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New Blog To Make Less Work

Saturday, June 09, 2012

Hello Sparkfriends

So I haven't had any motivation lately to lose wieght and the scale is creeping up. I'd love to be held accountible to someone motivating but I would feel bad if something came up and I could not write back a couple days and I make the someone mad.

That's kind of how I feel about this page

I worked soooo hard in 2010 to lose weight and get readers to my blog and I managed to get some regulars but then I stalled on weight loss, I got busy trying to plan a wedding, then I got pregnant and the next thing I know I'm being removed from friend pages and I lost some regulars.

When I look back I have pages and pages of past blogs I've written. I hope that I can go back and read some of my own writing over the rest of this year.

I think some of the most read blogs have lots of pics of food and before and after shots. However, for this site its several steps to do this.

I'd like to start taking photographs of my food and more progress shots but I want photo uploading to be simple and quick so I think I'm going to move blogging to a flickr and tumblr account. All this stuff I can now do from my phone! On there I won't have to think about whether or not I motivate someone. I just want to be accountible to myself

I hope SP will one day have automatic phone uploads and if so I'll certainly move my stuff back. Until then, I'll probably just share my blog with a link to tumblr or something. Whatever is allowed.

I'll keep my page because the nutrition tracker is still the best online, plus I like to read other people's blogs. The articles and videos are great too. I just bought a body media and I hope that maybe a customized plan to fit my needs will get me going again.

This is just an experiment to see if it can help me jump start my weight loss again. I'll be taking before shots which I'm not looking forward to doing. Ugh but I need a kick in the pants!
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MORTICIAADDAMS 6/11/2012 10:21AM

    I am not savvy enough to join a lot of other sites so I stay with sparkpeople. It took me a long time to get to where I could work it.

I think a lot of us go through stale periods with our weight loss. I gained 30 pounds last year and have not gotten it off but 'm not going to give up. It's away of life and not a sprint so it will never be over for me. I will just keep falling down and picking myself back up.

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JAMIELOGICAL 6/9/2012 11:45AM

    For me SparkPeople really has all I need to stay successful. But I don't have a cell phone and thus don't experience the frustration a lot of people do when using the site. If/when I upload photos, it's off a digital camera and they'd need to be moved to a computer anyway.

I can see how it might not work for everyone, but I love the community here so much. I wouldn't want to put my weight loss blog and photos out on a more general-use type site like flickr. But everyone needs to find what works for them.

I'll miss your updates in my activity feed and I hope you'll still be checking your friend feed for news from your SparkPeople friends!

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MRS.CARLY 6/9/2012 7:53AM

    I don't feel that Sparkpeople is enough to hold ME accountable. I notice that I am doing better sending my daily logs to that nutritionist/fitness model, natalie jill that I paid for. I only have her for a month, but it is long enough to get my habits started. LIKE her on facebook and see her testimonials. I paid for the jumpstart plan. I can send it to you via email if you would like to check out that plan, see if that is something you wanna try!

Honestly I Post my daily food logs and exercise in my blogs mainly because I want a place to reference in the future. If I ever fall of my diet again and not sure where to turn, I can go back adn reread those blogs and get back on THAT plan.

Of course it is nice to get responses from folks, but I think they just wanna cheer me on and are not gonna fuss at me if I don't do that well! They are too sweet for that!

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