1) Love your body! You are beautiful. Appreciate your unique beauty and know it emanates from within. Suggested reading: Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of [...]]]> Pick up your pace. For 2010, resolve to make speedy transitions when forming healthy habits; flexibility is paramount. Create realistic resolutions to improve your life. Consider these:

1) Love your body! You are beautiful. Appreciate your unique beauty and know it emanates from within. Suggested reading: Body Outlaws: Rewriting the Rules of Beauty and Body Image.

2) Avoid overeating. This single step works wonders. During each meal, remind yourself not to eat until you “feel full.” Eat small portions, then redirect your attention.

3) Seek inspiration. Find groups, magazines & blogs that motivate you. Look for support from others pursuing similar goals. Jillian Michaels (Personal Trainer on TV’s “The Biggest Loser”) has a fantastic site that includes a variety of effective fitness tools. On Jillian’s site, you can connect with your own weight loss buddy.

4) Indulge in diet adventures. Healthy diets don’t have to be dull. Develop good eating habits while enjoying healthy and delicious foods. Suggested reading: Hungry Girl: 200 Under 200: 200 Recipes Under 200 Calories and Hungry Girl: Recipes and Survival Strategies for Guilt-Free Eating in the Real World.

5) Move more. Make a conscious effort to be more active. Even increasing your movement during sedentary activities burns extra calories. Suggested reading: NEAT (nonexercise activity thermogenesis).

Avoid rigidity so that missteps don’t slow you down. Although today brings a new year, potential for growth lives in each moment. Tomorrow’s sunrise will also bring endless opportunities to begin anew.

Our pollutants poison each breath we draw in. Pollution adversely affects our health, and such harmful emissions, “greenhouse gases”, attack our air through factories, vehicles and power plants. Greenhouse gases–which include carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and fluorocarbons–trap heat; the consequence is global warming.

As our planet’s temperature rises, we suffer from resultant heat [...]]]>

What’s the Problem? Our pollutants poison each breath we draw in. Pollution adversely affects our health, and such harmful emissions, “greenhouse gases”, attack our air through factories, vehicles and power plants. Greenhouse gases–which include carbon dioxide, methane, ozone, and fluorocarbons–trap heat; the consequence is global warming. As our planet’s temperature rises, we suffer from resultant heat waves, floods, droughts, wildfires and tropical diseases. Global warming destroys ecosystems, like coral reefs, and kills animal species. In essence, every life form hurts. Where’s the Proof? For indepth information, visit sources providing credible data. The following sources powered this post: As outlined by our United Nations, Consequences for the Future spells out, country by country, damage that global warming will inflict. Assistant to the United States President for Science and Technology & Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy John P. Holdren describes pertinent points concerning global warming in his article “What Science Is Telling Us About The Climate-Change Challenge”. Reports from the World Climate Research Program detail data collection related to predictability of climate and effects of human activities on climate. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change offers resources for Greenhouse Gas Inventory Data . What Can I Do? You must urge world leaders to purify our air. Only legislative agreement can achieve successful reduction of such airborne contaminants. Encourage eco-conscious legislation for the benefit of yourself, your loved ones and our planet. Act now. In early December 2009, representatives are scheduled to agree on climate change practices. Officials from 192 countries are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark to make crucial decisions that become active in 2012. Spur their commitment to a greener earth. Visit the Seal the Deal 2009 or simply sign their petition here. Sign Friends of the Earth’s petition urging worldwide commitments to action for climate change. Write a slogan for Greenpeace demanding action for climate change at action-pact.org Reduce your own carbon footprint! Engage in this twelve step program to help you kick the CO2 habit. Plant a tree! Pledge your participation in the worldwide tree planting campaign of our United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). IT’S TIME TO ROCK. DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU CHILDREN ARE?

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Eat forbidden fruit and guilt sets in. Following some self-deprecation, your self-esteem plummets. Emotional eating ensues, and so a cycle perpetuates.

Break this cycle and modify your behavior. First, recognize emotional eating. As discussed on WebMd, depression, boredom, loneliness, stress, low self-esteem and relationship [...]]]> “We never repent of having eaten too little.” ~Thomas Jefferson

Eat forbidden fruit and guilt sets in. Following some self-deprecation, your self-esteem plummets. Emotional eating ensues, and so a cycle perpetuates.

Break this cycle and modify your behavior. First, recognize emotional eating. As discussed on WebMd, depression, boredom, loneliness, stress, low self-esteem and relationship problems trigger emotional eating. Learn to recognize these triggers so that you can manage and stop emotional eating. Then, try to:

• Deal directly with your problems.
• Practice stress reduction techniques.
• Snack on veggies.
• Engage in alternative activities.

Effective stress management helps curb emotional eating. Complete about.com’s Stress Reliever Personality Test. Your answers reveal which methods of stress management suit your personality and lifestyle. You’ll learn about stress relief techniques that work best for you.

Change emotional eating behaviors and raise your self-esteem; avoid overeating. You’ll feel good. Happier, healthier and moving toward your goals.