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Can Blogging Help You Lose Weight?

Posted June 18, 2008 at 01:30 PM by Megan Hueter

Section: In The News, His Health, Physical Health, His Nutrition, Healthy Eating, Diets

blogging Apparently so.

Recently, the Washington Post Lean Plate Club published a blog that highlights the encouragement blogging can provide when attempting to lose weight. For example, Fat Guy Rob Cooper (now known as Former Fat Guy) lost 300 pounds. Also, Shauna Reid lost 350 pounds through Weight Watchers, created The Amazing Adventures of DietGirl, a then-anonymous blog about her personal odyssey to reach a healthier weight.

At the age of 27, Gerry Pugliese landed a job writing about health, diet and fitness for a blog publisher, Joel Fuhrman from Disease Proof. Since he started the regimen (including a daily food dairy) in 2007, he has lost 60 pounds and now does yoga, lifts weights and trains for 5K runs. Deborah Kosnett started a blog, Drop the Fork, after she reached her Weight Watchers goal.

So, if you’re thinking of making a commitment to drop the weight, maybe starting a blog isn’t such a bad idea. Sometimes all we need is a little encouragement from some strangers.

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3 Responses to “Can Blogging Help You Lose Weight?” (Leave a reply)

best pills 4 weight loss said:

I think Rob Copper has already lost his weight before he started his blog. He then created that blog to encourage people with his success story. Nice experience though (by Rob Cooper)
June 24, 2008 at 03:01 AM
dr. in weight loss products said:

Shauna Reid and Rob Copper are such inspirational but agree with best pills 4 weight loss, they already lost weight before they started the blogs. I think they lied if they claimed they lost weight just because they were blogging.
June 24, 2008 at 03:04 AM
Rob - Former Fat Guy from Edmonton, .AB, Canada said:

Yes, I created the blog after I lost the weight, and the blog was in 2004, a full 9 years after I started the website in the first place.

Initially it was just a website where I was posting my pictures because nobody believed I lost 300 pounds.

Then it became a place where I began to chronicle the things I was learning and wanted to pass along in regards to natural health and natural weight loss.

The blog was started quite innocently, when the technology became available. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it, it just started.

Since then, I’ve been in Mens Health magazine and quoted by the New York Times.

Just last week, I was interviewed for a piece in Mens Fitness magazine.

The Washington Post piece quoted here asked for no input from me and I was not interviewed.

The piece they did, the did with their own research.

so, Diet Pills guy is right and Dr In Weight Loss Products (doesn’t anyone use their real names anymore? or are people just looking for key word phrases?) - I most certainly did not lie. I wasn’t even asked.

There you have it.
July 3, 2008 at 12:37 AM