Happy Earth Day 2009

Happy Earth Day to everybody!

Earth Day... It's not just a day — it's a lifestyle....

A recent research done by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine shows that obesity could be one of the main culprits of global warming. The obesed population consumed more resources, result in huge medical burden and accelerate the deterioration of the environment. According to WHO, each overweight person discharges an extra of 1 ton of carbon dioxide per year!!

So today is a great day to start your last fat loss battle if you haven't yet. There're millions of healthy benefits for us & our planet, and it's actually fun!

The Truth About Foie Gras

While eating the delicious Foie Gras, do you know the cruel truth about force feeding to make it 12 times the size of normal goose liver?

Body Image And Self Esteem Important To Fat Loss?

Body image and self esteem are interconnected. When a person has a good body image, they tend to have good self esteem and vice versa. However, if you suffer from low self esteem, you will tend to have a very poor image and this can be detrimental to your weight loss.

When you are overweight, it is very easy to have low esteem and have a poor body image of yourself. You constantly worry about how you look and how others see you and this in turn will affect yourself. If you want to lose weight successfully in addition to following a calorie controlled diet and upping your fitness levels, you need to look at your body image and self esteem. Maybe you feel ashamed about how you look and see a fat, ugly person each time you look in the mirror - and this will have an effect on your weight. Even if you are doing well, you will not recognize it as your body image are so low and this will make you feel worse and can even make you give up on your fat loss program.

To really give your weight loss efforts, a massive boost you need to start to think differently about yourself. It may take you some time but try to be positive about yourself and work on raising your body image and self esteem. So rather than thinking about how much weight you still have to lose each time, you weigh yourself - think about how much you have lost so far and feel proud of yourself.

Concentrate on doing this and noticing the changes in your body each time you lose a few pounds and it will have a positive effect on you, which will help you to lose even more weight.