I used to blog, but I too approached it more in the way that you did at the beginning. Then grad school came and took over my life. But I have this deep hope that one day I can have a blog again, one that I can invest in, pour into, and be myself on. That season is not here yet. Sometimes I’m sad because the blogging world keeps breathing as I’m taking my “time out”. However, I do enjoy following blogs. It’s probably one of my biggest hobbies.

I read through most of your blog about the time you starting talking this last update to your website. I found it instrumental in an attempt at trying out a 6 day/week vegan diet that lasted roughly 2.5 months. During that time I lost 30lbs, and have never felt better. In all honesty I am trying to figure out why I can’t recapture the magic that let me do it before. With your blog in the matter of a few weeks I was able to change from a very meat centric diet to a plant based diet that I really enjoyed.

I watched Forks Over Knives with my girlfriend (who had been a vegetarian for a 2 year stint previously, but never made it to vegan) and then looked around the web and found your blog. It gave the information and the motivation to try out a vegan diet, not just vegan, but the whole foods vegan that McDougal and other MDs like him recommend.

I, for one, am glad you blog. Being a 20-something male with no interest in children of his own (but perhaps interest in adopting at some point in the future) I don’t relate well to the motherhood posts, but I enjoyed the wealth of information and the passion you’ve shared in your blog.

That said, I’ve also learned to put my blog in context. I adore CR and it animates everything about my life: I blog almost every day, and I love every second of the process. But the truth is that I’m not a full time blogger, not even close: I’m a full time pre-med, and school supersedes everything. I’m also a hospital volunteer, a part time researcher, and a person with personal passions, like yoga. I put all of my honesty and heart into every post, but there are a certain number of hours a day I can’t devote to the blog, which means photos are usually pretty average, food isn’t styled, and I can’t comment nearly as much as I wish I can. I used to feel a lot of tension and stress about this — never feeling like my blog measured up — but now I just relax, enjoy every word, and also recognize that I’m doing the best I can in the context of my own life.

Which is all to say, I agree with your husband’s sentiment about being yourself. Wise words