ARE YOU BORED OF HEAVYNESS?? CLICK HEREE FOR: TEN EASY WAYS TO LOSE WEIGHT

 

You know the drill when it comes to losing weight -- take in fewer calories, burn more calories. But you also know that most diets and quick weight-loss plans have about as much substance as a politician's campaign pledges. Here are more than 50 easy ways for you to finally lose the weight.

If you’re trying to drop a few pounds, don’t start off by trying to overhaul all your eating and exercise habits. You’re better off finding several simple things you can do on a daily basis—along with following the cardinal rules of eating more vegetables and less fat and getting more physical activity. Together, they should send the scale numbers in the right direction: down.
1. Indulge in fat releasing foods. They should help keep you from feeling deprived and binging on higher-calorie foods. For instance:

• Honey. Just 64 fat releasing calories in one tablespoon. Drizzle on fresh fruit.
• Eggs. Just 70 calories in one hard-boiled egg, loaded with fat releasing protein. Sprinkle with chives for an even more elegant treat.
• Part-skim ricotta cheese. Just 39 calories in one ounce of this food, packed with fat releasing calcium. Dollop over a bowl of fresh fruit for dessert.
• Dark chocolate. About 168 calories in a one-ounce square, but it’s packed with fat releasing fiber.
• Shrimp. Just 60 calories in 12 large.
• MORE: 13 fat releasing foods »

2. Treat high-calorie foods as jewels in the crown. Make a spoonful of ice cream the jewel and a bowl of fruit the crown. Cut down on the chips by pairing each bite with lots of chunky, filling fresh salsa, suggests Jeff Novick, director of nutrition at the Pritikin Longevity Center & Spa in Florida. Balance a little cheese with a lot of salad.
3. After breakfast, make water your primary drink. At breakfast, go ahead and drink orange juice. But throughout the rest of the day, focus on water instead of juice or soda. The average American consumes an extra 245 calories a day from soft drinks. That’s nearly 90,000 calories a year — or 25 pounds! And research shows that despite the calories, sugary drinks don’t trigger a sense of fullness the way that food does.
4. Carry a palm-size notebook everywhere you go for one week. Write down every single morsel that enters your lips—even water. Studies have found that people who maintain food diaries wind up eating about 15 percent less food than those who don’t.
Plus: Lose weight, ease digestion on our 21-Day Tummy diet »
5. Buy a pedometer, clip it to your belt, and aim for an extra 1,000 steps a day. On average, sedentary people take only 2,000 to 3,000 steps a day. Adding 2,000 steps will help you maintain your current weight and stop gaining weight; adding more than that will help you lose weight.
6. Add 10 percent to the amount of daily calories you think you’re eating, then adjust your eating habits accordingly. If you think you’re consuming 1,700 calories a day and don’t understand why you’re not losing weight, add another 170 calories to your guesstimate. Chances are, the new number is more accurate.
7. Eat five or six small meals or snacks a day instead of three large meals. A 1999 South African study found that when men ate parts of their morning meal at intervals over five hours, they consumed almost 30 percent fewer calories at lunch than when they ate a single breakfast. Other studies show that even if you eat the same number of calories distributed this way, your body releases less insulin, which keeps blood sugar steady and helps control hunger.
8. Walk for 45 minutes a day. The reason we’re suggesting 45 minutes instead of the typical 30 is that a Duke University study found that while 30 minutes of daily walking is enough to prevent weight gain in most relatively sedentary people, exercise beyond 30 minutes results in weight and fat loss. Burning an additional 300 calories a day with three miles of brisk walking (45 minutes should do it) could help you lose 30 pounds in a year without even changing how much you’re eating.
9. Find an online weight-loss buddy. A University of Vermont study found that online weight-loss buddies help you keep the weight off. The researchers followed volunteers for 18 months. Those assigned to an Internet-based weight maintenance program sustained their weight loss better than those who met face-to-face in a support group.
10. Bring the color blue into your life more often. There’s a good reason you won’t see many fast-food restaurants decorated in blue: Believe it or not, the color blue functions as an appetite suppressant. So serve up dinner on blue plates, dress in blue while you eat, and cover your table with a blue tablecloth. Conversely, avoid red, yellow, and orange in your dining areas. Studies find they encourage eating.

Read more: http://www.rd.com/health/diet-weight-loss/easy-ways-to-lose-weight-50-ideas/#ixzz2qH6ZqiRM

MOTHER AND 2 CHILDREN FOUND DIED

Police say they are not looking for anyone else in connection with deaths of woman, 33, and two young boys in Brent

A woman and two children aged five and seven months have died in an apparent murder-suicide.
The 33-year-old woman and two boys were found at 5.20pm on Thursday at their house in Brent, north-west London, and pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said officers were called by the London ambulance service to the address in Woodgrange Close, to reports of a woman and two children with injuries. When they arrived, the three were pronounced dead by medical staff.
Detectives are treating the children's deaths as murder and believe that the woman's death is not suspicious. They are not looking for anyone else in connection with the killings.
A spokesman for Brent council said: "The family were known to the council but it would be inappropriate to comment further while the police investigation is at such an early stage."
Neighbours expressed their shock at what had happened and said arguing was often heard coming from the flat.
Tashma Brown, 34, who lives next door, said the couple who lived at the address were Sakthivel Vageswaran and his wife Jeyavani Vageswaran.
She said: "She was a person you didn't see often. There was always shouting and arguing, three or four times in a month sometimes. Most of the time when they argued he would come outside to cool down."
Leslie Gotts, who has lived in Woodgrange Close for 18 years, said the family, who are believed to be of Sri Lankan origin, had lived in the first-floor flat in the house for about a year.
A neighbour had told him that the children's father had found their bodies along with his wife's, he said.
Gotts, 70, said: "I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. You freeze. It's a quiet road, a very mixed community. I think I only saw her once. She didn't look very unhappy to me."
A postmortem examination gave the woman's cause of death as compression of the neck, a Scotland Yard spokesman said last night. Postmortem examinations are expected to be carried out on the two children on Tuesday, he added.
Councillor Reg Colwill, who represents Kenton ward where the family lived, said: "I think everybody is the same – they are shocked at what has happened.
"If it's accurate that the woman took her own life she must have been at her wits' end and didn't ask for help, or didn't get the help she asked for. It's two young children. It's very sad."
Brown said she last heard the couple arguing the week before Christmas and also heard the woman getting upset on Tuesday or Wednesday about the baby crying in the house.
"She was shouting but it was in her own language. She sounded upset," Brown said.
She added that she rarely saw the family outside.
"As a mum with a child, I would only see her when she came out with her kids. I would never see her with the kids in the park walking around."
Brown added that she wanted to move following the discovery of the bodies.

READ: A STORY OF LONELY MOM

A mother has not slept for three days and nights watching over her sick child. When she closes her eyes for just a moment, Death comes and takes her child. The mother rushes into the street and asks a woman, who is Night, which way Death went.

"Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken."

"Tell me which way he went and I will find him!"

Night tells her to go into the forest, but first the mother must sing every lullaby that she has ever sung for her child. In the forest, a thorn bush tells her which way to continue, but only after she has warmed the bush by pressing it to her chest, causing her to bleed. The mother then reaches a lake that carries her across in exchange for her eyes, which she cries out.
The now blind mother reaches the greenhouse where Death cares for the flowers and trees, each one a human life. Here the mother finds the little sick plant that is her child, recognizing it by the sound of its heartbeat. The old woman who helps care for the greenhouse tells her, in exchange for her hair, that when Death comes, she must threaten to rip up the other flowers. Death will then be afraid for he must answer to God; only God decides when the plants are pulled up and planted in the garden of Paradise, where we do not know what happens.
Death comes carrying the child and when he asks the mother how she could have gotten there before him, she answers, "I am a mother." She threatens to rip out two of the flowers, but when Death asks her if she would make two other mothers as unhappy as she is, she immediately lets go.
Death gives her back her eyes and asks her to look into a well. Here she sees the futures of two children, one full of happiness and love, the other full of misery and despair. He says that one of these futures would be the future of her child, were it to live.
Then the mother screams in fear, "Which is my child! Rather carry my child into God's kingdom than allow it to suffer such a life."
Death says, "I do not understand. Do you want your child back or should I carry it away into the unknown?"
And the mother wrings her hands, gets down on her knees, and prays to God:
"Do not listen to me when I ask against your will! Do not listen to me, do not listen to me, do not listen to me!"
And Death leaves, carrying her child into the unknown land.

LULU MICHAEL AM “SURPRISE” MAMA KANUMBA

 

Stori: Hamida Hassan na Imelda Mtema
MSANII wa filamu, Elizabeth Michael ‘Lulu’, mwanzoni mwa wiki hii alimshangaza (surprise) mama wa mpenzi wake wa zamani, marehemu Steven Kanumba, Flora Mtegoa wakati alipokuwa akisherehekea miaka 58 tokea alipozaliwa.

Keki aliyoleta Lulu kwa ajili ya mama Kanumba.

Kumshangaza huko kumekuja baada ya Lulu kufika nyumbani kwa mama Kanumba, Kimara Temboni jijini Dar akiwa na bonge la keki, jambo ambalo mama huyo hakulitarajia.…

Stori: Hamida Hassan na Imelda Mtema
MSANII wa filamu, Elizabeth Michael ‘Lulu’, mwanzoni mwa wiki hii alimshangaza (surprise) mama wa mpenzi wake wa zamani, marehemu Steven Kanumba, Flora Mtegoa wakati alipokuwa akisherehekea miaka 58 tokea alipozaliwa.

Keki aliyoleta Lulu kwa ajili ya mama Kanumba.

Kumshangaza huko kumekuja baada ya Lulu kufika nyumbani kwa mama Kanumba, Kimara Temboni jijini Dar akiwa na bonge la keki, jambo ambalo mama huyo hakulitarajia.

Lulu akimpatia keki mama Kanumba.

“Yaani mama Kanumba alikuwa hajui kuwa Lulu anajua siku yake ya kuzaliwa, Lulu akatumia nafasi hiyo kumfanyia ‘sapraizi’,” alisema rafiki wa karibu wa Lulu aliyeomba hifadhi ya jina lake.

...Lulu akimlisha keki mama Kanumba.

Waandishi wetu waliokuwa eneo la tukio walimshuhudia mama Kanumba akiwa amepigwa na butwaa huku akilengwalengwa na machozi ya furaha. Mahojiano yalifanyika kama ifuatavyo;
Ijumaa: Hongera mama, sasa unatimiza miaka mingapi?
Mama Kanumba: Nimetimiza miaka 58.

Mama Kanumba akimlisha keki mama mzazi wa Lulu, Lucresia Karugila.

Ijumaa: Umejisikiaje kwa zawadi ya keki uliyoletewa na Lulu?
Mama Kanumba: Nimejisikia furaha sana kwa kweli, Lulu ni mwanangu, nimefarijika, kwa sababu watoto wangu hawapo, leo ningekuwa peke yangu lakini kama unavyoona, mama na mwanaye wamekuja toka asubuhi tunasherehekea nao kwa kula na kunywa na Lulu amegharamia kila kitu.
Baada ya swali hilo Ijumaa lilihamia kwa Lulu.

 

Kutoka kushoto: Flora Mtegoa, Lulu na Lucresia Karugila katika pozi.

Ijumaa: Ulijuaje leo ni siku ya kuzaliwa ya mama Kanumba?
Lulu: Nilijua katika maongezi siku sita zilizopita, kwani ilikuwa ni tarehe moja ya mwezi huu ambapo amezaliwa mama yangu mzazi na dada yangu.
Ijumaa: Kwa nini uliamua kumfanyia Sapraizi ya keki mama Kanumba?

Mama Kanumba akikata keki.

Lulu: Niliamua kumfurahisha kwa sababu ni siku yake ya kuzaliwa na sikufanya kwa sababu mwanaye hayupo, hata angekuwepo ningemfanyia tu.
Ijumaa: Asanteni, mama na Lulu tunawatakia maisha mema.

Flora Mtegoa akipozi na Lulu.