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excess adj : more than is needed, desired, or required; "trying to lose excess weight"; "found some extra change lying on the dresser"; "yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant"; "skills made redundant by technological advance"; "sleeping in the spare room"; "supernumerary ornamentation"; "it was supererogatory of her to gloat"; "delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words"; "extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts"; "surplus cheese distributed to the needy" syn extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus n 1: a quantity much larger than is needed syn surplus, surplusage, nimiety 2: immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits syn excessiveness, inordinateness 3: the state of being more than full syn surfeit, overabundance 4: excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" syn overindulgence Source: WordNet. Princeton University
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7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess by Jen HatmakerB&H BooksAmerican life can be excessive, to say the least. That’s what Jen Hatmaker had to admit after taking in hurricane victims who commented on the extravagance of her family’s upper middle class home. She once considered herself unmotivated by the lure of prosperity, but upon being called “rich” by an undeniably poor child, evidence to the contrary mounted, and a social experiment turned spiritual was born. 7 is the true story of how Jen (along with her husband and her children to varying degrees) took seven months, identified seven areas of excess, and made seven simple choices to fight back against the modern-day diseases of greed, materialism, and overindulgence. Food. Clothes. Spending. Media. Possessions. Waste. Stress. They would spend thirty days on each topic, boiling it down to the number seven. Only eat seven foods, wear seven articles of clothing, and spend money in seven places. Eliminate use of seven media types, give away seven things each day for one month, adopt seven green habits, and observe “seven sacred pauses.” So, what’s the payoff from living a deeply reduced life? It’s the discovery of a greatly increased God—a call toward Christ-like simplicity and generosity that transcends social experiment to become a radically better existence. EFT Tapping to Tap Away Excess Pounds: 7 Days to Develop Healthy Habits to Drop Excess Weight by Ruthy BoehmWeight can be difficult to lose when there are too many emotions running high. With EFT Tapping you can learn to release unhealthy eating while learning to develop better self-esteem. You will learn to replace unhealthy thoughts with healthy ones to help you accomplish your goals of being slim, trim and healthy. Weight can be difficult to lose when there are too many emotions running high. With EFT Tapping you can learn to release unhealthy eating while learning to develop better self-esteem. You will learn to replace unhealthy thoughts with healthy ones to help you accomplish your goals of being slim, trim and healthy. Give Up Your Excess Baggage : 24 Simple Mind Exercises That Great Men & Women Effectively Use Every Single Day by Sri VishwanathSoul Power MagicA breakthrough process to remove past pains and how removing past pains give you freedom to restart your life more fully. A breakthrough process to remove past pains and how removing past pains give you freedom to restart your life more fully. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. CohanAnchorA blistering narrative account of the negligence and greed that pushed all of Wall Street into chaos and the country into a financial crisis. WHY CAN'T I LOSE WEIGHT AND WHY DO MY JOINTS HURT? HOW EVOLUTION HAS PROGRAMMED YOU TO BE FAT, SICK, AND ARTHRITIC AND HOW YOU CAN DEFEAT THE HUMAN HIBERNATION ... AND EASILY LOSE ALL YOUR EXCESS WEIGHT. by Jeff T. BowlesMany people today are overweight and just can't seem to shed those extra pounds no matter what kind of diet they try. Often overweight people also experience bone and joint pain. These problems are caused by the newly described Human Hibernation Syndrome where your body, due to lack of sunshine, expects that it is going into winter/famine conditions. Obesity and arthritis rates have skyrocketed since 1980 when doctors began warning us to stay out of the sun and use suncreen. Now most US children are overweight. The advice to stay out of the sun has caused widespread Vitamin D3 deficiency. Vitamin D3 is actually a hormone, the sunshine hormone that tells us that summer is here and food is plentiful. Just like black bears, whose vitamin D3 levels drop dramatically before hibernation which signals them to increase their weight by overeating by up to 70%, humans also experience carbohydrate cravings when Vitamin D3 deficient. This book challeneges the current recommended daily D3 requirments suggested by doctors as so low as to be negligent! It also describes my "dangerous" experiment where I lost a significant amount of weight without even trying (from 198 to 179) by taking "dangerous" amounts of vitamin D3, and it also describes how these high amounts of D3 cured all my arthritic problems. Aftter further experimentation-I also discovered the amount of D3 I needed to completely suppress the desire to eat and share it with you in this edition. Many people today are overweight and just can't seem to shed those extra pounds no matter what kind of diet they try. Often overweight people also experience bone and joint pain. These problems are caused by the newly described Human Hibernation Syndrome where your body, due to lack of sunshine, expects that it is going into winter/famine conditions. Obesity and arthritis rates have skyrocketed since 1980 when doctors began warning us to stay out of the sun and use suncreen. Now most US children are overweight. The advice to stay out of the sun has caused widespread Vitamin D3 deficiency. Vitamin D3 is actually a hormone, the sunshine hormone that tells us that summer is here and food is plentiful. Just like black bears, whose vitamin D3 levels drop dramatically before hibernation which signals them to increase their weight by overeating by up to 70%, humans also experience carbohydrate cravings when Vitamin D3 deficient. This book challeneges the current recommended daily D3 requirments suggested by doctors as so low as to be negligent! It also describes my "dangerous" experiment where I lost a significant amount of weight without even trying (from 198 to 179) by taking "dangerous" amounts of vitamin D3, and it also describes how these high amounts of D3 cured all my arthritic problems. Aftter further experimentation-I also discovered the amount of D3 I needed to completely suppress the desire to eat and share it with you in this edition. The 180 Degree Christian: Serving Jesus in a Culture of Excess by Carter ConlonRegalThe city of Corinth was well known in the ancient world as a place where every desire could be sated, where every discerning taste could find satisfaction. Unfortunately, the Corinthian church, instead of living generous and sacrificial lives, became infected with the “me, myself and I” culture for which their city was famous. According to the apostle Paul, the Christians in Corinth ignored the poor and marginalized and focused on their own selfish agendas. Conlon believes that the cultural priorities of twenty-first century North America are not so very different from ancient Corinth—and that the modern church too often makes the “Corinthian mistake.” In The 180º Christian, Conlon calls today’s church to turn away from its selfcenteredness and toward the selfless serving like Christ. Excess Baggage (The Girlfriend Tales Series) (NEW COVER!) by Katrina Parker WilliamsStepArt DesignsExcess Baggage Excess Baggage Why Women Need Fat: How "Healthy" Food Makes Us Gain Excess Weight and the Surprising Solution to Losing It Forever by William D. Lassek M.D.Hudson Street PressThe groundbreaking discovery that shows why women need fat to lose fat. Why do women struggle so much with weight? Can women ever lose weight and keep it off? In this research-driven and counterintuitive book, an anthropologist and a public health doctor team up to answer those questions. Blending anecdotal evidence with hard science, they explain how women's weight is controlled by evolution-but more important- they reveal how a change in diet three decades ago may be the reason women today are bigger than their grandmothers were. Explaining why fat (both in our diet and in our body) is crucial to long-term health, the authors show not only why women tend (and need) to get heavier after having their first child, but also destroy cultural myths like "all fat is bad for you." Providing a plan that can help any woman achieve a natural, healthy weight- without dieting- Why Women Need Fat not only gives women the tools they need to shed weight, but also a better understanding of why those last five pounds seem impossible to lose. The Hollywood Book of Extravagance: The Totally Infamous, Mostly Disastrous, and Always Compelling Excesses of America's Film and TV Idols by James Robert ParishWileySavor the inside scoop on over-the-top superstars We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess by Daniel AkstPenguin Press HC, The
An intelligent and irreverent investigation into the age-old problem of self-control finds that, in the modern world, solving it is the most important thing we can do. More calories, sex, and intoxicants are more readily and privately available than at any time in memory. Pornography and gambling are now instantly and anonymously accessible to anyone with an Internet- connected computer. Trying to work? If so, chances are you're also struggling to resist the siren call of the Internet-to say nothing of the snack machine. As America's bulging waistlines can attest, mealtime is no longer a discrete part of the day, and our struggles with weight have never been more desperate. We Have Met the Enemy examines overeating, overspending, procrastination, wayward sexual attraction, and other everyday transgressions that bedevil modern society. While temptations have multiplied, many of the longstanding social constraints on behavior have eroded. Tradition, ideology, and religion have lost their grip on many of us, while commonly accepted standards of attire, speech, and comportment in the public sphere have largely dissolved. Financial constraints, once a ready substitute for willpower, were swept away by surging affluence and the remarkable openhandedness of lenders. (And we all know what happened then.) A remarkable confluence of freedom, affluence, and technology are sorely testing the limits of human willpower. This conundrum of self-control has occupied thinkers since the time of Socrates. Philosophers, theologians, psychologists, and lately economists have wrestled with the question of how it is possible for us to act against our own best interest, but the issue has never been more urgent than it is today. For affluent societies, the struggle for self- mastery is the preeminent challenge of our times. In essence, willpower is the ballgame. If our humanity hinges on anything, it's our ability as individuals to guide our behavior according to our own judgment of what is best. Self- control is what makes you a mensch. Using self-control as a lens rather than a cudgel, Daniel Akst combines social insight with history, literature, psychology, and economics to alarm, teach, and empower us. We Have Met the Enemy is a call to arms for each of us to exercise more control over our own destiny-and thereby to be happier, healthier, and ultimately more fully human. |
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