Stop by my blog, This Mama Cooks! On a Diet and learn about Lijit, a cool search tool widget, and enter my contest! All you have to do is install the Lijit widget on your blog (or blogs) to enter.

I talk to writers about using blogs to promote their work. But why shouldn't blogging be used by those trying to lose weight and get healthy, too? Here's why you should incorporate blogging into your weight loss journey: 1. Exploring your emotions. Tracking what you eat, how many times you work out, and your weight is one thing. Blogging about how you feel - your emotions - can help you discover the triggers that cause you to overeat. Blogging is also a way to help you figure out why you have the relationship you do with your body and food.

Little, Brown and Company have given me a basket of books to give away to one of my readers at my blog, A Readable Feast. If you have children ages 0-6, there are some wonderful books including Toot & Puddle: Let It Snow and The Cranium Ultimate Book of Fantastic Fun & Games. Feel free to keep the books for yourself, or donate them to a teacher, library or your children's school.

When I was pregnant with my daughter Lucie I saw a report in a pregancy magazine that said a study showed that if I eat fish high in Omega 3 fatty acids, my baby will sleep better. Sounded a little hard to believe, so I did my research and found the study only had 40 women in it. Hardly good science.

You can borrow other's people content and pictures as long as you attribute and link, right? Well, not exactly.