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7 Skincare Habits All Girls Should Develop In Their 20s Proactive, not reactive!

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7 Skincare Habits All Girls Should Develop In Their 20s Proactive, not reactive! 1) Wear SPF daily.  Exposure to the sun can cause your skin to have sun spots, discolouration, wrinkles and worse of all...cancer. To ensure you protect your skin daily, wear a moisturize with SPF in it! 2) Take off all your makeup at night. No matter how tired you are, it is so important to remove all your makeup at night. This will prevent your pores from being clogged, which means pimple free skin! 3) Deep clean your skin, daily! Taking off your makeup will only be half effective if you don't deep clean your face with a face wash. This is one you cannot skip out on if you want clear skin.  4) Exfoliate regularly.  We tend to forget the importance of exfoliating the skin, but incorporating a gentle exfoliant to your skin care regimen will ensure that all dead skin and 'gunk' is away from your face!  5) Tone your face!  Applying a toner to yo...

Seven Ways to Beat Hunger and Stay Lean

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Whether you’re trying to lose fat or just maintain a healthy weight, one of the hardest things can be dealing with hunger. It’s hard to kill your hunger, but learning to control your eating is crucial if you’re going to be optimally healthy. Here we give you seven ways to beat hunger while keeping yourself healthy and happy. 1. Stop Emotional Eating If people only ate when they were actually hungry, a lot of eating problems would simply solve themselves. Actual hunger, however, is only one of the many reasons why human beings eat. We eat to celebrate an accomplishment. We eat to mourn a personal disappointment. We eat to show solidarity with friends, or because we feel lonely and left out. We eat because we’re stressed. Perhaps most commonly, we eat out of pure and simple boredom. Even worse, the foods that we gravitate to during times of emotional eating tend to be some of the least healthy options. The first key to stopping emotional eating is to simply be aware of what you...

9 ‘real things’ stopping you from losing weight

You are doing everything in your might but the rigid weight just refuses to budge. The weighing scale still shows the same number with some occasional treats of a few grams here and there. Why is this happening? Well, it could be because of some common mistakes that you are making. Here's an account of those: Not sleeping enough Resting is an important aspect of your weight loss journey. If your body is not rested, it will fail to burn calories and will instead tire your body. This gets all the more important if you are into strenous workouts and following a specific diet. You are exercising too much Spending hours in the gym every day won't do you much good unless your diet works in tandem. Whoever tells you, "You are working out so you can eat as much as you want" is ignorant of the biggest weight loss fact ever. That is the 80:20 ratio - it is 80 per cent diet and 20 per cent workout. You stay hungry Portion control is very good but it should not be taken so serio...