Archive for the ‘Health’ Category

I had my wisdom tooth extracted this morning. Now my cheeks are swollen a little bit but thank goodness I feel no pain. I was looking forward to real puffy cheek and agonizing pain.

However, I do feel so tired though. As if I’ve been beaten up. Maybe the cutting and the drilling and the pulling out part of the body causes some sort of shock. I’m fine now though, relaxing and watching a movie while I’m typing this. Yeah, I’m the multi tasking sort. I haven’t been updating here much that’s why. Been too tired after work to do so.

I’m watching ‘Jodha Akbar’ for the 4th – 5th time. I love the songs, the actors, the settings the Indian bride costumes, even the plus size bridesmaid dresses looks real amazing. I even got the movie on my Ipod and am going to convert the video to a file watchable on my Samsung phone. I’m a big fan of the movie.

Well, glad the day went well so far.

These past few months has been dark for me. I was depressed a lot. Especially when it is winter like now. As I have mentioned in my earlier post, today is the day when I meet with a homeopathy practitioner. Going to try out natural remedies to overcome what ever I am dealing with right now.

Though at times I do feel like nothing a shopping therapy would not cure. Get a payday cash advance and pay back all the debts that’s been worrying me. Then buy the necessary things that I’ve always been wanting. :p Well, that would work, but I need something that is more permanent.

To be honest, I’m feeling anxious. Been feeling anxious about the meeting for days. Now that it getting closer, the more anxious I become. God help me.

I’ve an appointment with my doctor this coming Monday. After so long I’ve managed to make an appointment with her. She was off on a holiday. But it would be at around 7 pm in the evening. It is better than no appointment at all.

Thinking about the doctor, I thought about how good it would be to have a degree or diploma in health care. There are healthcare jobs everywhere. Well, human beings are not much different around the world, so your degree, or knowledge would be very useful in any part of the world. Unlike my law degree. You can only practice in the country you took exams in since each country has her own laws and regulations.

Well, just a thought. I’m looking forward to the meeting though. Hopefully it will go well this Monday.

For those who are constantly trying to get on track with their diet, they would know how ‘food guilt’ feels like. It happens right after you had a hearty meal or that favourite snack that you couldn’t say no to.  Just a little you say at first, and before you realized it, it would be too late and the guilt would follow suit.

Would trying out the best proven fat burner in the market help me curb the urge to ‘pig out’? If it would, I think I might need one.

I was invited to a Belly dance class by an acquaintance. The class will be on every Tuesday evening for an hour. I said, YES, right away when she asked whether I would be interested or not. I’m doing Belly dancing by myself with the help of videos. To go to a class would be a wonderful change. I’m a little nervous but looking forward to it.

Despite what some say about belly dancing help reduce belly fat, the dance do not really do that. Well, perhaps a little. But you actually need to have a little ‘belly’ to do the belly dance. That’s what gives it the appeal. When you shimmy, a little fat must jiggle. LOL Well, funny when I imagine my fat going all jiggly. One thing for sure it won’t create bigger muscles like lifting weights would. I need my muscles to be leaner. I wish, just like bodybuilding supplements to help increase muscle mass, there’s some sort of supplement to help make musle leaner. Years of lifting heavy things, I have quite big arm muscles.*sigh*

If nothing comes up that needs the class to be canceled, then I’d be going for the first class next week. Yippie!

It sure is difficult to put down a good book when you start reading one. I was up rather late, reading ‘Pride & Prejudice” for the humpteenth time. Only to be able to put it down at about 2 am, more or less. I made myself put it down because I need to wake up at 6 am. 4 hours of sleep. Less than that actually since it took me sometime to drift myself to sleep. Not counting the number of times I woke up.

6 am, I dragged myself out of bed, went to the bathroom, stared at the bathroom sink for a few minutes, (my brain was still half asleep) washed my face, brushed my teeth and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast. When everyone is out of the house leaving me alone, I went straight back to bed. Woke up at 12 pm.

I once wrote about there being no such thing as a morning person or night person. Well, due to my husband’s somewhat logical argument. But I found out that this isn’t true and that research has been conducted saying that some people can be genetically a night owl. I’ve always been a night person since I was a teen. Despite myself trying to get to bed early, I would be tossing and turning in bed till it’s late. Or even when I’m tired due to working in the day, I’d still wouldn’t be able to sleep early and wake up early.

Tough I tell ya, being a night person living in a world where you are expected to be a morning person.

Looking at the mirror in front of me next to my laptop, I just wonder whether I should just let it grow long or it is time for a visit to the salon. The longest lenght of hair was down to my waist when I was 19.  I had to keep my hair short due to hair loss problem. Now that I see that it is under control, perhaps I should grow it long again.

When I had a problem with hair loss, I turned to the internet to find for the solution. That’s when I found this cool forum – talk.hairboutique.com. It’s where ladies (and gents) who are concern about their hairs hang out, share informations, hair news, and solutions. It’s the place where I found out about vatika coconut hair oil, the benefit of tea tree oil shampoo, and other natural home remedies.

I guess it’s time for me to hang out more on that forum again if I want to find information on how to keep my hair long, strong and healthy.

Living in moderation is the way to go. Being addicted to anything can be a bad thing regardless of what one is addicted to. Even when when somebody is addicted to eating can be dangerous yet alone being addicted to drugs. Reading about the various methods of drug rehabilitation, it is a little bit harsh. Like the cold turkey method where one will be locked in a room alone and let to suffer the withdrawal until he or she no longer has the cravings.

However, nowadays there are more and more humane and safe way to overcome addiction. One of them is opiate detox. As explained on the rapiddetoxlasvegas.com website, the method for opiate detoxification that they actually uses advanced medical technique where the withdrawal process of the patient is speed up under anesthesia. I suppose this way, the patient wouldn’t have to go through all the pains of physical withdrawal yet get rid of their addiction quicker.

It is all good that we have such advance humane medical techniques nowadays, but in my opinion, nothing beats, ‘prevention is the best medicine’. Staying away from addictive substances is the best way to go.

One of the few websites that I frequently visit is Yahoo Answers. Ask questions and help people by answering their questions. I came across a question asking, how come skinny people have cellulite. Well, I used to be one of those people who thought that only chubby and obese people have them, until I saw a skinny friend who was having it as well. Interesting.

I believe many people don’t really know what cellulites actually are, that’s why, just like how I was, they only related cellulite to fat people. Cellulite is actually collections of fat that push against the connective tissue beneath the skin which makes the skin looks lumpy. Though of course chances of having cellulites is higher when one is obese, but being skinny does not mean the person doesn’t have any body fat at all.

Factors that contribute to whether or not a person has it or how much or how visible it is are genes, age, amount of fat in body, gender and thickness of skin.

So I suppose that explains why they use slim models to promote cellulite cures on commercials. Since it isn’t impossible for slim, skinny people to face cellulite problem as well.

Being a consumer that tries to shop smart, I have often checked out reviews by other consumers before I decided on buying anything. So much so, I can say that my shopping experiences are good most of the time. In return, I also like to  contribute my reviews of products that I’ve tried, on review sites and also online shopping websites.

The same goes when it comes to weight loss products, if not more important, to read reviews of the products before you buy. There are various review sites out there, but the ones I like most are those that allow real users to give their opinions on the products. Just like what getdietsolutions.com is doing. You can read loads of weighloss product reviews not only by professionals but also users. If you have any opinions on any weightloss products reviewed on the website, you can post your opinion directly on the review page. As an example you can click here for lipozene information and check it out for yourself.

Be generous to share your knowledge, you may be helping many others in making a better choice.