When you start working out, trying to get fit and lose weight, many of the people in your life will be happy for you. They’ll support you in whatever way they can, encourage you to reach your goals, and might even be inspired to start working out themselves.

Then there are the others, the ones who won’t be as happy for you as you would have expected. In fact, just the opposite.

These negative people I can think of a few other names to call them) will ridicule you for your efforts. They’ll scoff and roll their eyes when you mention exercising, or cutting back on certain foods. They’ll try to make you feel vain and self-absorbed for wanting to lose weight. (After all, only people who are full of themselves should care about their appearance, right?) They might even try to make you feel guilty for “wasting your time” on something so silly, when there are much more important things in to think and worry about.

There are all sorts of reasons why some people in your life might react this way to your attempts to get fit. But the important thing to remember is not to let them get to you. Don’t let their negative attitudes stop you from doing something that will have a positive effect on your appearance, your self esteem, and your life.

Tracy Garcia

Makes 4 servings

• 1 small red onion, chopped
• 1 16-ounce package of seitan strips or chunks of seitan cut into strips (try White Wave Vegetarian Stir Fry Strips or Lightlife Steak Style Strips)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 1/2 to 3 cups vegetarian barbeque sauce
• 4 sandwich rolls (I use Ezekiel Bread)
• hot sauce to taste
• garnish: lettuce, tomato, green pepper, if desired

Drain seitan and set aside.

Sauté the onion in vegetable oil in a large pan over high heat until soft.

Add seitan, and cook until lightly browned, stirring often. Add barbeque sauce, reduce to medium heat, and cook, stirring every 5 minutes, until the barbeque sauce has thickened to completely coat the seitan (about 30 to 45 minutes).

Add hot sauce to taste. Spread seitan mixture on rolls and garnish, if desired.

Mix dry ingredients. Mix wet ingredients separately. Then, mix everything together and whisk until smooth. Pour about 3/4 of a cup of batter at a time onto waffle iron. Cook the waffles until they almost stop steaming. Makes about 11 waffles. If you don’t eat them right away, you can freeze them.

Tangerine and Jicama Salad Recipe! vegetarian and vegan

This is a wonderful salad I got from Nicole at http://www.pinchmysalt.com  This was simple and tasty.

The ultimate measure of your MLM success is how large your downline is and how active and prosperous their downlines are. This article will look at how you can discover the secret to building a massive downline.

If you have been around network marketing for awhile, you may have attended meetings used to advertise different business opportunities. Many prospects come to these meetings and ultimately some people will sign up to be a part of the business. Many of these prospects do not understand the system and ultimately turn out to be unsuccessful. Many people’s downlines are filled with individuals who do not work actively at the business. How many people in your downline are active and involved in the business? That right there is how you discover the secret to building a massive downline. You have to find those individuals who have a keen interest in networking marketing and will be active in building their business. You have to help them become successful and this will make you more successful.

To truly attract people, this can happen through attraction marketing. With attraction marketing, you are focused on marketing that will attract people who will come to your website on their own. This is very cost effective as far as your marketing. This can happen through positioning your business correctly and then focusing on how you can communicate your business to others. This can work very effectively when you are using social networking in connection with attraction marketing. With social networking, you will interact with online communities focused around the interest areas that are of importance. If these do not exist, create online communities focused around those interest areas.

Tracy Garcia

ChaLEAN Extreme is a workout system that operates on one simple principle: Muscle Burns Fat. This isn’t really a new concept. But ChaLEAN Extreme is designed to take full advantage of this idea with an extreme workout designed to help you get lean and burn fat.
How Does It Work?

It’s a scientifically proven fact. Lean muscle burns fat. And the more muscle you have, the more fat you will burn. And the ChaLEAN Extreme workout system promises that you will burn as much as 60% of your body fat in just three months.

Charlene Johnson, the creator of ChaLEAN Extreme, uses a circuit training technique called “Lean Phasing” to get results. During the workout, a combination of intense cardio and resistance training is used to rev up your metabolism. So not only will you burn fat during your workout, you will burn fat even when you aren’t. Burning fat while you’re asleep? Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
The Three Phases

ChaLEAN Extreme has three different phases.

Phase 1 is the Burn phase. In this phase, you lift weights to give your metabolism a boost. These workouts will put your upper body and lower body through their paces, and help you to see amazing results fast.

Phase 2 is the Push phase. In this phase, you will start lifting heavier weights to quickly build more fat burning muscle. Don’t let this phase intimidate you. You are shown the proper way to do these exercises, and will get the hang of them in no time.

And, finally, there’s Phase 3, which is the Lean phase. These dynamic routines will make the fat melt away.
Flatten Your Tummy

Everyone dreams of having a flat, firm stomach. Well ChaLEAN Extreme includes two targeted ab routines designed to give your the rock-hard abs you’ve always dreamed of.
Money-Back Guarantee

ChaLEAN Extreme promises that you will see visible results in just 30 days. And they back that promise up with a guarantee. If you aren’t satisfied with this workout system after 30 days, you can return it and get a full refund.

With a guarantee like that, you truly have nothing to lose.
Conclusions

The ChaLEAN Extreme workout system is a challenging one. But, like others who have tried this system, you will find it to be easier than you first expected. And the effort will pay off, and you will see amazing results fast as the fat melts away to reveal your new, leaner body.

9 Tips: How to Drink More Water

Many health experts will agree that drinking more water will help give you more energy. (Read here from Michelle Schoffro Cook on why you should drink more water.)  In celebration of this week’s theme on keeping up your energy, here are my personal tricks on drinking more water.

* Make it a Morning Ritual. I once read in a magazine article that many of us wake up dehydrated, and the first thing you should do before you do anything else is drink two glasses of water. I’ve now made it a regular morning habit, and it inspires the momentum to continue drinking more for the rest of the day.

* Add Some Lemon. Back in the early stages when I couldn’t stand drinking water, I squeezed lemon juice into my water. At restaurants, I would ask the servers to provide lemon slices with my water–which makes me sound snobby, but most restaurants are willing and expected to provide this service.

* Keep it In the Clear. When your urine is clear, you are properly hydrated. When your urine is a dark yellow, you are definitely dehydrated.

* Think of How Pretty You’ll Look. I don’t know how direct the correlation is between having healthy, glowing skin and drinking a lot of water, but I’m not taking any chances. Whatever psychological trick keeps me hydrated!

* Do It Like It’s Hot. If you’re in the mood for a hot drink, drink heated water. Sometimes we just want the psychological pleasure that comes with having a hot mug cupped in our hands than the actual drink itself. Plus, coffee and tea contain caffeine, which is a diuretic and elevates the rate of water being expelled from your body via urination.

* Drink When You Have a Munchie Attack. Sometimes our hunger is thirst masquerading as fake hunger. Drinking a cup or two of water will make you feel “full.”

*Take Baby Steps. Don’t expect to go from zero glasses of water to the full 8 glasses overnight. Start with one glass of water in the morning and one glass of water at night, and build your way up from there.

* Cheap cheap. Water at restaurants are FREE!

* Always have a full glass of water near you when you are working. It will give you something to mindlessly sip on when you are brainstorming or need something to do with your hands.

Thanks Yumi

Yumi Sakugawa for Intent.com

Vegan Pumpkin Nog

INGREDIENTS

• 1 (29 ounce) can pumpkin puree
• 4 cups vanilla rice milk
• 1 cup vanilla flavored non-dairy frozen dessert
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon ground mace