Since I made public my Food Blog, a couple of friends asked me this question: "does Apidexin work?"
Honestly, I cannot vouch on diet pills as I haven't tried them myself. In fact, I usually discourage my friends from taking them. No matter how slow my weight loss would be by adapting weight loss program the natural way, I would never join the bandwagon and purchase myself some diet pils. I am just scared at the thought of it.
Anyways, here's sharing a weight loss program, I share with my friend: VAL. You can read more about this HERE.
EXERCISE: A minimum of 30 minutes/day (only during busy days) and a maximum of 1.5 hours/day. This would include cardio and muscle toning targeting problem areas. My problem areas include my tummy and upper thighs.
MEALS
BREAKFAST: (6:00-8:00am)
OPTION 1: oatmeal (plain, with milk or sliced fruits), a cup of coffee, tea or orange juice.
OPTION 2: 2 slices of toast with light butter, jam or cheese, a cup of coffe, tea or orange juice.
OPTION 3: --->can only be eaten 2-3 times a week: egg (unsalted but can use spices/garnish), 2 slices of plain toast, a cup of coffee, tea or orange juice.
LUNCH: (11:30-12:30 nn)
1/3 cup of rice and 1 viand (preferably not friend)
soup or stew with a slice of bread
pasta (non-creme based sauce pls!)
WATER WATER WATER!
DINNER: (7:00-8:00 pm)
Salad (oil and vinegar-based dressing ONLY!)
soup or stew
sandwich: turkey, grilled tuna or chicken with veggies (light mayo)
WATER or Red Wine
IN BETWEEN MEAL SNACKS: (3 hours after a meal)
a piece of fruit
crackers
'dry' cereal
water, fruit juice, cup of tea
NO SNACKS AFTER 9PM
OFF DAY: Only 1 day in the week is off day. It is preferable to choose either Saturday or Sunday as it is usually family day which connotes "feast" day. :-)
my diet files
new new new!
forgetful me.
That's how busy I am, I am turning into a forgetful Doris Day. I keep forgetting regular stuff in my to do list including:
1.) Coloring my hair, I bought the dye months ago and it was only last week that I dyed my hair.
2.) One time I was too busy thinking of something else while showering that I forget to shampoo my hair tsk tsk. I came back to the bathroom and shampoo.
3.) I forgot the password of my new blog after 2 days of signing up.
4.) Also, I keep forgetting to get our savings accounts statement which hubby has been bugging me about.
Oh well, must be the epidural shot! Hee!
ALMOST DONE.
Blogging Buzz #3 (50 most powerful blogs in the World)
I think someone should forward THIS ARTICLE to this woman who thinks blogging as a slacker job! And she should meet an Acquaintance of mine who is earning almost $8k out of blogging apart from her day job. I bet she earns more than this Malu Fernandez =P. And yes Ms. Malu, even Perez Hilton whom you handpicked in your article is part of this top 50s, he's top 6 FYI. The trend has changed, blogging is not just about social networking, it is also a means to inform and educate readers as so you know, almost everyone reads through the net and they don't even notice your articles except of course if your articles are meant to rage wars to bloggers, poor people, OFWs, 3rd world... to name a few.
you can read the description of this top 50 most powerful blogs in the world here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs
1. The Huffington Post -huffingtonpost.com
2. Boing Boing -boingboing.net
3. Techcrunch -techcrunch.com
4. Kottke -kottke.org
5. Dooce -dooce.com
6. Perezhilton -perezhilton.com
7. Talking points memo -talkingpointsmemo.com
8. Icanhascheezburger -icanhascheezburger.com
9. Beppe Grillo -beppegrillo.it
10. Gawker -gawker.com
11. The Drudge Report -drudgereport.com
12. Xu Jinglei -blog.sina.com.cn/xujinglei
13. Treehugger -treehugger.com
14. Microsiervos -microsiervos.com
15. TMZ -TMZ.com
16. Engadget -engadget.com
17. Marbury -marbury.typepad.com
18. Chez Pim -chezpim.typepad.com
19. Basic thinking -basicthinking.de/blog
20. The Sartorialist -thesartorialist.blogspot.com
21. Students for a free Tibet -studentsforafreetibet.org
22. Jezebel -jezebel.com
23. Gigazine -gigazine.net
24. Girl with a one-track mind -girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com
25. Mashable -mashable.com
26. Greek tragedy -stephanieklein.blogs.com
27. Holy Moly -holymoly.co.uk
28. Michelle Malkin -http://www.michellemalkin.com/
29. Cranky flier -crankyflier.com
30. Go fug yourself -gofugyourself.typepad.com
31. Gaping void -gapingvoid.com
32. Dirtydirty dancing -dirtydirtydancing.com
33. Crooked timber -crookedtimber.org
34. Beansprouts -bean-sprouts.blogspot.com
35. The offside -theoffside.com
36. Peteite Anglaise -petiteanglaise.com
37. Crooks and liars -crooksandliars.com
38. Chocolate and Zucchini -chocolateandzucchini.com
39. Samizdata -samizdata.net
40. The daily dish -andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com
41. The F word -thefword.org.uk
42. Jonny B's private secret diary -privatesecretdiary.com
43. Popjustice -popjustice.com
44. Waiter rant -waiterrant.net
45. Hecklerspray -hecklerspray.com
46. WoWinsider -WoWinsider.com
47. Angry black bitch -angryblackbitch.blogspot.com
48. Stylebubble -stylebubble.typepad.com
49. AfterEllen -afterellen.com
50. Copyblogger -copyblogger.com
the FUTURE in BLOGGING
I was chatting with a blogging buddy some few weeks ago about the future of blogging. 
She even asked me if I wanted to be a contributor in a beauty blog. I have often hear and read that blogging is the future. In 5 years time, almost everyone in our generation will have at least 1 blog and half of them will be earning from it. Isn't that truly amazing?
Anyways, going back to our chat which ended at 4am. She told me about someone who is actually earning sooo much just because of blogging. So the curios side of me made me wide awake till 7am the next day. I researched, surfed and surfed and discovered that there are really a lot of people making more than $10k a month purely by blogging! Of course, the very famous Perez Hilton only started out as a personal blogger and look at where he is now.
Blogging these days can be collaborated to the "New Marketing". Designer brands such as Gucci and Chanel have been inviting pro bloggers to their important events: read:runway shows, campaigns etc... and they treat these pro-bloggers as special as some very important fashion critique. They usually get the best seats in fashion shows! WOW!
Almost everyone is targeting the online market. Who wouldn't? And bloggers are the strongest when it comes to expressing their own POVs. With everyone making their own sites, expressing themselves in their own blogs and getting in touch through internet network sites, a big shift is happening.
What I'm trying to say here is as long as you enjoy blogging, go ahead do it but be wary of the blogging ethics when writing. Say, acknowledge quotes, pictures you are using in your blog entries. When I started blogging in 2004, I am not truly aware of all these. I started to blog in the year when blogging was just starting to become a hit, I got pregnant at that time and as a 1st-time mom, I wanted to record every single thing that pregnancy changed in me as well as every milestone my son makes as he grows up hence the birth of http://em.wifespeaks.com. Then my blogroll list grew bigger and memes are popping out of nowhere so the birth of this detour site.
In the next few days I am coming out with a 3rd blog (i can hear people throwing shout outs at me: "ADDICT LOL!"), and yes I have become an addict in blogging more LOLz! But this 3rd blog is something I really like, some skill I have no means to express now as a make-up artist. I will share every knowledge I learn through the years on beauty, grooming, make-up and any vanities that keep every woman beautiful and purely sane. I will also feature local make-up artists, when I say local: I'm saying Philippines. I'm still doing a lot of weaking here and there and I promise to tell you first. I am really excited about it. So for now, let's all be happy and merry with our blogosphere! Happy Monday to everyone! toodles.
pictures from http://google.com/.
