For those of us with a little extra flab on our bellies, here's an entertaining video clip showing toned bellydancers show off their beautiful bellies. It's a promotional video for the Bellyqueen Dance Theatre in New York.
An Outstanding True Story of Fat to Slim
Jennette has succeeded in an incredible feat. She has lost half her body weight. She is now down to 186 pounds and wants to lose another twenty pounds. (She's 5'9" tall.)Jennette has done it the slow way. She's completely changed her diet (by abiding to the South Beach Diet guidelines) and is now exercising regularly.
In the process, she has scored a book contract to write about her weight loss journey. Her book, Breaking Up with Lane Bryant: A Weight Loss Memoir will be published in early 2008. It's unlikely she got a huge royalty in advance for her book. But if I was Oprah, I'd be a little worried about the competition. Oprah signed a book contract earlier this year to write about weight loss and received an incredible record $12 million dollar royalty advance.
Jennette has a wonderful writing style. I've posted about her before but if you haven't visited her site yet, see her story here. Her book is going to be a blockbuster bestseller.
Breathing Mindfully to Lose Weight
How can something as simple as breathing help us lose weight?I know what I need to do to lose weight. So why aren't I doing it? The real secret for losing weight successfully is not some specific diet and exercise plan but in the mental and emotional hangups that I have to battle with in order to get to that point where I am no longer sabotaging my body and want to take good care of it.
I came across a very interesting podcast by Gil Fronsdal, a Buddhist monk. He discusses how breathing properly can bring about physical and mental healing.
The breath connects us to our inner world, our body, our minds and our emotions. The mechanical process of breathing is intimately tied to our intentions, reactions, feelings and thoughts. We breathe shallowly when we are not at ease. Many people are chronically contracted around their breathing. They have a band of tightness in their chests at most times.
His 43-minute free podcast discusses how important the breath is and how we can become much less anxious in our daily lives if we practise some daily meditation. The lecture doesn't mention weight loss as a goal but he is addressing the deeper underlying problems of anxiety and unhealthy coping mechanisms. I found the first seven minutes a bit boring but it got much more interesting after that. You can listen to it here. It's the lecture called "Healing Breath" dated March 2003.
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