Women's Safety Information

We all know the feeling of an afternoon lull at work when you start getting a little tired and are in desperate need of a snack. Each morning, you always start out with the best of intentions and promise yourself that you won’t ruin your diet today. You psyche yourself up upon waking but by mid-morning, your stomach is grumbling for a sugary treat. Isn’t it strange how you always wind up giving in? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Snacking at work is something millions of us face day in and day out. Did you know the average employee shells out nearly $50 per month on vending machine goodies? Let’s make that a thing of the past. You’ll be losing weight and saving money!

To stop snacking at work, you need to keep these snacking tips in mind. Remember that your office doesn’t not need to be a place of weakness for your dieting efforts. Check out these top five stop snacking tips that will come in handy next time you feel like running to the vending machine:

1. Stay calm and think things through.
Stress is a major factor in snacking at work, so if you can remain calm, you’ll be one step ahead of the game. Impulse buys are never good, so before you hit the button for that Snickers bar, step back and ask yourself if you really need that.

2. Load up on healthy snacks.
Nothing is worse than being hungry with nothing to eat. By stocking up on healthy snacks like fruit and unsalted nuts, you’ll have an excuse to stay at your desk and avoid the vending machine completely.

3. Stay busy.
Have you ever eaten just because you have nothing else to do? Or just because you’re bored with whatever you’re doing? If you can manage to stay busy, your mind won’t have time to linger about what there’s to eat next. So go help a co-worker, get a head start on that upcoming project or check your e-mail. Staying busy is key.

4. Don’t keep loose change in your desk.
If vending machine snacks are your weakness, be sure that you banish all loose change from your office space. This means empty your desk drawers, your change purse and anywhere else you stash change. If you don’t have any money, you’re out of luck.

5. Take an appetite suppressant.
This is my favorite tip because it is a surefire way to immediately stop snacking. Appetite suppressants usually come in pill form and are taken 1-3 times a day. They work by sending a signal to your brain telling it you’re already full. See the beauty in that? If you don’t have the cravings, you won’t snack. Less snacking means faster weight loss results. Pure Hoodia Gordonii is the main component of the appetite suppressant I use called UniqueHoodia and it can help you regardless of your weight loss goal.

If you want to cut out snacking at work then look no further – UniqueHoodia is your key to controlling those cravings. Get your willpower back today!

By: Coral Summers

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Here are some tips to help you create healthy habits for weight loss.

Make healthy choices into habits. One of the best weight loss tips is to make small changes to your everyday routine. By making these positive small lifestyle changes into habits, you will continue to do them without even thinking about it after a while.

Do it everyday – whether you are planning to exercise or you want to add healthier food into your diet plan – start by doing it every day. Even if you can only exercise for 10 minutes, just make sure to do it. Don’t worry about a complete overhaul of your diet, just change one meal each day but be consistent every day. Choose to start your day off with a light and healthy breakfast. This will set the tone for your day and inspire awareness of your other weight loss tips as you enjoy a healthy start to your day. Being consistent is such an important part of developing habits. If you do something every day for seven days, you are far more likely to make it part of your routine on the 8th day.

Set up reminders for yourself. It’s tough to remember changes you are trying to make that you read or hear about if you don’t set reminders up for yourself. Post notes in your bathroom, put a reminder note in your wallet, in your lunch bag, on tempting items in your fridge so you can’t use forgetting the tips as an excuse for not losing weight. It’s easier to make a change into a habit if you are constantly thinking of it. Set up reminders to pop up in your computer each day with weight loss tips that you are trying to make into habits. Thinking about your goals will help you make them into habits.

Enlist a weight loss partner. You can find a friend, a spouse, or co-worker who shares a desire to lose weight. If you don’t know anyone who wants to lose weight or want to have some anonymity – consider finding an online weight loss partner in a forum to support you. In addition to the accountability this provides, it’s great to be able to challenge each other, give each other tips and support each other in a positive way during your body changing journey. Share daily changes that you trying to make into habits and encourage your weight dropping partner to do the same. Sharing, discussing, teaching and engaging are all good ways to make your healthy choices into habits.

Associate with people who have the habits you want to have. Choose to spend more time with friends or people you know who have the eating and exercise habits you want to have. Spend time with friends who hike, walk or run if you want to make hiking a habit. If you want to eat more healthy food, spend less time with your friends who eat tons of junk food and spend weekends at the buffet. Emulating the people making choices you want to make will help you to turn their good habits into yours.

By: Dominique Scott

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Women are familiar with intuition. We often just know things without any background support information. Sometimes we visualize an outcome, sometimes we hear what seems to be a silent answer to a question, sometimes we physically feel the correct thing to do and sometimes we just know without knowing how we know.

Intuition is also called gut feelings and the good news is that men, teens and kids can use gut feelings just as women do, to be safer and make good choices. Since women are the biggest cheerleaders for the safety of their loved ones, let’s make sure we are clear about how gut feelings work and how to use them to our advantage.

About Gut Feelings

Survival instincts we were born with Their job is to keep us alive They are personal to each individual No need to compare as they may be opposite of someone else’s gut feelings What may be safe for you may not be for your friend, co-worker and vice versa They are either good or bad (indifferent can be put in the good category) You have them about every person, place and situation in your life The key is to listen, feel, see and follow them when they are strongest Following them always is a great idea but rarely done
Examples of Gut Feelings

You meet someone for the first time and like them instantly You meet someone for the first time and dislike them without knowing why Someone tells you something and you have a feeling it is untrue You have a decision to make and although info points to one choice, you feel the other is best You know something is going to turn out a certain way without evidence to support it You get a creepy feeling about someone and know they are unsafe for you to be near
Acknowledging Your Gut Feelings

You may not have realized that you always have gut feelings about everything in your life. To prove this, think of someone you love and notice the first feeling or sense you have about that person. Next, think of someone who is dis-empowering or weakens you and notice what you feel, hear or sense. Although these feelings may come from already knowing these people, this exercise demonstrates how opposite gut feelings feel.

A vital part of living safely emotionally is knowing what and who strengthens you and what or who weakens you. Obviously, you cannot live your best life by immersing yourself in that which weakens you. Gut feelings are the perfect way to determine where you should be, what you should be doing and who you should allow in your life. My article on the #4 Personal Safety Secret for Women on Personal Boundaries is a must read if this interests you.

How Using Gut Feelings Creates Your Safer Future

By acknowledging gut feelings and realizing how often you have them, yours will become finely tuned. This is the absolute best way to live safer but you have to also follow them!

Example: You and your daughter are walking into the grocery store. A woman in the store prompts a bad gut feeling in you and you can tell that your daughter is uncomfortable as well. The woman asks you a question. Do you ignore your bad gut feeling so as not to offend her and answer her question against your better judgment? Remember, although she may not be an axe murdered, your gut feelings are survival instincts you were born with! Besides, if someone gives you the creeps, if anyone should be offended, it should be you.

So what should you do? Pretend you did not hear the question or excuse yourself and walk away quickly, pretend to get a phone call, etc. Your safety and that of your daughter are most important, period.

It could be that you answer the woman’s question and nothing bad happens. That’s great, but what about next time? What did you just demonstrate for your daughter to model later? Probably that it is important to be polite at any cost and that other people are more important than you are. These are subliminal messages, for the most part, but crucial to personal safety. Consider that this situation was a quiz, preparing you or your daughter for a bigger test in the future. Will you pass? Will she?

Why We Often Ignore Our Gut Feelings

The above example illustrates the very reason we so often put ourselves into dangerous situations emotionally and physically by ignoring our gut feelings. We, as women, are taught to always be polite and help others. That’s great but we make ourselves so vulnerable that we have no protection at all! We become so concerned that people won’t like us or that we will offend someone that we gloss over our survival instincts in favor of our delicate self-esteem.

By: Kelly Rudolph

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Googling oneself is fun-sometimes. Safety comes first. I found out a few fun things: someone thinks of my blog as “up and coming” and according to OCN.com (Orange County News) not only am I a blogger for the county, I’m also a young, pretty black woman.

But googling can also be shocking and scary I was appalled at finding a few of my articles running on some of “those sites”, better known as adult/porn venues. EEK! I immediately found someone at my service provider to guide me through getting it off!

There’s a new fright in town in connection with Google One I feel compelled to bring up in this essay. It seems the search engine has implemented a handy new feature that allows internet users to type in any phone number and it will provide the person’s name and address. It also allows you to click on a mapquest.com link and get directions to the address listed to that phone number. This is a very convenient tool when used for good, but as too many of us have learned-anything that can be used for the good of mankind, can also be used for bad!

I discovered this bit of information while reading a flier from the city offices where I work at me “day job”.

To be sure this wasn’t some rumor I tried it-this is the personal data I was served up with my home phone number:

MY NAME (of course)

MY HUSBAND’S AND SON’S FULL NAME

MY HOME ADDRESS

MY PERSONAL AND MY WORK E-MAIL ADDRESSES

MY WEBSITE

plus the fact that I am a freelance writer. With my work e-mail, anyone would also very quickly know where I go from 9-5, Monday-Friday. Next-I did click on the mapquest link, sure enough, I had directions to my home.

This is as scary as it is disconcerting.

Now you are probably thinking the same thing I did-who would have my phone number without my approval? Think about some of these situations:

How many times are you asked for your phone number by a salesperson? They probably know your name, but what about a co-worker you don’t see? Drop your pet off at the vet or make a personal appointment (doctor, lawyer, hair, nails, etc)they may see your phone number and be curious who goes with the cryptic information.

Fortunately, if you aren’t comfortable having your personal data made public, you can access http://www.google.com, type in your information, and click the “request to remove” feature.

Yes, I want someone to contact me for possible writing job offers, but at the same time I do not want them to know my home address and be able to come up to my front door. That’s on a strictly need to know basis.

Privacy and safety need to be considered first. Today we never truly know who or how many people have our very private details at their fingertips, but I know I’d sure love to pare it down to less than the entire free world.

By: Carine Nadel

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You, as a lady, are prey for some men or a victim applicant to criminals. As prey:

You are stalked. Watched and subdued. Made ********** to male authority Put in your place. Raped or Abused

It doesn’t matter if you are a stranger. What your job is. Words or screams will not alter your capturer’s intent. Your adversary has selected you alone on the fifth floor of a dimly lighted parking garage looking for where you parked the car after lunch. He’s between you and the garage elevator with a tire lug wrench in his left hand. Glittering eyes watching you from behind his ski mask. You pivot and run. The echoes of your clacking heels on the rough brown concrete reverberate from the walls. Your heart races away causing you to tremble.

There right in front of you a second large man with a ski mask jogs down the incline directly at you! “Where are you going Missy?” he calls out while slowing down from a jog.

“You can have whatever you want!” You plead looking from one man to the other.

“Just don’t hurt me.”

Lady, this is not a world filled with sugar plums and gingerbread men all striving to make you safe and happy. In this world bad things happen to good people, especially females. Five foot two a hundred and six shaking pounds that’s all you have against the threats around you. You heard about these assaults on late night news station.

Not you, never you! They always happen to other women in other garages in town.

Rule 1, you are responsible for your own safety, security and defense. Policemen are too heavy to carry in your purse. You are really on your own.

Rule 2, be aware of your surroundings and persons around you. Know where your car is!

Rule 3, do you need to be where you are at without a guard or security present? Drag a co-worker with you at least.

Rule 4, what’s your role in all of this? Play devil’s advocate about your security and defense. Change from pumps to sneakers in the office. Car keys in your hand not your handbag. Where you can’t find anything! Tasers come in lipstick containers, cellphone and of course as tasers. Perhaps a concealed collapsible baton or firearm with you as a last resort defense.

Rule 5, you must learn to use whatever you carry or bring with you for defense. A martial art class on a continuing basis might be just the exercise routine you need instead of stair climber exercise machine.

Rule 6, you have to commit to doing whatever is necessary to protect your body and life. You have the right to be deadly in your own defense. You’re not trying to put up a good fight! You must survive and the odds of that will be in doubt unless you commit to your surviving. You don’t care about your attacker!

Rule 7, fear is healthy. Find out what you fear and take steps to deal with it. Fear is not being just being afraid. Fear causes specific actions within and by your mind and body. Tunnel vision, loss of hearing, audible heartbeat, adrenalin flowing in your body, loss of fine motor skills, and judgment. Investigate what it is like.

Rule 8, bring your skill, practice, equipment, and aware mindset with you every day. The law doesn’t expect a five foot two inch lady to physically beat up a six foot two hundred ten pound angry man. Please be reasonable and bring an edged weapon or firearm to the fight!

Rule 9, disengage your mouth and remember the first eight rules. A conversation is not necessary with your opponent.

Rule 10, do above rules. No one but you cares for you as much as you!

Please return tomorrow for part two. How not to play victim ladies!

Be safe, live and prosper.



By: Ronald Newton

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