Add Weight Loss and Fitness Bloggers to your Website
Apparently this has ability has been built into wordpress for quite some time but a friend of mine recently pointed up that it can be done (pfblogs popular posts added to sidebar.) Here is the wordpress codex for this feature: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_rss.
To add the p2p lending news to my sidebar I added the following to my theme…
<h3>Latest Weight Loss and Fitness Posts</h3>
<?php // Get RSS Feed(s)
include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/rss.php’);
$rss = fetch_rss(‘http://www.fitbloggers.com/feed’);
$maxitems = 10;
$items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, $maxitems);
?>
<ul>
<?php if (empty($items)) echo ‘<li>No items</li>’;
else
foreach ( $items as $item ) : ?>
<li><a href=’<?php echo $item[‘link’]; ?>‘
title=’<?php echo $item[‘title’]; ?>‘>
<?php echo $item[‘title’]; ?>
</a> (<?php echo $item[‘dc’][‘creator’]; ?>)</li>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
Happy Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day everyone! Today is the day to tell Mom just how much you love her. My mother is one of the best people I know and I don’t tell her often enough just how much I appreciate her. You’re always there for me. Thank you.
These are my favorite health, weight loss, fitness, and exercise posts from this week. I hope you enjoy them as well.
- Get Fit Slowly’s Quest for Better Sleep provides a list of things to think about to change your sleep cycle with warm dairy products and carbohydrates before dinner on this list. Sounds to me like that would make milk and cookies the perfect bedtime snack.
- It always sounds delicious but you have to ask yourself Is Your Food Worth its Weight in Exercise? Fat Man Unleashed provides a table of just what you have to do to get rid of the additional calories.
- So while sugars are carbohydrates, there are better ways to snack. Lazy Man and Health lists Five Healthy Snacks with low calorie counts that still sound delicious.
- But if that doesn’t do it for you, Starling Fitness wrote about how Cinnamon Reduces Insulin Resistance. It will supposedly reduce your desire for sugars and the need to snack every few hours.
- Now I have a new question for you. Do you like NCN Eat Before Getting Hungry? NCN is trying to eat before hunger pains hit so as to eat less. Have you done this? Does it work for you?
- But with all this talk about food Nutrition Fitness Life says, There’s More to Losing Weight Than the Numbers on Your Scale. Muscle weighs more than fat, so while your scale weight might not change you’re in fact healthier.
- And muscles as we know burn lots of calories for us, so use them! The Journal of Healthy Living says exercising is a great way to Improve Circulation.
- Blogging Away Fat prefers doing a job or task that involves physical exertion to going to the gym. In Yard Work: 1 - Tricia: 0 BAF talks about the pleasure and joy found in seeing something get done.
Weigh in #3 — 5 Pounds in 7 days, 30 pounds in 3 weeks
After 3 weeks on the Jumpstart Medicine medically assisted weightless program I have lost 30 pounds… Which is above my expectations… I had hoped for an initial rapid weight loss and in deed I lost an incredible 22lbs in the first 10 days. After a minor disappointment last week (only three pounds), I am back to what I expect to be able to lose on a weekly basis from here on out: 5lbs.
Here is a graph of my weight loss (if you are reading this in the future this graph will have updated for future weigh ins as well)… Clicking the image will open to a larger image.
I achieved 50% of my 10 pound goal. The doctor thinks 5 lbs a week is a very good weight loss rate for me and as such I will fall in line…
My goal for every week from here to the end of my journey is 5 lbs. I have a stretch goal of exceeding 5 lbs, but I fully expect to be able to maintain the 5lb a week pace… With the help of the MIC Injection and the Phentermine, my hunger is in check for perhaps the first time in my life. I really do enjoy excising via competitive sports (golf, volleyball, basketball) and I also enjoy swimming… With summer coming up I might be able to exceed the 5lb weekly mark as my opportunity for swimming will pick up with the warmer weather…
Stay tuned… This site will be ramping up shortly to provide much much more while still tracking my journey down the weight ladder.
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