I made a post but couldn’t publish it… by the time I finished it I realized it was much too sad… she was only 15.

However, I wanted to share with you the story of Cameron Duncan who continues to impress the world to this day.

As you can see on the right column of the page I put a little widget which makes public the evolution of my personal everyday goals, as described by me on a terrific website I have found a while ago. It’s called Joe’s Goals and it’s a very intuitive and simple organizer that I consider very useful for personal evaluation over a period of time.

You simply write your goals and check them at the end of each day/week/month. It generates a graphical representation of your evolution based on those targets. You can have positive and negative goals (sort of dos and don’ts) but I chose only positive as you can see.

Makes me sleep better after checking the list

My goals are all must dos on a daily basis and starting Monday, 18 June 2007 I will be checking them as they are done. Let’s see what kind of a person am I really…

Like I said before the purpose of this blog is to “make something of myself”. I am such a looser, I cannot believe what I’ve just done today.

Let me clear up this post. The title could have been just as well “Living a healthy beautiful life : 1″. What am I talking about? Simple

Smoking.

I am desperately wanting to quit smoking. I’ll tell you all about it, in hope that, if I succeed, other smokers might learn from my experience and throw away the damn things (love ‘em and hate ‘em at the same time).

But let me get back to what I’ve done today. Woke up with a horrible headache (like usual since I started the damn things) and decided this is it. Today is the day I change my life. Smoked 3 smokes (a.k.a. cigarettes) and was happy that from that moment I was a non-smoker. It took me about 12 hours until I put another one in my mouth!

I cannot believe me! So weak… Spartans would have definitely thrown me off the hill. All day the only thing on my mind were cigarettes. I couldn’t focus on anything! Had a lot to do today and didn’t complete one single task! How screwed up is this? Am I that addicted? Can’t I exist and operate without a smoke? Besides the fact that I couldn’t concentrate I felt extremely nervous, irritated and with no mood for anything! Basically I just lost a whole day, tortured my boyfriend and disappointed myself.

Of course I have a perfectly logical explanation for all this drama: This is not the good time to quit smoking. I have 2 more weeks of exams and therefore stress. I should do this right: pass the exams and THEN stop smoking.

Using this brilliant logic I decided to quit smoking FOREVER AND EVER starting on Monday, July 02 2007. Can I do it? I think I can. Forever? Foreverever.

Every diet, magazine advice or doctor will say you have to drink 1.5-2 l (0.4-0.52 gallons) of water a day. Moreover, it was believed tea dishydrates although many health benefits of tea drinking have been certified. I always believed you can live a better life if you drank tea on a regular basis and maybe even eliminate water. And know I got my confirmation.

A study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition confirms that tea is healthier than water and you can actually make the replacement between the two:

• it does not dehydrate as coffee does!
• reduces risk of cancer
• reduces risk of heart disease (especially heart attack)
• it prevents cellular degradation (like a regular fountain of youth)
• it protects you TEETH, believe it or not, against scald and possibly decay too
• combined with a sensible diet and sport it helps you loose weight faster and healthier

According to the study, the only possible negative effect of tea drinking is on those with anemic problems. It may affect the capacity of the organism to absorb iron! Therefore persons with anemic risk should avoid drinking tea around meal(breakfast, lunch, dinner) hours.

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My personal experience with tea drinking:

If you decide to change your life and start from tea, be sure you DO NOT drink it with sugar or honey! Trust me, you will get used to the taste and pretty soon you won’t be able to drink it with sugar! It totally ruins the flavor and is most definitely not healthy.

I actually knew a girl who had replaced water with tea. I thought she was a little bit off “de la cabesa”. She drank about 8-10 cups of tea a day and her silhouette was very nice despite the fact that she eat all sorts of fatty food. So I decided to try it.

It was very nasty at first, without the sugar and all, but in a day or two the taste improved a little. I felt much more energetic, wasn’t so sleepy in the afternoons and really felt good overall (I like green tea and its basic characteristic is that it is energizing). Since I am a very lazy person and tend to do only what is bad for me and my health I pretty soon gave up on making tea and got back to Cola. I regret it to this day and I promised myself I will make tea drinking a habit pretty soon.

Tips:

1. you cannot get bored of tea because there are so many varieties and possible ways of making it that you can discover something new every day;
2. (to whom it may concern) If you decide to live a healthy life tea is the way to go, but while you’re at it, why don’t you quit smoking too?

OK. I will be totally sincere with you. I am fat.

Not fat fat but a little chubby you might say. This may not be clear enough: I am 1,69 m (5.5446 ft) height and 65kg (about 144 pounds). My maximum weight was 70 kg( aprox. 155 pounds).

I don’t really know the weight standards in the rest of the world (except the catwalks where the standard is “eating disorder“) but here, in Romania, I must say I am considered FAT in the true sense. I don’t care what people think (well maybe just a little ).

The problem is I don’t feel good about myself. I can’t wear the clothes I want, I can’t buy the clothes I like (believe it or not it’s hard to find nice clothes and at regular prices when you wear a zise M/L) not to mention how I look in a swimming suit.

This being said I am officially announcing that I will start a campaign of healthy loosing weight. I’m gonna need all the support I can get because the truth is I love to eat. The target is

56kg (123.45 lb)

I’ll stop here for now with the info. But it is far far from the end.

I’m not a flower freak but I couldn’t help be amazed when I saw how the flowers transform this house. Don’t you agree?

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