How to Lose Weight in a Week
I usually don't recommend that dieters try to lose weight in
a week. But lets face it - we all have special occasions when we need to lose weight in seven days and we'll do just about anything to slim down quickly. So if you're serious about a one-week weight loss plan, these are the two steps you can take to change your diet and your daily routine for quick weight loss.
2 Steps to Lose Weight in a Week
1. Change Your Diet to Lose Weight
You don't have time to count calories, balance micronutrients and manage your energy balance. Those are the steps you would take to make lasting changes to your body. Instead eliminate these three things from your diet for one week:
- Baked goods. For seven days, don't eat any sweet or savory baked goods. That means you don't eat cake, cookies, cupcakes, muffins, bread, or bagels. You should also pass up salty baked snack foods like pretzels, baked chips or tortilla strips. Got a sweet tooth? Eata single serving of fresh fruit. When you need something crunchy, grab some raw veggies.
- Fried foods. Fried foods are high in calories and high in salt. So don't eat any fish, poultry or meat that is breaded or fried. No chicken nuggets, french fries, potato chips, battered or fried veggies. Keep in mind that many frozen products (like frozen french fries) are fried before they are frozen, so those are on the banned list as well. Eat lean protein that is grilled without oil and free from sauces and spreads.
- High calorie drinks. Sweetened beverages are full of calories. Drink water this week andavoid all alcohol (wine, beer and cocktails), juice, sports drinks, sweetened teas, flavored coffee drinks, soda, and commercially flavored water (things like vitamin waters). You canmake flavored water at home if you don't like plain water.
2. Increase Daily Movement for One Week
In seven days, you don't have time to put together a total weight loss workout program. And if you try to do hard core fat-burning workouts without any previous experience, you could injure yourself. So if you want to lose weight in a week, you'll increase your steps per day to burn more calories.
If you currently exercise, continue to do your normal workouts and add up to 10,000 steps per day. If you don't exercise at all, add 10,000 steps to your daily routine. Want bonus points? See if you can increase the number to 15,000 or even 20,000 steps per day. Usean activity monitor or a downloadable app to measure your steps per day.
If you follow these two steps and don't make any other changes to your normal routine (don't eat more because you're walking more) you should be able to lose weight in a week. But keep in mind that unless you make permanent changes to your lifestyle, the weight loss is not likely to last. If you're ready to lose weight for good, take just one hour to set up a solid plan for long term weight loss to get a better body that lasts.
4 Questions You MUST Ask Yourself Before You Leave Your Marriage
So, you have gotten to a point in your marriage where you are seriously considering divorce. This decision has potentially serious negative consequences for you, your spouse and those you are close with in your life. It is a choice that must be thought through deliberately and carefully.
1. What has gotten you to the point where divorce is on the table?
This is complicated and it will be difficult for you to be objective.
- Saving Your Marriage
- Marriage Counseling
- Marriage Therapist
- Marriage Separation
- Marriage Issues
Have your grown apart and become disconnected? Have your conflicts been handled poorly? Are you avoidant and unwilling to communicate?
Some people say that their "feelings are gone." This is a sad and painful place to be. If you are having an affair, then you will not have a clear idea about your feelings towards your spouse. It is completely unrealistic to compare your spouse with your new lover.
Feelings were once there or there never would have been a second date, much less a marriage. To get your feelings back, you must be willing to putbehavior before feelings. Acting as if you have loving feelings may have a very surprising and positive impact on your interactions with your spouse.
If you are not willing to look at your own contributions to the state of your marriage, you will most certainly carry some of your problems into your next relationship. It is imperative for you to think about what you need to change. Why not practice that with your spouse?
2. What have you done to try to fix the problems so that you did not get to this point?
If you have never been to marriage counseling together, then what would be the downside to trying?
Alternatively, maybe you did "try" but it was not your best effort. Perhaps the therapist you chose was not a good fit for one or both of you. Or, as is sometimes the case, one or both of you were not completely honest about everything.
At this crisis point in your marriage, I suggest seeking out a highly qualified marriage therapist. Now is also not the time to be cheap about it. This is too important a decision. Chances are you both have been poor problem solvers regarding your marital issues and need professional help. Go in with your own agenda for change in yourself, and not what you want to change in your partner, to have a much better chance of success.
3. What will the impact be on your children?
This may not apply to some readers, but if you have children that are still at home, you must think through how this will affect their lives. This will be something that will change them in significant ways regardless of how “smooth” you believe the divorce process will be for you and your spouse. Contrary to what you might be telling yourself, unless there is a significant amount of conflict, such as loud and frequent fighting or abuse, your kids just want a home with you both in it. Research shows that kids do better emotionally with you together, even if you are unhappy, than divorced. Having two households is not fun for them and it may actually not be for you.
You may even come to regret your divorce, as many people do. Will you be okay with your spouse's new romantic partner being around your kids? You will not be able to control this. "Blended" families pose lots of complications. The divorce rate is worse for subsequent marriages. Since the odds are not in your favor, why not try to make your current situation better?
4. What were the best of times in your relationship?
When have you felt the most connection with your spouse? What was happening when you felt the most joy and happiness? Think about what attracted you to your partner. What traits did you fall in love with (even if they may be making your crazy now)? Only focus at this moment on the positives. Are you able to imagine getting back to that place? If you can imagine it, chances are you can get there with the right process.
Do not stay in the bubble of indecisiveness for too long. It may seem comfortable, but you really just have three choices: (1) remain the same and continue along as-is, (2) move toward separation and divorce, (3) try an all-out effort to reconcile.
Ambivalence, or “sitting on the fence,” can be worked through and is best done with the right professional. In fact, a process called, ”Discernment Counseling” has proven to be highly effective at helping couples on the brink of divorce work through their decision rather than stay indefinitely in a place of indecisiveness and unhappiness. Even if you are both on different pages right now, it is time to face this difficult situation. At the very least, your vows obligate you to work on a troubled marriage before giving up.
Osinbajo Arrives For Burkina Faso President's Inauguration
Osinbajo arrived in Ouagadougou this morning, December 29, for the inauguration. 
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will be representing President Muhammadu Buhari at the inauguration of the newly elected president of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré.
He was welcomed by H.E Michel Kafando, the transitional president of Burkina Faso as he arrived.
Kaboré won the election last month. He was elected Burkina Faso’s new president, according to preliminary results released by the electoral commission, in an election that will replace a transitional government put in place after the West African nation’s longtime leader was toppled in a popular uprising last year.
