She was fat and lazy – now she’s slim and alive

On mirror.co.uk there’s the fantastic story of Anne-Marie Marshall who used to weigh 16 stones until she overheard colleagues at work calling her fat and lazy. That gave her the kick she needed to shed 6 stone and she now looks great! Anne-Marie’s success came from good old fashioned eating of a healthy balanced diet, the ditching of unhealthy food and a big serving of motivation.

Here’s Anne-Maries’s top tips

● Plan your meals in advance so you won’t grab the easiest and quickest thing out of the freezer to cook.

Cheryl Cole’s diet secret

Well not such a secret anymore. Cheryl, voted the world’s sexiest woman by FHM, has told another magazine “Recently my mother told me about Eat Right 4 Your Type, in which you’re told what to eat and what to avoid depending on your blood type”

She says she’s benefited not just in weight but also getting loads more energy. The Eat Right 4 Your Type diet seems to make a lot of sense, getting you to eat food that compliments your body.

For more on the diet see this website HERE

Paul McKenna can make you thin LIVE!

World famous hypnotist Paul McKenna has sold 1.2m copies of his I Can Make You Thin book and now he’s turning it into a live stage show. He’s spoken to sport.co.uk about it, saying

It’s official men ARE better map readers

It took a group of scientists and some Mexican villagers to prove it but men are better map readers, however once a woman’s been somewhere once they instinctively know how to get there again.

Men seem to have an instinctive ability to translate a map into real life movement while women are much better at taking in landmarks on a journey so they remember which route to take next time.

More details HERE

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about dandruff

No one wants it. It’s caused by oil and it’s cured by diet. Its dandruff and you can find out all about it HERE

Top three tips to harness the power of positive thinking

From this forlove.com

  1. Let go of the past.
  2. Learn not to look forward to the future.
  3. Make sure to remain in the present.

It’s all very Buddhist! For more on all three tips go HERE

Top five tips for becoming a stylish mum

Babble.com have a list of ways to stay stylish once you’ve become a mum when fashion isn’t always the first thing on your mind. They are:

  1. Always wear at least one thing from before your mom days
  2. Take fashion tips from your kids
  3. You can always accessorize, even in maternity wear
  4. Don’t forget you’re sexy
  5. Use your baby, kid, pram, dog, and husband as accessories

For more on all five tips go HERE

A good sleep is the key to living longer and a healthy life.

Scientists from University of Warwick and the Federico II University in Naples have found a link between the amount you sleep each night and how long you live. They’ve discovered that poor sleepers are 12% more likely to die prematurely than those who get between 6 and 8 hours sleep a night.

The reasons are fairly obvious, people who sleep longer are less stressed and have had more healing time each night but for the sake of an early night you might end up with a later life! Read more HERE

Can a great chat up line get you into bed?

From the Evening Standard here’s some of the best and worst chat up lines used on Londoners

+ One guy said to me: “Alice, how do you do that?” I said: “Do what?” and he said: “Look so beautiful every day.” That definitely didn’t work.

+ A guy I know used to tell people that he was a shark trainer or a lion trainer. It worked every time.

+ One German guy fed me a lie all evening. He said he was a shepherd, he had no internet and his mum bought his clothes. It would have worked if he had never told me the truth. I thought it was really sweet that he was a shepherd.

Women are the new driving force in gadgets.

Once men were the gadget freaks but now women are catching up. The first simple piece of evidence is the amount of pink phones and cameras that you see in stores but there’s more-

Women control 78% of household spending

Women now make up 46% of the computer games market

Pink cameras are outselling black ones by 3:1

Many companies are now making sure that new gadgets can fit in handbags.

More HERE