Sperm then swim past the cervix, through the womb and up into the fallopian tubes to meet the descending egg. Eggs can live about 24 hours and sperm may live for two to three days, so they need to find each other within this fairly brief period. Several sperm may reach the egg at about the same time, but one needs to be able to break through the egg’s protective shell and get inside.

Once this has happened, the nucleus of the sperm fuses with that of the egg and the egg’s wall becomes impenetrable to other sperm. The egg spends the next two or three days passing down the remainder of the fallopian tube, then reaches the womb cavity, where it floats free for two or three days. Conception has now taken place.

Inside the fertilized egg, the combined ball of egg and sperm nuclei have been dividing, first in two, then four, eight, sixteen and so on, to develop into a cluster of cells called an embryo. when a sperm cell fuses with an egg cell, the result is a ball of their nuclei. Sperm and egg each donate 23 chromosomes, making a set of 23 pairs in all. These form the genetic blueprint for your future baby, and cover everything from hair and eye color to blood group. However, it is the father who determines a baby’s gender. Women’s cells have two X chromosomes, so egg cells always contribute an X chromosome; whereas sperm cells may contain either one X or one Y. When a Y chromosome combines with an X, it results in a male baby. If an X-carrying sperm fertilizes the egg, the baby will be a girl.

The embryo embeds itself in the blond-rich lining of the womb. You are now technically pregnant. However, it is believed that as many as 40 per cent of pregnancies are lost at this stage because the embryo does not implant itself properly.

The womb lining is kept in place (rather than being shed in a normal monthly period) by extra progesterone produced by your ovaries. It is the major upsurge in the amount of this hormone in the body that makes many pregnant women feel nauseous in the first few weeks of pregnancy.

This entire process, made to look so easy by couples who conceive quickly, or accidentally, is very finely balanced throughout. It is thought that perhaps as many as 20 per cent of embryos which do implant are lost in what seems to be a late period.

If you are a woman who has fallen into the rut there are many things you can do to ignite your spark again. One thing that can really help is to not buy those trashy magazines that tell you all about how to please him, what the best positions are or the ones that suggest that you need to look like a Barbie for you to enjoy sex and for your partner to want you.

The biggest problems with these approaches are because in part they are lies. And when it comes down to the Truth, you need to learn about what makes YOU feel sexy. What makes YOU enjoy sex. And in discovering that, we learn more about the experience of it all instead of the act of it all. The act of sex is fine, but that is not where sexuality and fulfillment live.

Sexuality and fulfillment live in the experience of our sexual acts. To experience what we are dong we need to be conscious. Experiencing means to be alive to what everything feels like, having your senses fully awake. Being conscious of what feels good and what doesn’t. What we like and what we don’t like. What we like to give and what we like to receive. Being in the conscious and in the moment also means that we are not in our heads wondering if that stupid fat roll just made its big debut.

Here are some tips to get your sexual and sensual side revved up:
• When you see something with texture, touch it. Touch it with your finger tips, and with the front and back of your hands. Close your eyes if you can and really feel it.
• When something smells good, take a minute to take a few deep breaths. What does it feel like to allow it all in?
• When you sit down to eat pay attention. Avoid just chewing and swallowing. Smell the food, put it up to your lips and feel it. Place the food in your mouth and see what it feels like rolling around in there. How does it feel on your tongue? On the roof of your mouth or the insides of your cheeks?
• When you listen to music can you feel it? How does it make you feel?
• Allow yourself to fantasize without judgment and unedited. Do this a couple times each day.

In our world today we are over stimulated with sex without meaning. We have left the importance of a healthy sexual appetite behind and replaced it with the need to work, raise our children and be all that we feel we are supposed to be. In truth, it is really traumatic for our soul to be cut off from the everyday sensual experiences that have the ability to ignite the passion that it craves. When we stop seeing sex as a chore and accept that we are sexual creatures we will begin to create a more healthy culture that views thriving sexuality as a pure and powerful place for us to reach new levels in fulfillment.

Cellulite isn’t just a problem with the obese or overweights either. Normal sized and even skinny women suffer from cellulite as well!

It has been surveyed that 90% of ALL women have cellulite somewhere on their bodies. That leaves only a small 10% who are actually free from this problem.

Now before you start hating those women’s guts for being so lucky, you should ask yourself what you can do to get rid of your cellulite so that you will be a part of that 10%.

Eventually as enough women begin to solve this cellulite problem and rid them of cellulite, the 10% who are free from cellulite will grow to 15% and the 90% who suffer from cellulite will decrease to 85%, and on and on.

You little knew that ridding yourself of cellulite and helping your friends and family to do the same could have such a momentous effect, did you?

Everyone thinks dimples are adorable, but that only when they’re on your face. They don’t look quite so cute when they’re on your thighs, hips or any of the many other places of which we women are cellulite prone.

“What help is there for my cellulite?” You might ask.

That’s a good question since there are so many different claims about products and treatments that will supposedly “Diminish Cellulite in 10 Days!” or whatever claim they put out.

What woman wouldn’t want to try these just to see if they would work for her?

But sadly in most cases you’ll be throwing your time and money away on these false or misleading claims that will not help cellulite but will only drain your bank account.

There are a lot of real things you can do to help rid yourself of cellulite. Proactive things that don’t involve liposuction, or having your thighs vacuumed over.

- Exercises which target certain areas with cellulite help a great deal.

- Eating a properly balanced diet is tremendously successful in clearing the toxins and fatty tissue from your body that result in cellulite.

- Even massages and saunas have been proven to help since they aid in the elimination process, which clears fatty build up, and in turn clears cellulite.

- Drinking more water also helps with elimination and cleansing your system from cellulite. So be sure to get your 6-8 glasses each and every day.

It’s also an interesting fact to know that men don’t get cellulite. Even when they get obese or fat.

Their fat deposits are structured differently than ours so the skin doesn’t dimple when they get bigger, causing cellulite, as it does with women.

This of course is a relief to women everywhere because no woman wants a man who has the same physical defect she herself suffers from and hates so passionately.

Excess weight is caused by an interaction of genetic and environmental factors, which include: physical and chemical and behavioral components. Because of the complexity of weight loss, gain, and maintenance, women need to understand that a quick and effortless weight loss is worthless. Extra weight can aggravate heart problems, and can cause diabetes and a host of other scary medical problems. Exercising on an empty stomach does not affect how you lose weight. In fact, it may hinder it if you don’t have the energy to exercise. You should at least drink a glass of juice prior to your workout if you’re exercising in the morning. Spot exercises, like sit-ups, crunches, hip raises, leg raises, hip adduction, hip abduction, etc. can only develop the muscles adjacent to the fat. They cannot burn fat from the area exercised.