Why I Blog

So, why do a diet blog?
I’m asking myself even as I build this thing and begin to post here.
Who am I talking to? Why not just do it and not talk about it…?

Here are the answers I’ve come up with:

I believe and hope that this will help me to maintain my focus and see this thing through.

I hope that I can be successful and perhaps inspire someone else, or be a place to support someone else. This can be a lonely business. Even though most of the country is on a diet or thinks they ought to be… it is a very solitary mission. Each person must make the journey for themselves and continue to make the choices each day (each hour) that will get them where they want to be. This is my way of sharing and maybe even finding some like minded travelers on this road.

I’m good at thinking about and writing about “feelings” and maybe I can work through something in a way that could be just the “map” someone needs to make a dent in their own process.

I feel that I will be more accountable to this if it’s public. I know full well that no one may ever find it or read it or decide to come back for more…. But, by putting it out there, I will feel motivated to continue. Out of pride, for one thing. I find it’s much easier to stop dieting if no one knows I’m even trying. And also, I do NOT want to be another diet blog that just stops after the first post. I saw so many of those when I was considering this and checking out a few. They looked so interesting and people really laid down some intense set ups… but there was nothing more. Then I’d notice that it was 3 years old. What happened to those people?
For sure they might have continued to lose and just had no time to post… but we all know that the more likely scenario is that they stopped dieting. Possibly even gained more weight..

Which is where I’m headed if I don’t pick up and get going again.

I have posts from last year (August- December 2009) when I lost 30 pounds. Since then, I’ve steadily been gaining back 20 of those. THE HORROR!!!  But, I didn’t want to just disappear after that. Getting back on the horse is a part of this and now I hope to have some strategy for getting it going again before too much damage is done.

So, here I am. Finally ready to dig in my heels and face my resistance. Ready to sweat and feel hunger sometimes. Ready to say “it’s okay not to eat that even if I want it”. Ready to claim the body that I’ve always wanted, always felt more connected to. Ready to have my energy back. Ready to think about other things besides how fat I am and how I wish it could be different. Ready to wear the clothes that actually fit my style. I’ve never really expressed my own taste in clothing because I’ve never been able to fit in to it.  Ready for this one part of my life to match the strength I feel in so many other areas of who I am. I’m ready. And here I go.