Dieting Makes You Fat

"Whatever it is that you most want truly lies only a thought away" - Mike Dooley

The reason dieting makes you fat is because your brain is specifically designed to keep you from losing weight. The ability to store fat was a survival mechanism that helped our ancestors survive when food was scarce. When you deprive yourself of food, your body thinks youre starving and your survival instinct kicks in. To save your life, your brain slows down your metabolism and releases hormones that store fat.

Every now and then, when you got sick and tired of the extra weight or had some external motivation such as a new relationship, you were able to deprive yourself of the foods you love and force yourself to do exercise you hate for a week or a month or more to lose some weight, right? But then what happened? If youre like 90% of dieters, you gained the weight back and then some. America's number one health crisis is said to be the growing number of people who are seriously overweight. Check out these gloomy statistics:

• Over 60% of Americans are overweight or obese.
• 75-80% of American women diet and hate their bodies.
• As the $40 billion diet industry grows, so does the overweight population.
• 90% of dieters gain back the weight they lost.
• 37% of fourth graders have dieted to lose weight.
• Liposuction is the most popular cosmetic surgery performed in America today -- for both men and women.

Are you ready to lose the weight you've gained from dieting? The answer to the universal weight loss struggle is contained in a universal law called the Law of Attraction. Like the Law of Gravity, the Law of Attraction works perfectly and impartially at all times in all situations for all people. According to the Law of Attraction, you magnetize and attract to yourself whatever you think about. Your thoughts created the body you now have. Your thoughts can create the body you would like to have. Therefore, to be thin -- THINK THIN.

With the Law of Attraction, you can attain and maintain your ideal weight without dieting. Theres no deprivation and no forbidden foods. When you apply the Law of Attraction to weight loss, you can THINK your way to your ideal body. You can eat whatever you desire. You can enjoy food again. You can free yourself from the weight loss struggle.

The only diet that will ever work in the long term is to eliminate negative thoughts thoughts of what you dont want, thoughts that make you feel bad. The only exercise that will ever work in the long term is mental exercise continually bringing your mind back to positive thoughts, thoughts of what you do want, thoughts that FEEL GOOD. The Law of Attraction works. The question is: Is it working for you or against you?

Kate Corbin is a Law of Attraction Life Coach and the creator of Gold Star Coaching. Both her coaching practice and her books Dining at the Cosmic Caf: How to Be and Do and Have Whatever You Desire and Think and Grow Thin with the Law of Attraction http://www.goldstarcoaching.com/ebook.html are designed to empower you to truly live the life of your dreams. To contact Coach Kate, check out her books, and subscribe to Magical Musings, visit http://www.goldstarcoaching.com

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Napa Valley - The Home of California's "Wine Country"

Napa Valley: The Home of Californias Wine Country Everyone likes a good wine tasting tour. The question arises: Where are we going to go and how reachable are the wineries from one another? Few regions in the US boast a better environment for vineyards and the subsequent wine manufacturing than California.

When you think of California's Wine Country, you're thinking about Napa Valley and Sonoma County, situated just north of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Father Junpero Serra, a Franciscan missionary, first brought wine to the state of California when he began the first vineyard in San Diego in 1769. In the years that followed, wineries began to creep farther north along with establishment of Spanish missions. The wine industry really began to take root after the Gold Rush of 1849, when Count Agoston Haraszthy established Buena Vista, the first premium winery in the area. In nearby Napa Valley, Charles Krug introduced Riesling grapes in 1861.

The Charles Krug Winery is still in operation but is now run by the Peter Mondavi Family. The area's wine industry continued to flourish over the next century but failed to receive international recognition until the mid-1970s. The Stag's Leap Winery put California's wine country on the map after it squeezed out a victory over world-renowned Mouton Rothschild in a competition in Paris in 1976. By the mid-1980s the wines from Napa Valley were considered fit for royalty, Quail Ridge Vineyard's 1981 Chardonnay was served to the late Lady Di and Prince Charles at the White House.

In the last two decades California's wine country has continued to grow and now the region is home to hundreds of wineries and vineyards. Millions of people visit Napa Valley and Sonoma County every year to imbibe the Chardonnays, Cabernet Sauvignons, Pinot Noirs, Merlots, and Zinfandels the area is now famous for.

California's central coast is known for gentle, green hills and deep valleys (you may have even seen a landscape shot of the Napa Valley as the default wallpaper on Windows XP). The Napa Valley is to the east of Sonoma County and is typically warmer in the summer, resulting in a better yield of Cabernet Sauvignon. Sonoma County's slightly cooler weather typically brings in better Pinot Noirs and Chardonnays. Despite the hotter weather father south, Paso Robles, near San Luis Obispo, has established an American Viticultural Area that has become one of the fastest growing winery regions in California.

Napa Valley and Sonoma County
The better-known wine country of central California is, of course, in Napa Valley and neighboring Sonoma County, which are home to over 280 wineries. This beautiful area, with its gentle rolling hills, is a great place to tour around. Virtually every winery offers tours and wine tastings, they vary in price between $5 and $20 and are usually open daily - be sure to check with the individual winery for exact hours. To check out other vineyards and wineries, planning is a must, simply because of the sheer number. Keep in mind that this area is also very scenic (in case you're traveling with a non-wine drinker). For fans of the 1980s television show Falcon Crest, this area was the setting for the fictional Tuscany Valley. Most of the wineries offer free public tours from mid-morning to late afternoon, but many of them require some sort of advance reservation.

California wine production truly started in Sonoma County at the Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery, which started off as part of the Sonoma Mission set up by the Spanish in 1824. The Seabstiani Vineyards produce a wide assortment of wines and appellations such as Zinfandel, Merlot, Pinot noir, as well as Cabernet Sauvignon. Tours of the Sebastiani Vineyards are available, as is wine tasting, for a small fee.

Located on the Carneros Estate, the oldest winery in Sonoma County is Buena Vista. In addition to being a state historical landmark, the Buena Vista Winery was started by Count Agoston Haraszthy and is the headquarters for the U.S. branch of the Knights of the Vine. There are tours offered which only cost about $15 per person as well as a $5 tasting fee. The Green Hungarian is a particular selection of the wine produced by the vineyard.

Another unique winery, the Carmenet Vineyard, create wines using exclusively French techniques, such as malo-lactic fermentation, and by stacking their wines in a natural cave. Tours of the Carmenet Vineyard are by appointment only and their in-house wines, such as Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Zinfandel, Chardonnay, and Merlot are available for tasting.

More about Napa Valley and other areas in California of interest to wine aficionados can be found on http://www.TripCart.com the internets leading travel planning guide.

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What Exactly Is MP4?

You know most of the time you find yourself downloading all kinds of stuff, including mp4s, mp3s and the like, but what about the technical end of it. What is MP4?

Mp4s or rather the term mpeg-4 was developed by ISO (International Organization for Standardization). It is a format specific for multimedia, the most common uses are for digital audio and video, and it is a certain type of container that holds all this information. It can contain other data as well such as subtitles and still images. You should also note that mpeg-4 is identical to QuickTime MOV format. In fact any kind of data can be inserted into MP4.

MP4 is getting more and more popular. In fact, it is now very popular to people who use the latest iPod players and PSP owners. This type of file compression is now providing a way to store dvd quality movies at a very small size. This type of file compression is known as the MPEG4 format.

Because most users may get confused at the initial concept of what MP4 is, it is what is in the MP4 that is even more confusing since the extension has been used primarily for music tunes and not movies. Therefore, what is stored in an MP4 is more than you can imagine for the most part. In addition, those other extensions have been used for MP4s, (which is audio from an iTunes store), to m4a (which includes such things as chapter markers, images, and hyperlinks). In addition, of course m4b (which has the ability to work with IPODs, where m4a files cannot. So most of the time when you find a file with the extension of mp4 or m4v, then they have both the audio and video aspects.

Let us not forget of course that they can contain codecs as well. Therefore, as you can see there is much to learn about what MP4 is, so let's summarize;

MP4 Can include and contain audio, video and also still images (like pictures), and all kinds of other data, making it a diverse file to use.

MP4 can contain other types of competing technology e.g. ogg, vob, ratdvd, divx media format, Matroska (mkv) and others to name a few.

In addition, how about some of the compatible hardware or software that mp4s can work with? Such as in software: Amarok, Banshee music player, 3ivx, foobar2000, GOM player, iTunes, media player classic, QuickTime player, Realplayer, VLC media player, and so forth, as for hardware: Kiss 1600, apple iPod, PSP (playstation portable), Playstation 3, xbox 360, Nokia.

Therefore, to answer the question what MP4 is, well, it is technology at its best!

Indeed, the MP4 technology can now make entertainment much more convenient than ever before. So, next time you think of downloading your favorite movies to your computer to transfer to your portable multimedia device, try thinking of MP4. just make sure that your multimedia devices are capable of reading the MP4 format.

Sandra Stammberger owns and operates http://www.mp4pros.com MP4

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