The Diet Culture

“I’m on a diet”, “I can’t eat this and that because I’m on a diet”, “How many calories are there in this small bar of chocolate”…

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The diet culture has long affected people’s lives and it has gone into a whole different state where it became a lot more toxic than it should’ve been.

The diet culture is the unhealthy obsession with labeling “good’ and ‘bad’ foods, the constant struggle to lose weight fast, to be skinny like a model, and convincing yourself that this is normal.

Paranoia, anxiety, stress, anorexia, body dysphoria, and other eating disorders are all part of the toxic traits of the diet culture. People get so wrapped up in these ideas and thoughts that they stop everything they do to focus on how to execute their “genius” plan of losing weight.

The diet culture changed categories from a health issue/ healthy lifestyles to a pure business industry that “health” products are profiting of off.

Don’t get me wrong people sometimes need diet pan to stick to it and lose weight; whether for a health issue, or simply maintaining their body image. But in today’s world people stopped searching for ways to become healthy, they search for seasonal changes in their body because of what others might say if I went to the beach.

So for that and for many reasons, we will be tackling the diet culture in all its aspects and how to avoid it at all cost.

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How to Deal with Trust Issues

Trust is one of the main foundations of a healthy relationship, with yourself and others. But sometimes we trust the wrong people and get hurt by people’s actions.

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This usually leads to Trust Issues in relationships with other people. We can’t trust others easily, we become more suspicious of people’s intentions and actions behind our backs.

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Signs of trust issues include:

• 1. You Focus on the Negative
• 2. You Feel Like You Have to Do Everything
• 3. Being Suspicious of Friends & Family
• 4. Avoiding Intimacy
• 5. Holding Grudges
• 6. You Pick Fights
• 7. You Keep to Yourself
• 8. You Avoid Commitment
• 9. You Spy on People or Check Their Phones
• 10. You Are a Loner
• 11. You Find Yourself in Relationships With Untrustworthy People
• 12. You Smother People You Care About
• 13. Fear of Abandonment

Past hurt and mistakes are a way to teach us lessons the hard way. But we don’t have to keep holding on to past traumas and bad experiences.

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So here’s a way to deal with your trust issues and heal yourself from old experiences.

• Take safe emotional risks: Allow yourself to practice trusting in small, safe ways. Take someone at their word. Give them the benefit of the doubt.
• Allow yourself time: If your trust has been broken, it’s going to take some time without further betrayal for the person to earn it back.
• Avoid the temptation to snoop or spy: Snooping or spying can easily become an obsessive behavior that will only make your trust issues worse.
• Take your time getting to know new people: Don’t jump into trusting people before you know them. Many people with trust issues tend to trust too quickly, keeping you stuck in the pattern.
• Communicate with your partner: Be careful not to accuse or blame. Instead, communicate clearly how you are feeling and what you need. For example, “When you came home late, I felt worried and insecure. I need you to give me a call next time.”
• Self-reflect: Spend some time thinking, journaling or talking to a friend about this pattern in your life and what is within your power to change.

How To Prepare For Spring

A new cycle has begun, Spring is here! We’ve got a lot to prepare for, mentally and physically.

We all know how seasonal changes affects our health; mentally and physically. But nothing is unpreventable or even unpreparable for. Here’s a guide on how to be fully prepared for Spring Season!

1. Start by Cleaning your house.

Cleaning your house comes as an essential part of the process to embrace this new beginning. Cleaning your house, part by part, will help you change your physical ambiance to a more natural and springy feeling. This will put your mind in a welcoming calm vibe for spring.

2. Cleanse your energy

There are a lot of ways to cleanse and prepare your energies that are shifting into a new cycle. Rituals are essentials, stock up on sage, crystals, scented candles, and essential oils.

3. Draw yourself a cleansing bath.

Draw your bath as you normally would but, this time add some essential oils (lavender is a good choice), detoxifying bath salts. Warm water of course plays a very important role in this cleanse too.

4. Drink infused water

As the air gets warmer and the sun stays out longer to play, we most likely will need to up our intake of water. And what a better and more appealing way to start your water intake than by decorating it with some fruits and flowers. Here are some of the cool and delicious recipes: click here.

5. Get some nature in.

As the breeze and the cool weather starts to show more and more throughout the season, being in touch with nature is super important and highly recommended to keep you grounded and calm.

6. Start your workout plans

Spring will bring you more joy and motivation to workout, the sun is out the weather is warmer. So it’s time to work that summer body!

7. Step your skincare.

With the sun being much more out throughout the day, it’s important to keep your skin protected and safe. If you don’t already use sunscreen as part of your skincare routine it is important to apply it everyday.

8. Start meditating

Morning outdoor meditation are a big win for your spirituality journey. It calms your mind, body and soul while absorbing all that fresh vitamin D from the sun. Click here for our guide on how to meditate.

9. Add some flowers to your house

Adding flowers, freshly collected from a garden if possible, is part of being connected more and more to spring and this whole shift in cycles. They give positive vibes all over the room and will make you calmer and joyful.

10. Change your diet

Changing your diet every now and then, is a fun and healthy way to keep your body amused and healthy. Eating with the season, is healthy, fun, and mindful too. So don’t be scared to switch it up a little every now and then.

How to switch to plant based diet easily

As of Tuesday’s post, we talked about the benefits of switching to a plant based diet. So this is your guide to doing so the healthy and easiest way!

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Here are seven simple strategies to help you easily transition to a wholesome, plant-based diet:

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1- Start slow

 Pick a few plant-based meals and rotate them through in a week. “Start with meals you have always enjoyed that just happen to be plant-based.

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2- Cut down meat and processed food intake.

 Instead of going cold turkey from the beginning, start by changing the proportion of plant and animal-based foods on your plate. This will give your mind and body time to accommodate to the new diet. Make simple changes like adding a large portion of salad or a fresh fruit bowl to your daily meals.

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3- Go for plant-based breakfast. 

Once you’ve tested the waters, you can take the next step by committing to eat at least one plant-based meal every day. A wholesome, vegetarian breakfast is a good place to start.

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4- Stock up on healthy foods.

Take time to explore vegetarian and fresh produce aisles at your local supermarket. Stock up your kitchen with nutritious, plant-based foods and keep healthy snack options in easily accessible places like your bag, desk drawer, kitchen counter and fridge.

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5- Keep your meals fun and exciting. 

Focus on foods you like and ones that are easily accessible to you. Then learn new ways to make those simple recipes more fun and flavorful. Try out new recipes every now and then!

Lastly, keep in mind that any transition takes time. So try, make mistakes and test the waters to see hwta works for you and helps you keep your body in harmony.

For more check the complete article here.

10 reasons why you should change to a plant based diet.

No we’re not the new “Vegan Teacher” of tiktok but we support every diet and plant based is our current favorite honestly. There are a lot of reasons as to why it’s important to switch to a plant based diet now more than ever, So here’s a list to help you know why it’s important to do so:

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1- Prevent chronic diseases.

Vegetarians tend to have a lower body mass index and lower overall cancer rates. Vegetarian diets tend to be lower in saturated fat and cholesterol and have higher levels of dietary fiber, magnesium and potassium, vitamins C and E, folate, carotenoids, flavonoids and other phytochemicals.

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2- You feel more energetic

People eating a plant-based diet have consistently found themselves to be happier, stronger, and more energetic. Better yet, a plant-based diet can boost your immune system.

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3- Help fight climate change

Non-vegetarian diets take a lot of water, money and CO2 to be produced. Meat, chicken and animal products have a higher production rate that increases the CO2 emissions in the air, and waste more money than vegetarian food.

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4- It can help solve world hunger

World hunger isn’t an issue of scarcity, it is an issue of resource allocation and distribution. It would mean that earth producing calories most efficiently and this would lead to more space for additional crops, which could help feed hungry people around the world.

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5- It saves money

Vegan/Vegetarian options are more popular and more famous around the world. Vegetables and essential vegetarian diet ingredients are cheaper than meat and animal produce.

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6- Clearer skin

Eating vegetables and reducing unhealthy, unnecessary excess of oils in your body will help the body detoxification itself from toxins faster which leads to clearer glowy skin. Plus fruits and vegetables are rich in antioxidants and other substances necessary for skin glow up.

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7- Weight loss

Vegetarian diet is rich in fiber and low in calories. So eating a full plant based meal will leave you fuller for a longer time and with much less calories which could lead to weight loss, while staying full.

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8- It will boost your heart’s health

Plant based means low fat, lower cholesterol levels, and lower blood pressure which contributes to a healthy well functioning long lasting healthy heart.

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9- Boost brain strength

It helps you protect your brain against serious illnesses, Alzheimer, risk of cognitive impairment and dementia.

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10- Overall well-being

Eating healthy, lowering blood pressure and chronic diseases risks, helping fight climate change, and improving your overall healthy and body, will lead to a whole wellness check. An overall well-being that could be inside and out

Should you add collagen supplements to your diet?

Collagen is the new trend of 2021, different celebrities and tiktok dieticians are recommending collagen in all it’s form for the skin, hair and overall well-being. But is it something worth adding to your diet and do we really need new pills to take everyday?

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What is collagen?

Collagen is the magical stuff that keeps the skin plump and smooth, and it helps keep joints strong, too. The protein can be found naturally in the body’s muscles, skin, and bones, and makes up about 25 percent of your total body mass

Some Benefits of taking COLLAGEN supplements:

1- Improves skin health.

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Collagen is a major component of your skin.

It plays a role in strengthening skin, plus may benefit elasticity and hydration. The wrinkle-reducing effects of collagen supplements have been attributed to their ability to stimulate your body to produce collagen on its own.

2- Helps Relieving joints pain

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Collagen helps maintain the integrity of your cartilage, but as the amount of collagen in your body decreases as you get older, your risk of developing degenerative joint disorders such as osteoarthritis increases

3- Prevents bone loss

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Your bones are made mostly of collagen, which gives them structure and helps keep them strong, just as the collagen in your body deteriorates as you age, so does bone mass.

4-Could boost muscle mass

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 This protein is necessary to keep your muscles strong and functioning properly.

Studies suggest that collagen supplements help boost muscle mass in people with sarcopenia, the loss of muscle mass that happens with age

5- Promotes heart health

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Collagen provides structure to your arteries, which are the blood vessels that carry blood from your heart to the rest of your body. Without enough collagen, arteries may become weak and fragile

6- Hair and nails. 

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Taking collagen may increase the strength of your nails by preventing brittleness. Additionally, it may stimulate your hair and nails to grow longer.

So yes, taking collagen supplement is a huge plus to your daily skincare routine and overall well-being.

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A reminder, some supplements are made of different sources of allergies for some people. Read the ingredient list before taking the supplement.

Expectations

Ahhh, expectations. How easy it is to ruin your day, week, months and years. Normally and in a very obvious way, humans tend to put expectations for everything they encounter in life. Whether it’s people, food, drinks, animals, or even random stuff they get.

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But unfortunately 90 % of the time, our expectations are never met. Which can cause a lot of distress and sadness due to the massive disappointment.

So how to stay on the safe side, without adopting some new toxic coping mechanism when it all goes down.

Take good care of yourself.

Always put yourself first, when it comes to your priorities in caring and investment. When you start loving and caring too much for yourself, you’ll automatically stop expecting love and support from others. Because at the end you’ve got no one other than yourself.

Motivate yourself

We all expect that our support system should always be the one hyping us up and giving us more and more motivation to start or continue something but this motivation should always come from within with a slight help from the world around us.

Work on your self-esteem

If you have a high self-esteem, you won’t be needing others to praise you or provide you with some of the small stuff we look for in friendships. Working on your self-esteem by practicing self-love, positive selftalk will get you through the worst situations in life at all times.

Set some realistic expectations

When you suffer a lot from expectations and usually highering them more than you should, you just can’t stop at any given moment and break through this toxic cycle. So you’ll still need to put expectations from people in your life. But what you can do here is lower them as much as possible. Be realistic about what you wish for from people, be considering of what they can offer you and what they cannot.

All these things can help you protect yourself from reality disappointment and it can save your friendships and mental health from going down the drain. So take good care of yourself to be able to take care of other people too.

Stay safe, healthy,happy, and always always, keep on smiling!

10 ways to adopt a positive mindset

We’ve all constantly heard that:”All it takes is a positive mindset”. But the struggle becomes too real when you try to do it. Adopting or changing an old mindset can be tricky so we’r here to help.

But the important thing here, is to be patient with yourself and forgiving because it is no an easy process.

So here’s a guide on how to change your mindset and adopt a more positive one:

1. Keep a gratitude journal.
2. Reframe your challenges as opportunities for growth.
3. Get good at being rejected—it happens to everyone!
4. Use positive words to describe your life.
5. Replace have with get (e.g., I have to go to work → I get to go to work).
6. Don’t let yourself get dragged down into other people’s complaints.
7. Breathe—consciously, purposefully, and mindfully.
8. Notice the righteous and good in times of tragedy and violence.
9. Have solutions ready when you point out problems.
10. Make someone else smile.
11. Start your day with a positive affirmation
12. Focus on the small things
13. Rewire your brain to find humor in bad situations
14. Transform your self-talk
15. Find good mentors and friends (positive influence/vibes)

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How to take care of your mental health

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Taking care of your mental health is becoming more and more a necessity and more common nowadays. A lot of us don’t know how to properly take care of our mental health

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So here’s a guide on how to do so in the most beneficial way possible.

1. Practice gratitude: Keep a journal with you so you can write down something you’re grateful for every day.
2. Connect with friends and family. Make time for the people you care about.
3. Go outside. Try to get at least 30 minutes of sunlight each day to improve your mood and increase energy.
4. Meditate. Set aside a few minutes each day to center yourself.
5. Get a good night’s sleep. Try fixating your sleep schedule, to get more sleep.
6. Improve your physical wellness. Try to exercise at least a few times per week and eat healthier.
7. Try out different ways of coping with stress. Find something that works for you, such as going for a walk, yoga, deep breathing, listening to music, etc.
8. Do something kind. Making someone else happy will make you feel happy, too.
9. Make time for yourself. Set aside time each day to be alone and recharge.
10. Do something you enjoy. Practice a hobby, watch a TV show you like, read a book, etc.

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Journal (how to)

Lately people have been talking about journaling, writing in their journal… It isn’t something new, you’ve probably used a diary when you were younger and now stopped.

In this article we will focus on why keeping a journal is important nowadays.

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Let’s start with the benefits you gain from journaling:

• Manage anxiety
• Reduce stress
• Cope with depression
• Helping you prioritize problems, fears, and concerns
• Tracking any symptoms day-to-day so that you can recognize triggers and learn ways to better control them
• Providing an opportunity for positive self-talk and identifying negative thoughts and behaviors
• Relax and meditate each day.
• Eat a healthy, balanced diet.
• Exercise regularly—get in some activity every day.
• Treat yourself to plenty of sleep each night.
• Stay focused on your goals (daily or the big ones).

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How to journal

These are some tips that will help you get started: (pick what suits you best)

• Try to write every day: make time for it, spare 10-20 minutes a day to focus on writing.
• Make it easy: Keep a pen and paper handy at all times, if you prefer digital journaling, keep your notes app always available.
• Write or draw whatever feels right: Your journal, your rules. Nothing is write or wrong when expressing your thoughts or emotions.
• Use your journal as you see fit: Your emotions and vulnerability are private, so is your journal.

So as you can see, keeping a journal and using it everyday will help you make your day happier, better and worth it.