Ladies Lifestyle

If you are exhausted, there's evidence-backed advice on how to regain strength and liveliness.
You probably know the feeling: 10 in the morning, you are already on tense from your third cup of coffee, and there is a complete mess of thoughts in your. You are exhausted -- physically, mentally, and emotionally.
Motivation? Forget it. Irritability? Definitely. Caring for the health and well-being? Forget it.

For some reason, people assume that overcoming challenges and sheer exhaustion does not go without the other. The reality is nothing like this. Emotional burnout is not a sign of success, it is the way our body is hinting that it's time to slow down.

1 TV Watching

Prolonged TV watching is a strong predictor for obesity. Recent research has proved that people who watch around two hours of TV per day are much more likely to be overweight than those who watched only half an hour per day. When you watch TV you are virtually motionless. Your heart rate, blood pressure and metabolic rate decline, resulting in burning 20 to 30 calories less per hour. Research by Harvard University has shown that there is a link between the amount children eat and the amount of television they watch.

(1) Men are not the enemy. For that matter, neither are women. We’re all in this together.

(2) Find what you love doing and do it.

(3) Don’t let anyone tell you what you’re capable of.

(4) Learn from your mistakes.

(5) Learn to forgive the mistakes of others.

The strength of your marriage depends on the choices you make to improve it. Unfortunately, many couples have lost the spark they shared before they married and have replaced it with a humdrum routine. Dating and romancing your spouse can change those patterns, and can be a lot of fun, but will require some hard work. Planning and energy are imperative for making good times happen.

An ice cube tray is great for making miniature desserts, storing things like herbs or stock for easy use later on, and making unique ice cubes for cold drinks. Consider buying silicone ice cube trays; they make it easier to remove things when frozen. Once whatever you’re making is frozen, you can transfer the cubes to a ziplock bag for storage in the freezer. Here are some things to try.

Baked potatoes are always tasty. But you can cook it better. To do that, you should use a knife: make accurate cuts accordion-shape and fill them with garlic and rosemary. TThe smell of rosmary can only be compared with the smell of baked potatoes; as for the garlic, it turns out to be dainty while cooking. Accordion potato even has its name - Hasselback Potatoes. 

“In the shower, with the hot water coming down, you’ve left the real world behind, and very frequently things open up for you.” -Woody Allen

A Clown in a Shower Bath by Emmett Kelly

We have to stop apologizing for our “stupid” ideas.  Too often in the creative industry do we hear, “This might be a stupid idea, but…”.  Stop it.  The best ideas stem from nonsense and aha! moments that frequently come from drunken rants, sarcastic shit-shooting, and our favorite: shower thoughts.  In honor of all of our stupid ideas, we’ve curated a list from reddit of the greatest shower thoughts of all time.

Producer’s note: Someone on Quora asked: How do you fight creative burnout? Here is one of the best answers that’s been pulled from the thread.

It kind of depends on what kind of burnout we’re talking about. These are the main kinds I experience:

My Career is Meaningless Burnout

I Can’t Get Motivated to Actually Finish Anything Burnout

I Feel Crushed Under the Weight of These Deadlines Burnout

I *cough* Have *cough* Been *cough* Sick *cough* FOREVER *cough […]* Burnout

A Russian schoolboy is in a tiff with his mom after winning a contest whose grand prize is living in a hotel for a month with a porn star.

The Mirror reports that Ruslan Schedrin, “said to be 16,” is simply over the moon to have won a month-long sleepover with adult film star Ekaterina Makarova a.k.a. Macy Ssens. He won this not as part of some sort of insane porn-watching challenge, but by being the 100,000th visitor to “a new website selling virtual arms for video games.” And they say American culture is pornified.

Hangovers are the worst. That nasty combo of headache, nausea and gut-pain can cost you precious hours of your life. While there are certainly preventative measures you can take to reduce the likelihood of a hangover (headache medication, food, lots of water before bed, etc.), inevitably you’re going to get stuck with a dirty hangover that you need to crush before it kills your day. Here are 11 awesome hangover cures that you can turn to when you need to ease the pain.

11. Ginger

Ginger is an all-purpose digestive aid. You can eat it with sushi, drink some ginger tea or mix ginger juice with water for a nausea-reducing elixir that’ll balance your gastric fluids and calm your system. This powerful antioxidant and anticoagulant can work wonders, but don’t consume fresh ginger on an empty stomach. Mix it up with something else.