Free Relaxing Bath Recipe
The following recipe has what it takes to help you make the most of your bath. Dead Sea Salts to aid in detoxifying your body, lavender essential oil to relax your mind, coconut oil to moisturize your skin and powdered oats to feed the outer layer of skin cells. Add this recipe to your next bath and feel the amazing health and skin benefits for yourself. Just add hot water, a few candles and a magazine to indulge in all the health benefits of your next bath.
2 cups Dead Sea Salts
10 drops Lavender Essential Oil
2 tablespoons Coconut Oil
½ cup Powdered Oats or Oat Flour
Mix into bath water. Climb in and relax.
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 5 Unusual Strategies to Help You Lose Weight
Here are some tips to lose weight that you may not have heard about.
Author: Emily Patterson
Date Created: May 6, 2009
Increase lean body mass, muscles, to burn more calories while at rest.
Spend less time sitting.
Reduce chemicals that reduce thyroid function.
Increase your basal metabolic rate (BMR). This is the amount of calories you use while totally at rest. These calories run basic functions, such as respiration, circulation of blood, muscles, skin, and organ functions. Every part of your body consumes calories while at rest. When you increase lean body mass, or muscles, you increase your BMR so you burn more calories while at rest. The result is faster weight loss. However, if you consume fewer calories than are required for basic body functions, your BMR decreases to conserve energy for what your body considers a period of starvation. The result of excess calorie restriction is slowed weight loss. BMR also decreases with age and loss of lean body mass, muscles. Weight training, even with light weights, increases lean body mass, which increases BMR, which increases weight loss with proper diet.
Stand, rather than sit to watch television or talk on the phone. Whenever your body is moving, it is burning more calories than at rest. Stand and lift small weights while watching television to keep your body moving and to increase lean body mass. You'll never even notice that you are exercising and it won't take time out of your busy schedule to go to a gym or exercise class. Walk through the house while you are on the telephone to burn even more calories.
Eat five small meals per day to keep your stomach half full all the time. You don't have to eat a salad every time you eat. Eat half a sandwich instead of a whole sandwich. Have a hard-boiled egg. Little meals allow your stomach to get smaller so you will soon feel full after eating smaller quantities of food. I've been doing this for years, and have noticed that I just can't eat the same amount of food in one sitting that I could before I started grazing rather than sitting down and gluttoning. I'm also never hungry when I used to be hungry all the time.
Count calories by the week rather than by the day. Calorie counting is an extremely effective way to lose weight. However, counting calories per day was too restrictive for me. I would feel like I failed every time I went over my calorie count and then would figure that since I already went over the count, I might as well have that doughnut, too. I love my sweets and would reserve one day a week to eat whatever I wanted, based on how many calories I had left over from the previous week. It gave me something to look forward to when I first started changing the way I eat. I don't even count calories anymore, but continue to eat small meals throughout the day rather than large meals.
Improve the functioning of your thyroid. An underactive thyroid is often associated with weight gain. A class of chemicals called 'phthalates' can cause reductions in thyroid activity. This common chemical class is used in are added to plastics to make them soft and flexible, to cosmetics as a vehicle for fragrance, and many other daily products, such as building materials, paints, and children's toys. Reducing your exposure to this class of chemicals will reduce the risk of an underactive thyroid, as well as risks of other health problems associated with phthalates, as noted in a previous article, ">Phthalates and Your Health."
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