31 August, 2009 (22:58) | Exercise | By: Lisa
One of the simplest exercises around is just walking. It doesn’t have to be fancy walking like they do at the Olympics; just getting up and moving around is better than doing nothing! A simple way to keep track of all the walking you do in a day is to get a pedometer. Simple ones [...]
Tags: fitness, improve mood, iPod, lower blood pressure, pedometer, walking, weight loss
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30 August, 2009 (00:45) | Food, product review | By: Lisa
First off, can I just say whey isolate tastes fairly gross? Ok- to the product review! I found some of these Kellogg’s Special K2O Protein Water on sale for $0.84 at Meijer about a week ago. I bought a couple of the strawberry kiwi and the iced tea flavors. Today I tried out the strawberry [...]
Tags: K2O, Kellogg, Kellogg's Special K2O Protein Water, kelogg challenge, product review, protein, protein water, strawberry kiwi, whey isolate
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29 August, 2009 (16:42) | Website Review | By: Lisa
The next part of your home page contains MyContent and MyCommunity. MyContent shows any news articles or information that fits your profile and may pertain to you. A lot of this information is sent out in daily emails as well (if you choose to receive the emails-which I did). MyCommunity shows any updates on your [...]
Tags: fitness tracker, food tracker, meal plans, MySpace, nutrition tracker, online community, online diet, sparkpeople, weight loss social network, weight loss website
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28 August, 2009 (09:12) | Exercise, Food, Website Review | By: Lisa
In order to talk about what I planned to discuss today I need to review a website first! I found this website last year but really didn’t start to use it until a few weeks ago. The website is called SparkPeople. It is a free online diet and healthy living community with over 3 million [...]
Tags: fitness tracker, food tracker, meal plans, nutrition tracker, online community, online diet, sparkpeople, weight loss social network, weight loss website
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27 August, 2009 (15:54) | Exercise, Food, Life | By: Lisa
I have been thinking about what to write about and I have some products to review and some websites and other weight loss blogs to review but I guess I haven’t been really motivated to do any of those things. So I decided to write about what I was thinking about and that happens to [...]
Tags: coke, Exercise, fruit2o, no caffeine, no soda, propel, sleep, sprite, vitamin water, water
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25 August, 2009 (14:16) | Life | By: Lisa
I thought I was going to be all set up and have all my blogs ready and scheduled to update and my netbook decides it doesn’t want to charge anymore! So I have to ship it to Texas to get the battery intake part fixed and I didn’t really have my desktop computer set up [...]
Tags: broken laptop, broken netbook, netbook
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21 August, 2009 (06:00) | Exercise | By: Lisa
I have had Netflix several times in the past years but signed up for my current subscription this past February. For $16.99 a month I can have three DVDs out at a time and unlimited instant streaming. I have our Xbox 360 connected to my Netflix account (there are many ways to be able to [...]
Tags: dvd, Exercise, exercise dvd, netflix, so you think you can dance
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20 August, 2009 (00:30) | Food | By: Lisa
I bought this drink when I bought the Isopure drinks thinking I would try them all out that week but I ended up with a migraine for a week, then a flu bug and both the boys started school this week! So it has been kind of hard to get in a daily post but [...]
Tags: drink, Food, product review, protein, protein supplement
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19 August, 2009 (11:32) | BMI | By: Lisa
One handy bit of information to know is your BMI (body mass index). Basically, someones BMI is a measure of someone’s weight in relation to height. Your BMI can be calculated by dividing your weight (in kilograms) by the square of your height (in meters). Here is a breakdown of the BMI categories: BMI Category/Classification [...]
Tags: BMI, BMI calculator
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14 August, 2009 (20:39) | WLS | By: Lisa
I decided to try out a different support group meeting and I liked that one much better! It is smaller and the people are more friendly. A lot of what was said really was great advise. I was only one of two working toward a DS; everyone else was looking at or already had a [...]
Tags: support, support group
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