Put Your Metabolism to Work

With all the hussle and bussle of today
there should be no overweight people.
What with house work, jobs, children,
errands it should stand to reason we
should all be thin. So why aren't we?
That pesty metabolism is just one
culprit. As children our metabolisms
are naturally geared up, but as we get
older, it slows down just like everything
else. So how do we kick it up?

For starters, excerise is one way to
perk up. When I was taking better
care of myself, I use to excerise
an hour everyday. That's right, one
full hour.
I did't start that way. When I started
I could only work out 10 minutes to
Richard Simmons Sweating to the oldies,
but I kept at it and I began to feel
better. I didn't feel like I could use
a nap everday anymore. What I didn't
know is that while I was doing all
this excerise each morning I was
jump starting my metabolism.
I had this extra energy all
day long and didn't understand
why. I thought since I would get
up at 5 a.m. every morning and
would work out any where from
20 - 60 minutes I should be
dog tired by the evening. Then
while waiting at the doctors
office I was thumbing through a
magazine, and there was this article
about how the best time to excerise
was in the morning, because your
body automatically gets geared up
to face the day. By excerising you
set your metabolism on high and it
naturally will stay that way all day.
The problem with excerising in the
late afternoon is that that's the
time of day your body is programmed to
slow down so the boost your give your
metabolism isn't as great because your
are going against what must naturally
take place.

Here is a little bit of information that
I got from the e-diets newsletter that
fits with what I am talking about.

"Your metabolism is genetically programed.
However, you can change your metabolism by changing
your body composition. Build lean muscle mass
through light weight training, and make yuour
body more metabolically active.
Muscular people burn more calories sitting
still than those with less muscle mass and
more body fat."

I hope this little bit of info helps.
I also want to say that since starting
my little adventure I have lost 20 lbs.

Tomorrow I will have a new recipe for you all.

Have a good one :-)

What Causes Dark Spots On Our Skin

Hyperpigmentation (a fancy name for dark spots)
are common to our skin and as with anything else
there are different elements that cause the spots.

Spotting (as I call it) usually begins around our
middle ages and are most common on our face, arms,
neck and hands. Thee are several skin diseases that
cause these spots, but I don't know exactly what they
are or even how to pronounscce them, but I will list
them anyway.

**Linea Fusca
**Riehl's Melanosis
**Erythromelanosis Follicularis
**Melasma
**Poikiloderma of Civatte
**Post Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation

Feel free to look them up. That's what I'll
have to do so I know what I'm talking about.
There are also certain medications that cause
spotting: being out in the sun without sun-
screen causes spotting (it's the UVA rays that does this),
and other conditions and diseases cause spotting.
Here's a couple of examples:
**Pregnancy
**Liver Disease

Our skin is the largest living tissue we have and
it is very important we take care of it. To do
that you should always put on a good sunscreen
read the side effects on any medications you
may have to take and most importantly talk to
your Doctor if those dark spots become larger
discolored or seem abnormal to you in any way.

Hope everyone has a great day and take car of
yourselves inside and out.