Which Alcohol Has the Least Calories?

The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports that a can beer has 153 calories. A 5 oz. serving of red wine has 125 calories. Distilled beverages like gin and rum have roughly 97 calories per 1.5 oz. serving.

Mixed Drinks

While distilled beverages have the fewest calories, adding juice or soda will increase your calorie intake. According to Ask the Dietician, 6 oz. of cola has 68 calories. Lemon-lime cola has 74 calories. Cranberry cocktail juice has 51 calories.

Considerations

When choosing an alcoholic beverage based on calorie content, your best bet is to drink a 12 oz. bottle of light beer with 103 calories or a distilled beverage on the rocks at 97 calories.

Conclusion

Alcohol is low in saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium, according to the USDA. Most of the calories in these beverages come from alcohol. While it makes sense to choose a beverage with less alcohol per volume such as beer -- because a serving of beer is 10 to 12 oz. -- you take in more calories than a beverage with a higher percentage of alcohol per volume such as rum and vodka.

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/article/320275-which-alcohol-has-the-least-calories/#ixzz1T8s4l8NX

Oh Happy Day! This is AWESOME!

After not being able to take a multi-vitamin for over 25 years because of an allergy to vitamin C, the skies have parted & I'm a vitamin takin' fool! Watch this video to learn more!


http://youtu.be/YEyGfgX2cjE


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Shape it up people, shape it up!

Will I Wear This Teeny Yellow Bikini?

or If you would have told me a year ago that I'd be wearing this, I'd have thought you were out of your mind and probably on crack. And drunk. And delusional.  But lo and behold, this is the suit I'll be sportin' poolside @ The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Vegas tomorrow!

Exactly one year ago, I went to a company called XYNGULAR'S first ever XYNGFEST convention in La Jolla, California.  I had tried one of their products (XYNG) and lost a few pounds and was intrigued enough to go and see what this company was all about.  I like to say that I went to La Jolla on a "Xyng & a prayer"because I really had no idea what to expect.

I arrived and shared a room with the ever gracious Jennifer Bradshaw who had actually turned me onto the product, and was immediately impressed by the caliber of people that I met.  People like Freddy & Kerry Elias, Chris Hummel, Dr. Troy McHenry, Jane Freres, Mike & Brenda Bartell, Cala Stadel, Dave Pasquale, Jim Ayres, & Omar Riveras. (I feel like I'm accepting an academy award, so if I've left anyone out, I love you and you know who you are!) I was equally impressed by the leadership of the company.  Mark Walker, Marc Schenkel & Glen Oliver all came across as savvy, yet genuine people motivated and inspired by making sure that every person in the company was given the proper tools & support to become successful.

Since I'd never done any kind of network marketing or multi-level marketing before, I was kind of overwhelmed and trying to understand the lingo.  Things like PV and GV and all the ins and outs of the compensation plan swirled in my head as I furiously wrote down every word that was said.  When they started talking about a new incentive program called "The Passport Program" a huge smile came across my face.  Bottom line, as a distributor, not only do you get paid daily but you also have the opportunity to earn FREE trips to places like Sundance Utah, Dubai & Bora Bora!  Now this I understood!!

To make a long story short, after that weekend I decided to throw caution to the wind and become a Xyngular distributor   This weekend, we'll be having our second annual XYNGFEST (which is open to the public & being held at The Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas).  Since last July, I've ascended the ranks in Xyngular and will be representin' as a Platinum Manager.  I'll get a $500 cash bonus on stage and my passport will be signed allowing me & a guest to take an all expense paid trip to Sundance Utah in September.  I've made so many incredible friends along the way, and had the opportunity to help so many people lose weight & change their lives.  I'm my own boss and I am so excited about the future of this company.  I feel like I stumbled upon a gold mine and I plan on taking advantage of every opportunity it has to offer.

I've also lost 35 pounds and kept them of, so will I be wearing this sassy little yellow bikini?  You bet I will.  And I'm not crazy. Or on crack. Or drunk. Or delusional.
Just over the moon that I found this company & rediscovered myself in the process.

For more information about Xyngular products or to hear more about the business opportunity, find me on Facebook @ Shape Up With Susan or visit my website:
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Mystery Solved-Wine Glasses Saved!

Don't you just hate it when you put those little laundry tablets in the dishwasher by mistake?  My wine glasses have been looking filmy for a couple of weeks now.  I always start the dishwasher and then leave.  Today I happened to be here long enough to see all the suds coming out of it.  Mystery solved.  Guess I can cancel that maintenance order, huh?

Have you ever done anything this stupid and would you admit it if you did?

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I Binged All Weekend for This Family

This weekend I helped my daughter, son-in-law and 6 week old grand baby Ella, move from Houston, Texas to Leesville,

Louisiana.   As an Interior Designer, I seem to be a very popular person whenever any of my friends or 

family decide to move.  I'm just sayin'.  That being said, anyone who knows me knows that I'm always more than happy to help, but require two things to do so. Music and adult beverages.  


Friday was a very productive day.  We arrived at the house in Louisianna, cranked up the Ipod, & got all the furniture and boxes inside. Exhausted, we ordered 4 large pizzas and some hot wings to plan our strategy for Saturday.  I, personally washed it all down with at least a six pack (& I don't mean abs), hopped in the shower and crashed on the sofa.

Got up at the crack of dawn Saturday morning (thanks Ella), and started unpacking everything that makes a house a home.  Waited until 12 noon to pop my first top and prided myself on my discipline.  Munched on a box of Cheese Nips, a bag of peanut M&Ms, and "several" brewskis as I made my way from room to room.  Stopped to make a delish dinner of Ribeye, tossed salad and massive, fully loaded baked potatoes.  Made my way upstairs to hang artwork and put the finishing touches on Ella's nursery.  At this point, I was feeling like a complete porker after combining beer with all that food, so I made the decision to switch to wine. Enjoyed my wine, wrapped up my designer duties, took a nice hot bath and headed to bed.

Sunday was bittersweet as my son Jake and I packed up to head back to Houston.  As luck would have it, there was a horrible accident on Hwy. 59, and our 3 hour trip home ended up taking us 6 hours.  Needless to say, we had a lot of time to chat. We both decided that we're so happy that Whitney & her hubby met, fell in love and gave us Baby Ella.  We just wish they could have stayed here in Texas with us.

As many of you know, I'm a distributor for Xyngular and I am a "product of the products", having lost & kept off 35 pounds.   I'm going to Vegas on Thursday for our annual convention and know that I'll be poolside, sportin' a bathing suit.  I woke up this morning seriously lamenting the fact that I ate & drank my way through two states, and dreaded facing the scale.  I  gingerly stepped on, and shut the front door, I actually lost a pound!

How is this possible you ask?  The only reason that I'm able to have a guilt-free binge weekend like this is because I've taught my body that it is simply just that, a binge.  With the help of Xyngular's Core 4 products and our 8 day IGNITE program, I was literally able to turn my body into a fat burning machine.  You see, when you constantly hop from one diet to another, your body goes into starvation mode.  When you suddenly start eating less, your body thinks you are starving and begins storing your fat to survive.  Once it realizes that you're not actually starving, just surviving with less food, that's when it begins to release all the excess stored fat, and voila, the weight begins to fall off.  Xyngular's products are tailor made to facilitate this whole process and have worked for thousands of people worldwide.


To summarize, I ate and drank with abandon all weekend, but took my XYNG in the morning, my ACCELERATE at lunch time, used my CHEAT on everything and was able to actually lose a pound.  Feel free to message me if you want more information on the products that keep me livin' life like a rock star.


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Breast Cancer & Weight

The weight you lose or gain may alter your risk of breast cancer if you don't take estrogen pills, says a study that tracked more than 87,000 women for up to 24 years.

Weight gain or loss had little impact on women who had taken postmenopausal hormones.  But among women who had never taken hormones, the risk of breast cancer was:

• 57 percent lower in those who had lost at least 22 pounds since menopause than in similar women with steady weight.

• 50 percent higher in those who had gained at least 44 pounds since age 18 than in similar women who had gained little or no weight since their late teens. (Weight gain after menopause didn't alter beast cancer risk significantly.)

The researchers estimate that, among women who never took hormones, 24 percent of breast cancer cases are due to gaining more than four pounds after age 18, and 8 percent are due to gaining more than four pounds after menopause.

What to do:  Lose excess weight, it's never too late.  Excess weight may increase the risk of breast cancer by boosting estrogen levels.  In postmenopausal women who don't take hormones, fat cells are the biggest source of estrogen.  And more fat means more estrogen.

Women who take hormones also have higher levels of estrogen, which increases their breast cancer risk. But the estrogen produced by their fat cells doesn't seem to raise the risk further.
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J. Am Med. Assoc. 296: 193, 2006

10 Ways to Change Up Your Exercise Routine

Let's face it. Even the most devoted exercisers can get bored doing the same workouts week after week. And, if the mind is getting bored you can bet that the body is probably too, which means it isn't being challenged as much as it should.

But, with the many, many training options to utilize, being bored should not even be an option. This is especially true when it comes to strength training. Variety with resistance training is practically endless - from different pieces of equipment, training techniques, sequences and more.

Below are 10 ways to change up your strength workout to ensure your body is optimally challenged and that boredom is kept at bay.

1. Change your exercises. It's easy to get comfortable doing the exercises you are most familiar with but it's important to try new ones. And, there are so many different exercises to try you could easily try new exercises every week for an entire year!
2. Try different equipment. Don't get in the exercise machine rut. Try exercises using dumbbells, resistance bands, fitness ball, and others.
3. Try circuit training. This method requires you perform a series of exercise moves one right after the other with little to no rest between the exercises.
4. Alter the order of exercises. Simply changing which exercise you do first, last and in the middle can have big results on the effectiveness of your routine.
5. Change the intensity. If you normally push yourself to lift weights that fatigue you quickly (less than 8 reps), try lowering the weight size and simultaneously increasing the number of reps.
6. Try a super set program. This type of workout technique has you perform several sets of two for agonist and antagonist muscles (opposing muscles). An example of this would be leg curls followed by leg extensions.
7. Alter the speed of your training technique. A typical exercise might require 8 seconds to perform a rep. To change that up you may try 15 seconds per exercise.
8. Change your workout frequency. Try increasing from 2 to 3 days per week or instead decreasing the number of weekly workouts you perform.
9. Don't ignore rest and recovery time. Sometimes you'll want to keep your rest time between sets to a minimum and other times you may want it to be as much as 1-2 minutes. Also, some weeks you may want to allow for several days of recovery between workout sessions and others may only need 48 hours.
10. Ask for help. To push yourself to your potential, you may want to occasionally try the assisted training technique. This requires you have a spotter who assists you to perform an additional 2-4 reps when you think you have reached your limit.

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