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Peace with your Body Shape

August 20th, 2012 by Daphne Lopes



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Who is not looking for a way to loose that little bit of extra weight is the luckiest one. Mainly among women, weight loss is a big deal.

But on my opinion its not only on weight that matters, is also body shape.

I absolutely hate my body shape. My shoulders are too broad and my hips to narrow and my bum could be a rounder, so there is nothing to do with how fat or skinny I am, I will never be happy and I blame my body shape.

But what can I do about my body shape? Doesn’t matter how much I go to the gym or how well I eat, I cant change it!

I’ve been trying to make peace with myself and my body since I was 15, never happened. It seems like my mind and my body can never agree.

I am a strong believer of self-esteem, it makes all diference in someone’s life. I try and put mine together using clothes that balance my shape, so when I am in clothes I have no problem at all with confidence, and most people shouldn’t have.

Once you are wearing the right outfit, no one will notice how narrow you hips are. But getting naked, this is another story. Maybe in the dark?

 

My Fitness Pal

May 25th, 2012 by Daphne Lopes



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I am definitely the mad gym girl, but I’ve put on weight on the last 2 years and this is summer holidays  2012 knocking on my door, so I decided to join the gym and eat better. 

All websites and blogs tell different stories regarding a diets so you can’t really trust 100% of anything they say – including the pop-up windows “loose 3 stones in a month”. But one thing is right: healthy diet combined with exercises work!

During a lunch time conversation with some friends in work I was introduced to an app called ” My Fitness Pal” is basically a nutritionist-personal trainer-calculator. It does all the work for you, you only have to enter you measurements and goals and it creates a diet for you (not only in calories but also vitamins, sodium etc).

You enter what you eat in your meals (you can scan your food what is amazing because they already have all the guidelines saving you some work) and the work out you did and it creates a chart that tells you the amounts of everything you ate and the ideal amount.

Also does a count down of calories and etc, so you can control your next meals to don’t get passed your daily target!

I found it amazing, easy to use and has really practical use! If you don’t have a smartphone but still wanna use is no problem because they have the website http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

My BFF during the next months!