4 Tips to Loss Your Weight


1. Light a vanilla-scented candle
The aroma has been shown to dampen dessert cravings. One group of 160 volunteers actually lost an average of 4.5 pounds each by wearing vanilla-scented patches.
2. Paint the dining room blue
Okay, granted, this is a bit extreme, but researchers have found that people eat 33 percent less in a blue room. The bluish light that results evidently makes food look less appealing. To see if it works for you without doing any whole-scale renovation, try using a blue tablecloth, place mats, or napkins. By the way, red, orange, and yellow colors stimulate appetite, which is why so many fast-food restaurants use that motif.
3. Put on relaxing music
Soft tunes playing in the background actually encourage more leisurely chewing. It combats hurry-up, stress-related eating by naturally relaxing you.
4. Turn up the lights
Restaurants don’t just dim the lights to create a romantic atmosphere; they do it so you order more food. Low lighting lowers eating inhibitions.

Cause and Effect from the looong SIT!

1. Screws up your posture. The fascia, the tissue that connects individual muscles into a full-body network, begins to set when you stay in one position for too long, says Men’s Health advisor Bill Hartman, P.T., C.S.C.S., a physical therapist in Indianapolis. If you’re hunched over a keyboard all day, this eventually becomes your normal posture.

Solution #1: Take two breaks an hour. Grab a drink from the water fountain. Pop over to the cube next door to say hi. Or simply stand and stretch for a minute. 


2. Makes you fatter. This happens for two reasons. First, you burn 60 more calories an hour when standing versus sitting. But more importantly, says Hartman, when you spend too much time sitting, your largest muscle group—the glutes (a.k.a. your butt)—become lazy and quit firing. This is called gluteal amnesia. And it means you burn fewer calories.

Solution #2: Stand during phone calls. It may seem like a small thing but, as Hamilton told Masters: “Small choices will help move you in the right direction. . . . It all adds up, and it all matters.” 


3. Causes lower back pain. Weak glutes push your pelvis forward, putting stress on the spine, says Hartman. Here’s the other unseemly thing that happens when your pelvis tilts forward: Your belly protrudes, making you look 5 months pregnant.

Solution #3: Don’t write long emails. If crafting an email will take longer than 15 minutes, go talk to the person instead. Or stand up and call them.

There's another solution post on the link I provided below. It's sound funny but it's true. Hehe. Check out their link. 


Credited goes to The Most Dangerous Thing You'll Do All Day.

36 Funny (and Scary?) Name of Places

This picture is not related to any places below. Just for fun :-)
These were some funny names in the world that we living now. I never heard most of it! And the only part I found really funny was the last group at the end of the article. LOL. Check it out yourself.


Places you want to live :-
1. Cool, California
2. Beer, Devon, England
3. Disco, Tennessee
4. Fear Not, Pennsylvania
5. Rest and Be Thankful, Argyll and Butte, Scotland
6. Surprise, Arizona
7. Climax, Pennsylvania

Places you may not want to live :-
8. Accident, Maryland
9. Arsenic Tubs, New Mexico
10. Dismal, Tennessee
11. Double Trouble, New Jersey
12. Moron, Mongolia
13. Satan's Kingdom, Vermont

Delicious places to see :-
14. Bread Loaf, Vermont
15. Hot Coffee, Mississippi
16. Clam, Virginia
17. Egg, Austria
18. Toast, North Carolina


Cute places :-
19. Cabbage Patch, California
20. Silly, Belgium
21. Sweet Lips, Tennessee
22. Polkadott, Ohio
23. Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, Canada


Places where the animals go :-
24. Bumble Bee, Arizona
25. Chicken, Alaska
26. Porcupine, South Dakota
27. Doghouse Junction, California


Scary places :-
28. Eek, Alaska
29. Frankenstein, Missouri
30. Hell, Michigan
31. Hurt, Virginia
32. Monster, Netherlands
33. River Styx, Ohio


Questionable places :-
34. Why, Arizona
35. Whynot, North Carolina
36. Who's Thought It, Texas

Taken from Reader's Digest Laugh.