My Weight Loss Battle

Weight Loss became for me one of the most important things in the life. Some of you laugh about it but if you arrive at the point when the excessive weight of the body becomes an obstacle for many activities of your life and, as it is not enough, it is dangerous for your health, too - no, I'm not right, if you are obese, the only meaning of this is that you do not have good health more. It means, you have at least grave liver problems, right? So, I arrived at the point when the decision had to be made.

Three weeks ago, I received finally my bian stones and decided to begin with reflexotherapy. There are many sites and articles about it - you can see one of the graphics here (I don't know where is it from, my PC saved all the pics from the sites I visited that day), I've written some posts, too.

So, 3 weeks ago, I asked one of my friends, a doctor, to explain me where the acupuncture point I'm interested in are situated.

The doctor said me, I have to do only one simple thing, if I want to loose weight: I have to sew up my mouth. It's the only effective way and there is nothing to do: I have to eat less and have to count calories I assume during all my meals.

You will not believe me, but I began this "therapy". And here I want to tell about my way and my progresses. This is the first part. And I'll continue till I'll win this battle. I'll even begin a new category in this blog "My Weight Loss Battle" so that all the posts about it are "visible" in one click.

 From the first day, I began to write what I eat and how much calories are those meals. It's not so difficult, as I could imagine: there are special sites where it's enough to enter your parameters to have the numbers you are looking for.

Here is what we need to begin:

1 - how much calories have we to eat to maintain our weight or to lower it. One of this is http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm
For example, this site gives me these result:

Maintenance	1668 CALORIES/DAY
Fat Loss	1373 CALORIES/DAY

One thing you have to understand: every site gives you an other number. Here is the other "offer"

You should consume about 1,655 calories a day to reach your goal weight of 65 kg . This is at a reasonable weight loss average of 0.46 kg per week, which should be reached by January 22, 2014.

Experts recommend weight loss at the rate of 0.25-1 kg/week. Remember that this estimate is based on your body weight, height, age, gender, and activity level. It may vary slightly depending on other factors.

Generally, women should not consume any less than 1,200 calories per day, and men should not consume less than 1,500 calories per day. 

This is from this site: http://caloriecount.about.com/tools/calories-goal

My personal results were very surprising at first: the first week I lose 3 kg. I had 82 and was 79 after only one week (78,9). Next week was not so impressive: 77,9 Now, I wait for the results of the 3'd week but I know that I turned back to 78,2 these days (I added a new program).

It was interesting, to count calories. And I did not suffer without my "normal" quantity of sweeties and high-caloric foods. I thought, it will be much more hard for me. Yes, I knew, I eat great quantities of everything and eat too often (I am near PC all the day...) but I could not renounce on it. Yes, I knew, it was mostly psychological dependence. But I could not control myself. It was impossible...

And, maybe for this reason, take this action was so easy. Now, I can not eat half a day and I do not feel necessity to eat. 

Interesting about the Psychology of Color

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Moxibustion Useful for Pains, Arthritis and Many Other Deseases

What do you think about the rejuvenation of the skin? Do you believe in all these creams? Specially those which we see in the malls? Honestly; I do not believe. And those "50 but looks like 18" without any surgery etc - I do not believe them, too. Madonna, Sharon Stone and others could not do anything with all their money and necessities of the job. What can we say about all the others?

But in the years I had the possibilities to meet people from Asia, I noticed they have the skin of the face and neck much more young than we have. Those have to be genetic peculiarities but the habits and cultural customs, I think, too. This is why, when I learned about some new for me Chinese traditional medicine techniques, I decided to purchase the tools and to try these ways.

One of these therapies is burning of the mugwort (artemisia) cigarettes in a kind of wooden box that you post on the painful place of your body.

Here are the photos about how it works.
I use it myself regularly for my neck aches and can list here the benefits we have. Together with my husband - because the smoke of the burning artemisia can inspire all who are present in the room (the cat does not like it and goes under the bed when I burn moxa)

So the benefits we have are:
we are more relaxed
we sleep better
the pain goes away (not forever, unfortunately)

"The Nomadic Sacrifice", a New Book about Chod

One of my dear friends, Martino Nicoletti, published an other book about very interesting and very popular in Europe by Buddhism and Yungdrung Bon followers practice, chod. I'm happy to present it here because I know it is priceless for those who are interested in Tibetan culture, nomadic cultures generally, and for all practitioners.

Here is the announce about the publishing of the book:

Published in these days the book by Martino Nicoletti: The Nomadic Sacrifice: the Chöd Pilgrimage among the Bönpo of Dolpo (Western Nepal), Kathmandu, Vajra Publication, 2013. In the heart of the Himalayas, some officiants belonging to Tibet’s ancient religion, Bön, undertake a long ritual pilgrimage through wild and inhospitable terrain inhabited by mountain gods, genii, demons and the restless souls of the dead. Using instruments fashioned from human bone, the officiants evoke the presence of invisible beings in order to celebrate the symbolic sacrifice of their own body (chöd) which is offered as to the spirits as food during a singular ritual banquette. Texts, diary excerpts, images and an unedited short film shot by the author retell this archaic ritual steeped in spiritual meaning. Also included is a previously unpublished translation of the sacred ritual text The Secret Wisdom Dākinī (Khandro Sangba Yeshe) by Geshe Gelek Jinpa. This publication is enriched by a DVD containing a short film by the author and a liturgical chant performed by the monks of the bönpo monastery Triten Norbutse in Nepal

 Link to the demo of the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8T4YL25-wo

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Teens are Calloused Smokers

This fact was always a kind of shock for me: women in Italy smoke so much and in any situation - even in a little car with closed windows in presence of babies. I never could understand it, you know. As a teacher, maybe, I thought children have to receive the best we can give them - first of all the pure air. The mother can do anything she wants with her own health - she is an adult person, and she has to decide herself what way she wants to ruin her life. But a mother has to think about the health of her children.


«Бросая курить» на Яндекс.Фотках

The second argument for me was the way to cultivate the tobacco. My neighbors, here, in Italy, all cultivated tobacco for generations, and I could see the treatments needed to grow this plant. They use very hard poisons all the period of the growth because they can't have their yield at the end. The poisons are so that they need complete protection when they do these treatments. They wear something similar to space suite. I just used rarely the cigarettes but this fact made so that I never smoke more. ;-)))

Now, 20 years after I entered the soil of Italy for the first time, those children I've seen so little grew. The mothers and the grandmothers (those mothers of 20 years ago) continue to smoke. The schools are those who cry havoc. I received a mail about the new battle the schools of my zone begin now. Here are some dates they published:

Every year, 4 million persons die from smoke in the world. In Italy, the first cigarette is smoked at the age of 10-11 years. At 13, children are just calloused smokers. They smoke 4 cigarettes a day at least. 30% of scholars smoke at 15. Generally, the number of men-smokers decreases (and you can note there are not so many men smokers in the streets). But the number of women and children smokers is always growing.

Most interesting fact in this research is that great % of women and children smokers live in south of Italy. This means - in the poor part of it. North of Italy is not in so grave conditions.

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