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- Set realistic goals.
If you’re one of those people who like to make to-do lists on a regular basis, then listen closely: When you’re setting your goals, it’s better to be specific and set goals you know you can achieve. For example, instead of setting a goal like "save the environment," try to recycle more.
Those two examples were tested on a group of 127 volunteers in a study published last year. The first group were provided a series of specific goals like “increase recycling,” while the second group had broader goals like “save the environment." Even though the second group completed the same tasks as the first group, the people in the second group reported feeling less satisfied with themselves than the first group. The people in the second group also reported a lower overall sense of personal happiness from completing their goal, the scientists report. http://assets3.sparkpeople.com/resize/100//blog_photos/main/BigImages/iStock_000019229891XSmall.jpg - No Equipment? No Problem!
If you don't have access to weights or a gym that's no excuse for not getting fitter and stronger...
Squats too easy? Do one-legged squats. If that's too easy do one-legged jumps.
Get out and find some scaffolding or a park with a climing frame and do pull-ups. If that's too easy do one-arm pull-ups or wear a rucksack full of something heavy.
If pushups are too easy push yourself explosively off the ground as high as possible with each rep, and do inverted pushups against a wall to exercise those shoulders.
If all else fails just find something heavy like a rock, a sack of gravel or whatever you can lay your hands on to lift and throw.
Many of these routines are actually superior to weights or gym machines in that they tend to give a more holistic body workout, strengthening the core and working multiple muscle groups. - @nationalexpress Thankyou for getting back to me. I've tried to send a complaint via your webform twice but I don't think it's worked... I have two other snippets of video of the incident, plus a photograph of my broken phone and a photograph of the sign on the door saying that the disabled toilet is for public use between the hours of 11pm and 6:30 am on payment of 30p to a member of staff.
I would like to send all these as email attachments if you have a public email address for complaints...
Many Thanks - So #TheresaMay has declared war on the #environment by abolishing the Department for Energy and Climate Change in one of her first acts as British Prime Minister...
Does that make you angry?
Does it make you despair?
Or does it secretly, deep down, make you feel better about yourself by passing the buck and laying the responsibility of fucking up the planet on someone else's shoulders?
Because make no mistake - one person cannot impact the environment significantly on their own. Sure, she may be removing some of the hurdles which allow rampant environmental degradation, but it will be the Masses who actually do the damage.
It will be the millions of ordinary people driving their cars on non-essential journeys; the millions supporting the widely acknowledged unsustainable practice of animal agriculture by chomping on flesh and dairy products... In short ordinary people, probably like yourself and most of the folks you know who like to complain and wring their hands but don't want the inconvenience of having to radically transform their lifestyle in order to reverse the shitstorm we've created.
We all have to die sooner or later, but the legacy we leave behind us, as well as the present reality we create for everyone else, is determined essentially by how selfish we are. - VEGAN NAZIS!
Earlier today I heard someone comparing a passionate #vegan to a Nazi because she thought eating animal products is inexcusable once you know about the suffering and abuse involved, the damage to the environment and the total un-necessity of animal products from a dietary point of view.
Of course, it's not the first time I've heard the N word used in this way by people who profess to believe in personal freedom of choice.
But is it a fair comparison? Who were the Nazis? What did they believe and what did they do?
Well, for one thing, they believed in the superiority of the white Aryan race, much as non-vegans believe in the superiority of the human race.
They believed this superiority gave them the right to kill, use and abuse non-Aryans as they saw fit, much as non-vegans believe they have a right to kill, use and abuse non-humans as they see fit.
They imprisoned non-Aryans in huge inhumane complexes where they were kept against their will in terrible conditions until they were deemed no longer useful alive, then they were killed in their thousands, much as non-humans are today.
So, who deserved the comparison to Nazis - vegans, who want to see an end to this supremacist abuse, or non-vegans who want to carry on doing or supporting pretty much exactly what the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s and '40s did?
Don't you just HATE hypocrisy? VEGAN DIETS
IS HIGH PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABLE ON A #VEGAN DIET?
This is a question I came across recently in relation to well-known vegan athlete Carl Lewis.
Someone was arguing that although although Carl produced his peak performance during his first year on a vegan diet, the results deteriorated after that. Their (somewhat biased) point was that while going vegan often produces positive short-term gains, it isn't sustainable and athletic performance quickly drops off in the longer term.
What this troll didn't mention was that Carl went vegan when he seemed to have already passed his peak, and subsequently continued to perform at a world-class level long after most athletes his age have retired.
Another example which completely blows this 'unsustainable' argument out of the water is world champion strongman Patrick Braboumian.
Patrick won the title of Germany's Strongest Man back in 2011 after 6 years as a vegetarian. That was the same year he went vegan. Significantly, since then he has continued to smash world records, becoming stronger than ever as proven last year, after 4 years vegan, by breaking another world record for the yolk-carry... previously held by himself!BEWARE OF YOUR DOCTOR!
BEWARE OF YOUR DOCTOR! BEWARE OF YOUR DOCTOR!
We like to think we can trust our doctors with our best interests. But... when it comes to the effects of diet on health and wellbeing, medical professionals and experts are not necessarily the same thing.
Why else would so few doctors recommend a #vegan diet when this is the ONLY diet proven to REVERSE heart disease.
And given that we're in the grip of a diabetes epidemic, when a high-carb, low-fat, plant-based diet has been repeatedly shown to reduce and even ERADICATE diabetes symptoms, why are doctors still recommending the exact opposite to patients, despite the evidence that this doesn't work and often leads to an increase the amount and potency of drugs prescribed?- IS HIGH PERFORMANCE SUSTAINABLE ON A #VEGAN DIET?
This is a question I came across recently in relation to well-known vegan athlete Carl Lewis.
Someone was arguing that although although Carl produced his peak performance during his first year on a vegan diet, the results deteriorated after that. Their (somewhat biased) point was that while going vegan often produces positive short-term gains, it isn't sustainable and athletic performance quickly drops off in the longer term.
What this troll didn't mention was that Carl went vegan when he seemed to have already passed his peak, and subsequently continued to perform at a world-class level long after most athletes his age have retired.
Another example which completely blows this 'unsustainable' argument out of the water is world champion strongman Patrick Braboumian.
Patrick won the title of Germany's Strongest Man back in 2011 after 6 years as a vegetarian. That was the same year he went vegan. Significantly, since then he has continued to smash world records, becoming stronger than ever as proven last year, after 4 years vegan, by breaking another world record for the yolk-carry... previously held by himself! BEWARE OF YOUR DOCTOR!
BEWARE OF YOUR DOCTOR!
We like to think we can trust our doctors with our best interests. But... when it comes to the effects of diet on health and wellbeing, medical professionals and experts are not necessarily the same thing.
Why else would so few doctors recommend a #vegan diet when this is the ONLY diet proven to REVERSE heart disease.
And given that we're in the grip of a diabetes epidemic, when a high-carb, low-fat, plant-based diet has been repeatedly shown to reduce and even ERADICATE diabetes symptoms, why are doctors still recommending the exact opposite to patients, despite the evidence that this doesn't work and often leads to an increase the amount and potency of drugs prescribed?
If I said it had anything to do with policy being directly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry who have a vested interest in perpetuating illness and ignorance, you'd no doubt call me a cynic and a conspiracy theorist, so I guess there's another more benevolent reason...PROMOTING ANIMAL CRUELTY
@VeganLass1 Thanks for highlighting the issue of the #RSPCA promoting the animal slaughter industry. In their own words the 'RSPCA Assured' endorsement declares products as 'ethical', despite those products actually being made from murdered animals who no more wanted to be killed than you, I, the CEO of the RSPCA or the thousands of families gorging on the butchered remains of those innocent victims the RSPCA assures us were 'ethically' killed.
As long as they continue to prop up an industry which is at its very root inherently unethical, maybe it's time they changed their name to Royal Society for the PROMOTION of Cruelty to Animals.