FAQ: What is a good weigh in schedule?

There are different aspects that work for a good weigh in schedule.

1. Choose the same day a week (I always choose Sundays because it’s kind of like the “start of a new week”)
2. Choose the same time that day. It’s best to weigh in before anything was eaten, because extra food in your body just causes you to add weight that isn’t actually your body weight. (I weigh in at 10:00 AM because that’s right before breakfast)
3. Go to the bathroom before weighing yourself. Sometimes it could honestly make a difference!
4. If you’re just aiming to lose weight, then you’re done! But if you’re like me and you’re also looking for specific measurements, also measure your stats right before you eat too. It’s best to log your measurements somewhere like “My Fitness Pal” or “My Calorie Counter” because it keeps track of the differences each week.
5. This is the most important thing. NEVER. EVER. Skip a weigh in. By skipping a weigh in it means that your food and exercise has defeated you. Even if the number is not what you wanted, there is always a logical reason to why it was that number, and it can always get better the next weigh in. If you skip a weigh in then you don’t know how much you improved from the next time you weigh in.

Justice for Dogs Neglected at Ohio Dog Pound

Although local activists and residents have been reporting neglect at the Harrison County Dog Pound in Cardiz, Ohio since at least 2008, it is only recently that the appalling conditions at the facility started to receive national attention.

News footage and photos show filthy kennels and a facility with no exterior walls to protect animals from the freezing Ohio winter. Dogs suffer from frostbite and from diseases like the deadly parvovirus, and they don't get vet care.

The county's solution to the news coverage was to euthanize the dogs; ten animals were saved only by the intervention of the national media and out-of-state advocates, including Alyssa Milano and The Gentle Barn sanctuary.

Despite years of complaints, there has been no action from local officials.

Help the animals of Harrison County and the residents trying to save them by calling on the County Prosecutor and the Attorney General to stop the suffering and prosecute those responsible to the full extent of the law.

This is the petition...please take out a minute & sign it. Thank you!

http://animals.change.org/petitions/view/justice_for_dogs_neglected_at_ohio_dog_pound

Join the Movement to Protect Feral Cats

More than 70 percent of cats who enter our nation's animal pounds and shelters are killed each year. That's 7 in 10 cats! And worse, virtually 100 percent of feral cats who enter pounds and shelters are killed.

It's going on all across America. And it's got to stop. Time and again, representatives of the shelter system say things like: "We kill them to alleviate future suffering; to save them from fates worse than death; because we don't have any room for them and where will they go instead?" This reasoning is wrong at the most basic - and moral - level. Every healthy animal deserves the right to live. It is our duty as a society to find ways to make that happen.

We cannot be silent as countless cats are killed every day. It is time for the nation's cat lovers and advocates to stand and be counted. Sign your name to the pledge to show that you want to see an end to the killing:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/156311450