Free online weight loss tools

Now is the perfect time for you to be thinking about losing some excess kilos or getting fit to have you feeling and looking great for summer. Here are some great sites that can help with workout and exercise ideas, keeping track of your progress, helping you with your diet and keeping you motivated.

You don’t need to join expensive weight loss programs and diets, you can do it all online yourself for free!

CalorieKing
CalorieKing is a great resource of tools and information for Australian’s (there is also a US version.) They have an extensive food database with over 20,000 foods and cover favourite brands and restaurant chains. The website also has a food and exercise diary so you can track your daily calorie intake, calories burnt and over all progress. Best of all, it has just become free to join.

traineo
traineo is a website for tracking your exercise and weight loss while helping give you motivation and support to reach your weight loss and fitness goals.

Gimme20
Gimme20 is another social network site that allows you to build your own custom work outs with instructions and pictures on how to perform each exercise. This site also has features to allow you to track your progress.

Fat secret
Fatsecret is a new site for people interested in diets to come and find out about and compare the different diets and see what works. With journals, tips, recipes and advice.

Bodybuilding.com
Do not let the name put you off. It is an amazing resource for anyone looking to get fit and maybe lose some weight. They have 1000’s of articles on fitness, weight loss and training exercises. With information for beginners as well as the more advanced.

ExRx
1000’s of different exercises, covering all parts of the body, with specific work outs for women. Shows animations of how to do the exercises.

Calories per hour
Free Calorie Counter & Weight Loss Calculator: Calories, BMI, BMR, RMR etc.

Do you have any other weight loss tools or sites with great info you can share?

Women missing Pap smears

In an article out today it has been revealed that almost one in four women in New South Wales are putting their health at risk by failing to have regular pap smears to check for cervical cancer. No doubt these numbers will be similar through out Australia, and the world.

These are alarming statistics. It is advised that all women who are over 18 and have been sexually active at any stage of their lives to have a Pap smear every 2 years until age 70 years. Regular Pap smears every two years can help prevent up to 90 per cent of the most common type of cervical cancer.

“Cervical cancer can be fatal, but it can be prevented and treated if detected early enough … over 80 per cent of cervical cancers occur in women who have not had a regular Pap test.”

About 740 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer each year in Australia. Of this around 270 women will die. Please be sure you are having regular Pap smears.

Visit the National Cervical Screening Program or speak with your local GP for more information.

Creamy Tuna Bake

You will need…
1½ cups dried macaroni pasta
2 x 425g cans tuna in spring water drained
cooking spray
1 teaspoon crushed garlic
2 cups mushrooms sliced
½ cup shallots or onion sliced
1 cup frozen corn kernels
1 x 310g can creamed corn
2 teaspoons salt reduced chicken style stock powder (Massel®)
2 x 30g sachets 4 cheese sauce (Continental®)
1½ cups boiling water
½ cup grated tasty cheese

Method…
Preheat oven 180ºC fan forced.
Cook pasta as instructed on packet, leave to one side. Drain tuna and roughly break up, leave to one side. Coat a large non-stick frypan with cooking spray, sauté garlic and mushrooms, cook 2 minutes. Add tuna, shallots, corn kernels, cream corn and stock powder and combine. In a small bowl combine 4 cheese sauce with boiling water until blended. Add cheese sauce to pan, fold together. Add pasta and stir well. Pour into a casserole dish. Sprinkle cheese over top and bake 30 minutes or until cheese has melted and browned on top.

You can also substitute the tuna for 500g of cooked diced chicken pieces.

For an extra yummy topping, I like to sprinkle with bread crumbs and and halve whole baby beetroots and place them on top before cooking.

Serves: 6

eBay Services

Have you seen the new eBay services? As the name suggests, it is a section of eBay for selling services. It has been only been running for a few weeks, but looks really interesting.

There are Wedding planners, maids and cleaners, personal trainers, business services, builders, beauty therapists..and the list goes on and on.

I have already purchased a service, it was actually something I was considering buying and bought it on eBay services for 1/2 the normal price.

If you hurry, they are offering free listings until midnight April 30th if you have a qualifying service to offer.

eBay Services

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We are now also offering product and service reviews on the All for Women blog.

Or contact us about custom solutions.

See our advertising page for more details, and how to order.

Offer only available for 2 weeks! Ends 5th May

Don’t forget, we also have free ways you can advertise your site on All for Women!

Crock Pot Chicken Cacciatore

10-pieces of chicken-…thighs, legs, wings.
2-large onions slices thinly
5-large potatoes-cut in quarters
4 mushrooms sliced
1-can crushed tomatoes
4-tsp. salt
4-tsp. black pepper
4-tsp. oregano
1 TBSP olive oil
1 cup water
Olives to serve

Mix all these ingredients in a bowl until well blended. Pour into
crockpot and cook 6 hours on low
Before serving add a handful of tasty olives. Serve with some nice crusty Italian
bread and a tossed salad.

See our other Slow Cooker Recipes

Special Offer-The Secret to Self-Empowerment for Women

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I have been using this since it’s release last week, and it is fantastic! It works with both normal Gmail, as well as our hosted All for Women Gmail accounts. It adds some nifty new functions to super charge your inbox like your Google reader feeds from with in Gmail, enhanced labling and filtering, skins and lots more.

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