Quick workout tips during the holiday

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Holiday is drawing nearer, the atmosphere is getting more special and the wind blows cooler and cooler everyday particularly at night, this makes waking up at early hours the hardest thing to carry out. The lazy cool breeze of December makes everyone think of cozying and curling in bed at late hours.

Holiday is also a season of sharing and giving, and what else is more joyful to give and share than the sumptuous foods and appetizing sweets. Those great tasting and savory recipes prepared by every household are part of what we yearn for during this festivity, but as much as we satisfy our cravings we should also be aware of its consequences –the excess pounds we can gain from these luscious sugar-laden foods we indulge.

People might think of spoiling their regular figure maintenance and just indulge on the holiday fun. Of course, who would like to ruin this joyful season, flabby abs and additional inch in the waist are the trend for the season anyway. But worry no more, there’s still a hope for everyone. The season can still be enjoyed with our body in good physique.

The key to a successful and worry free holiday indulgence is to incorporate physical fitness with you. There’s no need to skip the luscious meals, enjoy it but keep your cool and eat moderately. Enjoy the food - fats and sugar are still in the food pyramid right?

To remove the calories away you need to do the hand job. Clean the party mess, it could make you burn the fats brought by the luscious foods.

Exercise should form part of your routine; the holiday climate is not a reason to skip it. Although being advised, the workout should not necessarily be done everyday if your schedule forbids you. Doing it twice or three times in a week would make great difference than none at all. Perform the basic stretching, do the domestic job – practice home economics and run the errand; this would melt the stagnant fats in you.

Walk when looking for gift ideas; this could help you burn calories as well. Roaming around the mall, shopping for your holiday essentials and waiting in lines will do great in your body.

Gardening, scrubbing and decorating your house for the season could be a best option too. That way you could incorporate Christmas preparation and workout with minimal time and effort.

Credit Card – an Evil Fairy God Mother

I wrote this article a few months back and has think of publishing it on my own blog to share…

Credit Card – an Evil Fairy God Mother

Sometimes I wonder if credit cards are really a life saver or something that would drag us deeper into debts.
I wrote this article to share my life experiences and my opinion regarding credit cards.

My friend got me a copy of the movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic” and though I’m not a big fan of any chic-flick movie her convincing prowess urged me to watch it. The film was great anyway, though done in a comic way, the movie made its mark by emphasizing the lesson it wants to convey. The story’s about a woman who was addicted to shopping – as what the title boasts – making her swim to credit card debts. As later on been haunted by debt collector and with no money to pay yet she tried very hard to avoid the him telling her boss that he’s a bitter ex-boyfriend that’s harassing her only to be humiliated later on when the collector told the truth in front of many people while she’s doing a TV interview.

Come to think of it, this situation happened not only to the lady on the movie; most of us face this debt burden.

My husband and I also got this dilemma even before we got married; we both have debts of our own – credit cards. Well who doesn’t have? My husband got four cards and I have six, which sums up to ten monthly dues that we need to settle.


I don’t know what lures us to obtain those plastic money but perhaps it’s the magic of credit line- giving us full purchase power without shedding cash- that made us addicted to them.

Credit cards are burdens in disguise. I can still remember how my friend and I filled up form-after-forms to submit to different card companies and how we curse them whenever we received a letter stating the famous quote “we’re sorry but we can’t grant your application at this time for undisclosed reason however you may still reapply after six months etcetera…”. Does it ring a bell?

Now that we have finally got those elusive plastic money and been able to utilize its great spending power we secretly wish we haven’t pursued its application. Don’t get me wrong, credit card really has a lot of benefits when used wisely but on the wrong hands or wrong decisions we’ll end up being pestered by numerous telephone calls from debt collection agents.

I’m talking from experience, credit cards can be any girl’s best friends, it could be a life saver, a magician, a fairy god mother rolled into one, and oftentimes we tend to forget that no matter how great swiping those Burberry wallets and Gucci shoes or how cheap that Valentino bag because it’s on sale, our ever dearest plastic money has its due date and incurs a lot of hidden charges when not paid making us drown in their interests and penalties that multiply.

Been there, done that…cliché but true, I have learned my lesson, though I did not only use my card shopping for personal enjoyment but also for my family’s sake I can’t deny the fact that I also made numerous wrong decisions involving credit card which I’ve been trying hard to fix these days.

There’s nothing wrong with having or using a card, just don’t let it overpower you. Having a card that you could readily pull when situation got tight is good; you just have to use it with caution unless you want to be bankrupt because of its compounding interest rate.