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Jenna Jameson is opening up about the strain not being able to lose weight had on her mental health after giving birth to her daughter Batel Lu.
The former adult film actress, 44, shared a before and after photo of herself on Instagram Monday.
“Let’s talk about the mental aspect of losing weight and getting healthy. I’m going to be honest with you, when I was heavy I hated leaving the house. I felt judged,” Jameson wrote. “I felt eyes on me everywhere. I could hear others internal monologue saying “damn, Jenna Jameson let herself go” ugh.”
“All of us do this, we worry so very much how we are perceived. But beyond that shallow thinking there was deeper shame. I was disappointed in myself,” she continued.
The mother of three revealed her concerns that she wouldn’t go back to a size she felt comfortable with while being sober.
“I was worried I couldn’t lose the weight Sober. I’m being real with you,” she admitted. “When I was in my addiction it was easy to stay thin. Sobriety and being overweight was new to me. I kept telling myself if I could beat addiction and stay sober, I can easily lose the weight… and I did. The healthy way.”
She added, “And as of today I can say my mental game is STRONG. I feel I can do anything, I conquered abuse, addiction, PTSD and depression. Thank you for listening and please tell me your stories below, I read every comment #weightloss#weightlossjourney #keto #ketodiet#sober #sobriety #beforeandafter#fitmom #mentalhealth.”
Jameson also shared a mirror selfie of herself on her Instagram Story wearing a white one-piece bikini while showing off her toned body.
Jameson has been open about her weight loss journey since giving birth in April 2017.
Earlier this month, Jameson shared another before and after photo of her body in a joyful post in which she told her followers she had gone from a size 16 to a size 6 in jeans.
RELATED: Jenna Jameson Lost 57 Lbs. with the Keto Diet After Giving Birth: ‘The Cravings Subside’
“It’s time for another #tuesdaytransformation . Guys, I fit into size 6 jeans! the picture on the right I’m wearing size 16 jeans the fit of my clothes is catapulting me forward now, not the scale so much,” Jameson wrote in the caption.
“Oh, and can we talk about “muffin top” it’s gone! I feel like keto paired with #intermittentfasting has been my riddle solver!” she continued. “I’ve officially weaned off my poison sugar free creamer and am now drinking black coffee with stevia and coconut oil! on a side note I want to acknowledge all of you taking the leap with me to get healthier, I’m SO damn proud of you!!!! Love you guys so much!”
Jameson also previously shared in an Instagram post that since beginning the keto diet in March, she had lost 57 lbs. The diet is a very low-carb, moderate protein and high-fat eating plan.
She shared two sets of before and after photos to show her followers how much her body had changed.
“On the right, I weigh 187. On the left I’m a strong 130,” she wrote. “I was lethargic and struggled with the easiest of tasks like walking in the beach sand with Batelli. I felt slow mentally and physically.”
“I took the pic on the right for a body positive post I was going to do and decided against it because I felt anything but f—— positive,” she continued. “I’m now a little under four months on the #ketodiet and it’s not only given me physical results, I feel happier, smarter, and much more confident.”
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You know that moment when you just need to stretch—maybe it’s before getting out of bed in the morning, during a long flight or right after a long run. Think about how your go-to muscle-loosening move makes you feel. Does it make you say “ooh” and “ahh”? Well, that’s exactly what stretching can do for you: Wake up your muscles, relieve tension throughout the body and make you feel oh-so-good.
RELATED: 5 Standing Desk Stretches to Relieve Stress Now
But the benefits of stretching go even further. “There are many factors that can limit or enhance movement, including prior tissue damage, strength, stability around the joint and, of course, flexibility,” says Lisa Wheeler, vice president of fitness programming for Daily Burn. “That’s where stretching comes in. If the muscles around the joint aren’t flexible, it’s difficult to move efficiently.” In other words, that stiffness can prevent you from doing full range of motion exercises, cause injury and worse, keep you from progressing with your fitness goals.
To help you loosen up the joints used in most daily movements—especially those that get tight from sitting all day—we rounded up 15 lengthening and strengthening stretches to do daily. Wheeler says it’s best to do a dynamic warm-up before a workout and static holds after exercise. Thankfully, you can use most of these stretches for both by either staying in the position shown for 30 seconds (static) or moving in and out of the pose (dynamic). Focus on deep breathing and you’ll probably experience some mental stress relief, too.
RELATED: The 5 Keys to a Perfect Warm-Up
1. Downward Dog
A yogi favorite, this pose focuses on hip and shoulder mobility, while stretching your hamstrings, lats (muscles in your mid-back) and deltoids (muscles in your shoulders).
How to: Start in plank position with shoulders directly over wrists (a). Push your hips up toward the ceiling so you form a triangle with your body. Keep your head between your arms and straighten your legs as much as possible (b). Reach your heels toward the ground and spread your fingers, so your bodyweight gets distributed evenly through the hands and feet.
Make it dynamic: Continuously move between plank position and downward dog.
2. Side Oblique Stretch
You’ll lengthen through the side of your body as you stretch your lats, hips and obliques.
How to: Stand with feet a little wider than hip-distance apart (a). As you lift one arm overhead with your palm facing inward, reach and lean toward the opposite side of the arm raised (b). Hold for eight seconds, then switch sides.
Make it dynamic: After you reach with one arm, bend that elbow as you pull it down by your side and stand straight. Reach back up and over. Do eight reps, then switch sides.
RELATED: 5 Hip Stretches to Relieve Tightness Now
3. Crescent Pose
Find length and balance as you engage your abs, hip flexors and chest with this high lunge.
How to: Stand with your feet staggered: one in front and one behind you (a). Bend your front knee to create a 90-degree angle. Keep your back leg straight behind you (b). Lift your arms up in the air by your ears, palms facing inward. Lift your chest up, slightly arching your back as you press your back hip forward (c). If possible, lower your lunge as you exhale. Hold for eight seconds, then switch sides.
Make it dynamic: Bend and straighten your front leg as you lift and lower your arms. Repeat for eight reps, then switch sides.
RELATED: 8 Things Experts Wish You Knew About Yoga
4. Child’s Pose
Take it from Daily Burn’s Becca Pace: This stretch is probably one of the most calming postures, and works well for recovery, too. You’ll stretch the low back, lats and shoulders.
How to: Get on all fours on an exercise mat (a). From your hands and knees, push your hips back until your butt rests on your heels. (Knees slightly wider than hips.) Keep your arms straight out in front of you and look at the floor.
Make it dynamic: Continuously flow through hands-and-knees position to child’s pose.
RELATED: The 6 Most Satisfying Stretches You're Not Doing
5. Single Leg Stretch
If you’re like most adults, you need a little more flexibility in your hamstrings. Bonus benefit: You’ll also work your core.
How to: Lie on your back and lift legs toward the ceiling (a). Lower one leg toward the floor as you pull the other leg toward your face (b). Hold the back of your raised leg (calf or higher) and lift your shoulders off the mat (c). Keep legs as straight as possible and toes pointed. Hold, then switch sides.
Make it dynamic: Switch legs repeatedly, gently grabbing your calf and pulling it toward you.
RELATED: Is It Better to Do Cardio or Strength Training First?
6. Figure 4
This is an ah-mazing stretch for runners, as it alleviates tightness in the glutes and the hard-to-reach piriformis (another muscle in your backside).
How to: Sit on a mat with your legs extended in front of you (a). Place your hands behind you, fingertips facing away from your body. Lift one leg, placing your ankle on your opposite leg, just above the knee. (Keep your feet flexed to protect your knees.) (b). Slowly bend your bottom leg toward you, until you feel a stretch in the outer hip of the other leg (c). Straighten your back, roll your shoulders down and push out your chest. Hold, then switch sides.
Make it dynamic: Continue to bend and straighten your bottom leg.
RELATED: 5 Stretches You Could Be Doing More Effectively
7. Cat
Have a stiff back? This pose will encourage blood flow and more mobility in your spine.
How to: Get on your hands and knees on an exercise mat, with wrists in line with shoulders and knees in line with hips (a). Round your back, tuck your pelvis and look toward the floor, as you scoop your abs upward (b).
Make it dynamic: Inhale and exhale as you flow through cat and cow (below).
Read the rest of the article here.
This article originally appeared on DailyBurn.com.
The ANC in Tshwane wants the City to be placed under administration and President Cyril Ramaphosa to assign the Special Investigating Unit to probe allegations of looting there since the DA took over in 2016.
These were some of the remedies suggested on Wednesday at a media briefing which the party’s newly-elected chairperson Dr Kgosi Maepa and the party’s caucus in the council held.
The party leadership expressed “disgust” and sought to expose what it termed “historic capex grand theft by the DA administration”.
This is linked to reports in the Sunday Times over the weekend which stated that Municipal Manager Moeketsi Mosola brought in Midrand-based engineering consultancy firm GladAfrica to manage infrastructure projects worth R12bn, despite being advised that doing so was illegal.
Mosola, who held a media briefing ahead of the ANC’s address, detailed processes around the deal in an attempt to clear his name, saying that appointing GladAfrica was “in compliance with legislative prescripts governing the City of Tshwane’s supply chain management and the Municipal Finance Management Act”.
But Maepa read from a statement: “It cannot be business as usual anymore when kleptomaniacs such as these continue to remain at the helm of the City and its departments.”
Maepa claimed that the DA-led administration outsourced the City’s multi-billion-rand expenditure budget to GladAfrica.
He said, through the tender, GladAfrica became a “middleman”, which service providers and those seeking to do business with the City had to go through.
“Bringing in the consultancy has dramatically inflated prices as the consultancy fees are way beyond accepted rates as approved by the Engineering Council of South Africa and the Department of Public Service and Administration,” he complained.
He added that this meant the DA-led municipality had done away with a competitive bidding process, which was the norm.
The ANC also shared its views on what it believed should happen to the municipal manager, saying he should be suspended immediately and that it would pursue criminal charges against Mosola.
It also recommended that MEC of Local Government Uhuru Moila should place the municipality under administration.
“The MEC of Local Government in Gauteng must immediately invoke Section 106 (1)(b) [of the Municipal Systems Act],” said Moepa.
This would lead to the setting up of an investigation into allegations of maladministration, fraud, corruption or any other serious malpractices occurring in a municipality.
The ANC has also said that it would approach the Public Protector to investigate their complaint.
The ANC also wants Tshwane Mayor Solly Msimanga to step down.
Msimanga, who Moepa called “Mr I Don’t Know” and “Mr I Was Not There”, was warned against distancing himself from the scandal. The ANC regional chair said Msimanga’s job meant he had to play an oversight role.
Msimanga earlier released a statement accusing the ANC of being hypocritical and claiming that investigations into the GladAfrica tender were continuing.
“I again put on record that we are diligently investigating this matter and have been doing so for some time now. I am nevertheless mystified by the ANC’s hypocritical call to investigate corruption when it is this DA-led multi-party government [which] has taken several contracts concluded by the previous administration on judicial review,” Msimanga said.
He said the ANC has been linked to the West Capital Project, the PEU Smart Meter Project, the Moipone Fleet Contract and the Broadband Contract.
The ANC, however, is yet to give dates for when it plans to take its complaints to both the Public Protector and the police. It has assured journalists that it had uncovered numerous other scandals in the DA-led municipality.
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Cape Town – Pretoria Mavericks franchise owner Hiren Bhanu has heavily criticised Cricket South Africa (CSA), as the future of the T20 Global League – and the specifics of its composition – remained in the balance this week.
The tournament was due to take place late last year, but was postponed to November 2018 after the controversial departure of former CSA CEO Haroon Lorgat.
CSA have since announced plans to partner with broadcaster SuperSport in a new-look, six-franchise competition. This tournament will not allow for private ownership, which has angered Bhanu, the Durban Qalandars’ Sameen Rana and others.
READ: T20 Global League saga drags on with another rant
Last week’s two heated meetings in Mumbai and Dubai, between several former T20 Global League owners and CSA representatives, did little to placate Bhanu and company.
Bhanu is currently pursuing an interdict against CSA, to prevent any T20 tournament being played in Centurion.
“They’ve given us no alternative. We’re going ahead and suing them,” he was quoted as saying by Cricbuzz. “We have no choice. They are all liars.
“How is it possible that we, as former owners, can get a stake later, when SuperSport are 49 percent partners in your new entity and you haven’t even asked their consent? It’s nonsense.”
Nelson Mandela Bay Stars owner Ajay Sethi added: “CSA have continuously changed their position and have shown no interest in working with the current T20 Global League owners.
“As owners, we now have no option but to go the legal route and consider all legal options to protect our interests.”
Losses incurred by last year’s postponement have been estimated to be R220 million. Legal proceedings will see this figure grow substantially.
Domestic T20 tournaments, featuring local and international stars, have since been launched in the United Arab Emirates and Canada. The Caribbean Premier League, Indian Premier League and Big Bash League in Australia continue to thrive.
The owner of the firearm that was found next to the body of co-author of The Lost Boys of Bird Island Mark Minnie, could be charged with negligence.
Police spokesperson Captain Johan Rheeder said the owner, believed to be a friend of Minnie’s, could be charged after his firearm was found near to Minnie’s body.
Rheeder added that, although a case has not yet been opened, it was standard procedure.
Fifty-eight-year-old Minnie was found on the friend’s smallholding in Theescombe on Monday evening and he had a gunshot wound to the head. The firearm was next to his body.
READ: Mark Minnie did not use his own firearm in alleged suicide – police
Rheeder also confirmed that an autopsy had been performed on Minnie on Tuesday.
He said blood samples were taken and gun residue tests on Minnie’s hands were done before they were sent to a forensics laboratory in Cape Town for testing.
Responding to rumours that Minnie was shot between the eyes, Rheeder said he could confirm that Minnie had sustained a single gunshot wound to the head, but could not be more specific about the location of the wound.
He added that the death was still being treated as an inquest.
Minnie was the co-author of the controversial book, The Lost Boys of Bird Island, which details allegations that former apartheid minister Magnus Malan was part of a paedophile network.
Since news of his death broke, many have questioned the timing and nature of Minnie’s death.
“There is no way that he would have taken his own life. What is happening is very scary. Clearly, there is more to this,” said a former colleague, who worked with Minnie when he was in the police narcotics unit in the 1980s. The person did not want to be named.
Another colleague, who also asked to remain anonymous, described Minnie as a man who “worked hard and played hard”.
“He was a bit of a maverick, but he got things done. He had a wide network of contacts back then,” he said.
News24 previously reported that the book detailed how three former National Party ministers, including one who is still alive, were alleged central figures in a paedophile ring that operated during apartheid.
Investigations into Malan – as well as John Wiley (former minister of environmental affairs) and another former minister, who was considered a possible successor to then president PW Botha and who is still alive – were halted by the police, and the investigating officer was hounded from service in the 1980s.
These and other explosive allegations are contained in the book by Minnie, a former police officer, and Chris Steyn, a former investigative journalist.
According to the book, Malan, Wiley and the other minister were involved, along with disgraced Port Elizabeth businessman Dave Allen, in ferrying coloured minors to Bird Island, in Algoa Bay near Port Elizabeth, where the children were molested and forced to satisfy the older men’s sexual fantasies.
Malan died in 2011, while Wiley and Allen’s deaths in 1987 were recorded as suicides, fuelling the speculation around Minnie’s death.
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