The Lifestyle Diet

How many diets have you followed in your life? Is dieting the path to weight loss? Do diets really work?

Today we have many trendy diets; Keto, Plant-based, Paleo, Detox and Intermittent Fasting, to name a few. These popular diets have some merit, but they do not qualify as lifestyle choices or weight loss solutions. They are unenjoyable, restrictive and unsustainable.

We live in a world of abundance and an information overload, leaving us feeling more confused than ever before regarding how we should eat for weight loss. What’s more? The diet culture and unqualified individuals have begun exploiting social media by offering quick fixes and unscientific advice, further adding to your frustration and confusion.

The truth is, there is no quick fix to this long-term problem. And no matter how much you may exercise, you can’t outrun a bad diet.

The Lifestyle Diet will show you that it is possible to eat everything you enjoy, live your life, and still lose weight. You can do this without suffering the physical, mental, and emotional consequences associated with dieting.

Considering the scientific research on today’s most popular diets, Alshawa will offer evidence-based advice and prove to you why diets do not work for weight loss in a clinically healthy population.

The Lifestyle Diet will put you on the path to effective lifestyle interventions to be healthier and lose weight…without ever having to diet AGAIN!

A Cup Of Lavender

I wrote the words of this book to accompany you everywhere. I wrote them to weave those memories which will be attached to you through the passage of time, and years.

This book will be your companion on the plane seat, at the seashore, and at the window of your room, which will open for you the window of time and memories, and how to deal with people, and always to keep trying and never give up.

I hope you enjoy my woven words lovingly served to you with a cup of lavender tea

I Named Her Mariam

Those words on these pages were the production of years of unity in its various forms…I am grateful to her for the many things she has honored me for. So it was worth sharing it with every interested reader who might find his consolation in it.

Faces Without Masks

The book is a collection of stories that represent society with all its spectrums and contradictions, exposing social hypocrisy, exploiting opportunities, and abandoning the values of some in order to climb the moral abyss, in accordance with the principle that the end justifies the means.

 The collection of short stories also presents the concept of the relativity of truth. The characters’ use of masks is linked to the psychological and societal situations and conditions that the individual goes through during the stages of his life. Every oppressor is oppressed at some point in his life, and we all carry masks in varying proportions in our lives that may be part of our humanity, and may be harsh and shocking masks in some situations.

The reader can draw a lesson and a sermon from the story that may enable him to open the windows for self-review of his life, work to awaken conscience, return to the path of humanity again, and correct the path.

Behind The Hills

The balance may not be realized, even if it exists between memories and their gaps, and between our imaginations and what fills those gaps in disparity, agreement, meeting and separation...

Memories and imaginations will always be a long way to the past, and to the future

In methods we have inadvertently developed, so that the mixture becomes as homogeneous as we want

We developed it after we couldn't escape from both of them

It will never stop, and we will turn its bitterness into pride 

Before You Turn Off The Light

A person’s sense of well-being and happiness is not complete without his psychological well-being, no matter how much his pockets are filled with money, and his closet is filled with luxurious clothes and jewellry.

Life does not give us all beautiful things, but contentment makes everything in our hands beautiful.

A Moment That Equals A Life

We can change the life that we don't desire, or we can achieve the life we desire, mainly through realizing that it doesn't take us a lifetime to achieve it, but rather, we can achieve it through taking a few moments to make the decision we want to see happen.

There are decisions we took in the bat of an eye and felt their effects until the end of our lives, and there are decisions that we stopped for a few moments before making them, preventing the end from being the beginning.

Just as everything in life has two sides, moments also have two sides; the positive side is that they stay with us for a lifetime under the label of memories, and the negative side is that they happen quickly like the speed of a burning fire.

Always remember, my friend, that you are the one in command of all your life moments, and that you always have the choice to carry those moments with you.

How beautiful it will be when time passes by and you recall memories that were only of your choice alone, and how difficult it is when you remember other moments and recall the memories that were made by others for you!

Yes...There may be moments of regret and sadness, not all of them are joyful, but how beautiful it is to regret your own choice and learn from the mistakes you made, and how difficult it is to regret the choices of others for you without learning from them nothing except saying no!

We Live With Hope

The book is a contemplation of daily life situations and characters that we meet in the surroundings of our private and public life... It is a message for everyone who sees with the eye of insight what the eye can’t see, it is an invitation to rearrange ideas according to what the soul senses and not according to what is traditionally inherited in our culture generation after generation. Some situations in our lives are messages to redirect our awareness towards things, and to reconsider from a different angle to get the whole picture clear. The book is an invitation to life, starting with the mind and spirit to self-reprogram our lifestyle, and opening the closed windows in our souls towards spaces of renewed hope and certainty in God; That the future is more beautiful, as the rainbow decorates the sky only after a rainy night, and that the most difficult setbacks cannot defeat a person who still holding to hope for the soul to bloom and white roses scatter on the roads of his future life.

We Meet In This Place

Incorporating the rules of human development into thoughts is the means by which I can reach the largest segment of those interested in content, as the common observation that I receive constantly is: “These words represent me.” Therefore, I try to focus on the most prominent common emotional and developmental issues, and formulate them in a way it fits with the proposition presented, so I guarantee that everyone who reads this book will find a part of it; Either by describing a situation or an answer to a question or confirming information, so I hope that whoever finds something from it in this book can write to me, and whoever has a note can contact me through the communication channels shown.

Emotions Of A Life

Emotions of life deals with our lives, our personality, and the circumstances we go through. Sensations and feelings that penetrate inside us, simulate our thoughts… those thoughts that are born in our hearts without permission. Thoughts of love and sadness manipulate our memories and feelings of silence and stillness that we would like to reveal.

Your Permanent Weight Loss Blueprint

If you’re reading this, you are probably a veteran of a few failed diets.

You are hardly alone.

Most people who go on a new diet have actually gone on diets before. 

The pattern is all too familiar:

You go on a diet and lose weight.

After a few weeks, the weight comes back.

Believe it or not, the problem with dieting is NOT losing weight. In fact, most diets “work” – they CAN help you lose weight. In many cases, they can help you lose a LOT of weight.

This is not the problem. The problem is KEEPING the weight (and fat) off!

Green Leaves Of Dry Trees

An empty box is a term used when someone describes his life, but in my case, it is the opposite, my life was like an untidy box. I was filling it sincerely but it was vain, and I wish to re-arrange what’s inside. The abundance makes it difficult to see its contents. I am trying hard to look in-between the folds of my box what I had forgotten to throw. But it is not an easy endeavor; my life is still going on, and to stop and to check and organize hinders my life, and I am unable to do both. I do not want to cry, but my astonishment exposes me and shows others my whining, tears, and screams but I can’t recognize it. I don’t know what to do! But I remain steadfast, until without I feel and Allah gives me permission. Here is my first step to re-arrange memories and remind myself of what I’ve suffered, I wish I could.