This is so cool! Imagine having a weight loss coach right on your PC. If you love charts and graphs and the latest nutritional information, you’ll love this!
The Diet Power download is free. You can use the software for 15 days before you decide whether you want to purchase the license key (which, for a limited time, is just $29.99).
This weight loss tool is genius. It tracks your calories consumed and burned with a food and exercise log. It helps you to plan meals and analyze recipes and it tells you how you are doing with your intake of 30 vital nutrients.
The food log is really thorough (you’ll find 21,000 foods in the database, and you can always add more by entering the information from the food’s nutrition label.) You can also enter the calories you have burned in your exercise log.
DietPower can make any diet more effective because it can help you to understand how your choices in food and exercise will actually impact your nutrient balance and your metabolism. You can use the software along with other diets you may be following, or you can use it by itself.
DietPower says you can expect to drop 2 to 5 pounds in your first week. And then your weight loss should begin tracking on a blue line, which you’ll see in the software when you set your goals. (I just love all the charts and graphs in this program).
You can test this software yourself risk-free. The download is free and you can use it for 2 weeks. If you decide you like it, you can purchase a license for $29.99 (which includes 4 different members of your household). If you decide you don’t like it, there’s no hassle because you don’t need to give your credit card number or anything before you start your free trial. If you do decide to purchase the license after the free trial, you’ll have a one-year money-back satisfaction guarantee
How to Get Started
It’s really easy. Click here and follow the instructions to download the diet power software to any Windows PC.
When you start the program, you’ll be prompted to enter your weight loss goals as well as your timeline for achieving it. The program will calculate a calorie budget for you that you can follow to meet your goal by the date provided. Then you just log your food and exercise throughout your day.
My favorite part of the program is the focus on NUTRITION.
The program actually gives you a grade on how well you are doing nutritionally right on your food log (it’s called your Nutritional Quotient - or NQ), along with suggestions for raising your NQ with new food choices throughout your day.
In addition to your NQ, you’ll also see a pie chart on your food log that tells you at a glance what portion of your day’s calories are coming from Protein, Fat, Carbohydrates, and Alcohol.
For a limited time, you can save $20 on your license during DietPower’s 20th anniversary sale (upgrades are $19.99).
Diet Power has been rated “4 Stars!” and “The Ultimate” by top health magazines. Here are some more excerpts from reviews:
“4 Stars!”
—Shape
“Year’s Top Download Pick!”
—PC World
“The only diet software proven effective in weight loss.”
—Runner’s World
“Highly recommended.”
—Am. Dietetic Assn. Journal
“A godsend.”
—Fitness
“Easy to set up; easy to use.”
—Philadelphia Inquirer
“Low-cost tool for tracking what you take in and burn off. Foods crafted for easy access.”
—Washington Post
“Turns your PC into a nutrition counselor.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Best way to lose weight I’ve ever seen.”
—Consumer Electronics
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Metrodate.com is now 100% free! This online dating service has eliminated premium memberships, so now you can use all of the site’s features with your free membership.
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Build Equity in Your Happiness Account
by Marci Shimoff, author Happy for No Reason
How can I be happy when my home is losing its value, my 401k is going down, and the price of everything else is going up?
That’s a question I hear a lot lately. It seems that as the economy becomes more depressed, so do we.
So what can you do about it? How can you build your happiness bank account amidst tough economic times?
Top happiness researcher Robert Biswas-Diener shared some new insights with me during a recent conversation. While writing Happy for No Reason, I often called upon Robert for his expertise. Known as the “Indiana Jones of positive psychology,” his research has taken him to the far corners of the earth — from the Masai in Africa to seal hunters in Greenland to the poor in Calcutta.
Robert and his father, Ed Diener, one of the preeminent scholars in the field of positive psychology, maintain in their wonderful new book, Happiness: Unlocking the Mysteries of Psychological Wealth, that our net worth is comprised of much more than our bank accounts. It includes our psychological wealth, our spiritual connection, our health, and the quality of our social networks.
One surprising finding of Robert’s research is that the homeless in Calcutta are happier than the homeless in America, simply because they have stronger networks of social relationships, which help buffer them against the dire effects of poverty. We get more happiness dividends from our relationships than we do from our dollars.
While the value of the dollar may be in flux, the value of your personal relationships and spiritual connection can always gain equity — if you take the time to nurture them. Robert says the way you spend your discretionary money — and time — affects your happiness level.
Here are two things you can do to add equity to your happiness account:
1. Whenever possible, choose experience over material things. Investing $100 to take Tango lessons with your partner will provide more bang for your buck than spending that same money on a new pair of shoes.
2. Spend your money on social activities rather than solitary ones. If you’re going to buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks or splurge for a pedicure, do so with a friend rather than by yourself. Researchers were surprised to find that even introverts are happier when they’re in social situations.
My parents thankfully understood the importance of these concepts. For instance, they have taken our entire family (three generations) on annual vacations together for the last 20 years. I have memories galore of these fantastic holidays — from watching my parents (in their 80s) play a hilarious game of ping-pong for the first time in 50 years to all of us careening through the jungle on zip lines.
Like the TV commercial says, experiences like these are “priceless”…and they add immeasurable equity to your happiness account.
Learn more about Marci’s Book: Happy for No Reason
About the Author:
Marci Shimoff is a celebrated transformational leader and #1 New York Times best-selling author. To learn more of her powerful techniques for establishing deep and authentic happiness and well-being, visit http://www.HappyForNoReason.com/
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Building Unshakable Self-Confidence
by Brian Tracy
The Greatest Obstacle to Success
The fear of failure is the single greatest obstacle to success in adult life. Taken to its extreme, we become totally pre-occupied with not making a mistake, with seeking for security above all other considerations. The experience of the fear of failure is in the words of “I can’t”, “I can’t.” We feel it in the front of the body, starting at the solar plexus and moving up to the rapid beating of the heart, rapid breathing and a tight throat. We also experience this fear in the bladder and in the irresistible need to run to the bathroom.
The Fear of Rejection Holds You Back
The second major fear that interferes with performance and inhibits expression, is the fear of rejection. We learn this when our parents make their love conditional upon our behavior. If we do what pleases them, they give us love and approval. If we do something they don’t like, they withdraw their love and approval — which we interpret as rejection.
The Roots of Type A Behavior
As adults, people raised with conditional love become preoccupied with the opinions of others. Many men develop Type A behavior which is characterized by hostility, suspicion and an obsession with performance to some undetermined high standard. This is expressed in the attitude of “I have to,” I have to,” and is associated with the feeling that “I have to work harder and accomplish more in order to please the boss” who has become a surrogate parent.
The Most Common Trap
More than 99 percent of adults experience both these fears of failure and rejection. They are caught in the trap of feeling, “I can’t,” but “I have to,” “I have to,” but “I can’t.”
The Key to Peak Performance
The antidote to these fears is the development of courage, character and self-esteem. The opposite of fear is actually love, self-love and self-respect. Acting with courage in a fearful situation is simply a technique that boosts our regard for ourselves to such a degree that our fears subside and lose their ability to effect our behavior and our decisions.
Action Exercises
Here are two things you can do to increase your self-esteem and self-confidence and overcome your fears.
First, realize and accept that you can do anything you put your mind to. Repeat the words, “I can do it! I can do it!” whenever you feel afraid for any reason.
Second, continually think of yourself as a valuable and important person and remember that temporary failure is the way you learn how to succeed.
Copyright Brian Tracy. Reprinted with permission.
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Hay House publishes life changing books (and organizes life changing events). We’ve just gotten word that the year’s best-selling Hay House titles are now 35% (but only while supplies last.) Click through the links below for details.
In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
This fascinating book brings together extracts from some of His Holiness’s most powerful writings and talks. As he explains the elements of the Buddha’s teachings and the basic practices of meditation, he also engages and reconciles the innovations of modern science with Buddhist perspectives. Serving as the perfect introduction to the Dalai Lama’s philosophy, both Buddhist and secular, In My Own Words is just the book for gleaning insights into the mind of one of the world’s greatest spiritual icons. Retails for $14.95 - Sale price $9.72 (save 35%) 
Led by Faith
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With the same courage and faith in God that led her through the darkness of genocide, Immaculée discovers a new life that was beyond her wildest dreams as a small girl in a tiny village in one of Africa’s poorest countries. It is in the United States, her adopted country, where Immaculée can finally look back at all that has happened to her and truly understand why God spared her life . . . so that she would be left to tell her story to the world. Retails for $24.95 - Sale price $16.22 (save 35%)
Money and the Law of Attraction
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Daily Om
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The gentle and affirming wisdom contained within these pages is intended to make each of your days a little happier, less stressful, and more satisfying. It will introduce you to elements of Mother Nature’s majesty that you may never have noticed before, guide you as you discover the inward peace you’ve longed for, and inspire you to embrace change in every corner of your existence. Retails for $15.95 - Sale price $10.37 (save 35%)
The Moses Code
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At the very heart of the Moses Code is the true function and practice of the Law of Attraction. You may have been told that this Law is all about “getting” the things you want¿things that you think will make your life more satisfying. But what if that’s just the first step, and cracking the Moses Code depends more on what you’re willing to “give” rather than “get.” Retails for $17.95 - Sale price $11.67 (save 35%) 
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The Real Secret of Success
By Brian Tracy
More than 5,000 years ago, in the ancient mystery schools of Egypt, the mental and spiritual laws and principles of success were taught to students who dedicated their entire lives to learning in what was called the “Esoteric Arts.”
One of these “secrets” was the Law of Attraction, which said that your mind is a magnet and that you invariably attract into your life people and circumstances in harmony with your dominant thoughts, especially your dominant thoughts emotionalized.
Today we say, “Like attracts like” and “Birds of a feather flock together.” From ancient times, it was known that your mind sends out vibrations, like radio waves, that are picked up by the minds of other people who are tuned into the same rate of vibration.
The force that determines the sending power of your mental vibrations is the amount of emotion, positive or negative, that you put behind a thought. If there is something that you intensely desire, something that excites you and enthuses you, you will send out powerful, high-frequency vibrations that can travel large distances in split seconds and cause your phone to ring from someone you have not heard from for months or even years.
Because your mind is so powerful, especially when backed by emotionalized thoughts, you must handle it carefully, like a child handling a gun. The Law of Attraction is neutral. It works on both positive and negative thoughts. It brings into your life whatever you are thinking about on a regular basis with either fear or desire.
When the book, “The Secret” came out, along with the movie, I was happily surprised to see that the first half of the movie comes from my audio program and seminar, “The Psychology of Achievement” which was produced initially in 1981. We videotaped the live seminar which explains the Law of Attraction along with thirty-one other laws, plus how this law is applied in every area of life, and then distributed the video seminar world wide, including New Zealand, where the Author of The Secret comes from.
The weakness in The Secret is that it is “necessary but not sufficient.” Of course, it is important that you think positive thoughts and that, by so doing, you will attract positive people and circumstances into your life. But it is not enough.
In response to The Secret, I decided to write a book which is called “Flight Plan — The Real Secret of Success.” In this book, I explain that life is very much like a long distance flight. When the plane takes off, it will be off course 99% of the time. But nonetheless, the plane will eventually arrive at its destination, even though it was off course most of the time.
In my experience, the real secret of success consists of three major factors: First, you must be absolutely clear about your destination. By this I mean that must have clear, written, specific, measurable goals, committed to paper and organized into specific, step-by-step plans of action.
Before you can set your goals, you must know exactly who you are and what you want. You must do a thorough analysis of yourself, your life, your hopes, your dreams, your ambitions, and where you want to be sometime in the future. Then, you create a “Flight Plan” to get you from wherever you are today to wherever you want to be in the months and years ahead.
The second part of Flight Plan is that you must “take off!” You must have the courage to step out in faith with no guarantee of success. You must be prepared to launch in the face of your fears, doubts and natural reluctance to break out of your comfort zone. “To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must be prepared to do something that you have never done before.” (Les Brown).
Once you have launched toward your goal, like an airplane, you will meet with unexpected turbulence, headwinds, updrafts and downdrafts, lightning, storms and every sort of mechanical problem. You must be prepared to make continual “course corrections” as you move toward your goal.
Perhaps the most important quality for success is, and always has been, the quality of persistence. You must resolve in advance to persist in the face of any difficulty or problem that you experience. You must resolve in advance that you will never give up. You must resolve in advance that you will view every temporary setback or difficulty as merely a signal that you need to make a “course correction” as you move inevitably toward your goal.
This is a great time to be alive. The very best days of your life lie ahead of you. The highest income of your life is still to come. The greatest experiences of your life are still to be experienced.
There is very little that you can not accomplish if you will file your flight plan. Determine exactly what it is that you want to achieve, take off toward your goal with no guarantees of success, and then make continual course corrections until you finally succeed. If you resolve to do these things, nothing can stop you from creating an extraordinary life.
Copyright Brian Tracy. Reprinted with permission.
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What is Medifast?
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More and more studies at top research facilities around
the world are documenting scientific evidence of the health
and longevity benefits of meditation.
But if you’re like most of us, you don’t have the time
(or patience) to invest years of practice in trying to master
the art of meditation.
Bill Harris, founder of the Centerpointe Research Institute,
has a tool that might be able to help you.
Centerpointe has created a proprietary audio technology called
Holosync® that, instantly (and gently) puts you into deep states of
meditation (Bill says even deeper than those achieved by
veteran Zen Monks), at the push of a button.
As of this writing, more than 750,000 people have used Holosync,
so it may be something you’ve heard about for some time
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I’m part of a membership program of The Institute of Noetic Sciences called Shift in Action, which offers a variety of thought-provoking media - a magazine, CDs, books, audios, videos, and live teleseminars - all focused on conscious change.
The program is extending a special offer right now to explore the program for $1 for the first month and receive the book Living Deeply: The Art and Science of Transformation in Everyday Life, which Deepak Chopra calls a “brilliant synthesis of science and wisdom.”
If you do the trial month, you’ll also get a Living Deeply Practice CD and the 2008 Shift Report. And if you stay as a member, it helps support IONS’ work at the frontiers of science and spirituality.
Here’s the link: http://www.noetic.org/SIA/LivingDeeplyLP_MA-S.htm
I have really enjoyed my membership in the program, which is helping create a global network of people committed to shifting our world.
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