Moving on Up...

So I finally have a domain name!  CarlaBarilaKaram.com  

After much thought and consideration, I have decided to use my own name.  

To date I have created three blogs, and before that I love my artwork.  

With that said, I feel instead of having each of my creations floating in internet-space, I want them all in one place.  Under the umbrella of my name... Carla Barila Karam. 

Sure I could pay someone to do all of this for me, but in the true spirit of who I am, I have decided to do it all myself - learning as I create.

I first transferred this blog, because it is smaller (not as many posts).  I have converted it to a WordPress blog and is now being self hosted.  Wow!  I can't tell you how much I have learned up until now.

I am still working on the design and am slowly getting traffic there.  Luckily I write this blog once a week, which gives me time to work on it... I am hoping to have it completed within the next month or so.

My main site and My LifeStyle ReDesign both look a pretty generic right now, but behind the scenes it is coming together!!  I am even creating my very own background from scratch!  One thing is for sure... keeping true to me, there will be a little bit of red there too.  wink, wink.

I have been writing new posts on my WordPress site to get the hang of it, but I neglected to post them here as well.  I read somewhere not to duplicate your work on different sites, it somehow brings your rating down.  Whatever that means... so for the time being I decided to KIS (keep it simple).  So have a look see... and don't forget to tell me what you think.   www.carlabarilakaram.com/mylifestyleredesign/  

Again, being the multi-tasker that I am ... and in the spirit of who I am... I am working on both websites.  Then, once they are all polished I will add my other two blogs to the mix, and my artwork portfolio.

Here's to sharing my world with you!

Blessings to you and yours.

Post 18 / Day 114 ~ Cultures, Foods & Celebrations

This week has been a week of celebration.  Oh boy!  I wish there was a happy zone where it all can make sense and agree to disagree.  HUH?


Okay.  When you think of the word "celebration", what do you think of?  I think of food... not just food, but delicious, decadent food... I think of drink... and you guessed it, not just any ordinary drinks too... and then there's dessert!.. and I mean yummy, delicious, sultry dessert. 

When the thought of a celebration comes to mind, the last thing that comes to mind is healthy eating, getting all your fruits and vegetables in, let alone diet food all together!  Quite honestly, none of these food scream CELEBRATION!  LOL!  Quite the opposite.  

Funny how society, and our different cultures have conditioned us to think a certain way about different foods.  I mean really, growing up, did we run after the ice cream truck when we saw it, or what it the fruits and vegetable truck?  Get what I mean?  A little funny imagining what that would look like!  You can barely get your kids to eat spinach per say, yet their running after broccoli and carrots! 

Here's to another glass of water!  Do not over do it, please.

Stay healthy and Think Positive!

Blessings to you and yours. 

Images courtesy of google images, or property of Carla Barila Karam and of My LifeStyle ReDesign (c)

Post 17 / Day 107 ~ The Missing Ingredient to Healthy Weight Loss

To diet or non-diet?  More importantly... WHICH DIET?!?  


THAT'S THE QUESTION!


There's the Alkaline Diet, Alli, Atkins diet, Baby Food Diet, Belly Fat Cure, Best Life Diet, Big Breakfast Diet, Biggest Loser Diet, Biggest Loser Simple Swaps, Body for Life, Brown Fat Revolution, Cabbage Soup Diet, The Carb Lovers Diet, The Caveman (Paleo) Diet, Cheater's Diet, Cinch Diet, Cookie Diet, Detox Diets, The Diet Solution, Dr. Oz Ultimate Diet, Dr. Phil's Ultimate Weight Solution, Dukan Diet, The Eat-Clean Diet, Eat More Weigh Less, Eat Right for Your Type, Eat This - Not That, Eat What You Love, Eco Atkins Diet, Fast Food Diet, Fat Smash Diet, Flat Belly Diet, Flexitarian Diet, 5 Factor Diet, Flavor Point Diet, 4 Day Diet, Fruit Flash Diet, French Women Don't Get Fat, Fresh Diet, The FullBar Diet, G Free Diet, Gene Smart Diet, Glycemic Index Diet, Grapefruit Diet, Hallelujah Diet, HGG Diet, High School Reunion Diet, The Hormone Diet, Instinct Diet, Jenny Craig, The Kind Diet, LA Weight Loss, Lemonade Diet, Living Low-Carb, Macrobiotic Diet, Martha's Vineyard Diet, Master  Your Metabolism, Mayo Clinic Diet, Medifast Diet, Mediterranean Diet, Morning Banana Diet, Naturally Thin Diet, New Atkins for a New You, New Beverly Hills Diet, NutriSystem, O2 Diet, Park Avenue Diet, Perricone Diet, Personality Type Diet, P.I.N.K. Method, Pritikin Principle, Protein Powder, Raw Food Diet, Rice Diet Solution, The 17 Day Diet, Shangri-La Diet, Skinny Vegan Diet, Slim Fast Plan, Sonoma Diet, South Beach Diet, South Beach Diet Supercharged, The Spectrum, Step Diet, Sugar Busters, Thin for Life, This Is Why You're Fat, 3 Day Diet, 3-Hour Diet, UltraMetabolism Diet, Volumetrics, What  Color is Your Diet?, The Weigh Down, Weight Loss Cure, Weight Watchers, Dr. Andrew Weil, You- On A Diet, and The Zone to name a few.  Phew!


Seriously?  I mean really!  I know that not every diet works for every person.  I realize this.  However with so many choice at hand, it's no wonder why many of us are not sticking to "our" diets, and jumping to the next.  When after so many years of dieting myself, I have come to the understanding that we have to stick to one and see it through.


... Let's not forget about EXERCISE either... 


The BEST of diets or non-diets WILL NOT work without EXERCISE!! and WATER!!


But more importantly... I think we have been missing out on one BASIC ingredient to a healthy weight loss... and that is our MENTAL HEALTH!!


Without a good  mental outlet, honestly... I really do not think that THE BEST OF THE BEST DIET will work.

Therefore... the missing ingredient is taking care of those ISSUES that had you comfort eating to begin with.


Sooo tell me ...  How's your mental health?   

Check and compare your diet.  Source:  http://www.webmd.com/diet/evaluate-latest-diets

Here's to another glass of water!  Do not over do it, please.

Stay healthy and Think Positive!

Blessings to you and yours. 

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