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Blogging for Weight Loss
I saw something interesting a week or so ago, and it was an article about how dieters who kept an online blog were more successful in losing weight. More successful even than people who kept a journal. Why?
Public accountability.
Sorry I can’t post the direct link to the article; I meant to bookmark it but it slipped my mind…and now I can’t find it again. 
Anyway, the whole idea is that blogging about your weight loss makes you more motivated. Of course it could be that people who decided to blog are more motivated from the very beginning. A chicken and egg proposition I guess.
I’ll raise my hand to be a poster child of how this can be; here’s the scoop. In January 2005, I started a weight loss blog to give me some accountability, and hopefully give others some information. I think I blogged pretty well for a month, then less and less. And yes, that kind of paralleled my weight loss success. The less I blogged about it, the less motivated. The less motivated, the easier to go off the diet. Which I did, in a big way. You can see this old blog here.
Fast forward to Summer 2007. I finally decided to lose weight again. And this time keep it off. I really needed some accountability, seeing as I had (gulp) 135 pounds to lose. I’d need a ton of motivation and accountability for that! You can see in the above blog that I had 7 posts from that time, then I quit the writing. Why?
To start building my Losing Weight Over 40 website. And then of course this blog as well.
No, you don’t have to build a whole website to get the weight loss benefit (although if you want to, contact me for some information). Blogs are much cheaper (free, even) and much easier to set up and use — takes 10 minutes or less.
If you want to try this route, why not go for a free blog over at Wordpress.com or Blogger? Start up a blog and post. You’ll not only help keep yourself motivated, but also perhaps help someone else with your writings.
If you think this blog you’re reading has helped you, why not put me on your blogroll of links? Just use the address http://blog.losing-weight-over-40.com when you do (thanks!).
Maybe we can all help each other in our weight loss journey. To our success!
By the way, is there anything in particular you’d like to see me cover in this blog? Post a comment and let me know.
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