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HOW I LOST 70 POUNDS IN 30 DAYS…
If you’ve seen my photos with that headline, it was because I was robbed.
Seriously. A shady diet company lifted my photos off of my website and stuck them on their own with that unrealistic claim. I DID lose 70 pounds but it was over the course of one year. And I’ve kept it off for 10 years now!
I worked really hard to completely change my lifestyle and I’m extremely proud of that. There was no magic pill or potion involved. No special diet. Not even a crazy workout routine. Honestly, the hardest part for me was accepting and loving myself regardless of how much fat my body was carrying. Once I realized that, the eating less and moving more thing didn’t seem as hard as it once did.
So, how do you know when weight-loss claims and photos are real or part of a scam? If there were a safe, effective, simple, fast solution out there, it would be front-page news. We’d all know about it and the inventor would be the richest person on the planet.
But there isn’t.
Directly from : Roni Noone Co-author of What You Can When You: Healthy Living on YOUR Terms, Roni Noone started blogging in 2005
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]]>When the unrest swelled again in Baltimore on Monday, April 27th, 2015, UMBC was in the midst of studying for final exams and preparing for the end of the semester. For many, the Uprising seemed well removed from our campus, as a perceived sense of distance from the city belies the significance of the ‘B’ in UMBC. Aside from periodically checking the local news updates or receiving a swell of calls and messages from concerned relatives on Facebook, studying and campus night life went on as usual. For some students, the reality of a Baltimore in chaos mere miles away didn’t sink in until they saw fires burning from the 7th floor of Albin O. Kuhn Library.
But for many others, those fires were burning our city—our home.
As members of the Critical Social Justice team unpacked the events that transpired in Baltimore, we struggled to find balance in the divide between the university and Baltimore. The divide, for example, between staying at home in the city to engage in a movement for Black lives or leaving the city for UMBC to create healing spaces, meet with students in need, and challenge those who had yet to understand the complexities and vast differences between riots and uprisings. The reality of an “us” and a “them” felt very real as we navigated back and forth on campus during those next few days. While on campus, it was easy to think through theory, strategize, and simply talk about Baltimore in the abstract; however, at night with the sounds of helicopters and sirens invading through our windows, we desperately needed our other UMBC community members to think beyond Hilltop Circle.
Baltimore City and the pervasive violence and injustice there can no longer be talked about in the abstract. Whether or not Baltimore is your home, Critical Social Justice calls each of us in this privileged community of higher education to think and engage critically about Baltimore. We cannot only think about the city when we see a fire from the library or when the Ravens win the Super Bowl. Much like Critical Social Justice is a year-long campaign, our critical thinking, action, and care for Baltimore must happen all 365 days a year.
This year’s Critical Social Justice initiative aims to create space and learning opportunities to consider the ways we can cultivate deep and lasting commitments to Baltimore City that are meaningful to us as individuals and as part of the UMBC community. By focusing on Baltimore, we aim to engage with local social justice issues and activism while framing our understanding within the context of larger national movements and ongoing struggles against systemic racism and injustice.
Our campus and our city are not as separate as they may seem at our quiet university—nor are they as readily connected as our proximity and names might lead people to believe. Critical Social Justice: Baltimore 365 knits the UMBC and Baltimore communities together in the hopes of growing into a better UMBC through a better Baltimore.
Critical Social Justice: Baltimore 365 will be held on October 19th through 23rd, 2015.Follow the CSJ blog, Facebook, and Twitter for updates on scheduled events and other news. For more information about the Critical Social Justice initiative, or if you’re organizing a related event that week that might be included on the CSJ calendar, please email womens.center@umbc.edu.
Greetings UMBC Student Body,
We, the Senate of the UMBC Student Government Association, believe that it is our responsibility to maintain transparency and communication, upholding our oath to promote and defend the interests and well-being of UMBC’s undergraduate students.
It has come to our attention that a petition to impeach SGA President Anthony Jankoski and SGA Executive Vice President Daniel Amsini has been circulated. It has also come to our attention that this petition has been signed by over 600 undergraduate students. The Senate acknowledges each student's right to petition and to voice concerns to the SGA as stated in Article 6.3 of the SGA Constitution.
Article 5.6.5 of the SGA Constitution (available on our website: http://sga.umbc.edu) states that “a petition for impeachment signed by at least 5% of all UMBC undergraduates; in which case the Senate shall conduct a trial of the accused, and can remove the accused by a 2/3 vote of Senators present at a meeting.” According to the UMBC’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions, the number of enrolled undergraduate students in the Spring 2015 semester was 10,598; therefore, this petition requires 529.9 (rounded to 530) to meet the requisite 5% of the student body.
In accordance with the aforementioned Article, as well as Article 8 of the SGA Bylaws (also available on our website), the SGA President is responsible for forwarding the petition to the Speaker of the Senate within 5 days of officially receiving the petition. Additionally, an officer against whom an impeachment has been initiated is entitled to be notified within 5 business days of the passage of the charges and disclosure of the evidence supporting impeachment, as well as at least 10 business days after passage of the charges in which to prepare a defense before trial. At the time of this statement's release, the Senate has not officially received the petition.
Given this information, the Senate has come across critical barriers to proceeding with an impeachment trial. The Senate has not had the opportunity to elect a Speaker and Assistant Speaker, as this is the first order of business at our first meeting of the Fall semester. The roles of Summer Speaker and Assistant Summer Speaker, held by Andres Garcia and Sarah Lilly respectively, are informal in nature. In order for a Speaker to be elected before our first meeting of the Fall, a special meeting would have to be called.
The Senate has determined that a special meeting would be unethical, as a few Senators living outside of the area are unable to attend such a meeting and contribute their input in an impeachment trial. Additionally, the Senate Procedural Rules prohibit voting by proxy. It is our desire that each member has an equal opportunity to hear others, to speak their concerns, and to vote; therefore, we have chosen to postpone official impeachment proceedings until our first regular meeting of the Fall 2015 semester on Monday, August 31, after electing a Speaker and Assistant Speaker.
In preparation for this meeting, the Senate has chosen who will serve as Trial Manager. Article 7 of the SGA Bylaws, which governs Impeachment Trial procedure, states that the Managers are to levy the charges against the accused and make arguments for those charges. A majority of the Senate has decided that the Manager position should be filled by a current Senator. Out of the two Senators who expressed interest, a majority has selected Senator Andres Garcia to fill the Manager position.
Some students have expressed concern about the perceived conflict of interest brought by appointing Garcia as manager, as he was a strong advocate for the Jankoski-Amsini campaign during the election. While we recognize that Senator Garcia has worked closely with their campaign previously, we place full confidence in his integrity. Senator Garcia will remain impartial and will relay all evidence that has any bearing on the outcome of the trial. Please know that Senator Garcia will not be exclusively collecting evidence, the Senate will be working together over the next few months to pursue and collect any evidence deemed important. The key will be for Andres and the rest of the Senate to go about these proceedings with an open mind, and to let the facts and hard evidence present itself.
We appreciate your support and patience at this time. We would like you to know that we appreciate any questions, comments, and concerns that you may have and encourage you to bring them to our attention via e-mail. We will do our best to respond to them promptly. We look forward to working with you to resolve this matter and to strengthening the work of the SGA over the next year.
Respectfully,
Your 2015-16 SGA Senate
Andres Garcia, Summer Speaker (andresg1@umbc.edu)
Sarah Lilly, Summer Assistant Speaker (slilly1@umbc.edu)
Vanessa Barksdale (vanbark1@umbc.edu)
Seth Benefield (sethbe1@umbc.edu)
William Rice (willia8@umbc.edu)
Augustus Williams (august2@umbc.edu)
Oladipupo Eke (eke1@umbc.edu)
Andrew Lopez (alopez2@umbc.edu)
Joshua Massey (joshua.massey@umbc.edu)
Brooke Perrin (aperrin1@umbc.edu)
Markya Reed (markya1@umbc.edu) ]]>
Make lunches your friend with these healthy, portable ideas under 400 calories. Our collection of work-friendly lunch recipes allows you to spice up plain sandwiches, wraps, quesadillas and salads so you can proudly announce what you’re eating to your colleagues (not that you would). Check them out and get excited about packing your lunch this week!
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Taken Directly from MyFitnessPal’s Featured Recipes- June 4, 2015
If there is one fact in my profession that every client knows, but doesn’t “know,” it’s this: You’re not perfect.
You’re going to struggle. You’re going to have bad days. You’re going to eat more than you planned on eating, and you’re going to feel like doing nothing sometimes. It’s not a matter of “if.” It’s “when.” And after helping more than 1,000 people lose weight, I can tell you “when” is usually Friday.
Friday is the most common day when people get a case of the “screw its.” When perfect is no longer an option, they just throw the play book completely out the window. But these swings in consistency are death to long-term weight loss because they rob us of momentum. So I started trying to come up with a better plan and, luckily for all my clients, I’m a huge Civil War history nerd.
One of the great generals (and characters) in the Civil War was Stonewall Jackson. A tactical genius, Jackson appreciated that the most important factor in war (and the war that’s weight loss) is momentum. So he was moving forward, even when he was moving backward. One of his contemporaries summarized Jackson:
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Don’t be alarmed—but something’s hiding in your food. From the cereal you had for breakfast to the dressing on your salad to the ketchup on your fries, an addictive substance is lurking in many foods that you’d never suspect.
Far more loathed than fat or cholesterol these days, sugar has become public enemy No. 1 when it comes to the health of America. In fact, in our effort to listen to doctors’ orders (andgovernment guidelines) to consume less fat and less cholesterol, Americans turned to “healthy” low-fat foods that were actually loaded with sugar.
In its recent report, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee cited sugar as one of our biggest health concerns and recommended that sugar make up 10 percent or fewer of our daily calorie intake. The American Heart Association recommends that no more than half of your daily discretionary calories comes from added sugars (about 6 teaspoons or 100 calories for women, and 9 teaspoons or 150 calories for men). But we’re eating way more of the sweet stuff than that: The CDC reports that the average American eats between 13 and 20 teaspoons of added sugar a day (around 230 calories for women, and 335 for men).
In its natural state, sugar is a relatively harmless—even necessary—carbohydrate that our bodies need to function. It’s found in fruits, vegetables, and dairy as a compound known as fructose or lactose. The problem comes when sugar is added to foods during processing for added flavor, texture, or color. This is more common than you may realize—you don’t have to be in the candy aisle to be surrounded by added sugar.
Eating too many of these empty calories has many health effects, the most obvious being major weight gain. Added sugar drives your insulin levels up, messes with your metabolism, and causes those calories to turn right into belly fat. And while losing weight is well and good, that’s just the beginning of the health benefits of cutting back on the sweet stuff. Below are 21 more legit reasons—besides fitting into skinny jeans—to tame that sweet tooth for good.
Excerpt from Greatist June 7, 2015
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