Happy 20th birthday Asics Gel-Kayano!

A new family member has joined The Stevens house hold, let me introduce you to the beautiful Kayano 20!!!!

As you all know, last week I went to The Athlete's Foot to get fitted into some new Asics and WOW!!!! I learnt some great things from the team as they told me when we run, our feet absorb the shock of 2.5 times our body weight. What people often don’t understand is how the overall body can be impacted by a poorly fitted shoe. Feet can protect themselves and shift the pain to our shins, back and shoulders.

What I love about Asics and the new Gel-Kayano 20

They are super comfortable, it's like walking on a spongy cloud (there is ample of cushioning AKA Fluid Ride which is a 2 layered midsole with a top & bottom layer) so smooth, silky (AKA Fluid Fit multi-directional stretch fabric that improves fit and comfort) and so light! They are unreal! I now understand why people change their runners frequently. As soon as you stop feeling like you are walking or running on cloud 9, its time to get a new pair. For most people, this is about every 6-10 months, depending on your level of activity.

I feel like running a marathon in these bad boys. Even my intense Freeletics workouts with the interval sprints, 2kms runs  and burpees I am doing, the shock absorption is amazing. Above is me in action over the weekend, listening to a bit of Lady Gaga performing as many burpees within 300 seconds (5 minutes) x 3 rounds.

Getting fitted at The Athlete’s Foot

Since the new Asics range has launched first at The Athlete’s Foot and in exclusive colours in their stores, I visited the team at Ballarat. The Fitting experience was fabulous and was my first pair of Asics fitted in over 10 years!!!! In a nutshell, the team at The Athlete’s Foot are very thorough and knowledgeable - they measure your feet, get you to step and walk on this cool intelligent pad which displays how much pressure, stability and balance you have on each foot. You are then given a summary of your "static snapshot" report and with the help of their fit technician team, voilá you walk out of the store in some runners that are fit to your unique feet. You can read more about your Fitprint here.

Getting fitted in Asics at The Athlete's Foot

I was thrilled to try all the new colours and the range of the new ASICS runners which are exclusive to The Athlete's Foot. Even the staff were excited to have their first customer fitted in the new ASICS 20 year anniversary runners. They don't hit other retail stores for a couple of weeks, so I felt a bit spesh. See the new Asics range here.

I tried all 4 styles of the new Asics range -  GT 2000 2, GEL Nimbus 15 and the GT 1000 2. I ended up being fitted to the Kayano 20 as it provided more arch support for my feet.

Kayano 20, GT 2000, GEL Nimbus

These Asics runners range from $149.95-$229.95. Mine were $249.95. We all know healthy starts from the feet up and I would much rather invest in my health, then pay unnecessary injury hospital/doctor fees. Do you agree?

So for any of my readers that need a new pair of running shoes head to your local The Athlete's Foot store as they are the knowledgeable ones when it comes to fitting the right runners for you. 

And how about winning your own exclusive pair of Asics runners here on Fitness Food And Style?

Win a free pair of Asics runners on Fitness Food And Style

I am super excited to announce an exclusive competition we are having here on Fitness Food And Style and the lovely folks at The Athlete's Foot. After falling in love with my new Asics Gel-Kayano 20 runners, I thought what better way to celebrate 20 years of the Asics Kayano than with one lucky FF&S reader!!!!

To enter and win an Asics fitting in store at The Athlete's Foot, all you have to do is:

• Leave me a comment below and share your favourite running tip you've heard over the last 20 years
• Like Fitness Food And Style on Facebook 
• To increase your chances of winning hashtag #fitfor20 on any social media platform whilst working out and ssubscribe to Fitness Food And Style by Email
• Also stop by and say hi from Fitness Food And Style on The Athlete's Foot Facebook page

Terms and conditions:

• This giveaway is only open to Australian residents
• Closing date for entries is Saturday, 30th November 2013
• The winners will be contacted via email on Monday 2nd December 2013
• If the winner does not reply to my email within 24 hours, another winner will be chosen
• Entries will be judged on merit and decision of the winner will be final

I can't wait to see all your fit pictures out there!!! 

XxDani

top 10 tips for a healthy pregnancy

By: American Baby
You can feel wonderful during your pregnancy if you take good care of yourself. Increase your odds of a healthy pregnancy by following these sensible steps to keep yourself in top condition:
1. Eat five or six well-balanced meals each day.
2. Take a prenatal vitamin each day as directed by your obstetrician or midwife.
3. Drink plenty of fluids -- at least eight to 10 glasses a day -- avoiding caffeine and artificial coloring.
4. Don't drink alcohol.
5. Don't smoke or allow yourself to be exposed to secondhand smoke.
6. Exercise -- it's important for your general health and also can help reduce stress. Take a pregnancy exercise class or walk at least fifteen to twenty minutes every day at a moderate pace. Walk in cool, shaded areas or indoors in order to prevent overheating.
7. Get adequate sleep -- at least eight hours a night. If you're suffering from sleep disturbances, take naps during the day and see your physician for advice.
8. Wear comfortable, nonrestricting shoes and put your feet up several times a day to prevent fatigue and swelling of the feet, legs, and ankles.
9. Continue to wear a safety belt while riding in motor vehicles. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the shoulder portion of the restraint should be positioned over the collar bone. The lap portion should be placed under the abdomen as low as possible on the hips and across the upper thighs, never above the abdomen. Also, pregnant women should sit as far from the air bag as possible.
10. Don't take over-the-counter medications or herbal remedies without first consulting your obstetrician or midwife.
Sources: National Women's Health Information Center; American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
All content here, including advice from doctors and other health professionals, should be considered as opinion only. Always seek the direct advice of your own doctor in connection with any questions or issues you may have regarding your won health or the health of others.

http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/my-body/nutrition/healthy-pregnancy-tips/

Top 10 tips for a healthy heart

by:Jessica Aldred

 There are many steps people can take to try to prevent heart disease. You can start by concentrating on key lifestyle areas such as eating, exercise, smoking and drinking, and considering other factors like family history, diabetes and stress. Here are 10 top tips for a healthy heart

1. Stop smoking. Quitting smoking is the single most important thing a person can do to live longer. If you are a smoker, you are twice as likely to have a heart attack than a non-smoker. But from the moment you stop smoking, the risk of heart attack starts to reduce. With public smoking bans recently introduced, there has never been a better time to give up.
2. Cut down on salt. Too much salt can cause high blood pressure, which increases the risk of developing coronary heart disease. Avoid foods like crisps, salted nuts, canned and packet soups and sauces, baked beans and canned vegetables, pork pies, pizzas and ready meals. Many breakfast cereals and breads that appear healthy also contain high levels of salt, so keep your eye on these too.
3. Watch your diet. A healthy diet can help to reduce the risk of developing heart disease, and can also help increase the chances of survival after a heart attack. You should try to have a balanced diet, containing plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables, oily fish, starchy foods such as wholegrain bread, pasta and rice. Avoid foods like biscuits, cakes, pastries and dairy products that are high in saturated fats and sugar.
4. Monitor your alcohol. Too much alcohol can damage the heart muscle, increase blood pressure and also lead to weight gain. Binge drinking will increase your risk of having a heart attack, so you should aim to limit your intake to one to two units a day.
5. Get active.The heart is a muscle and it needs exercise to keep fit so that it can pump blood efficiently round your body with each heart beat. You should aim for 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise a day. If this seems too daunting, start off gently and build up gradually. Keeping fit not only benefits your physical health - it improves your mental health and wellbeing too.
6. Manage your weight. The number of people who are overweight in Britain is rising fast - already more than half of the adult population is overweight or obese. Carrying a lot of extra weight as fat can greatly affect your health and increases the risk of life-threatening conditions such as coronary heart disease and diabetes. If you are overweight or obese, start by making small, but healthy changes to what you eat, and try to become more active.
7. Get your blood pressure and cholesterol levels checked by your GP. The higher your blood pressure, the shorter your life expectancy. People with high blood pressure run a higher risk of having a stroke or a heart attack. High levels of cholesterol in the blood - produced by the liver from saturated fats - can lead to fatty deposits in your coronary arteries that increase your risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, and diseases that affect the circulation. You can help lower your cholesterol level by exercising and eating high-fibre foods such as porridge, beans, pulses, lentils, nuts, fruits and vegetables.
8. Learn to manage your stress levels. If you find things are getting on top of you, you may fail to eat properly, smoke and drink too much and this may increase your risk of a heart attack.
9. Check your family history . If a close relative is at risk of developing coronary heart disease from smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, lack of physical activity, obesity and diabetes, then you could be at risk too.
10. Make sure you can recognise the early signs of coronary heart disease . Tightness or discomfort in the chest, neck, arm or stomach which comes on when you exert yourself but goes away with rest may be the first sign of angina, which can lead to a heart attack if left untreated.
· Health tips from the British Heart Foundation

( http://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/mar/17/NHS1 )

Seeing You Seeing Me The Trouble With ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’

By MANOHLA DARGIS

It was her derrière that first caught my eye. Specifically, it was the way the camera captured the pretty teenager’s rear end in “Blue Is the Warmest Color” so that it was centered and foregrounded in the frame. It is a lovely derrière, no question, round, compact and firm, and I became well acquainted with how it looked whether tucked into snug jeans or perched prettily in the air when Adèle, who’s 15 when the movie opens, lies splayed sleeping face down in bed, as young children often do. The director, Abdellatif Kechiche, I realized fairly quickly, likes a tight end.

Mind you, I thought the same about Mike Nichols, given the attention he lavished on Natalie Portman’s rear in his 2004 film, “Closer.” This observation was a data point that I stashed in my files, where I’ve also noted that Alfred Hitchcock preferred blondes, and Quentin Tarantino likes pretty feet. For the most part, this information doesn’t factor into my thinking about these filmmakers, even if it is unsettling to hear Tippi Hedren brand Hitchcock as a sexual predator. The truth is, if I were hung up about every predatory director or every degrading image of a woman, I couldn’t be a film critic. So I watch, loving movies that don’t necessarily love or even like women. 

Does it matter that Mr. Kechiche appears to have a thing for rear ends? Mr. Kechiche, after all, elevated one such rear into art, or so the consensus was in May at the Cannes Film Festival, where “Blue Is the Warmest Color” won the Palme d’Or. In an unusual move, the jury, led by Steven Spielberg, awarded the Palme to Mr. Kechiche and his stars, Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. This “exceptional step,” Mr. Spielberg said as he announced the winners, was taken to recognize “the achievements of three artists.” By asserting that the actresses were co-creators of the movie, the jury had acknowledged that movies are also made by their performers, an idea that gently chips away at auteurism, one of the critic’s favorite interpretive strategies. 

“Blue Is the Warmest Color,” which has now opened in the United States, is a sexual coming-of-age story about a French provincial voluptuary, Adèle (Ms. Exarchopoulos). She’s a teenager with strong appetites — she keeps sweets stashed under her bed — whose hunger has a distinctly carnal aspect and invokes an association between literal and sexual appetite that has probably been around since Eve took a bite of that troublesome apple. Adèle stuffs her mouth with food, even as she remains unnourished by her high school boyfriend. She’s only sated when later she falls for Emma (Ms. Seydoux), the blue-haired artist with whom she forms a bond as emotionally and psychologically intense as it is sexually pleasurable. They fall in love, move in together, and then it falls apart. 

I first saw “Blue Is the Warmest Color” at Cannes, where I wrote 399 dissenting words on the movie and raised some of the issues I had with it. I wrote that Mr. Kechiche was a self-indulgent filmmaker (the movie runs three hours), and mentioned a scene in which a man talks about art and female orgasms. Primarily, I questioned Mr. Kechiche’s representation of the female body. By keeping so close to Adèle, he seemed to be trying to convey her subjective experience, specifically with the hovering camerawork and frequent close-ups of her face. Yet, early on, this sense of the character’s interiority dissolves when the camera roves over her body even while she is sleeping. Is Adèle, I had wondered then, dreaming of her own hot body?

I received flak for my comments, which was unsurprising because I had criticized a movie that other people love, raising questions about pleasure and a director whose desire felt more at stake than that of his characters. Some critics decided that I was really complaining about pornography, which was surprising because, while the movie uses some of that genre’s conventions, it’s clear that the sex was pantomimed. In June, Owen Gleiberman, from Entertainment Weekly, wrote a long blog post in which he took issue with my comments and those of Julie Maroh, who wrote the graphic novel on which the movie is based. By that point, she had weighed in on Mr. Kechiche’s adaptation, calling it “coherent, justified and fluid.” 

But she also expressed unhappiness with the sex scenes with Adèle and Emma. “It appears to me that this was what was missing on the set: lesbians.” Mr. Gleiberman took this to mean that Ms. Maroh was saying that real lesbians should have played the roles, although that is not what she wrote. What she did write was that “except for a few passages — this is all that it brings to my mind: a brutal and surgical display, exuberant and cold, of so-called lesbian sex, which turned into porn, and made me feel very ill at ease.”

Ms. Maroh saw a connection between the way Mr. Kechiche shot the sex scenes and another scene in which characters talk about what she called “the myth of the feminine orgasm” as “mystic and far superior to the masculine one.” She added: “But here we go, to sacralize once more womanhood in such ways. I find it dangerous.” She was raising a red flag about an essentialist view of female sexuality, in which women, with their holy orgasms, are thought to embody an innate and eternal mystery. In “The Second Sex,” Simone de Beauvoir termed this the mythic idea of “the eternal feminine,” one that does not account for the “multiple existence of women.” 

Ms. Maroh’s description of the sex scenes as both pornographic and conveying a sense that women are sacred might seem contradictory, except that both the pornographic and the sacred generally treat women as abstractions instead of flesh-and-blood individuals. Pornography involves real sex and has one blissfully obvious objective: to turn viewers on. “Blue” isn’t a blue movie; it’s just a formally standard example of European art cinema that comes with the usual ambitions, pleasure and art included. Even so, I can see why someone might find it pornographic given the visual conventions that Mr. Kechiche used, including close-ups that assert that, as a journalist, Liza Katzman, once said of pornography, “The drama of a woman’s pleasure is written not on her genitals, but her face.” 

 From the start, Mr. Kechiche puts us spatially close to Adèle, a proximity that I think is meant to create, to borrow a phrase from George Eliot, the “extension of our sympathies.” Yet if my sympathies didn’t extend, it’s partly because Mr. Kechiche employs a selective aesthetic that shows Adèle slurping her food (“You’re voracious,” Emma says) but, importantly, does not permit her a similarly sloppy appetite in bed, where the movie’s carefully constructed realism is jettisoned along with bodily excesses and excretions in favor of tasteful, decorous poses. This may be what Ms. Maroh meant when she said the sex scenes were missing lesbians; I’d go further and say they’re missing women of any kind. Adèle’s hunger is contained, prettified, aestheticized. 

This isn’t a question of “the male gaze,” an idea from feminist film theory and a phrase that has been thrown around a lot by admirers of the movie and that I purposely didn’t use in May. The movie has run-of-the mill representational problems, which is why I quoted the art critic John Berger’s useful axiom from his 1972 book, “Ways of Seeing.” “Men look at women,” Berger wrote. “Women watch themselves being looked at.” It’s a formulation that may not work for all men and all women, as many feminist film theorists have argued. But Berger’s comment retains its relevance, and it’s apt given the art lesson that a man delivers to some women in “Blue Is the Warmest Color.”

The lecture takes place during a party given by Adèle and Emma. Adèle has become Emma’s muse, a familiar division of labor that carries into the kitchen, where Adèle cooks the food. Later, with the party in full swing, a man begins talking about art and orgasms. “Ever since women have been shown in paintings, their ecstasy is shown more than men’s, whose is shown via woman,” he says without a hint of irony. “Men try desperately to depict it.” Three women offer short retorts, including that “it could be a fantasy.” Unstoppable, he adds, “Art by women never tackles female pleasure.” The women, including Emma, a former student at the École des Beaux-Arts, remain silent. None mention that historically, women were often barred from working with nude models.

The women’s silence is deafening and, like the sex scenes, punctures the movie’s realism. It isn’t that it’s inconceivable that a man, an art type whom Emma thinks could help her career, would yammer on at a party about representations and female orgasms to women who say little. It’s improbable but not unimaginable. The man’s words and the women’s silence are aesthetic choices, and as much a part of the movie’s meaning as the hand-held cinematography; Adèle’s appetite; her work with children; the absence of a score; and her silent, downward look after a man at the same party asks her what sex with Emma is like and then asks Adèle if she wants to be a mother. All these add information and at times serve as metacommentaries on the female body on display in “Blue.”

Watching the movie at Cannes, I couldn’t help thinking of the Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman’s first feature, “Je Tu Il Elle,” which has a lengthy sex scene between two young women. Ms. Akerman, who plays the protagonist, filmed the scene in medium long shot without any of the visual codes (close-ups, fragmented bodies) used in mainstream pornography. It’s infrequent that you see female pleasure like this or even a shot like the one of Brad Pitt’s torso in “Thelma & Louise,” which shows you what Thelma sees before making love. There’s a banality to how a lot of directors represent female bodies and female pleasure, partly because they borrow from the industrial handbook of male-oriented pornography.

In truth, it isn’t sex per se that makes “Blue Is the Warmest Color” problematic; it’s the patriarchal anxieties about sex, female appetite and maternity that leach into its sights and sounds and the way it frames, with scrutinizing closeness, the female body. In the logic of the movie, Adèle’s body is a mystery that needs solving and, for a brief while, it seems as if Emma will help solve it. In “The Second Sex,” Beauvoir wrote that “the erotic experience is one that most poignantly discloses to human beings the ambiguity of their condition; in it they are aware of themselves as flesh and spirit, as the other and as the subject.” This is the ideal, but for Adèle, the erotic experience leads to despair, desperation, isolation. The body betrays her — just like a woman.

That wouldn’t be the first time that happened to a female character, though as it happens, as a movie critic, I spend more time looking at men’s bodies than women’s. Mainstream movies, especially from the big studios, are now overwhelmingly dominated by male-driven stories, made by men, for men. Feminists have taken issues with old Hollywood representations of women, but at least its star system provided a rich body of work, which is one reason you don’t often read feminists talking about movies outside academia and Jezebel.com. There’s not much to discuss. That’s another reason “Blue” is interesting: It’s a three-hour movie about women, a rare object of critical inquiry perhaps especially for American men working in the male-dominated field of movie critics. The truth is we need more women on screen, naked and not, hungry and not, to get this conversation really started. 

 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/movies/the-trouble-with-blue-is-the-warmest-color.html?_r=0

Face Cleansing

Face Cleansing



Your face looks back at you from the mirror...does it look dry or oily or listless, or does it look glowing and radiant?

This depends on how you take care of your face. Start by giving yourself 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at bedtime.

Tip 1:

Take 1 tbsp of un-boiled milk, dip a small pad of cotton wool in this and rub on the face gently. Use circular movements, use upward strokes on the neck area. Leave this on for 15 minutes. Wash with cold water.

Tip 2:

Take a thick slice of cucumber. Don't peel the slice, rub in a circular motion all over the face and neck areas. Wash after 15 minutes.

Tip 3:

Halve a tomato, gently rub over face and neck and wash after 15 minutes.

Tip 4:

Take the half of a lime peel, from which the juice has been extracted, rub this firmly on the face and the neck. Using a Scrub-(once in 3-4 days).

After washing off the milk or juice - take a tsp of oat bran or wheat husk or gram flour (besan). Make a paste with a few drops of water and rub the face and neck gently with this. This sloughs away the dead cells and gives the face a glow. Don't use soap, just splash on cold water that will act as an astringent and close the pores.

Tip 5:

Use green gram powder or rice flour mixed with curds instead.

Oily Skin: If the face is oily,

After a bath as a base for make-up use some diluted limejuice to dab on before application of foundation or any other make-up.

Tip 6:

Diluted buttermilk dabbed on the face and left for 15 minutes, gently wipe with moist cotton wool before applying make-up.

Tip 7:

Rub the face well with an ice cube.

Tip 8:

Slice an Apple into thin slices. Place these on the face and leave for 15 minutes. These soak up the extra oil and helps to close pores.



Read more: Face Cleansing - Beauty Tips | Medindia http://www.medindia.net/beauty/face-cleansing.asp#ixzz2iwhFzeVZ

Hemorrhoids Information and Treatment Solutions

 Hemorrhoids Information and Treatment Solutions

by Henry Riffiles

Hemorrhoids are one of the most colon diseases. It’s not usually a serious medical condition but it can be very painful and irritating to sufferers. What happens is that the veins in the anal region come under stress and sort of gets a blow out, causing a tiny bulge to form in the vein. Once the bulge forms, it then can come under further stress from passing stools, daily cleaning, sitting, and rubbing from clothes, all this irritation only helps to exacerbate the discomfort. Usually the hemorrhoids that are located at the opening of the anal canal are more subjected to these daily stresses while internal hemorrhoids are less painful.

 However, if internal hemorrhoids get so swollen that they begin to protrude from the anal opening, this is considered a complication called prolapsed and may then become more painful. Common symptoms of external hemorrhoids include bleeding, itching, swelling, and burning, while internal hemorrhoids may only have bleeding as a symptom.

The good news about hemorrhoids is that for most patients if they are caught early enough and treated then complications can be avoided and symptoms minimized. There are a lot of excellent hemroid treatment creams readily available at most drug stores that can help quite a bit with minor hemorrhoid symptoms. Another excellent solution for dealing with minor hemorrhoids is to start with an improved diet high in fiber. Fiber will help control constipation and reduce straining while using the rest room which is the most common cause of hemorrhoids.

If diet and non-prescription creams alone aren’t enough to get your hemorrhoids under control then more aggressive treatment may be required. Once a hemorrhoid get to a Grade III or IV then prescription strength medications or surgery may be the only option. The key is to start treating your symptoms ASAP in the hopes that your condition won’t get this serious, but this is not always possible. If you do end up in the small minority of hemroid surgery, the good news is that there are excellent office procedures such as the rubber band ligation that offer excellent results with a minimum of risk. These newer procedures can be done outside a hospital, patients experience a minimum of pain and the recovery times are must faster than with the traditional hemorrhoidectomy.

Source: http://www.freearticlezines.com/2013/10/your-aching-back/

How To Destroy The Anxiety And Succeed With Confidence

Anxiety is a condition that affects millions of people every day. Physical reactions and mental condition causes can prevent success. Success does not have to mean the amount of money you have in the bank or how well you do at work can be anything you wanted to make you happy makes you content and fulfilled life things that you can handle more. Let's face facts can not be good at all, if we would be superhuman and the world would be a very different place. Even if someone is amazing in something that does not mean you will have success at all times. The best athletes in the world, you do not win every race and win every game because they are human. But what they do to be successful in trying to be the best and do anything they want with nothing stopping them.

The anxiety and succeed in the battle of the things they want out of life can take time, energy and focus, but with hard work can pay what you can gain new skills and thought processes take you on a successful other areas of life. Think what you want to succeed, it can be anything you might want to be a good parent, athlete, artist, dancer, friend, employer, student, traveler, conductor, singer, writer, cook, or a philanthropist.

Now, think about how much they really want to succeed and the sacrifices they are willing to do, since it will be some, but this is not a bad thing, means it will filter out the idle time, spending and consuming the use of excess energy money. Probe yourself with the questions and write them all down and be honest. The thing is that if there is doubt in your mind about something you probably do not, and this can affect confidence in the beginning until you have built up enough. Ask questions such as I have the time? Will I need to make sacrifices? What is the ultimate goal? How will you make me feel? What would be the next step? Do I have the support of others? Ask as many and what they feel is necessary to find out how you feel.

Making this technique gives a sense of self-awareness that is absolutely key to understanding yourself and deal with literally everything in your life. When you are on your path to success is good to talk to yourself. This does not mean you're crazy, and probably do this naturally, but still self-talk is a conscious effort to train through what you are doing. Write down the things you talk about if necessary so you can keep track and be honest with yourself thinking about the mistakes they have made and what to do next. In this way, start being creative with your ideas and be able to make decisions when they are focused on what they have actually done and do. Even if you come up with some ideas of garbage still talk about it because it could lead to a revelation that success story. Keep motivated can be hard to do, but doing this is to remind you what you are doing and why it is easy to lose track with the rest of your life eating away at our time and attention.

You need to ensure that is dedicated first and doing something you want to do, since it is often sufficient motivation, but sometimes you fall off the track a little to think of a small reward might be to stay and remember what they are doing what they are doing. Aim high, but keep it real and once you reach your goal to expand the borders more as their confidence rises and go for whatever you want, banish anxiety. Look at that journey to a life you deserve and want no matter what is left behind anxious behaviors as you build strength and confidence you need to leave your comfort zone of fear and realize that the concern what others think of you is irrelevant because it serves no real purpose in your life if you have irrational beliefs. Therefore, try different ways to control your life again and succeed in being happy and healthy.

by: Lisa Beverley
http://www.articlecity.com/articles/health/article_12470.shtml