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It is 2014 and if you are one of the 70’s or 80’ kids, you will know what a real woman looked like when walking the runway and graced magazine covers. Then of course there are those fabulous Hollywood beauties. Then there was the 90’s. That was tragic. The runway and magazine models were expected to look like heroin addicts and in fact they named the look “Heroin Chic”. The problem with that is that the girls of the time thought that THAT was what health and beauty looked like. Kids got sick. Some died. The look was abandoned and poo-pooed as bad influence and publicity.

Enter 2000 and suddenly women have curves again and girls want to look like Angelina Jolie, Selma Hayek and Catherine Zeta Jones. These are real women, real beauties. Now girls have role models to look up to and aspire to be just like them, if only in looks and body. And why not? With the right eating plan and workout program, it certainly is do-able, and I know how.

There is a lot of controversy surrounding new diets and celebrity diet plans, but why not try one that won’t make you look like you are a victim of the holocaust and give the Venus factor diet a try? It is designed to give women what they want…the perfect body, but without almost killing them first! It will give you curves and not sharp angles. Continue reading →

Anyone who is carrying around extra undesired pounds understands well the societal views that surround them, people who think that anyone overweight subsists on nothing but cakes, candies, chips and sodas.  It is looked down upon, as not a sign of excess, but of self control.  Job opportunities plummet, dating is a no win zone, and even your health has gone foul.  It doesn’t feel good in any variety of ways, and though we have tried to fix it, either we weren’t motivated enough, we didn’t try hard enough, or we didn’t want it badly enough.  We may have used many programs promising weight loss before, and not seen the successes we needed so badly to stick with it.

There is still hope for people who are overweight, and looking to give themselves a completely different lifestyle, vibrantly healthy, virile, and feeling truly alive.  There are programs like Eat Stop Eat available that offer to show you how to transform your body through your diet, except instead of taking everything away, and making you eat differently, this one allows you to eat relatively normally.  The key is when you eat, not what you eat, and the reason why might surprise you.

Throughout our existence on earth, humans have had to adapt to violenty changing environments.  They were nomadic, constantly seeking food and shelter, in equal importance.  Men were chosen as mates as those most able to provide in such trying times, and often did not have long life spans.  Our bodies had to become a perfect machine, balancing the time dedicated to digesting food, and the time when we went without food, to begin boosting things like our immune system and our energy levels.  Thus, humans continued to evolve with our environment to the age of technology.  Though eating times were introduced in the 1800′s as a way to be “proper” they were only breakfast (break-fast) and a luncheon (served with tea, lunch-eon *an age*) meaning that they still intended these meals to break a cycle of fasting.  As time progressed, we also began including supper, and even more recently, the suggestion that we should be snacking between these 3 meals.  Is it any small wonder that our entire society has become overweight?  We were never meant to live this way. Continue reading →