Achieving a healthy body weight involves a bit of a math equation... There are approximately 3500 calories in one pound of stored fat, so you need to create a 3500 caloric deficit in order to lose one pound... If you ' re trying to accomplish this by diet or exercise alone, you may be setting yourself up for frustration and failure... By making a few small changes with both your eating and exercise habits, changes won ' t be quite as dramatic and the process will be easier to manage... Try combining a couple of the following nutrition and fitness strategies to approach it from both sides and double your chances of success... Take your time when eating meals or snacks... Another trick to slowing down your pace of eating is to talk more and eat less!... You often hear that eating small meals throughout the day is better for weight loss... … View Post »

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It ' s the second week of my new job and it ' s going good so far... As you can tell I haven ' t been writing in my blog every day like before..... It ' s only nine in the evening and already I ' m ready for bed!... I passed the first test with 85% so I ' m very happy about that... In order to stay employed through the whole training process..... … View Post »

Today is my second day at my new job!... a lot to remember... I ' m working for a major bank in the call center for their visa cards..... The great thing about this job is that it ' s down the street from me... Breakfast I ' ve been sticking to a cup of Shreddies Whole Whest cereal with a cup of soy milk and a glass of Tropicana orange juice... For lunch I had an apple and two fat free cheese slices with Whole wheat Triscuits... wish me luck!... … View Post »

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A lot has happend this past week and it has been great but a little sad... I have known this for a long time now that ' s it ' s over..... … View Post »

just as I expected he put up a nice fight when I tried to put him in the carrier!... The ride to his favorite place was very quiet and he kept ignoring me!... The baby is very healthy with the exception of being a little fatty fatty!... Bad demon cat!... So yesterday I got the results from the urine test..... probably from all the fighting going on at home... … View Post »

Please take the time to check it out on snopes... check it out: Snopes.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be cautious of hair bands at open markets around the city too ?... BEIJING (AFP) - Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday In the latest example of potentially harmful Chinese-made products, rubber hair bands have been found in local markets and beauty salons in Dongguan and Guangzhou cities in southern Guangdong province, China Daily newspaper said... threatening the health of local people, ' it said... ' People could be infected with AIDS, (genital) warts or other diseases if they hold the rubber bands or strings in their mouths while waving their hair into plaits or buns, ' the paper quoted a local dermatologist who gave only his surname, Dong, as saying... A bag of ten of the recycled bands sells for just 25 s en (three cents), much cheaper than others on the market, accounting for their popularity, the paper said... China ' s manufacturing industry has been repeatedly tarnished this year by a string of scandals involving shoddy or dangerous goods made for both domestic and foreign markets... … View Post »

Good things come through times of sorrow... Have faith that you ' re strong, and that you ' ll get through this rough time... … View Post »