I bought 2 exercise bikes, one recumbent for in front of the TV for when I am watching my favorite shows. I have been doing about 40 mins a night. During the day when I am at my computer I have a mini under the desk bike. With the mini bike I am using it alot but really not exerting myself. I know that to lose weight you need to diet and exercise. Am I helping my weight loss at all with this?

A: All movement uses energy, that's to say it does burn calories. The thing is, if you want to burn fat you have to be in the fat burning zone of your exertion. This is normally not achievable at the same time as pouring over a spreadsheet but maybe when you are watching dancing with the stars. If you are reducing your calories and riding the bike as often and as intense as you can eek out, who is anyone to tell you it's not working? My experience leads me to say exercise that is only mild...

Last night, Coupon Queen and Cheap Kate and I did a little frugality presentation at the downtown Orlando public library. And what a crowd! Sixty-two people showed up on a Tuesday night. We were amazed -- but that just goes to show you: People are trying very hard to save money these days.

One of the most popular ideas we discussed last night was TV -- or more specifically, how to get rid of your cable bill. Cheap Kate has been living without cable for several years now and she can attest that you will survive.

If you want to stop paying a fortune to the cable companies or the satellite services, listen up: There are several ways to go about this. First, get a digital converter box. (Yes, the federal govt subsidized those for several months earlier, but you've missed that boat.) Still they only cost about $50 -- far less than you'll spend on cable bills in a year. With that converter box, you'll get great pictures -- HD quality -- and a surprising selection of channels. Here's a primer on how to do it, and what channels are available from the Sentinel's film critic, Roger Moore. Roger explains it in great detail and includes his likes and dislikes about the channels available.

People old to bimonthly exercise can get very discouraged when an malady, teenager or serious, stops their exercise tiresome. When rise from a while of sickness is cautiously, getting back into a praxis of working out can be onerous and therefore discouraging. The Mini Exercise Bike Inside explains that the mini exercise bike is well-thought-of for exercise during reclamation. The low-crashing complexion of the exercise enables people recovering from an malady to little by little get their cardiovascular brawniness back to where it was quondam to the sickness. Starting with as not much as five minutes a day on the mini exercise bike can be increased to as much as thirty minutes per day by breaking the cycling exercise periods into reduced sections throughout the day. As the Mini Exercise Bike Principal locality explains, the environment of the gear is such that the owner must be sitting while pedaling. This benign, low strike calling is authentic for people still imperceptible from an extended patch of sickness.