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Back at school and I’ve successfully fallen off the bandwagon. Trying to figure it all out…

I find not fixating on my weight helps me a lot. As a result, I don’t weigh myself. I use changes in by body to mark my progress or lack of. Weight is nothing but a number. Its more important to me to pace myself and make changes that are more permanent. In the past, I’ve focused on making decisions for my weight instead of for my health. I find making choices for your health are easier to implement overall because the choices for my weight were hard to stick to (e.g. crash dieting, working out in unsustainable amounts long term, etc.)

I try not to CHANGE the way I do things, I REPLACE them instead. For example, I used to cut out ice cream all together. Instead of getting rid of ice cream, I replaced it with fat free ice cream or sobet or sherbet.

Replace pudding with sugar free jello or low fat/fat free yogurt.

Make/eat healthier versions of of what you already eat. Don’t force yourself to eat things you don’t like while, trying new ways to make those things appealing to you. For example, like yogurt but I’m not a huge fan but I find that when I eat it with granola I’ll eat it a lot more.

I’ve decided to make my “go natural” goal unspecific meaning I don’t it to just be about my hair. I’ve noticed that a lot of the “bad” ingredients that are in some hair products are also in skin care products as well. These ingredients are bad for your skin for the same reason they are bad for your hair. If I refuse to put these ingredients on my hair I don’t think I should be hypocritical and use them on my skin.

My solution: Unrefined shea butter. Ya’ll…this stuff is the business. It has SO many different uses. I already know that my hair cannot live without shea butter but refined shea butter goes through so many processes that it is stripped of all its miraculous properties. All but moisturizing of course.

All I know is that many of us have too many products (product junkies) or plain spend too much on too many products. I’m the latter. I’m not a product junkie but getting different products for specific areas or needs can get expensive.

Unrefined shea butter for me is a blessing, I use it on my hair and on my skin. Actually the only thing I use on my skin is Unrefined shea butter and sometimes a little Bio-oil. Thats it. USB can be used as a shaving cream as well si I no longer buy shaving cream (But really because most shaving creams irritate my skin)

I don’t use it on my face, because I have naturally oily skin. Instead I use some sort of Ambi cream depending on my needs at the time.

But to sum this up right quick I have the top 10 uses for USB:

1. Moisturizer for dry skin
2. Eczema cream
3. Blemish cream
4. For softer smoother skin
5. For burns
6. Wrinkle reduction cream
7. Moisturizer for dry hair
8. Shaving cream
9. Anti-itch cream
10. Stretch mark prevention cream

http://www.theorganicsheabutter.com/shea101.htm

(I do not buy shea butter from them)