG diet; on this diet you get injected with hormones that pregnant women have which supposedly burn fat fast. I personally know a couple people doing this and they say they can’t work out on it and also they were told to restrict their caloric intake to 500 calories a day. 2) the Atkins diet; basically limits your carb intake. 3) the South Beach diet; it’s supposed to be a healthier version of the Atkins diet and it’s for people with heart problems. 4) the Mediterranean diet; this diet you eat lots of veggies, drink red wine, use olive oil (I just saw a new whipped olive oil spread at Wal-Mart, ha I actually bought it! ), and eat meat sparingly. 5) Low Carb Diet; it’s name says it all.
　
A lifestyle change is different from a diet because it’s a long term, slow, process that consists of your overall lifestyle and how you eat and why you eat, also exercise becomes apart of your daily routine. This is where terms like “slow and steady wins the face” or “Success is a steady process toward one’s personal goals”( -Jim Rohn) come in place. A good friend once told me that life is like a big rock climb. It’s slow and steady, and sometimes you have to take out rocks in order to place for your hands or feet. When we take bad habits out of our lifestyle we should replace them with a good habit. Don’t wait on someone to take your hand and help you, as harsh as that sounds, you can make a lifestyle change on your own! Be strong. Stay positive and keep a clear mind. Make rules for your life and stand by them. Some of my own rules include no fast food, the only beverages I consume is water, soy milk, and occasionally cranberry juice and sometimes red wine, no dressings or condiments, plain ol nasty oatmeal for breakfast, and then I eat every couple hours. I’m 100% imperfect though I promise!! I’m still a working progress. That however is another blog! ;)
　p.s. The links down below are quite amusing you should take a peak :)
　
　
http://losebellyfat.com/definitive-list-of-fad-diets
http://www.karlloren.com/diet/p119.htm

Walgreens.

My daughter is sick yet again! Everyone at her school now has strep, so of course she had to be a team player! Her doctors office is about 10 miles, maybe a little more, from where we live. So I took Lorelai to the doctors appointment and they said they would fax her antibiotics over to Walgreens on 20th and Main. We drive directly over to Walgreens, come to find out that they haven't faxed her prescription over yet. The woman working in the pharmacy told me to just stick around and it should be faxed shortly and she would call me back as soon as she got it. We walked around walgreens for about an hour before I decided I needed to call her doctors office and ask them what the hold up was. After being on hold for 10 minutes the nurse said she'd fax it right over. I waited at Walgreens for 15 more minutes than got so bored I drove 4 blocks over to my sisters. In the meantime, I observed my friend fix the motorcycle that had caught on fire. I called walgreens, still no prescription, called the doctor and they said they'd fax it. At that point I decided I would drive back to Carl Junction and eat dinner and then drive back to Joplin later. My niece and my daughter have the same docter and this has happened with my sister before. So finally, hours later, I got a text from Walgreens notifying me of the prescription being ready for pick up. I hop in the car and drive back out to Joplin and finally get my daughter started on her antibiotics at like 10pm! There is a Walgreens on every corner now in Joplin. Would it hurt to put just one in Carl Junction?? I'm sure it would benifit the town. Aside from giving the locals a break from driving all the way to Joplin just to go to Walgreens, it would open employment opportunities, it would be a money maker. Other little towns in the area would enjoy it as well. Joplin currently has 3 Walgreens and counting! Every time I go in to town I see a new one being put up! It's the same thing with Walmart. I just wish Carl Junction had a Walgreens!!! It would make life so much easier.

Lindsay Lohan drrrammaa

Lindsay Lohan is a famous actress from california. She is 25 years old. I am 2 years younger than her, so I grew up watching all of her movies. I always thought she would turn out okay, and then one year she got hit big with with a DUI and a cocaine possession. So instead of jail time she checks herself into rehab for 45 days. Not even 2 weeks after getting out of rehab and she is arrested for another DUI and the cops found cocaine in her pockets, and she told the police that the pants weren't hers. She gets back into rehab to buy time and stays there for three months. Following rehab at her court date the Judge sentenced her to one whole day in jail (seriously), 10 days of community service, 3 years probation, and an 18 month alcohol education program. The girl didn't even spend 2 hours in jail for that! After that incident, she stole an $11,000 coat when she was at a private party. She ended up returning it so there were no charges filed. Then in 2008 she stole $400,000 of Dior jewlery that she wore on a photo shoot, and again, no charges were made. In 2010 she missed a court date because she was apparently stuck in France with a stole passport. She ended up paying $100,000 bond so she wouldn't be arrested. The judge demanded that Lindsay wear a court issued alcohol monitoring device which set off when she was at the MTV Movie Award's after party. Then she goes back to court, the judge gives her 90 days in jail, she ended up serving 2 weeks, and 90 days in rehab, which she only served 23 days of. She then fails a drug test and was supposed to go back to rehab for 90 days. Now the most recent buzz about the actress is that she stole a one of a kind necklace from a jewlery store. Her lawyers are trying to get her a plea deal with no jail time. Let's be real for minute. WHAT!!! She either has some tight connections or the courts just count on her to keep messing up to make money off of her. My question is, if she is court ordered to be in rehab, how does she get out early? Does she get kicked out? Does she pay them? Who knows! She clearly needs some kind of help. I don't think rehab would do much for her though I think she uses it to make it look like she's at least trying to get better but really she's not. I think she needs a dramatic life change, she needs God in her life. She can obviously play the system so to speak. I don't think it's right for her to be able to get out of trouble just because she has money. Obviously the courts don't care about her so they just charge her money, and she's figured out that if she pays money she can get away with anything. Her crimes have went from DUI's and Cocaine to stealing irreplacable jewlery. Crime seems to be a rush for her. She needs to wake up and smell reality before her crimes start hurting people.

Weekend

My Crazy Busy Weekend
　
My weekend starts tonight because it’s Friday. I am currently trying to get all of my homework finished by tonight, obviously this paper specifically because it’s due in 20 minutes. However I do have other homework. My classes don’t really go well this semester. I have Spanish 101, Sociology 101, Biology 100, Math, and of course my favorite class ENGLISH. Let me just say, Spanish is very hard to learn doing online classes! I don’t think I’m doing too hot in that class. This last weekend I pretty much screwed myself on grades. I was busy studying for a big Spanish test and completely forgot about sociology, and then I also seemed to forget about a Spanish assignment last week too. I thought taking online classes would be awesome! I could work, spend time with my daughter, do school every day, yadda yadda yadda, uh no! It’s not quite working out that way. I am working almost full time right now, which is a problem because I only need to be working part time, but there aren’t enough staff to cover the shift that I work, so I really don’t know how to handle that situation. If I tell my boss I need less hours when he wants me working more hours, he would have to hire somebody to work my shift and I just feel like a big problem employee if that makes sense. Work is just really cutting into my school/study time and stressing me out!! So tonight I’m pulling an all nighter because I am going to Kansas City (my home town) to go see MSSU play some basketball! I have every minute of my weekend planned out! I’m leaving at 8 a.m. and then when I arrive there, a bunch of us are going out to eat before the game, then I’m meeting my lovely friend Keitel at Kona’s bar &grill for some sushi. I literally only have an hour to spend with him, because right after that I’m meeting my best friend and her boyfriend and other people at the Kansas City car show. I’m really excited about that because they show all new cars, some cars that haven’t even came out yet, and you can sit in some of them and take pictures with them. Then immediately after that I am going out for dinner with another best friend of mine. We have known each other our whole lives and we have so much catching up to do because we haven’t seen each other in 2 years! Don’t you love best friends? You can not see them for ever and pick up exactly where you left off? I love it. Then after that I’m going out yet again, with my friend Nick for drinks and what not. And finally, hopefully if I’m not too tired, going to spend some much needed time with someone who I also grew up with whose parents actually babysat me since I was like 6. I haven’t seen that person in like 15 years so that will be interesting! That ends my Saturday night. Then it’s back to Joplin Sunday morning for work! Oh Joy!

Should cars have built in breathalyzers

I read an article about the possibility of all cars in the future having breathalyzers. It immediately made me think of the movie "The 40-year-old Virgin". The car scene where the guy and girl get into her car and she's completely smashed, and asked the guy if he'll blow her breathalyzer so her car will start. What if instead of putting a key in the ignition to start our car we had to blow into a breathalyzer? First of all, think about the older generation. My great-grandmother just bought a brand new car and has no idea what any of the buttons are for, like the cd player, oh and On-Star. She pushed the On-Star button and the lady started talking to her and she just laughed and didn't know how to shut it off. I would imagine it would be quite frustrating for the elders. Especially the ones that drink, haha. If everyone had to use breathalyzers that would mean even the people who didn't drink. At first, most people would have older cars with no breathalyzers in it, and I think that people who pride themselves with not drinking, having to use a breathalyzer would be rather embarrassing for them just because not everyone would be up to date on the new technology and they would stand out and look like an alcoholic. The point of having a breathalyzer in everyone's car is obviously to prevent anyone who has been drinking to drive. The benefits of absolutely no drunk drivers on the road would prevent thousands of deaths a year, and it would cause people to think their actions through more carefully. I would assume the alcohol industry would lose some profits over this. I personally don't really know anyone who drinks and drives, maybe 2 people that I can think of, but that would practically force people to have a "designated driver". The most they drink is maybe a couple margaritas at a restaurant and then drive home. One place where a lot of people drink and drive is at professional sporting events, like baseball, football, and soccer games. There might be some angry fans if they can't have a beer at the game. It definitely seems like when I was in my teen years everyone was partying, there was a lot of drinking and driving going on. Teenagers would rather have fun and risk it than be responsible for their actions. Also, teenagers don't really think anything could happen to them until it does. Then again some people never grow up. I think for teens it would be extremely beneficial to have breathalyzers, just to get it through their head that drinking and driving is not tolerable, and also for people who have a record of DUI's and DWI. As for the rest of us, I don't think its completely necessary.