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Saturday 25 July 2009

The importance of creating budget for yourself


Are you a debt-ridden woman? Even if debt may not be an issue for you now, there is a good chance that it will become one in the future. Whether you are in debt now or if you are looking to prevent yourself from falling victim to it, you may want to examine budgets. Creating a budget for yourself is a simple process, but it is one that can help to keep you out of debt or even get you out of debt.

Before examining how you can go about creating a budget for yourself, it is important to understand the importance of budgets. As previously stated, budgets are a tool that can be used to make sure that debt isn’t any longer an issue for you. By creating yourself a budget you are able to track your spending, as well as ensure that all needed expenses, like your car instance or your mortgage, get paid. This also gives you the opportunity to examine how much extra money you have each month, money that you could put towards repaying your debt or put in a savings account, if you aren’t in debt right now.

When it comes to creating a budget for yourself, you should be able to find a number of budget templates online for you to use. While these free resources are nice, you may only want to use them as starting points. You can get great ideas from them, but you may want to create your own budget. This is important because not all individuals lead the same lives or have the same expenses to take care of. For instance, a budget template for those in New York City may not necessarily call for car payments or auto insurance, but if you had a vehicle, you will need these sections displayed on your budget.



It is also advised that you take the time to create a budget for each month of the year. As previously stated, a budget allows you to account for your spend in advance. If you have a birthday party in July that you need to attend, you may need to account for buying a gift. However, this is something that will likely not occur each month. Creating individual budgets for each month of the year may seem like a complicated process, but it doesn’t have to be. It may take a few extra minutes, but those few minutes are more than worth it.

To get you started with saving your money, to help relieve the stress and other issues often associated with debt, you will want to start by outlining all expenses that you must pay for on a monthly basis. These expenses are ones in which you cannot go without paying, like rent, mortgage, renters insurance, homeowners insurance, auto insurance, auto loan payments, groceries, and your utility bills. These are the expenses that must be paid, no matter what.

Once you have a detailed list of important expenses, like those that you are unable to go with out, you can focus on the next level of importance. These are items such as internet access or cable television. If you are just looking to save money, possibly to put into a savings account, you should be able to continue paying these expenses without any problems. On the other hand, if you are looking to dig yourself out of all of the unpaid debt that you have accumulated, it may be a good idea to go without internet access or cable television, if at all possible, even if it is just for a short period of time.

You can also use your budget to determine how much extra money you will have each month. You can do this if you regularly work the same hours or if your pay is salary based. Once you have totaled up all of the aforementioned expenses, you can subtract that from the amount of the money that you bring home from work each week. Any extra is money that you may want to consider putting towards your debt or saving, just in c



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Thursday 9 July 2009

Becoming Ageless with Botox


Looking young and fresh is truly important, especially for women. However, age cannot tell a lie. As you turn to 30, wrinkle will start to appear in your face and for some women it could be a nightmare. Nowadays there are a lot of methods on how to change your appearance and stay and looking young. Face lifts is one of them, but Botox is one of the latest technology in the Cosmetic Surgery industry.

What is actually a Botox? Botox is a very diluted version of the botulinum toxin. While the pure form is known as dangerous and can caused food poisoning, Botox has been carefully administered therefore, it is generally safe.

So how does this Botox work? We all know that Some of the wrinkles are caused by pressure from the muscles in your face.The Injections of Botox will paralyze the muscles and release the tension, reducing or even removing the wrinkles there.

These are some of the reasons why people prefer to use Botox:
1. Botox is Inexpensive. Normally it only cost $500 / treatment. Compare to Face lift which could cost thousands dollars
2. The effects are fairly rapid, most of the time it will take 3-5 days
3. The procedure is very quick, It takes around 10 – 30 minutes and after that you can simply go home. Face lift patient will have to wait longer with much more recovery time
4. The pain is minimal
5. Botox almost never requires anesthesia


However, beyond of those benefits there are also some shortcomings and drawback about Botox such as:
1. Not all wrinkle can be removed by Botox. Those caused by smoking habit or sun exposure, for instance are not the ones.
2. Botox works by paralyzing muscles. You may not be able to peep or glare after the treatment. In worse but rare case, It could caused your eye lid to sag or a slight tendency to drool..
3. Botox’s effect is temporary, It tend to wear off after a few months, meaning if you like the effects, you'll have to get another treatment. However, if you don't like what Botox does for you, then this limited period of effectiveness is a good thing.
4. To get the full benefit of Botox, there are some requirements that you should fulfill such as: You have to be in a good condition of physical and Psychological health, not using any drugs or alcohol.

Last but not least, take a lot of consideration before you decide to receive Botox, Seek as many as you wish all the information from your doctor, follow all the instruction and be honest about your health (allergy history, etc) and personal being.

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Thursday 2 July 2009

Weight lost strategy between men and women


Have you ever noticed that men and women have different behavior when they want to lose their weight? This article contrast about this distinction. It said that women have the tendency to minimize the calories intake (input), while men prefer to do exercise more intense to reduce the excessive calories they had (output). Moreover, women are very organized and love to make “Food Journal”, count calories, eat less portion, eat more veggies and fruits, etc. Men, on the other hand don’t like to be bother with complicated strategy therefore only limit to the best tactic with better result in their perspective.

Beyond those differences, however, there are also some similarities that men and women have as their effort to lose their weight. According to this article, most of the time none of these strategies found to be effective. These are:

1. Skipping Meals – Means that they cut back their overall food consumption. However, this strategy often resulted with hunger which made the dieter became overeats. If the skipped meals is breakfast it also worse.



2. Completely eliminated certain food, such as chocolate, chips, ice cream – in the long term this strategy also often failed because the dieter will crave for this particular food
3. Becoming a vegetarian – Even though it could be healthy, but if you include candy, sweet, cookies and all snacks which consider as vegetarian
4. A very high protein diet – Besides it could be dangerous for body, this also cannot work in a long term

Another resemblance between both genders is that they decrease the fat and sugar ingestion as their effort to lose weight. According to the article this is the best strategy that can be applied because a research found that snacks itself account extra calories that Americans consumed.

In conclusion, this article believed that when it comes to losing weight both men and women should have different approaches. As women loves to have well structure plan and don’t mind to cut back their portion, It is suggested that they just downsized their food by sharing it with husband or friends. On the other hand, Men simply couldn’t resist large portion. This could be tricky because the bigger portion served the more people will eat. Therefore, adding up some healthy non fat or low calories to bulk their meal are recommended.



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