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How to Lose 10 Pounds Without Hating Your Life You've done everything to lose a little bit of weight (including that weird tea cleanse your BFF swore by) — but the scale is stubbornly stalled. Well, according to Christy Harrison, R.D., a registered dietitian in Brooklyn, N.Y., there's one thing you probably haven't tried (and it's the one thing that actually works): If you want to drop 10 pounds — drop the idea that you need to lose 10 pounds. "It's never okay to put a number on a weight loss goal," Harrison says. "The next time you think, 'I'd just feel better if I lost 10 pounds,' ask yourself where that thought's coming from. If we lived in a culture that told you your body is beautiful exactly as it is, would you still think that? If the answer is, 'Yes, I'd love to be able to chase after my kids or feel less sluggish,' OK then, let's focus on that objective." And the biggest problem? It sets you up for fail...

7 Things You Can Do to Feel Better Instantly Everybody's looking for a quick fix. Whether it's to lose weight or achieve their dreams, people are searching for the magic pill or perfect practice to make their lives "better." There's a tendency to believe that what we want is outside of who are already are. You want world peace? Ask how at peace are you with yourself, your body, and your life. You want to lose 30 pounds? Ask how much extra “baggage” are you carrying emotionally. It’s not that we’re hypocrites, most of the time we’re just not aware of the inner turmoil we have going on. You have to dive deep to find the answers you’re looking for. All that being said, there are things you can do right NOW that will help you feel better instantly. Keep in mind that you have to do these things consistently to see and feel real change in your life. 1. Breathe more deeply. I find this is especially useful when I’m eating, since it allows me to feel how full I’m ge...

For most of her life in prostitution in New Zealand, Sabrinna Valisce campaigned for decriminalisation of the sex trade. But when it actually happened she changed her mind and now argues that men who use prostitutes should be prosecuted. Julie Bindel tells her story.

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Our Souls At Night Jane Fonda and Robert Redford finally reunite on screen for this adaptation of Kent Haruf’s Colorado-set novel about finding love in later life. Despite having lived next to each other for years, Addie Moore (Fonda) and Louis Waters (Redford), both widowed, only get to know each other after Addie pays an unexpected visit on her neighbour. Then they set about making the most of the time they have left.

The Notebook Yes, you’ve cried over this insanely overwrought romance starring a young Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams a billion times already, and no, it won’t hurt to watch it again. We’re not here to judge. From October 1.

Claudio Yanez always preferred not to talk about his childhood. He kept his distance from people and threw himself into his education and career. But a government report published last year about abuses in the public child care system in Chile brought back terrible memories of being taken into care at the age of 10. This is his story.

The menopause is a puzzle for biologists. Why would the female of a species cease to reproduce half way through her life, when natural selection favours characteristics that help an individual's genes survive? A study of killer whales - one of only two mammals apart from humans to undergo the menopause - is providing clues. Granny is very spritely for a centenarian. When I finally catch sight of San Juan Island's local celebrity, she leaps clear out of the ocean to delighted gasps from everyone on my boat. Granny is a killer whale, or orca. She lives in a coastal area of the North Pacific, close to Vancouver and Seattle, known as the Salish Sea. And while she is affectionately known as "Granny", her formal name is J2 - an alpha-numeric title that identifies her as a member of a population known as the Southern Resident orcas. It is a clan of 83 killer whales in three distinct pods - J, K and L-pod - all of which return to this area of coastal Pacific waterways ...

Amazing transformation indeed!