The Big Lazy Nut

So I started another fitness blog on a site called CureZone. The name of the blog is "The Big Lazy", and I'm very excited to get another blog going on this site it is a major hub for health fitness, and medical information, and tons of traffic. the angle on this particular blog will be to give fitness advice to people who openly college that they are completely lazy, don't want to exercise, and are looking for easy ways to stay fit. I think it's a huge market.

I think health and fitness is a great topic area and I don't expect that I'll ever have any shortage of things to write about. For example, today I was thinking that I could write a whole series of articles about my favorite food in the world: NUTS. that's right almonds, pecans, cashews, Brazil nuts, and so many others. I am eating nuts all day long, and I'm convinced that as a result my health is greatly improved, and that I am filling my body with antioxidants that will help fight cancer and keep me healthy for decades to come. My favorite thing about nuts is that they act as an amazing appetite suppressant, especially almonds, which I gulp down by the handful several times a day.

I remember seeing Mike Wallace on 60 minutes, who, as you may know, is well into his 80s but is still working in churning out great journalism with the energy of men 50 years younger than he is. He was asked what his secret is, and he said that his wife is almost making him keep nuts, granola, berries, and raisins. I do think there is something to this. This is the kind of natural food that early human beings ate before they developed civilization, and I think that our bodies are predisposed towards accepting this kind of food for optimal health.

Anyway, so there you go, I've are a blog about nuts for at least a paragraph or two so maybe I'll do one entry for each of my favorite nuts.

If you want to read a broader article about the kind of food you can eat to help lose fat and get healthy, look here: Best Foods To Lose Fat.

Also, to see a new article that I just wrote on Buzzle, go here: How to use Laxatives to Lose Weight

It's such a common fantasy to think that you could do a few easy and lazy things to lose weight while staying in your house, and avoid the gym completely. There is no truly "easy" system for losing weight, but there are a bunch of simple things one can do just hanging around the house that can make a serious difference in your weight loss goals. Here's my 3 favorite "lazy" weight losing tips:

Watch TV on the floor instead of the couch: If you do this, you'll find yourself stretching, moving around, and getting a little exercise while you watch TV, instead of just sinking into the sofa.

Ankle weights: strap them on and leave them on all day as you walk around the house. After a while you'll forget you have them, but you'll be building endurance and leg muscle, and burning calories. I also use wrist weights to help burn fat, provided that I can still do whatever I'm doing while wearing them.

Drink Water: How easy is this... but apparently it make a big difference in how your body processes fat. Drink a gallon of water a day, and yes, this means you'll also burn calories walking back and forth to the bathroom (this is a real thing, it will get you out of your chair more often and this is a good thing).

Read this article for some more great tips on losing fat at home: How to Lose Fat While at Home

Or to see a very effective fat-burning diet system I've been promoting, take a look at this product: Strip That Fat System

Some Hardcore Relationship Advice: How to Get Back with My Ex Boyfriend

A slight departure from health and fitness today ;-)

How to Get Back with My Ex Boyfriend
Breakups can ruin your heart and your health. When I broke up with my boyfriend a number of years ago, I was literally ripping my hair out, which I thought I would never do... pulling it out of my head because I had zero control over the situation.

I wanted to make things right, have the right conversation, and make things work to my advantage, and I was so focused on just doing that. I called her so many times, agreed to anything just to meet with him, but he didn't want to go through all the same old conversation again about what caused us to breakup, or talk again about how bad I feel about it, how painful, etc. He didn't want to give me another chance at all.

At some point I realized that my problem was that I was asking for another "chance", which is a stupid thing to ask for. People don't want to date someone that they give chances to, it doesn't work like that. Believe it or not, people actually prefer for their relationships to be on equal grounds, so that there is mutual respect, whether they realize it or not. No one wants to feel like they are giving you the "gift" of another chance—they don't want to be put in that position to begin with. And who want to date someone who is defining themselves as being on the losing end, begging to be let back up? Doesn't sound attractive to me. So that's my first piece of advice... needing "another chance" is a false idea, and it doesn't work in the breakup, so if you take this approach, you will fail.

Eventually I did actually get back with him when I changed my approach. The technique I did is basically what the author of The Magic of Making Upwrites about, and it really does work. I wish I had that book at the time, but I didn't, and luckily I ended up talking to someone who just knew how to do this and was able to tell me exactly what I was doing wrong.

But even today I keep seeing that book all over the web so I figure the advice must be working for people... either than or there's just so many damn breakups that there's no shortage of people needing the advice. Anyway I know other people who have read it and they say it's the right advice, and the same type of advice that I used in my situation. It has mostly to do with having some patience and then trying a totally different form of communication, so that you can "reset" the situation to your favor. You do have to take a different approach, but it's amazing to watch they way it works for people.

It's hard to really describe all the steps, but you can read a review of it on this site: http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-get-back-with-my-ex-boyfriend

Or you can just go to the author's website and get it here: The Magic of Making Up