Do YOU blog about your journey?

 

Blogging is cathartic.  It can help you immensely in your post weight loss surgery journey -- and keep you accountable when you'd rather just quit.

Do you blog?

I need some new reads.  I've been digging in the Google and my RSS Reader and realize that many of the blogs have all but shriveled UP.

LINK YOUR WLS-RELATED BLOG!  I wanna see!

 I know I already sent you the link on Twitter, but thought I'd post it here again...in case anyone else wants to check it out.  I'm 18 days pre-op and have already been blogging.  It really is therapeutic!  So for any that want to check it out, clicky here: The Bariatric Goddess

 Social media stalker.

Heh.

I opened your link again - I want to learn how to make the "Grab This" blog codes like you have -- Typepad doesn't have the option to add code without MAKING the HTML live.

 Stalkers make you feel loved, right? :D  

I'm sorry but I don't speak Typepad, and I only understand a teeny bit about HTML.  I hope you can get it to work.   If so I'll had your button to my page.

 It worked!  Well, I can't get the HTML to stick here -- I can email it.

 I was blogging for a while then got really busy. I just started blogging again...
I am now 15 months (almost 16 ) post op there have been alot of changes... 

 

It happens.  The whole cyclic need to GET STUFF OUT and then... quiet....

 this is true... now its more about wanting to support others and help them deal with what they are going through. Wanting to give something back...

Mine tends to come in cycles as well. You seem to be one of the most consistant bloggers. So how do u stay motivated?

 Maria --

I have been writing blog posts since 2004 -- and pretty much every day since 2008.  I'd like to say it was motivation, but honestly a lot of it comes from necessity to keep my head out of the fridge (or the oven, depending on the day... just sayin') and out of my own way.  

Initially it was because I was home all day everyday after I lost my ability to drive.  I got bored and had to do something -- I just amped up what I was already doing -- writing.  I never planned to blog long-term, I figured I would go back to work after a few months of seizure-control but it just hasn't happened.  I wish I had a better answer for you.  

I do wonder if I would bother blogging at all/so much if I got a Big Girl Job... probably not.  But I'm currently in college, and I'm not really qualified to work anywhere and earn better than I can do from home, yet.  I don't know what I want to be when I grow up - nor do I know when I will be able to work outside of the house.  Maybe never, maybe I'm destined to work for myself ...