If you truly learn to love what you have, and develop a sense of gratitude for all the amazing gifts you have, then you can build on that in a positive way. The more you have to be grateful for, the more you get – it is a positive spiral that helps you create an abundant and wonderful life, and one that gives you more success, more to be grateful for, at every stage.

If you wake up and practice gratitude (remember it needs practice!) it can help you go into your day actually looking for things to be grateful for.

Slimming down has long been one of women’s greatest feats yet to be achieved and conquered. Compared to men, women find it harder to burn and lose all the unwanted fat and extra pounds just to fit in the perfect dress they’ve been dying to wear.

However, women nowadays don’t have the time to devote themselves completely to various rigorous and tedious dieting programs. What they need are easy-to-follow steps, which slowly but surely helps them lose a few pounds and achieve their desired size and weight. Here are 6 simple slimming down tips for women:

The concept of smaller, thinner laparoscopic tools has been an idealized, but unrealized prospect for many years since the advent of laparoscopic surgery. Some prominent manufacturers of surgical instruments have created micro-laparoscopic instruments in the past, but they did not perform to the standard that bariatric surgeons require.

The most common complaints were how the extremely thin instruments would bend under the stress of the patient’s fat and muscle tissue. However the advent of more resilient titanium and ceramic combinations has finally made micro-laparoscopic surgery possible, and select surgeons, such as Los Angeles’s Dr. Michael Feiz and Dr. Monali Misra, are starting to provide this innovative micro-lap surgery for eligible patients.