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#vacation #seaofgalilee good morning from Tiberius

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#rainyday #sunshower #monsoon #raindrops

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#nofilters #sunset Agua Calliente Hill went for a #hike after the rain

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlfeIEUOzSE)

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#jillianmichaels #dandeliontea I did a review of Jillian Michaels' detox tea. Check it out link is in my blog

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Part 1 of 10 looks from the Maybelline Brights Palette check out the steps on my blog. http://insearchofwonderment.blogspot.com/2016/07/10-looks-using-maybelline-brights.html?m=1

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Here are my top 5 tips for tanning. 

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Last round of yoga routines. Full explanations and complete routine at my blog.  

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More Yoga poses. Break down and rest of them at my blog. 

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A selection of work out routines I created to work out my back. 

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An arm routine from yoga. 

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Just some thoughts on motivation and fitness and why we do what we do. 

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Eating Habits

Oh man. I hate talking about eating habits, because then I have to examine my own, which aren't too pretty. Unfortunately, for my life examining your eating habits is crucial to weight loss. Now, I don't know if any of you remember the Jenny Craig commercial. If you're happy and you know it, eat a snack. If you're sad and you know it, eat a snack. Yeah. That's me. Or if you're bored and you know it eat a snack. So examining my eat habits is terrifying. I can sit down and literally eat like two boxes of Cheeze-its and then eat dinner, and then have a snack. Yeah, I'm that person. That's me. But, honestly, you need to look at what you eat. That is a major part of loosing weight, and just in general being more healthy. Here are a few things I've found help me be aware of what I'm eating. Asking myself, am I hungry? I'm a bored, emotional, social eater. Basically, if you can use it as an excuse to eat, I use it. A lot of the time, I'm bored. Mindlessly watching tv, eating food, which is the worse, but because I feel like I need to eat something simply because I've trained myself that tv is the place to eat. Ok, one way to remedy this... don't watch as much tv. But on days I end up at my dad's house and there's junk food and tv galore I usually ramp up my snack intake. The thing I've started doing is drinking water., simply so I have the sensation of putting something in my mouth. Sure, it's substitution method, but it works for me. If I drink the water I don't eat the food. Another thing I do is count my calories. I use the my fitness pal app and count the calories. It really makes me aware of what I'm putting in my body. I don't believe in denying myself, but seeing something and then knowing I have so many calories left it makes me wonder if I want to waste my calories on it. Sometimes, the simple fact of being aware amps up what I do and don't eat. Along with this don't drink your calories. Have you ever thought about how many calories are in a soda. My two sodas a week thing hasn't worked as well this month. It's been a long month. But honestly, drinks count. Last thing is know your week points. That will help you avoid them. Where I work, there's a plethora of food, and most if it's fatty and sweet. At first, I had a problem with grazing at the food all day. And I still do, but not as much. I knew it was a problem area, so I took what control I did have and had the food choices be more healthy. Or I learned to say no to it. Now the problem is home. When I get home, I eat food non-stop. I get really horrible fast food cravings too. I know that on certain nights, I'm going eat out.  Those are the hard nights. But I overcome them some how, and some times I don’t. Personalty, food guilt is the worse guilt of all. 

I know we all struggle with it. I hope this helps you in some way. 

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Yoga VS Aerobic Exercise

Now, I'm not a personal trainer. I can only speak to the research I've found, personally. Also, the things I've experienced for myself.  I'll get this out of the way. On a personal level, I enjoy yoga, but I have to team it up with aerobics to see any true changes in my body. I do know that when I did yoga I did build a lot of strength. I went from not being able to do the back bend at all to being able to hold it for a ten count. 

So despite the meditation aspect of yoga that some people employ, exercise in general improves your outlook. Elle said it best. Now into the comparison.   So calories burned? Aerobics does it best. Yoga does burn calories, but you're most likely going to burn more doing a hard aerobic exercise. Now, if any of you care, there are hot yoga and Vinyasa that burn a lot of calories, but still Aerobics is going to burn more in general. That goes with fat as well. Aerobics vs Yoga in calories and fat burnedPoint to Aerobics. Just because aerobics burns more calories doesn't mean it's better for your muscles. Sure if you're doing weight lifting, you'll gain muscle, but aerobics and yoga. Yoga trains your muscles better.  Aerobics can't help you do that. Aerobics vs Yoga in strengthPoint to Yoga So cardiac benefits do go to aerobics. It hasn't been proven that yoga has cardiac benefits. Now the stretching of yoga is better for realigning and relaxing muscles. Again, I like a mix of both. If you've got problems, like a bad knee I would recommend starting with yoga until you get strength built up. I mean if doing things like Brazilian Butt Lift are too intense, yoga is a great place. Like I said, I actually enjoy a mix of both. Yoga feels great on my tight muscles and sometimes I'm too tired to do hard core exercise