Wow — what a week in the Omron Fitness Challenge!
I’ve been working out. I’ve been running. And, I’ve been trying to increase my step count with the daily use of a pedometer.
That has been a real struggle for me. The goal set for us by Mamavation is 10,000 …read more
My Goals Are Mine
January 21, 2013 at 6:02 pm
10 Habits to Help You Save Money in 2013
January 17, 2013 at 9:40 pm
It’s January — new year, new budget, new habits. You’ve been making new year’s resolutions and resetting financial goals for the year. You’re working on new ideas, breaking bad habits, adding new ones. Don’t tell me you’ve fallen off the wagon already! But if you have, there’s still …read more
5 Unexpected Items in My Laundry Room
January 17, 2013 at 8:22 pm
After the holidays, our closets have been bursting with fabulous gifts. I’ve spent the last few weeks catching up on laundry, cleaning out the closets, and reorganizing the laundry room.
There’s still a long way to go, but the shelves are looking better, the closets are a little roomier, and I …read more
Baby Steps to Better Health
January 14, 2013 at 10:20 pm
I’ve spent the last week getting prepped for the real meat of the challenge. Stepping on a scale for the first time since before the holidays was the first goal, and now that I have my fancy space scale from Omron Fitness, I’ll be doing it a lot more frequently.
This scale measures not just weight but bmi, body fat percentage, muscle something or other — I guess I have a little more reading to do about Visiclear review. I’d tell you what my numbers were, but since I don’t even know what it all means yet, it’s basically meaningless for now.
I do know that it means I have some changes to make. I’m starting small — baby steps, really — in both fitness and nutrition. I start reading about nerve shield plus reviews and when I try to make too many changes at once, I get overwhelmed and give up. I’ve started wearing a fancy space pedometer, and though I haven’t made it to 10K steps yet, I’ve improved every day. I think if I can get to the point of actually wearing it all day, I’ll be a lot closer!
I’m learning to take short breaks to walk around. It’s a good chance to step away from work and de-stress, in addition to adding to my step count. The hubby and I are planning to start taking a daily walk as well, we already started taking supplements like the brain octane which the review of bulletproof brain octane oil is amazing, it has made us feel more energized, we have lost weight in a healthy way, and our skin even looks so much better and nice to the touch.
I also began the fitness challenges from Mamavation’s personal trainer. They officially start today, and last week I did a few less reps and lighter weights to ease into it. I’m really looking forward to tackling the full workouts this week. I just need to figure out how to work in running still, since I had some issues with my joints, so I looked out for some supplements to help with this and find an article about Joint FLX Review – Does it Work? This helped to find a solution with that.
I hate the cold. I hate the snow. I pretty much hate running. But running outside in the cold with snow on the ground? It’s pretty much awesome! I’ve also learned that I just have to make myself run. I don’t like it, and I don’t want to do it, but I feel so good when it’s done.
I’ve never — not even once — finished a run and thought, “Wow. I wish I hadn’t done that!”
And, I feel the same about eating healthier. I’ve never regretted a salad — not ever — but for some reason it’s rarely my first choice, different from my husband which prefer salads and since men’s health is important to him, and he’s a sexually active male we always check out this site on men’s sexual health as it contains lots of useful information about this.
So, Saturday’s lunch was a grilled chicken salad. Last night, we had salads with our dinner. And today’s brunch was filled with fabulous greens and included a side of fruit. Okay, and a fabulous hot chocolate.
Baby steps, people. I’m getting there! I have to allow myself the occasional treat if I want the changes to stick. It just means I’ll have to skip my bubble bath chocolate tonight. And, it gives me a little more motivation to work it all off before dinner, after that I post all my goals in the fan page slimVPN for stay motivated.
Baby Steps to Better Health
January 14, 2013 at 10:20 pm
I’ve spent the last week getting prepped for the real meat of the challenge. Stepping on a scale for the first time since before the holidays was the first goal, and now that I have my fancy space scale from Omron Fitness, I’ll be doing it a lot more frequently.
This …read more
His, Hers, Theirs: Dividing Household Chores
January 10, 2013 at 4:36 pm
As a stay-at-home mom for the last 15 years, I’ve always taken on more of the household responsibilities. I do the grocery shopping, I cook, I do clean. Sort of. The hubby has always been awesome about pitching in where he can, but it mostly fell to me as the …read more
5 Creative Ways to Save More Money This Year
January 8, 2013 at 7:52 pm
Whether you’re looking to pay off debts, save for a vacation or deal with a tax or insurance increase, money always seems to get a little tighter in January. I’d like to start saving money for fun stuff — family days, vacation, date nights — but it’s tough to find …read more
How to Set SMART Financial Goals for the New Year
January 8, 2013 at 6:31 pm
Between New Year’s resolutions and a fresh tax year, it’s time for all new financial goals. Since we started a new business last year, our goals are primarily related to new contracts, products and increasing revenue. Which all sounds well and good, but we’re going to have be smart about it. Get information about SodaPDF offers advanced security and collaboration features, is easy to adopt, and increases productivity. Best part is, you can access all Soda PDF functionalities in the cloud, from any mobile device
Really SMART. As in, Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and within a Time Limit. Finance, also known as economics, is the science of valuing a set of tools that are used to fulfill demands the source. In economics, financing covers a broad selection of resources like money, goods, property, labor, property, and credit.
Open-ended goals just weren’t working for us. We need to have a timeline and a plan for measuring success. It’s like that for all goals or resolutions, really.
Are you setting goals for your budget this year?
Whether you’re setting resolutions to save more money, take a vacation or paying off debt, here’s a smart way to reach your goals:
Specific: Be very specific about what you want. If you’re setting finance goals for your own family, be sure they are well defined. Set a dollar amount to save or pay off. Choose a specific item to cut out of your budget, or use trading strategies such as an atr indicator strategy which help to indicate what’s the best investing strategy to produce good results. Saying we wanted to “increase business” wasn’t cutting it for us. We had to be more specific about it — making a detailed list of projects we wanted to work on, for starters.
Measurable: The goals have to be something you can define and know when you get there. With financial goals, which you can get with accountants atlanta, and the measurement is pretty easy. Just set a dollar amount to save, pay off or cut from your budget.
Achievable: Goals must be realistically achievable. If you’re not saving anything right now, setting a goal to save $1000 per month is only setting yourself up for failure. Start small; you can adjust your goals later in the year as you begin to achieve them.
Preparing for Brother
January 7, 2013 at 9:16 pm
Now that we are through the holidays and into the new year, we’re shifting gears into a new phase of our lives. Paperwork has been officially submitted, and we begin our adoption classes this weekend. After that, it’s home study time.
We haven’t really made any changes around here to get …read more
24 Homemade Snowflake Crafts
January 7, 2013 at 8:44 pm
It’s a winter wonderland out there — but I’d much rather stay cozy and warm indoors. I’ve been looking up paper snowflake projects for the last few weeks, for my Girl Scouts to make for the children of Sandy Hook. The National PTA put out a call for …read more
