The dream of all of us is to lose weight and at the same time to not lose our cheerfulness by starving and through deprivation of our favorite food that obviously helps us put on weight.

I have found my formula without any real intention of finding it and I want to share it with you.

1^st To become a geek

First off, you have to become a geek. There are many definitions of geek and the one I like most is Julia Hayden’s definition which includes many features I can relate to. Fortunately not the one at point 4 “You are wearing ten year old spectacles, made of steel.” and I still have more shoes than email addresses, point 8, but this is merely because I am a woman.

But yes, I have planned to get a second Master’s Degree and I do my best work after 11pm (Do not tell my mother) and yes, I am creating my own social network.
If you read through the definition you will see how much brain work you need to be a geek, this is extremely calorie burning.

2^nd To become a social media member

To be a Facebook member, a Linkedin member, a Twitter member, a Blomap member, a Plurk member, a Stumble Upon member, a Posterous member, a Friend Feed member, a Digg member, a Xing member, a Seesmic member etc. is something questionable for normal people. This is why you need to be a geek before becoming a social media member.

Even this activity requires a huge effort and speediness which brings along a good amount of calorie burning.

3^rd To create a Social Network

If you are social media member and indulge in it, you could come up with the idea of creating your own social network. Basically you can do it quickly through Ning, you have just to sign up for it, invite your friends and that’s it, from a technical perspective. Then all the networking work will be time consuming and adrenalin producing, so you should lose some of your spare tyre.

If you want to make an attempt at something stronger, then you should create your social network from scratch, as I did, and I called it Blomap, a mix of structured Blog and Maps. Blomap embeds Google maps and enables users to mark their favorite locations, it geo-localises the content, it has filters for all the content the users post, and above all, it has been created through outsourcing teams. Oh that is like running 4km a day!

4^th To create a Social Media Agency

After creating your own social network you should be close to reaching the desired weight and start thinking how to reach the last step. Actually it could not be anything else than setting up your own business which would obviously be a Social Media Agency. You cannot set up a Social Media Agency if you have not completed point 1,2,3. In fact, you have to be a geek, an all social media member and the owner of a social network to found your own Social Media Agency.
In fact, only then you can mix the geek, the social media member, and the social network owner that are in you and provide companies with this social media shake.
Obviously to lose further Kgs you have to use the strength of all social media analyzers, find  ways to earn through social media and finally you have to be able to calculate, through definite metrics, the R.O.I. for your clients.
My Social Media company is Swissite International and it has helped me to lose some grams so far, but merely because it is a start up.

5^th To plan your wedding day through Social Media

If you have arrived at this stage you should have reached the desired weight and be very happy with this. The thousand networks you created will help you to keep the weight at the level you desire.

In case you are going to have a big party soon or get married, then this will support you in keeping fit and slim at least till the wedding day. If you are thinking that you will go here and there to organise your wedding and will lose Kgs this way, you are wrong.

You won’t have to run so much and so far to lose weight, you still have to exploit the social media skills you have acquired by passing through phase 1, 2, 3 and 4 to plan your wedding day through social media.

First off, you can search for and add your favorite wedding locations, catering, bride and groom’s dresses shops, accommodation for your guests and so on to your personal map in Blomap. Then you can send the wedding invitation to the hundreds of geeks you have known during phase 1, 2, 3, and 4 through Blomap: you just have to send an event invitation and share your wedding location with your geek guests and that’s it.

So you will be relieved of some costs whilst burning calories through your adrenalin producing work-out made of blo-mapping and sharing.

Does it really work or it is only a joke?

If you are wondering whether or not it really works, well if it worked for me, why not for you? I have recently felt my jeans are looser than usual and I have thought that they were just about to split due to my latin buttock.
It is true that I have been a geek and social media member for ages and I have worked on my own social network for 2 years. So I only had to intensify my activity and finalise phase 3 and 4 by sitting for 2 weeks in front of my computer to create the design for my social media agency and test last issues of my social network. During that time I have been eating a lot of carbs, chocolate and whatever anti-depressive food you can imagine and I have been planning to go to the gym the day after tomorrow again and again. Well, when I finally made up my mind and went to the gym I thought it was high time I weighed myself to face up to the sad plight of the overweight. Nothing could have been more wrong, I went up and down to the scale but actually it was true: I had lost weight through Social Media!!!

Do it and let me know if you have reached the weight of your dreams.

Experimentation

In spite of the fact that many countries are having trouble defining the legal use of stem cells and prohibit some crucial applications of them, a new technique was recently experimented with at the Spire Hospital in Southampton, United Kingdom.

Stem cell

New method
One of the first operations was done on a 39 y.o male suffering from a bone disease that caused him pain on movement. Actually the new method of performance would comply with many legal restrictions connected to embryonic cells whose use has been completely avoided by exploiting stem cells from bone marrow extracted by the surgeons from donors´ pelvis. On top of that any possible prothesis rejections or the issue itself of looking for and waiting for a compatible donor would be avoided by taking the bone marrow from the patient’s body.

Actually the donated bones are degraded pieces taken from patients who needed and were already provided of a joint replacement. That means that side effects would stay for those donors.

Following the stem cell extraction the surgeons purified the stem cells and mixed them with cleaned bone from a donor who had already had the bone replaced. Finally the dead tissue, a consequence of the disease, was removed and the cavity was filled with the mixture. Subsequently the stem cells are to generate new tissue by themselves and to drive the formation of new blood vessels in order to bring in nutrients which guarantee the cells’ survival and growth.

The future

As a next step doctors are aiming to improve the technique with the application of an artificial chemical material supporting the stem cells’ growth. The benefit of that would be using this material in place of the donated human bones, and prevent the use of joint replacements even for those patients. Some of the most unpleasant side effects of the current prothesis are in fact the device substitution occurring repeatedly through the patient’s life and a possible rejection or slipping after the operation, which means new distressing operations, a prolonging of the treatment and last but not least a considerable worsening of the patient’s life quality.

As soon as the next goal is pursued all of those temporary measures will be over. Eventually as a very positive consequence of this new procedure and its forecast enhancement, the treatment time would be considerably shortened and on top of that the time wasted in waiting for a donor to be available would be completely eliminated.

Anyway the new procedure has to show long term results before its full operation is confirmed. That day when potential good results are verified, its use could open the way to a complete replacement of prothesis and any artificial devices apt to substitute human joints.

Improving life quality

On the other hand to provide evidence of the first new procedure successes, a patient operated on one year ago can already say that he can walk normally and without pain. Only one failure has resulted from six patients operated on so far, thus the future is going to provide a high percentage of cases having a positive outcome to be really satisfied about, that will improve patient life quality, an aspect of the utmost importance in disease treatments.

Obstacles

Whereas ethical issues would be prevented from being further discussed, new obstacles would be raised by multinationals operating in that trade, that could drive public opinion against the innovation and could consequently influence global expenditure in order to enable their business the survival of, or even boost, their business.

Positive social impact
However, the life quality improvement due to the new technique is going to result in a positive social impact which is at the base of any discovery’s fulfillment and propagation. In other words people´s needs and strengths would be the decisive factors that could quickly drive many of the above mentioned businesses out of the market.

A potential new growing market

It is highly likely that those companies would soon be advised to rethink their products and possibly replace them with an active support to methods involving the utilization of stem cells. For instance, the production of artificial material nurturing the stem cells, whose employment doctors are going to set up in the near future, could early become one of the key products of a potential new growing market.

Ecstatic childbirth

Nowadays the number of babies in the occidental world is increasingly reducing. There are plenty of reasons connected to this phenomenon and are all well known and interrelated. Just to quote some of them: fewer families are being established, career development, homosexuality and sterility. Together with all the possible causes, the pregnancy itself would be an extremely committed time period in a modern woman´s life which is not apt to having a baby but only to produce as much money and work as it is possible over the active years and possibly more. Giving birth is one of the most painful human actions recognised in the world, which is an added key and scary factor for many women considering the possibility to have a baby. A quote from the bible stated it thousands of years ago “The woman will give birth with pain[…]” Are you still trying to find something good in that?

Surprise!

The result of a recent study could really change the view of the way we look at and feel childbirth. The research has demonstrated that 20% of women reach climax during the parturition and more than 30% have sexual feelings. Would you believe that?! Actually probably not and the cause of this disbelief is imaginable. The religious involvement of many people on one hand and the taboo related to sex in most societies on the other hand prevented the spreading of the word and prevented even the wonderful sensations which have already surprised many women in the world. Surely none of them have been prepared to feel that fabulous excitement in giving birth, have they? In conclusion no women would be prepared for that in the near future, unless the women themselves would ask increasingly to be informed about this opportunity.

Technically the body releases the hormone oxytocin which stimulates ecstasy, then there are uterine contractions, nipple erection, and under the best circumstances an orgasm. How to get these best circumstances? Doctors agreed with creating the best circumstances recreating the home atmosphere where usually women make love.

Other trustworthy sources and documents about this topic that can help women be ready to talk about it and overcome incredulity are:

• The website www.orgasmicbirth.com
• The testimonies collected by Laura Shanley at www.unassistedchildbirth.com
• A renowned scientific German magazine Die Zeit Wissen published an interesting article in July 2009 about all of that titled Lust fürs Leben (Lust for life).

I am looking forward to seeing this revolution and hopefully more babies.