August 15, 2008Talking to a friend recently, I learnt that she spends something like $500 on her spectacles (including her lenses). Rather steep, don’t you think? Looking around, we found quite a few sites with discount opticals, but none quite as attractive as this one - Zenni Optical.
There are so many things to consider when purchasing a [...]
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August 4, 2008If you think thin is beautiful, take a look at this picture of an anorexic girl here.
Still think thin is beautiful?
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August 4, 2008Yup, there are people who are virtually killing themselves over their diets. Do you know someone? If you don’t, do you think you know the signs of anorexia? Here’s a site that tells you all about it - quite interesting too.
Diet. Don’t kill yourself!
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August 4, 2008If you’re like most of us out there, you probably go through hell before grabbing that bag of crisps and/or after finishing them off - “Why do I do it?”, you ask and then grab another bag, to offset the guilt.
Here’s a post that should do some good - 100 snacks that have under 100 [...]
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August 4, 2008I think the theme of this blog is changing from a ‘personal thoughts’ one to one about blog hopping. Suits me fine. Here’s an interesting post - Measuring Up. Apparently if Barbie were life size, she would be 7 feet tall! The post goes on to mention her vital stats too.
Go on - check them [...]
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August 1, 2008I hadn’t heard of High Intensity Interval Training before this. According to Steve, HIIT is an exercise methodology where we have short bursts of maximum effort training that slows down to a ‘moderate’ pace during intervals, with typical sessions lasting from 15 to 25 minutes depending on an individuals fitness levels.
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August 1, 2008Here’s a post that makes for some pretty interesting reading. The author takes food myths one by one and proceeds to give an explanation. For example, does spicy food help you lose weight? Is chocolate an energizer? Should food be cold before refrigeration? Check out this site more these and many more.
Good, isn’t it?
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August 1, 2008For some reason, many of us build false impressions of ourselves or our efforts when it comes to weight loss or gain. Here’s a very interesting post, where the author speak of her experiences with the same. It demonstrates where we go wrong, gives some serious information on body structure and debunks some of popular [...]
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August 1, 2008Our chins are probably one of the most obvious areas where our weight gain shows. Here’s a nice post that gives information and exercises on how to get rid of a double chin. Apparently, for many people, the chin is the first place where the body stores excess fat.
Useful?
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July 31, 2008Here’s one with a difference - it lists 60, short, sweet and simple rules to lose weight. here’s a sampler:
1. Start the day with one 8 oz. Glass of water before breakfast. It helps to get you on the right track for the day.
2. Remember your ABCs – All Bites Count.
3. Use a salad plate [...]
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July 31, 2008Want to lose weight? What you need are foods that fight fat. While we can avoid eating and eat healthy and all of that, we do need a bit of some foods that actually fight fat, instead of remaining neutral or simply providing required nutrients.
This site lists the top 12 foods that actively fight body [...]
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July 31, 2008That we need to lose weight is a known fact - thing is, we don’t really make the effort of converting ‘lose weight’ from a thought into some serious activity.
Here’s a tool that should help - it tells you how many calories you need to intake daily, in order to lose weight.
Go check it out [...]
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July 31, 2008If there’s one thing all of us desperately-want-to-lose-weight people lose out on, it’s planning what to eat and when to eat it. This site has it all figured out - it lists 158 recipes for quick meals that can be prepared in a jiffy and cut out the thinking from our weight loss program.
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July 31, 2008Here’s another one - The Ultimate Weight Loss Guide.
This site has a ton of information on food facts, calorie counting, facts about weight loss. It also has a little tool on how to maintain your calorie levels. Quite interesting - check it out and see what you think!
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July 31, 2008Today’s theme is weight loss and I’m going to find nuggets from the web to post here.
The first page I’ve found is ‘How to lose 50 pounds fast within 5 months‘. Quite an interesting tool - it asks you for various details like your age, weight and activity levels among other stuff and comes up [...]
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June 17, 2008Today is the day Firefox 3 is due to be released and I’m probably one of the millions who thronged to the site (getfirefox.com) to download it. In my case, UK at 6:00pm. Sadly, in their attempt to create a world record in the number of downloads, the site isn’t working. One of the sister [...]
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June 13, 2008I’m in in the UK currently and its amazing the kind of dour faces most Asians/Indians walk around with. In any given place where you see a bunch of happy smiling faces, you are quickly able to pick the odd one out - the slouching, sour-faced Asian/Indian who looks like his wife ran away with [...]
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May 28, 2008On the way back from office today, we were delayed by a roadblock. Due to the cars in the front turning back, we gradually reached the reason for the delay – an accident. A car had overturned, probably due to the rain and an occupant was trapped inside it.
Within minutes, there was a senior police [...]
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May 27, 2008From what I hear, the Gujjars are at it again.
I don’t understand this really. If a community are dumb enough to almost literally hold a nation to ransom over a change in their reservation status, for facilities that are archaic and of no real use, what value to they really add? The answer to that [...]
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May 16, 2008I’m not sure what Mr. Arjun Singh was thinking when he championed all this brouhaha on caste based reservations.
Alright, we know India has a history of caste based discrimination. However, the current reality is that with advances in technology, economy and education caste based reservations simply have no place. Yes, we could create a pool [...]
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