Online Support System

January 15, 2010 @ 01:59 pm

So my last post was a downer. It's important to process those kinds of feelings and I reserve the right to whine and moan in copious quantities for months to come, but I didn't want to leave the day with that sitting at the top of my newly revitalized blog. Because, ew.

The fact is I do feel lonely in this journey. For a variety of reasons I don't share my journey with people I know in New York - I'll talk more about that later - and so I don't really have a weight loss buddy, work-out partner, or whatever. And that's fine, I'm a solo kind of person anyway (introvert = getting energy from "alone time"). But I do recognize the importance of community and support and over the last several days I've been getting my feet wet with a newfound extended network of people on Twitter.

Most of them don't know who I am and we've not talked, and that's okay, because just reading the tweets that have been coming across has been uplifting. These are some of the most thoughtful and committed weight loss bloggers I've gotten to read over the last few years of doing this. And though I've been kind of down since 2010 started, it's been a real encouragement to know there are nice people, out there, twittering and blogging their way down a similar road. So even if I never get to know them or chat with them and they're always an @ symbol with a screen name, they still have been helpful in getting back on my oh-so-broken horse.

So thanks. :)

(and most of them are linked on the home page, btw, so you can find cool new people too).

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