{"id":19320,"date":"2010-04-11T01:01:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T06:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=19320"},"modified":"2010-04-09T10:24:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T15:24:35","slug":"how-to-start-a-healthy-living-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/how-to-start-a-healthy-living-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Start a Healthy Living Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Guest blogger, Jennette Fulda<\/p><\/div>\n

Guest blogger Jennette Fulda is the author of “Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir,” which chronicles her 200 pound weight loss, as well as the forthcoming “Chocolate and Vicodin: My quest for relief from the headache that wouldn’t go away.” She blogs at PastaQuee<\/a><\/em>n<\/a> and designs web sites at <\/em>Make My Blog Pretty<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you’ve probably tried the usual tricks like eating less and moving more, but have you tried blogging?<\/p>\n

Typing doesn’t burn many calories, but blogging can provide accountability and support, which are a helpful part of any weight-loss plan.<\/p>\n

Here are some tips for how to become involved in the healthy living blogosphere:<\/p>\n

1) Lurk before you blog.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Start by reading other healthy living blogs. Not only are they inspirational, they’ll give you a sense of what you’d like your own blog to be like. Some bloggers give detailed accounts of their diet and exercise plans, while others delve into emotional eating<\/a>. Foodies like to take photos of their healthy meals and often share recipes. You can find a directory of healthy living bloggers at sites like Blog To Lose or Fat Fighter Blogs, though the latter hasn’t been updated recently. Most blogs feature a blogroll, which is a list of other blogs they recommend, which can send you clicking for hours.<\/p>\n

Check bloggers’ Twitter pages to see if they’ve created lists of other healthy living bloggers for you to peruse.<\/p>\n

2) Sign up for your own site. It’s free!<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you can type and click a mouse button, you can start a blog. Popular services like Blogger and WordPress make it easy to set up a site within minutes. You can personalize your blog by choosing from dozens of templates and widgets. Try to update your blog at least once a week, and more often if you like. Your blog is like a house plant, it needs care and attention to thrive. And like your healthy living plan, it requires dedication over a period of time to see results.<\/p>\n

3) No blog is an island. Participate in the healthy living blogosphere.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Start commenting on your favorite blogs and leave a link back to your own site in the appropriate field. Sooner or later those bloggers or their readers will start stopping by your site. Many bloggers are on Twitter<\/a> and enjoy interacting with their readers, so join the conversation there, too. If you visit weight loss forums on sites like SparkPeople<\/a>, leave your blog address in your signature. Once you’ve made some friends, you might even arrange to meet in person at local sporting events or national conferences like FitBloggin’<\/a> or BlogHer.<\/p>\n

So, what are you waiting for? There is an active community of active people out there waiting for you to join them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogger Jennette Fulda is the author of “Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir,” which chronicles her 200 pound weight loss, as well as the forthcoming “Chocolate and Vicodin: My quest for relief from the headache that wouldn’t go away.” She blogs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[23,22,3255,29],"class_list":["post-19320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-guest-blog","tag-healthy-lifestyle","tag-jennette-fulda","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19320"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19323,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19320\/revisions\/19323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}