Scales For You

There are so many trucks on the road now.  We live close to I-40 which runs East to West across the United State, and the increase over the last few years in the number of trucks traveling that road is astounding.  So many of our products are shipped by truck.  Companies like FedEx, DSL, UPS, and the United State Postal Service make it easy for all of us to ship items to other parts of the Country.

If you’re trying to sell on Ebay or operating a small business that ships products out, it will pay you to buy a postage or shipping scale.  You can save yourself some trouble and time by weighing your packages before you take them to the shipping pick-up.  When you know approximately what it will cost to ship the item, you can include at least part of this cost in the price of your product.  www.holladaypartners.com offers an electronic digital shipping scale that will simplify your life at the lowest price ever.

Everything is smaller today.  Cell phones, laptops, ipods–you can carry almost any electronic gadget in your hand.  Speakers that used to take up a lot of space are now smaller, yet clearer.  Computers that once took up a whole room at a university were not as capable as one now that can sit on your lap.  You can watch movies on a handheld ipod.  Convenience is the key.

Scales are smaller, too.  A handheld scale that will fit in your pocket can be taken into restaurants or used at home.  It can measure your food portions before they are placed on your plate.  In other words, you can take your diet on the road with you.  Wherever you are, you can be assured that you will be able to stay on your diet and get rid of those excess pounds.

There’s nothing like old friends.  I don’t mean they’re old, but we’ve been friends for a long time.  Today a high school classmate and his wife came by to see us.  We graduated over 50 years ago, so we have been friends a long, long time.  Changes in technology don’t make an old friend obsolete–they just makes it easier to stay in touch. 

Technological changes are difficult for people my age.  Things improve so fast, but it’s hard to get rid of the old comfortable things and learn how to use the newer ones.  However, it’s often well-worth the effort.  For example, the difference between the old dial scales we used to use in the kitchen and the newer cooking scale that will measure liquid ingredients as well as dry ingredients is just incredible.  www.holladaypartners.com has a wide variety of scales in many colors, sizes and styles to meet every need and match any decor at the lowest prices ever.

I’ve been scanning a lot of pictures into the computer.  My ex daughter-in-law offered to let me borrow her pictures and scan them.  It has been exciting since my house burned a few years ago, and these are pictures taken earlier.  I have seen myself dressed in clothes that I had forgotten about, seen pictures hanging on the wall that I painted, and seen myself when I weighed a lot less.  Oops!  That’s the difficult part.  How did I manage to put all that extra weight on in just a few years. 

The beginning of the year is always a good time to make resolutions.  The holidays will soon be over, so the excuse of all the food at all those parties will no longer be feasible.  An electronic scale added to my bathroom will remind me that I need to start eating less and exercising more.  Or maybe, I can eat just as much food if I’ll eat fruit and vegetables instead of all those desserts.  Pictures bring back memories, some good and some bad.  I plan to look better in next year’s Christmas pictures!

With today’s economy getting worse every day, many people are selling gold and silver jewelry that they no longer wear.  I can’t do that since all of my jewelry burned in our house a few years back.  However, it does seem logical that food and clothing are more important than jewelry that is never worn.  Of course, some pieces are sentimental and will be handed down to children and grandchildren as keepsakes, but it may be surprising how much money can be made by selling off pieces that are not that meaningful to you.

If you are thinking of getting involved in buying and/or selling precious metals, you will need pennyweight scales.  Precious metals are weighed by pennyweights and troy ounces rather than the pounds and ounces you use for most things in America today.  You will find these scales at www.holladaypartners.com at the lowest prices ever. 

Aunt Jemima’s Original Pancake Mix has more salt per serving than Wise Potato Chips!  This tells me that reading labels on the food we buy is very important.  Saturated fat, trans-fats, and good fats like olive oil affect our bodies in different ways.  The fats in olive oil can reduce our risk of cardiovascular disease, while trans-fats can increase it.  Good health doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive, but we do have to seriously look at everything we consume.

Precision scales in the kitchen can make baking easier with less clean-up, but they can also help measure food portions to ensure that we get needed nutrients without excess calories and fats.  In this age of technology, scales have been updated and have many features that have added to their efficiency.   www.holladaypartners.com had a wide variety of scales for every need.  Check it out! 

Pain can be good or bad.  For example, if I touch a hot stove, the pain instantly tells me to remove my hand quickly and don’t touch any more hot objects.  Arthritis pain, on the other hand, may cause me to want to be inactive, but reducing the use of the afflicted joints might actually worsen the condition, increasing the pain.  A doctor can recommend how much movement I need according to our condition that is causing the pain.

Increased body weight can increase certain pain, even though the association of obesity with pain is not fully understood according to Dr. Michael Roizen.  Since it is very important to stay as active as possible and live as full a life as possible, we need to do all we can to prevent and relieve pain.  If losing weight will stop some of the pain, a good healthy diet plan is called for, along with exercise that does not further irritate the pain.  A liquid measuring scale makes cooking easier with easier clean up.  It will also weigh food portions to help manage the diet plan.  Taking extra medication sometimes causes other health problems.  If losing the excess weight can reduce the need for medication, don’t you think it’s worth the effort to cut back on that food!

Have you heard of “polypharmacy”?  It has been defined as “the  taking of five or more medications at the same time.”  Someone else added that it might be “the taking of any medication that is not needed.”  Bad medication results have been estimated as the fourth or fifth leading cause of death in hospitals.  Since doctors are so specialized, many people go to one doctor for one condition, another doctor for a different condition, and get prescriptions from both.  In addition, herbs and over-the-counter drugs are often added into the mix.  Sometimes side effects to medications being taken cause misdiagnosis, thus often adding even more prescriptions.  In addition, medicines that were not taken when prescribed are often taken at a later day because of self-diagnosis.  These medicines all interact with each other, sometimes with serious consequences.

Obesity brings on additional problems.  Carrying extra pounds causes the body’s organs (including the heart) to be overworked, increasing health risks.  If we are serious about wanting to be healthy, we need to plan and eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly.  A large capacity bathroom scale can help us get started, regardless of how much we weigh.  Documenting our weight each week will help determine our progress.  If we eliminate all unnecessary medication, eat a healthy diet, and exercise regularly, we can prevent health problems and improve our outlook on life.  A large variety of scales are available at www.holladaypartners.com at the lowest prices ever.

My mom always taught me that eating prunes would help prevent constipation.  Now new tests at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University have found that the antioxidants in prunes increase bone formation in animals.  They suggest that eating prunes could benefit people at risk of osteoporosis.  Prunes have more antioxidants than any other fruit because their dried form concentrates antioxidants.  Antioxidants help combat virtually every chronic disease, including cancer, heart disease, diabetes and dementia.  What more could you want?  Another study showed that elderly people who ate more prunes, apples, vegetables, olive oil, fish and legumes had fewer wrinkles and less sun-damaged skin than those who ate lots of meat, butter and milk products.

It’s hard to come up with a reason for not losing my excess weight.  I’ve tried to think that if I lost weight, it would increase my wrinkles and make me look older.  Now eating prunes, apples, etc. will take care of that problem.  I’m about out of excuses!  I’m going to get some food scales and start measuring my food portions before they’re placed on my plate.  My will power seems to be stronger if the extra food is not on my plate.   www.holladaypartners.com has a wide selection of scales in many colors, sizes, and styles, including digital and spring scales.

The holidays are not even over–really not even officially started, but we’ve been celebrating.  As usual, it’s all about food–turkey, ham, dressing and gravy, cranberry salads and sauces, green beans, pies and cakes!  Everyone in my family has already gained weight, even the dog.  We can’t quit now, Christmas is not even here for three more days. 

We’re all going on a diet New Year’s day.  All we need is some cooking scales and some will power.  We can plan our meals ahead, measure our portions, leave off the fats, fast food, and sweets, and start an exercise program.  That sounds like a lot, but it’s really not that hard if our mindset is right.  Trying on clothes that once fit may give us a little extra incentive, and a feeling of success when we can wear them again.  Check out the scales at www.holladaypartners.com   They’re cool!  They come in many sizes, styles and colors.   We’re sure to find some that fit our decor.