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Avoid these MISTAKES to get a dad bod: 6 Belly-Flattening Tips from fitness experts



Unless you're grossly obese and just trying to not die within a year, your diet goals probably exceed the capacity of the pop diet's abilities. You want less fat, but also want more muscle, more strength, and more athletic ability. None of these can be delivered by the frozen dinner nutrition plan your mom uses or the latest Dr. Oz book.




Avoid these MISTAKES to get a dad bod



You can't. Follow their muscle gain diets and you'll get fat and wreck your health. Follow their fat loss diets and you'll lose muscle... and wreck your health. And sadly, many of these competitive bodybuilders and gurus make a living selling these dysfunctional diet plans to googley-eyed fanboys. And those customized meal plans they sell? Usually they have three or four versions of the same plan with slight variations, and they just email you the one that's kinda sorta close for you. It's far from "customized."


T Nation editor Dani Shugart spent some time as a diet consultant. Ninety-percent of her male clients lost fat just by reducing their alcohol intake or dropping booze completely. And these weren't heavy drinkers, just regular guys who enjoyed a few beers after work and while watching the game.


Get divorced. No, not really, but imagine that you are getting divorced. Jolt yourself out of married-guy, dad-bod complacency. That's right, pretend that after all these years you're back on the market and if you're lucky, new eyes are going to be seeing you naked. Maybe younger, sportier eyes. And she expects you to go rock climbing with her. Still happy with the body your dietary choices have provided for you? Probably not. You might adjust your training, but you'll definitely feel compelled to clean up your diet.


To save your child, get fast food several times a week as this has the added benefits of avoiding the burnoff of calories that result from prepping your own meals and help maintain that sexy, desirable man-boob look that is desired by all women in Marie Clare.


3. Don't compete. Many grandparents fall into the deep dark "I'm the best grandma or grandpa" abyss. Competing grandparents only alienate their children and can ultimately make their grandchildren feel pressured and uncomfortable. When you set up relationships as competition, you're setting a dangerous precedent for your family and, quite frankly, being a lousy role model. Families have all kinds of varied relationships these days, which may result in kids having multiple grandparents. The good news is that the more loving adults there are in children's lives, the better chances they have for success. So be glad there are other grandparents in the picture and know that your grandchildren can be close to all their grandparents. You are all different people and will be different kinds of grandparents. One grandma may be the outdoor enthusiast; another may be the one to teach a grandchild how to paint her nails. One may have more money to spend, but another may have more time. Celebrate your differences and enjoy what you have in common.


Phobias are more severe. They cause intense fear that makes you go out of your way to avoid certain situations. Phobias cause abnormal thoughts and behaviors that are difficult to control. These feelings can bring challenges to your everyday life.


Exposure therapy and other treatments help you overcome the fear of cooking. Doing so can make it easier to go about your daily life. Cooking may still sometimes cause anxiety, but knowing how to calm your mind can prevent these feelings from escalating.


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NHTSA research tells us that immaturity and inexperience are primary factors contributing to these deadly crashes. Both lead to high-risk behavior behind the wheel: driving at nighttime, driving after drinking any amount of alcohol, and driving distracted by passengers and electronic devices.


Want to know why you're often advised to write about something mundane and everyday for your college essay? That's because the more out-there your topic, the more likely it is to stumble into one of these trouble categories.


Look at how long and draggy these paragraphs are, especially after that zippy opening. Is it at all interesting to read about how someone else found the process of writing hard? Not really, because this is a very common experience.


In both of these passages, there is the perfect opportunity to point out what exactly these failed versions of the essay didn't capture about the author. In the next essay draft, I would suggest subtly making a point about his other qualities.


During the summer of 2006, I went on a community service trip to rural Peru to help build an elementary school for kids there. I expected harsh conditions, but what I encountered was far worse. It was one thing to watch commercials asking for donations to help the unfortunate people in less developed countries, yet it was a whole different story to actually live it. Even after all this time, I can still hear babies crying from hunger; I can still see the filthy rags that they wore; I can still smell the stench of misery and hopelessness. But my most vivid memory was the moment I first got to the farming town. The conditions of it hit me by surprise; it looked much worse in real life than compared to the what our group leader had told us. Poverty to me and everyone else I knew was a foreign concept that people hear about on the news or see in documentaries. But this abject poverty was their life, their reality. And for the brief ten days I was there, it would be mine too. As all of this realization came at once, I felt overwhelmed by the weight of what was to come. Would I be able to live in the same conditions as these people? Would I catch a disease that no longer existed in the first world, or maybe die from drinking contaminated water? As these questions rolled around my already dazed mind, I heard a soft voice asking me in Spanish, "Are you okay? Is there anything I can do to make you feel better?" I looked down to see a small boy, around nine years of age, who looked starved, and cold, wearing tattered clothing, comforting me. These people who have so little were able to forget their own needs, and put those much more fortunate ahead of themselves. It was at that moment that I saw how selfish I had been. How many people suffered like this in the world, while I went about life concerned about nothing at all?


The same goes for "filthy rags," which is both an incredibly insensitive way to talk about the clothing of these villagers, and again shows a total lack of interest in their life. Why were their clothes dirty? Were they workers or farmers so their clothes showing marks of labor? Did they have Sunday clothes? Traditional clothes they would put on for special occasions? Did they make their own clothes? That would be a good reason to keep wearing clothing even if it had "stains" on it.


For a healthy cell to turn cancerous, scientists think that more than one DNA change has to occur. People who have inherited a cancer-related genetic change need fewer additional changes to develop cancer. However, they may never develop these changes or get cancer.


The Monitor interviewed some of psychology's leading ethics experts to talk about how practitioners can avert common ethical dilemmas, from multiple relationships to whether to breach confidentiality, to terminating treatment. Here's their advice, boiled down to 10 ways to help avoid ethical pitfalls.


According to the Ethics Code, psychologists should avoid relationships that could reasonably impair their professional performance, or could exploit or harm the other party. Behnke emphasizes, however, that multiple relationships that are not reasonably expected to have such effects are not unethical.


That's because sometimes it's impossible for psychologists to completely avoid multiple relationships, explains Steven Sparta, PhD, immediate past-chair of APA's Ethics Committee. For example, the psychologist in a rural town may decide to buy a car from his client because going elsewhere could signal that the car dealer was in therapy.


Obey mandatory reporting laws. Even if a psychologist believes that reporting abuse could make the situation even worse, "these laws are mandatory reporting laws, not discretionary reporting laws," says lawyer Mathew D. Cohen, who specializes in representing human-service providers. Mandatory reporting laws were not created to have clinicians decide whether abuse or neglect is happening, says Cohen, but to have them bring the facts to the attention of authorities, who will decide.


Avoid delegating work to people who have multiple relationships with the client that would likely lead to harm or the supervisee's loss of objectivity--for example, avoid using a non-English-speaking person's spouse as a translator.


Psychologists can often head off termination dilemmas by thinking ahead, say ethics experts. For example, a psychologist treats a woman until her insurance coverage expires, but when she can't pay out of pocket, he explains that the relationship must end and facilitates her care to another provider. To avoid the misperception that the psychologist "dumped" the client, the psychologist discusses the treatment timeline at their first session, including the differences between short- and long-term therapy and what could happen if therapy was needed beyond what the woman's insurance covered. 2ff7e9595c


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