I believe that life is all about enjoying it, and this also means when you are getting healthy.

It’s good to make sure that you have a balance of everything in your diet and so make sure you give yourself treat days.

Now when I say treat days, this literally means the occassional “treat” like chocolate cake, ice cream, take-aways or anything that you normally would consider unhealthy. But it’s important not to go overboard and then binge for 2-3 days. You must have self-control.

My suggestion is to choose 1-2 particular days of the week as your day to have that one treat.

Also, if you know that you’ll be going to a friends house, or a party at the weekend, then use that time to have your treat.

As soon as you’re finished, make sure you do go back to your usual healthy routine. Don’t just keep treating yourself everyday and all day long.

But even if you do end up binging, just take a step back, reassess your situation and then get back to your usual healthy routine. Don’t just give up because of 2 or 3 days of binging. It’s not going to be the end of the world! Trust me.

So go ahead and have a small bite of cake if you want to. Don’t deprive yourself.

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

It’s true.

You know the story of the hare and the tortoise. Well being slow is the best thing to be when it comes to making changes in your lifestyle to get healthy and lose weight.

Basically, take things one step at a time and you’re more likely to succeed.

Think of one change you want to make to your lifestyle.  For example, it could be to have breakfast in the mornings.

Make this change and do it for about 1-2 weeks. Don’t make any other changes. Simply accomplish this one.

Once you manage to eat a healthy breakfast every morning, decide what the next change should be, and again do this step by step.

You get the picture?

By doing this, you are forming goof habits that you can then maintain forever!!! Hence you’ll be healthier and fitter forever!!!

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

As you may know, I do quite a bit on eBay. Since using Auctiva, it has made my listings look better and has saved me loads of money on photo listings, as you can store up to 16 photos  for free.

If you don’t already know about Auctiva (a free service), check them out by clicking here. There is quite a bit that you can do with this service and they have decent templates to use. Also, when you make your listings with this service, you get a really nice banner showing all your listings, prices and ending times etc.which shows up in the eBay listing.

One thing to point out when you make your listings through Auctiva is to make sure that you un-tick the ‘insurance with Auctiva’, as this is a paid for service, and that you also use the usual eBay checkout process since people feel more comfortable and familiar with the eBay payment, rather that being directed elsewhere.

Anyway. Bye for now.

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

I am currently on a road of discovery and having a blast with tweaking Wordpress. Just finished installing Askimet. If you’re wondering what Askimet does, this is what Wikipedia has to say: “Is a spam filtering service created by Automattic, the corporation which employs most of the main developers of the weblog platform WordPress, and released on October 25, 2005. Akismet attempts to filter link spam from blog comments and spam TrackBack pings”.

I’m looking forward to setting some time aside to find out what other goodies are out there that I can use to rank up my Wordpress.

I just came across this article: 17 Really Useful Wordpress Plugins That Probably Are Essential, which seems a lot of fun.

If you guys use any of these, or are thinking of using them, let me know how it goes.

Until soon with more musings…

Loretta

Welcome to my blog. I am going to be going on an amazing journey to making my income from the internet. I am currently coming to the end of my maternity leave and am trying to find ways so that I can work from home, and the internet seems to be the perfect option.

I was first introduced to the internet at University (boy, that seems like a million years ago!!!) and have been using it ever since! The fact that you can make a good living from it made me eager to study about it, by taking a few courses, giong to seminars and reading books on the subject. All the while I have amassed a wealth of knowledge which I am still building upon and will be sharing with you (take a look at some of my recommendations and websites on the right hand side).

Taking action is now going to be my 2009 resolution and I hope to be working from home by the end of the year. Feel free to check my blog from time to time, as I will be sharing some of my knowledge and experience on this amazing adventure, which hopefully you can also use and learn from.

Remember, you can achieve whatever your heart desires, if you take action.

Until next week….

Loretta