The Ezine For Every Woman Struggling For The Body She's Always Dreamed Of!

July 12, 2004

Issue # 40

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1.Ramblings
2. Three Steps to Keep Your Perfect Weight
3. Baked Sweet Potato Chips
4. Five Failure Patterns

1. Ramblings

Wow! I’ll be visiting the Olympic Games in Athens! I’m soo exited. In about one month I’ll be present at the most important sports event in the world and cheer up all sports persons participating and especially the Germans.

I’d never thought that small me would be able to do so, but it definitely is not that difficult. Well, yes, it’s quite expensive but then, how often do you have the chance to participate in a moment (or a week) of history?

The journey is planned from 18th to 27th of August and I’ll tell you my experiences. I sincerely wish YOU can make Your DREAMS become reality as well!

2. Three Steps to Keep Your Perfect Weight

By now you probably know that I don’t recommend dieting very much. Off course, it is a measure for “emergency weight loss”, just before an important event (like wedding, high school annual meeting, vacation, etc), but in the long term you won’t have any lasting success with dieting.

You need to change your habitude towards eating to reach and –even more important – keep your “ideal” weight.

Here’s an easy 3-step process to help you stick to your new way of life:

1. Think BEFORE You Eat.

That sounds strange, doesn’t it? But it definitely helps to think about your goals, how hungry you are or what foods are good for you before plunging into the buffet and piling up a huge plate fool of “calorie bombs”.

Would you rather eat all the ice cream in your fridge and feel guilty afterwards or would you prefer to enjoy just one cup of ice cream?

Would you prefer to eat as fast as you can so nobody will notice the hug amounts of food on your plate or to eat slowly and with joy?

2. Stay in Motion!

Unfortunately our modern life implies to sit at lot. The human body was made for walking, which we did many centuries ago hunting and collecting food.

Our bodies have not adjusted to the sedentary life (I’m not sure whether this is good or bad!), so you NEED to start moving more. This doesn’t necessarily mean to work out. You can start with little things like using the stairs instead of the lift, parking your car a bit farther away from the entrance door, etc.

Putting a bit more moving in your daily life will have two positive effects: first you burn calories while moving, and second your body starts building muscles. And muscles need more calories than fat tissue even when you’re sleeping!

3. Drink A LOT!

Your body needs liquid to ensure proper functioning. But more than that, if you have a water bottle handy at all times and drink at least 8-10 glasses a day, you’ll fill up your stomach and fell less hungry.

But beware that this works only if you drink low-calorie drinks like water, or juices without sugar. 8-10 glasses of banana shake won’t help you keep your weight at all!

3. Baked Sweet Potato Chips

Makes: 8 servings

Ingredients:

- 2 pounds sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1/8 inch thick slices
- 1 packet of Equal or other artificial sweetener
- 1-1/2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1-1/2 teaspoon non/lowfat margarine, melted
- 1 tablespoon pepper

Directions:
- Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl.
- Layer potatoes in a baking dish coated with nonstick cooking spray (nonfat).
- Add any remaining liquid from bowl and cover dish with foil and bake at 350 degrees F for 30-35 minutes.

Nutritional Information:
Serving size: 1/8 of dish
Calories: 150
Fat: 1 g
Cholesterol: 3 mg
Protein: 5 g
Carbohydrates: 35 g
Fiber: 5 g
Sodium: 190 mg

This is a sample of a GHF Diet Recipe - you'll find others by clicking here

4. Five Failure Patterns

You’ll probably recognize that you indulge in some or even all of the mentioned failure patterns below mentioned. But don’t despair you can switch each failure pattern into a success pattern:

1. Not enough Self-esteem and Self-image

You’re constantly wondering what others will think about you. Every time someone criticizes you, you’ll say to yourself: “I always knew that I’m a dumb, stupid, clumsy,… person

2. Replaying past failures repeatedly in your mind

Seems familiar? All your failures are repeated over and over in your mind: if I messed up that time, I’ll always mess up….back in highschool there was this embarrassing situation…. Last month I did a big mistake at work…

3. Blaming your problem or failure on circumstances or on other people

It’s just soo easy. No, I’m not the responsible for the bad sales numbers, it’s the recession, the economy, my boss, because he gave me bad customers, the clients because they can’t see how good our products are…

4. Lack of confidence

Once you’ve made a mistake it is clear to you that you’ll never be able to make it.

5. Mentally 'blowing up' the size of your tasks and responsibilities

If the task seems big and intimidating at least you won’t have to blame it on yourself, if you don’t manage to do it.

In the next issue I’ll show you how you can convert these failure patterns into success pattern.

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