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February Highlights
Now that we’re into a new month, I thought it would be a good idea to go back and highlight the main posts to lose40kg.com from the last month. If you’ve just stumbled upon my blog, then these posts are a great place to start.
To start things off, I set up a lose40kg page on Squidoo, here’s my Squidoo update post that tells you all about it.
Here’s a brief introduction to social networks and how they can help you lose weight… we haven’r really used Twitter all that effectively on here yet, but I still think it is a great tool to use.
5 Weight Loss Tips for counting Calories (or should you even bother?) give some advice on how to use common sense when you change your eating habits to a more healthy lifestyle.
…and on a similar theme, Why cutting bread from your diet can get you off to a good start talks about how this one simple change can really kick start your weight loss if you’re a big bread eater.
5 Sites that will Help You Stay Motivated was our most popular post of the month, all 5 sites mentioned offer some really great help with motivation - make sure you check them all out.
and finally, 5 Tips on How to Avoid Weight Loss Plateau deals with bypassing that annoying stage of not losing weight despite keeping up with your best efforts… what is it, and how you can avoid it.
March should be a great month, I’ve just been roped into being one of the coaches for my sons u5’s soccer team, so that should provide some interesting challenges over the next few months… nothing like a group of hyperactive 4 year olds to keep you on your toes… I’ll probably get just as much exercise as them from our weekly training sessions, apparently games where they have to chase the coach around are good attention grabbers… should also prove to be quite funny for all the onlookers I would imagine!
Share this article, I appreciate your support.My blog page on Squidoo
You’ve probably got no idea what Squidoo is, and for the most part you’re not really missing out on too much – it’s just a site that lets anyone make a simple web page. They give you heaps of tools to add cool stuff to it, you provide the content, they slap a heap of advertising on it and split the profits with you or distribute it to charity and away you go.
For anyone looking at building a few simple web pages, or create a few additional links back to your blog, then it’s probably worth the small amount of time you spend on it.
Anyway, I’ve set up a page How I am going to lose 40kg in 12 months which gives a brief summary of my blog. I’ll add a bit of additional stuff up there from time to time, but it’s another way to get the word out a little more. Why don’t you head on over there and let me know what you think?
Share this article, I appreciate your support.Starting to feel like ‘home’
After a few days of fiddling with the look and feel of my blog, I think I have finally settled on it’s appearance… knowing me I’ll probably change it again before long, but for now, I rather like the way it all looks… what do you think? let me know in the comments below – is it easy to read? do you like it?
Ok, I know what you’re thinking, the last thing a 131kg guy should be concerned about is appearance, but when it comes to web sites I do get a little fussy – I work as a web developer / analyst, my graphical skills are, let’s say ‘improving’ (it’s not my speciality), but I am rather chuffed with how it has turned out so far.
For those of you that are interested, I’m running this blog using the Wordpress blog platform and the theme I’ve made is essentially a modified version of the Downtown Java Wordpress Theme by Brian Gardner. Even though it looks completely different, I used his theme as a starting point and customised it to suit my needs. Once I tidy up the internal files I’ll make it available for anyone else who wants it, you can never have enough Wordpress themes, lol.
Brian has some fantastic Wordpress themes on his site, if you run your own blog (or are thinking about it), then you must check his designs out.
Share this article, I appreciate your support.Finding my voice…
This is my first ‘serious’ blog, I have dabbled before, but even that is probably being a bit generous.
What I am trying to say is that it will probably take me some time to find my ‘voice’… I’ll be the first to admit that the two posts I’ve made so far are a little on the dry side, and while I want to make this experience fun and easy to read for all involved, there is a bit of background information that I need to get through first… so there will likely be a few more still to come yet.
While I do have a reasonable idea about the type of things I’ll be blogging about, what I really want to hear is the type of stuff you’re looking for - ok, if you’re reading this soon after I posted, you’re quite possibly the only reader I have since I just launched this yesterday, but regardless of whether you’re following my journey from the start, or you come across this post a bit further down the track, I will always be looking for your views. Why? because I think being part of a community, that feeds off one another’s wants and needs can be a powerful motivating force when it comes to losing weight.
Always feel free to leave a comment on any post, email me, or have a chat on any of the social networks that you find me on (something that I will be highlighting in some posts soon). I want this to be a journey that everyone who is interested can participate in, it’s not just my journey, hopefully it will be yours too. I can’t wait to see where this goes, I think we’ll have a lot of fun along the way.
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