It has been awhile since my last post

Boy did this year go fast. I had no idea that I had not published a blog post since October. I guess I got too busy with life to actually write about life....LOL.

Winter life has been interesting so far. We almost had a full blown chimney fire due to creosote build up in the top of the chimney. Thank goodness the fire was discovered during a heavy rain storm otherwise the roof would have caught fire. That same rain storm dumped enough water to cause huge muddy pools of standing water in the backyard which in turn made the area slippery to walk near. Several businesses and a heroin detox rehab treatment centers had to shut down until the water recedes which should be sometime this weekend.

Health watch has not been so much as internal but external with protecting ourselves from the elements and winter has only just begun.

I wonder if anyone ever reads my blog

I have been writing this little blog for a few years now and I rarely get a comment on it or much traffic at all. I wonder if it is because there are thousands of other blogs that cover the same subject? Just yesterday I was thrilled to get an email notifying me of a comment that I needed to modify on this blog. That was until I read the comment and it was a spam comment just to get a link to the best radar detector on the market......yeah, right. That got deleted.Well who knows, maybe one day I'll get more visitors, but until then it is just you and me, so don't get sick or it will be just me around here for awhile.

Blog changes

After changing the title and layout of this blog I have noticed a bit of an increase in visitors. People are more interested in their overall health rather than just one aspect of it. While TV pushes the perfect look for everyone via commercials and TV shows, just being healthy for most of us is a blessing.

While I have seen some increase in visitors I have also noticed some strange Google ads show up. The main one I keep seeing is the ads for fast food places and the other one for Davidoff cigars, which is rather strange for a health blog. Someone did tell me once that if I mentioned someone famous passing away on a blog, that I should expect funeral ads below the post. I must have encouraged my readers to quit smoking and those odd ads showed up.

A new look and a different title for the blog

A person can only write so many blog posts about weight loss, at least that was the way my mind works. So I decided to change the title of the blog to Your health, your body, to cover a much wider range of health topics. While fitness and staying in shape will still remain the main focus of the blog, I think that it is time to have a much more realistic goals of just staying healthy rather than trying to look 20 again.

The overall look of the blog will be slowly changing as I experiment with the new format of Blogger and the templates they have, really nice ones too. The nice part about them is those pages (at the top) that I can add. I also like to add that my visitors have increased along with the comment spammers. Thank goodness I don't allow automatic comment approval otherwise I would have had 15 comments about a xerox phaser 8560, and I don't even know what that is.

I do plan on blogging more frequently as time will allow but we will have to see.

Why do people love this blog?

I know that this little blog is not very well known or visited, but it sure does attract more than its fair share of spammers. I would like to know why Patek Philippe is always leaving spammy comments. That was until I Googled the name and found out it was a watch maker. Come on people, would someone who was interested in watches really want to visit a diet blog? get real.

Changed the layout of the blog

So what do you think? I kept the header but I might change that. The blog was way overdue for a new look. I just got several new books on how to use Photoshop and Corel Paint. I want to eliminate that fuzzy look around the words that MS Paint gave me. I do like the new color combination of the blog.

I have started off the year with an exercise class

Yes I did it, signed up for a workout class. This class is located at my local community college and meets 3 times a week for one hour. It is a combination of aerobics and weights. I have not lost any weight in the first 3 weeks but I have lost inches. The weights are building muscle which weighs more than fat. I am looking forward to a trimmer new me in the next few weeks.

On another note, this blog seems to be attracting some weird spam comments. People that try and leave comments with odd names like ls2208 or dfrsw334 and link to some link farm. Well I do moderate the comments and those ones did not get approved. They were just too odd and their English was not sounding right either.

Dumb me

I really wish that texting had not got so out of hand. It is almost like every small word is an anagram for a sentence or the shortened version of a longer word. I was reading an article the other day and came across the phrase "free seo tool" and thought it was something about diets. I had no clue what seo stood for. I now know what it means so you can call me dumb.

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