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Genetics And Weight Loss

"I would be able to lose weight if it wasn't for my genetics"

The actual truth is that genetic factors CAN play a role in the speed of weight loss. Why is this? Because from birth everyone has a different hormonal profile and hormones are what determine every action in the body. This includes metabolism and fat burning.

Now while genetic factors can play a role in the speed of weight loss, they cannot stop you from losing weight and changing your metabolism. Hormonal profiles can be changed! If your hormonal profile can be changed, then the speed of which you lose weight can be changed!

The point is that sometimes in the beginning, getting the weight loss machine humming can be some work. The last thing you need is to feel that all your efforts are in vain because you are fighting genetics.

What I want you to know is that genetics will only keep you fat if you do nothing in an effort to change it. Fat is very timid. As soon as you make an effort to change your physical state, your body will start to respond in kind. You start taking care of yourself and fat gets scared. You keep taking care of yourself and fat doesn't feel comfortable hanging around.

Everybody can and will lose fat if they just try. Genetics just dictates the speed that everything happens at in the beginning.

Are some people naturally big? Yes, they are called endomorphs. Are some people naturally skinny? Yes, they are called ectomorphs. It doesn't matter one lick though. Why? Because there are many things in life that people do not start out naturally gifted at but go on to become the best of the best through simply trying and never giving up.

What you can conceive, you can achieve.

I want to share with you some thoughts about thoughts. This is based around some motivational stuff I read from James Allen.

A woman's mind may be likened to a garden, which may be lovingly cultivated or allowed to run wild; but whether cultivated or neglected, it must, and will, create. If no useful seeds are put into it, then an abundance of useless weeds will grow therein, and will continue to produce their kind.

Just as a gardener cultivates her plot, keeping it free from weeds, while growing the flowers and fruits which she requires, so may a woman tend the garden of her mind, weeding out all the negative, useless, and untrue thoughts, and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of positive, useful, and true thoughts. By pursuing this process, a woman sooner or later discovers that she is the master-gardener of her soul, the director of her life and body. She also reveals, within herself, the laws of thought, and understands, with ever-increasing accuracy, how the thoughts and mind elements operate in the shaping of her character, circumstances, and body.

What I want you to know is that the first step to getting the body you want and losing extra weight comes from letting go of who you think you are. You are not someone fighting the uphill battle against genetics. You are someone that needs to clear some weeds and get to work on a wonderful new creation.

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Make Money With Cash Back Credit Cards

Cash back credit cards are a great way to get some of your money back that you spend using your credit cards.

With plenty of credit cards issuers offering this to the credit card customers now, to entice hem into spending more, there is one thing that I would say though, is only take out a cash back credit card if you can pay your credit card bill off in full at the end of each month, if not then you could be holding a credit card that is charging you a higher rate of interest, costing you more for your borrowing than it should and could be.

Cash back credit cards are more suited for those who keep a clear balance each month and so need not have to worry about the level of APR that the credit card is charging as you will be keeping your balance clear, so looking for the best cash back deal possible, couldn't be any easier.

Most credit card companies will offer you a cash back percentage of 0.5% or 1%, but if you search hard enough you may find one that is willing to give you a cash back offer of 2%, though this may be for an introductory period only and will revert back to a standard 0.5% or 1%.

If you do spend heavily on your credit card through the month and meet your payment in full each month and on time (this is also vital), then lets for talking sake that you spend £1,500 each and every month, so by using your cash back credit card, which is giving you 1% back on your spending, will see that you are £15 better off each month and will give you £180 a year back on your spending, just for simply using a credit card that you will use anyway.

What you will have to resist, is the temptation of knowing that if you use your credit card for an item that costs more than you can afford to pay back at the end of the month, to gain the cash back will only cost you more in interest charges, than you would make from your cash back facility, as the standard APR on a credit card roughly 16.9%, with your cash back card being maybe higher than that, then for the 1% you make in cash back, you will lose almost 1.5% or more in interest charges, defeating the purpose on why you have the card in the first place.