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Weight loss is such a huge topic today, there are probably more people that you know that are either on a diet, trying to lose weight, or simply trying to eat better. You may want to recommend Brad Chappel’s Fast Weight Loss blog to him — . Here Brad draws from his own personal experiences to share with you the most effective weight loss tricks. What I like about this blog is Brad highlights in a very well-written fashion the juxtaposition between how easy it is to gain weight, and how difficult it is to lose it. Brad shares with his readers on how the key to get success in life is to keep on learning good things from wherever you get. It does not get much simpler than that, and we could all use a little dose of simple truth now and then. He also makes it well known that winning the race is to be steady and slow, and fast may not always be the best. For example his post “Drinking more water for losing extra weight” is some advice that we could all use, but he offers some excellent alternatives for getting your water intake if you are not a huge water fan. Other posts you will find enlightening are Satisfactory eating with fewer calories, Healthy weight loss foods, Calorie burning exercises, Drinking more water for losing extra weight, How to lose more pounds, More than half of adults in European Union overweight, How to lose love handles tips, weight loss motivational tips, Heavy born infants more likely to be overweight later on, How a glass of apple juice daily will do the trick, and Overweight getting results from exercising.
Navigation on this site is fairly straightforward. Posts are left marginalized, and the additional blog content can be found in the right navigation bar. The blog offers a nice beige background with forest green border, and dark brown text leaving it very easy on the eyes and an enjoyable read. On the right navigation bar, you can subscribe to the feed and check out Brad’s favorite Fast Weight Loss posts including “How to lose Love Handles” and “How to lose 10 pounds in two weeks”, both subjects any weight loss participant would probably jumpt to first. You will also find here a menu of various weight loss blogs, a disclaimer on the medical accuracy of the blog, and a series of standard blog widgets. I wouldn’t mind seeing some categories in this section either, this topic could easily be divided into exercise, diet, goal setting, cardio, yoga, and items of that nature to organize the blog a little bit more. Some pictures would also be a great addition to this blog as currently the posts are standard text, and pictures would definitely spice this one up a bit.
Overall I am going with 3.5 here, and just a few suggestions. The content is well done, even though clearly English is not the first language here. However, this is barely noticeable which to me speaks volumes on the content quality as it is very difficult to get a point across in a tongue different than your own. The posts are fairly frequent, every few days or so. I would suggest to entice his readers a bit more to perhaps include a daily weight loss tip, nothing major just a quip to keep daily active posting. Then perhaps additions of longer articles at the current frequency would balance the blog out excellently. I would also suggest taking AdSense out of every single post, I don’t think it is necessary, and could be a bit distracting. Otherwise, I think this is an excellent blog, as do each of Brad’s 114 readers obviously. I think with just a few tweaks it could be a stunning success. And for a blog that is about personal growth and goal achievement, I think that would be well deserved.
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If you ever need to take a moment and just regroup for a second, I recommend that you bookmark the “Zest Life Blog” as a quickie “time out” during the work day, or any day really. This blog is called Zest for Life and is not just a blog, it also offers a host of other links and useful information. The purpose of the blog is to share insights into “creating Zest Life” and the author, J.D. Ramsay wishes this to be a sort of Zest Café platform for ideas exchange, thoughts sharing and a means to enhance your energy, health, and vitality. He offers Zest Life Strategies towards a happier, healthier, and more prosperous life. You can see this in just the first few recent postings: Choose your Life; Change your Life in One Hour; Lose Weight and Feel Great with Safe “Ex”; Why you have to Love your Fears; Instant Gratification, Happiness, and You; Healthy Environmental Choices for Life, Creating Healthy Immunity and Lifestyles, and a list of Favorite Blog Sites.
This blog is fairly new so navigation is very simple. At the top menu, take a minute to look around and get a feel for the Zest Life philosophy. You will read about the Zest Life Foundation, Resonance, Fitness, Lifestyle, and Health. The overall layout is very simple, which lends to the simplicity of the philosophies J.D. is trying to convey. Standard black text on white background with some color on the menu bar and the right sided navigation bar is in a very soothing light aqua color. Posts are left marginalized, and there is a right sided navigation bar with a search menu, and About box, an archive box, and a listing of the recent posts.
I am going to give this blog a 3, but I think this site and it’s “youth” are the only thing impeding a large readership. The content on this site is excellent, and very well written, J.D. is clearly an expert in the field. Navigation is simple and uniqueness scores very high as well. I would suggest adding some pictures to some of the post just to make them pop a little bit. I would also suggest adding a categories menu to the right navigation bar. I think there are enough topics in the niche to warrant it. Also if you research the categories correctly you can start getting good blog search engine traffic and normal search engines are more likely to pick up the threads if they are in appropriate categories. The titles are catchy and the content well-done that making the posts stand out should not be a difficult task. I think if the site develops a good readership some mild advertising would probably do very well for monetizing the site as well. The posts also need to be a little more frequent to maximize traffic to the blog and also to establish credibility with the readers. Right now there is about 8 posts between January and present on the front page. Posting a few more times a week may make a significant difference to the blog traffic. Otherwise, as I suggest, a highly recommended blog with some very useful food for thought. Consider it as relaxing as a glass of wine at the end of the day.
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If you have any interest at all in dieting, and I mean, in this day and age who doesn’t! I recommend you take a look into a
Diet Blog that contains the journalings of a self-proclaimed fat geek. Meet the author, pseudonymed “I am a Fattie”. Here is someone who has struggled with the overweight issue all of their life. The author states an apathy about that on a personal level, but has reached out to the dieters of the world with a wealth of information that is much more than the do’s and don’ts of dieting for dummies. You will see posts on weight loss surgery, diet pill product reviews, ab workouts, how to use a fitness ball, and a personal favorite of mine, the wrinkle free diet! There are also snippets in there that that provide significant food for thought, such as “
How I beat Anorexia” and “Alchohol Makes Fruit Healthier – or Does it?” Not often you find blog posts that make you say “wow…” out loud. You will also find a banquet of diets for your eating pleasure on this site, and trust me, there really IS something for everyone here whether you are strictly dieting, just watching what you eat or considering
weight loss surgery!
Navigation is very easy on this site. The opening page has posts centered down the page. On the left you can read about the author, get some congee recipes (YUM!), and peruse some advertising. On the right you will find a host of dieting categories that will feed your fancy on every topic from Lipo to its polar opposite, Get Big. There is an abs diet, an author’s diet, real life diet stories, supplements information, daily logs, burn fat, and so much more. You will also see some more advertising, the blog roll, and if you are having such a good time there, why not subscribe as a reader to the blog. The font looks good, and the colors are simple, which is great because the overall graphics do not deter from the mainstay of the site. There are plenty of appropriate pictures with every post and throughout the blog. This site leaves no fork unturned.
I am going to give this site a 3.3 for now as I think it needs some format changes. The advertising is just a bit distracting. I think maybe formatting the colors of the graphics around the AdSense will make it blend in a little bit more. The distraction is unfortunate because the content of the site is spectacular, well written, and very well informed and it deserves more recognition than it is probably getting. I also noticed a few grammatical errors, which also detracts from a very well researched blog post. However, a spell checker can fix that in a jiffy. Further, I would suggest the posts be broken down into sections, or broken down and written on separate days. The posts are very long, and while informative, may cause potential viewers to just scroll through the site instead of enjoying its content rich quality. Breaking down the posts could easily make this a daily blog, as the posts are only coming in every few days at this point. Just a few formatting and technical variations will make this an outstanding diet blog that I think people will line up for faster than the buffet line on Mother’s Day.
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