Internet Socializing is making me fat! I am starting over!!!

I'm gonna follow your advice and go have a glass of Merlot !!!!!!!!!!!!!*L*

Hi Lori~  The worst thing is to eat while sitting in front of the TV or the computer.  I think it is mindless eating as you don't even realize what you are doing until it catches up with you!   I don't think you are alone is this quandry of putting on some weight, and now needing to lose it!   

Hello again Lori Kim,

Great post and very timely! All I can say is "me too."

Thanks for the inspiration to put in the hard yards. Congratulations too on the feature - well deserved.

All the best for the season.

Donna

I think there is a real balance between the two approaches.

Lori Kim,  There's no end to change in real estate marketing, but we've entered into a era of rapid change. Here's hoping all our changes in 2010 are productive ones.

Steve

Lori,

I did not think my diet could be tied do my business, but where you find 10 lb, can I get 20 lb off? And I do not even do anything besides AR?

This crazy box on my lap is where must of my business originates... but I call it social networking when I go hang out in the places my past and future clients gather...

I like the time I spend in front of the computer, and I get quite a bit of business from it.  However, it is easy to spend too much time here and lose myself in it at the expense of other potential business.

Better time management and more bicycle time are on the resolution / goal list for 2010.

Right on Lori!

[If Internet socializing were to suddenly go away... would you survive?]

Oh God Yes.

As much as I love all this stuff...I can feel myself starting to implode after 'too long' which to me is 'not that long'. :)  This is a job. And all work/no play sucks.

Doing this job well takes ENERGY and you can't replenish virtually. So for me, frequent time-outs for real air, real people and real exercise are critical.

I tried to get into a pair of old jeans this morning to do some yard work, and discovered that I couldn't fit into them.  It's very odd that all of my pants seem to be shrinking!  I might have to cut back on the peanut butter, or buy some new pants.  Maybe later.  For now, I need to keep reading all these wonderful blogs and then zoom over to Facebook to see what's up over there.

Although social networking is important it cannot take the place of all prospecting or networking.  I still think meeting with people face to face is the best way to network.

Lori, a great post and reminder to get back to the basics. Great new year's resolultions..

Thank you for the post.  I keep hearing how you must do this and you must do that in regards to social media because that is were your clients are coming from.  Well the hippies didn't change Wallstreet and the dot.coms haven't shut shut down the brick and mortar stores.  Business (non-commodity) is done face to face where you can judge a person's character not through a computer with lots of bells and whistles.  With that said I need to get busy answering emails, replying to my Facebook, updating my website, writing a blog and if I'm lucky viewing 5 homes in my farm area.

Lori, good for you for recognizing a good habit that's morphed into a bad one!  I had the same problem this year.  In addition to getting out in the field more, what has helped me was to start a Weigh-In Wednesdays blog where I forced myself to report in on AR every Wednesday.  My final post will be tomorrow (I had a New Year's deadline).  Going public really helped me be honest with myself.  Good luck to you!

LOL ! Congrats on the Feature. What a wonderful ambassador you are..

Here's to a new year filled with balance -- and speaking of balance, have you tried a large exercise ball to use as a chair when working the keyboard ??? works those core muscles while catching up with networking/admin duties,et al.

why not put the laptop on top of the exercise bike....and yes u r PHAT!...:)

Lori you are not fat, you are just big boned!!  :)

Lori you are not fat, you are just big boned!!  :)