{"id":1994,"date":"2010-05-20T10:32:05","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredtenpounds.wordpress.com\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2010-05-20T10:32:05","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T17:32:05","slug":"what-kind-of-blog-is-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Blog is This?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started writing this blog back in February it was really just an exercise in getting my thoughts out and sharing my story. I had already lost all the weight. I wasn&#8217;t interested in documenting my weekly weigh-ins or sharing my milestones.<\/p>\n<p>When I first started reading other blogs, I realized there was another &#8220;world&#8221; out there of bloggers who documented their food! Being new to the community, I thought that was what I &#8220;should&#8221; do. I started taking pictures of my food (to the great annoyance of my supportive BF \ud83d\ude42 ) but I quickly realized a few things:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993366;\">\u2666I eat really boring food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993366;\">\u2666I eat the same food for weeks on end. Seriously. Michael and I are happy campers to eat scrambled eggs for breakfast every day. \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993366;\">\u2666I do not like cooking. I like cooking with Michael but really, I just do the prepping, the chopping, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993366;\">\u2666I don&#8217;t have any creativity when it comes to cooking. I wish I did. I wish I could think up recipes, or figure out substitutes for ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So in the last few weeks the food pictures have dwindled a bit and I now only take photos of dinner usually. That&#8217;s because dinner is usually varied night to night (unlike breakfast which is the same thing every day). I realized that I was bored writing about the same food&#8211;and knew that meant people would be bored reading about the same food.<\/p>\n<p>That left me wondering, what kind of blog is this?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollabackhealth.com\/2010\/05\/defining-yourself-in-the-blog-world\/\">Hollaback Health <\/a>posted an article recently about defining your blog. I found it an interesting read because of the things I stated above. So where does my blog fall in the spectrum of &#8220;Fit Blogs&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I think my blog is different for a lot of reasons. To name just a few:<\/p>\n<p>1. I lost the weight on my own, with counting calories, exercising, and no &#8220;program.&#8221; I think this can appeal to a wider audience who maybe can&#8217;t afford to do Weight Watchers\/Jenny Craig\/join a gym, etc.<\/p>\n<p>2. I am interested in different kinds of exercise. Not a runner? That&#8217;s okay&#8211;I write a lot about my hikes, biking adventures, my swimming routine, and also running. I was apparently Cross-Training and not even aware of it!<\/p>\n<p>Still, I don&#8217;t know how to define my blog.<\/p>\n<p>The way my blog is evolving lately, it&#8217;s becoming more about the events I&#8217;m training for and participating in. Reach the Beach, Hood to Coast, and previously: Run Like Hell and the Shamrock Run. I love sharing my hiking adventures, and I&#8217;m learning to look at food as FUEL in order to do these things.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>QUESTION: If you have a blog, do you feel like you need to define it? Or do you just write what you feel?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first started writing this blog back in February it was really just an exercise in getting my thoughts out and sharing my story. I had already lost all the weight. 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