About a month ago I decided to start my own weight loss forums. When I announced them I did so with the best of intentions. I hadn’t found another forum I felt at home at so I figured, why not start my own? Literally within a couple days of running the forum I had one possible answer. It can be a lot of work! I didn’t realize it at the time but I was already teetering at the brink of being overwhelmed and the forums simply put me over the edge. Within a week of starting them I was ignoring my blog (the entire blogosphere for that matter) and my new forums.
Really bad timing for a depression. Launch a new product, and then whammo!
I can’t recall ever feeling this way before, but I was literally afraid every day of going to look at the forums I had abandoned so soon. And so I didn’t. Weeks went by and never once did I stop in to at least see what was going on. I just couldn’t do it. I was totally overwhelmed and I wasn’t about to take a look at that train wreck.
After I picked myself up yesterday with my post 9 Tips For Kick-Starting Your Dormant Weight Loss Blog I logged into my weight loss forums for the first time and was really surprised and happy to see that there was a lot of great stories and interactions that had been taking place without me. And with no prompting from me, three of my readers really stepped it up and participated more than everyone, really acting as unofficial moderators in my stead.
I was prepared yesterday to shut the forums down. However, reading the stories and seeing the effort of these three made me realize this is something worth continuing. It’s a work in progress to be sure, but I am committed to making it work.
So I would like to publicly thank Jan, from Just a Mom, That’s More Than Enough, Andrew, from Andrew is getting fit and Cammy from The Tippy Toe Diet.
These three truly embody the spirit of the weight loss blogger community, and I truly thank them for their help.
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