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John's Weight Loss Forums

February 19, 2008

One of the resources I have not found on my weight loss journey was a good, close-knit forum. I've probably tried them all, and for a variety of reasons I just haven't been able to stick to one. I really feel like I am missing out by not having that added sense of community. So, [...]

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4 Reasons You Should Be Writing a Weight Loss Blog

December 19, 2007

Whether you are looking to lose that “Freshman Fifteen” or are in the 100+ Pounds-to-Go Club you should be writing a weight loss blog as a critical component of your weight loss plan. A weight loss blog is not a food journal or a food diary. Keeping a food journal can also be important and [...]

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Reader of the Month for November, 2007

December 1, 2007

My reader of the month is Diana from Scale Junkie, who left 17 comments here in November.  A Scale Junkie is not what Diana is any more – she writes on her blog that she is a reformed scale junkie having learned "that the scale is only one measure of progress towards the path to [...]

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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?

November 20, 2007

Last week I hosted a group of 5th graders (my son's lego robotic team) to watch Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? on FOX. If you've never seen the show it can be quite maddening. Because of the adults. The adults on the show are usually really dumb. Last week it was Kellie Pickler, who [...]

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Where In The World Are You Coming From?

November 17, 2007

Seeing Make Lard History's A Greener World reminded me that I've been running Google Analytics here and that I haven't checked it out for a little while. The last time I looked I was still 4 states short in the US and hadn't penetrated much outside of the US and Europe. Now I've been visited [...]

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Inspiring Success Story

October 9, 2007

Jan B from Just A Mom, That's More Than Enough wrote a great post last week called More things I like about having lost weight that was really inspiring to me.  Jan has had great success on her weight loss journey, where she is closing in on the magical 100 pounds lost.  The list is mostly simple, [...]

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On Writing a Weight Loss Blog

September 8, 2007

I'm writing this both as a reminder to me and as a suggestion for those of you with your own blogs.  The interesting thing about writing a blog about weight loss is that there is always something to write about.  Whether it's the food that I should or should not be eating, the exercise I [...]

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Great Opportunity to Improve your Blog

September 5, 2007

Many of you reading this have a blog and are writing about your own journeys from fat to fit.  Good for you!  I think that trying to build as big a support system as possible, both in the physical world and the virtual world, is an extremely important step in this marathon of building an improved you.  [...]

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