A Mom's Life and Loves

Back when I was still working in the call center industry, I could still remember the days that we would wait for the Christmas Party Invitations to be posted on the bulletin board or sent to our emails. We were always excited, especially since the themes were usually fun for everyone. And of course, we would also wait for the announcement of the prizes that were going to be raffled off. So I guess the parties are one of the things I miss about working in a call center. Now that I work from home, I no longer get invites to company parties. Oh well.

Everyone knows how difficult it can be to lose weight, and sometimes we just quit because it seems like we will never get that final 10 pounds off. When we plateau, we should not give up, but celebrate. If you let yourself get upset or frustrated when it becomes harder to lose the weight, you are not doing yourself any favors. Emotions such as frustration or disappointment can be linked to stress and stress is linked to fat storage. The more you stress about your weight loss, the less weight you are going to lose. What if you celebrated your hard work so far, instead of worried about the weight

I am super excited to see my friends in Manila. It’s just a bit more than a week before we leave Zamboanga City and be back in Manila. I’m looking forward to eating out with my girl friends, having coffee and chatting with my blogger friends, shopping with my closest girls.. and of course, eating while chatting will always be part of the itinerary. So I guess I should hold those phentermine diet pills for now because it won’t help with so much food trips in my schedule.

When making a goal to do anything, including losing weight, one of the best things to do to keep yourself on track is setting up a rewards system for yourself. Sometimes, the long term goal and reward are not enough to keep you going on a day to day basis. Breaking that long term goal into smaller term goals, with small rewards at each step, can keep you focused on the end goal. If you are trying to lose a large amount of weight, you may want to break it down to monthly goals. Plan this out in advance. Whether you have a specific weight in mind, or are going by your BMI, be realistic. You don

The battle for weight loss is horrendous! There’s all sorts of ups and downs, and you never seem to be able to get yourself skinny. So, here are a few tips to help keep you on your dieting track. They have worked for me, so now you give it a go! 1.  Make achievable goals. We all need to be a little more realistic when it comes to setting weight loss goals. Otherwise, you are just setting yourself up to fail. For example, you don’t want to start dieting right in the middle of the holiday season. There’s simply too much food and fun, and it’s difficult to say no to it all

We will be moving back to the metro in a couple of weeks. We are already starting to browse the online classifieds for apartments and houses that are available for rent, so that we will have already have a place to stay when we get to Manila. Looking at the ads, the condos with the minimalist interior designs, posh kitchens, cozy living room with a nice modern sofa is oh so tempting. We just can’t afford to rent in those places. Haha. We just have to do with a simple apartment or a house for now. Safety and accessibility are on top of our list, luxury will have to come later when we won

I don’t know if it’s just me, but I honestly don’t think it’s worth going on a diet during the Christmas holidays. There’s a lot of get-together and parties, and I don’t think anyone would want to stay home and sulk while everyone else is having a good time. I haven’t been to a Christmas party without overflowing and tasty food — I’m sure everyone will agree with that. And I can’t resist food, so taking even the most effective diet pills 10K won’t work for me during the holidays. Ha. Ha.

Please click here if you want to lose your belly fat now. Wait, did I just get your interest? Well, you won’t lose weight just clicking, you have to get up, eat right, and exercise! That’s the sure-fire way to get anyone to lose weight, and to get you on the way to good health. I can’t really think of any other way to lose the bulges but to eat the right food and to sweat the fats out of your system.

My experience in the call center industry taught me a lot about the US culture and their traditions. Thanksgiving is one of the biggest holidays in the US, and I do know that the biggest sale also happens on the Friday following Thanksgiving day. It is called Black Friday sale, and being that this is one of the really big sale of the year, a lot of people can’t help but go gaga over it. With all the stories I hear about it, I can’t help but be excited too. I wonder when I will be able to experience shopping at the Black Friday sale. Hmm.

Christmas is just a month away. Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? I haven’t started with mine, what with having to deal with moving expenses first before I can do some shopping. If I had loads of money and don’t have to think of rentals, I would probably get ipods for JC’s younger brother and their cousin. But my hands are tied, and almost all my November and December earnings will have to go to our “moving out fund”, so maybe next year? How about you guys? What are you giving away this Christmas?

I thought that I have given up on this blog, and was planning on just updating a few days a week and then that’s it. I decided to change the layout, because I found the last one too much of a drab and too boring. It wasn’t me, it didn’t represent any thing about me, which was probably a reason why I didn’t have a lot of enthusiasm to post and keep this blog updated. I love the new layout now, although I am still going to edit a few more elements to make sure that everything looks peachy. I hope you guys like this new layout as much as I do. P.S. Thank you Headway Themes

With the new blogs that I have set up, I can’t help but to think that maybe I should try new things, new approaches so I could take my blogging to the next level. I want to try new seo tools and maybe it will help me increase the rankings of my new blogs, and probably get me a b it more visitors as well. I think that would really help me take a step further in terms of blogging. What do you think? Subscribe to the comments for this post? Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon Share this on Technorati Digg this

I still don’t have a complete Christmas wish list, but I do have a list of things that I need to get done before the end of the year. One of the things I need to get done is to get an insurance quote as me and hubby would really like to have insurance policies to ensure our kids’ future. Getting insurance policies is on top of our list. Life insurance or health policies are what we would be looking at. How about you? Do you already own insurance policies? Subscribe to the comments for this post? Stumble upon something good? Share it on StumbleUpon

What is the best weight loss program out there? I have heard of SO MANY different methods of losing weight, I can hardly keep tabs on which is more effective. I have even heard that one of the ways of losing weight is to eat a lot of meat. No grains or less carbohydrates, but more on protein-rich food such as meat. I think this would be worth a try. But the meat would have to be fish meat, as the fish here in Zamboanga City is very cheap. That would really help me not only lose weight but to also save money. Subscribe to the comments for this post? Stumble

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