Day 4 – Sunday, Nov. 4
Writing Prompts: Disclosure post. How did you decide what to share? What do/don’t you share? OR Write about what’s in your bag / purse / backpack every day
I don’t think anyone is really interested in the contents of my bag or purse, so I’m skipping that one.
Disclosure. Ahh. Well, in the interest of full disclosure I’m going to disclose that I don’t disclose everything. I’ll be honest. Sometimes when I am making poor choices regarding my health, I don’t write about it. Instead I just won’t say anything, often until after I’ve “recovered” myself and then I might write about it retrospectively.
It’s hard to write about things we don’t feel good about, especially when we are in the midst of doing them. It’s so much easier to write about crossing the finish lane of a race, than writing “I’m lying on the couch watching multiple episodes of Breaking Bad on Netflix.” It’s easier to blog about a great healthy recipe than “I just snarfed down half a jar of peanut butter.” Right?
There was a period of time when I was taking pictures of, and then blogging, every single thing I ate. This went on for a few months. I have to say, it was probably one of the healthiest periods of my life. Because I was committed to one hundred percent full disclosure. I didn’t eat mass quantities of peanut butter or chocolate because I knew that if I did, I was going to have to broadcast it visually throughout the internet. So it gave me pause, and made me really fully consider all of my choices. It made me think, Do I want to share this bite/plate/meal with the world? And if I didn’t feel good about that, I didn’t eat it.
Looking back on it, maybe I need to take up that practice again. It was a good one, and I learned a lot from it. Because it’s in periods of “hiding” that I tend to do things I don’t feel good about.
Here’s to writing more from the shadows….
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November 4, 2012 at 3:28 pm
great post Susan, and thanks for mentioning my blog alongside Sam’s. Very kind of you. I really agree, the more I share the more I am likely to maintain my integrity around food and indeed other aspects of life. I am a firm believer in the power of communication, what we put out there becomes our reality, when we keep quiet about things that’s when we are more likely to go off our intended path. I love the idea of posting every single thing you eat, I am very good at sharing my virtuous breakfast, lunches and dinners but if I have a cheeky choccy snack or cake I’m less likely to say anything. Food for thought! Yay for #NHBPM, new connections and lots of sharing. 🙂
November 4, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Susan, you have given me a lot of food for thought. While I manage to do great with my eating (i.e. sticking to my nutrition plan) during the week, I go off the rails on the weekends. I am thinking that if I blogged every bite I ate on the weekends, it might be the jumpstart I need to finally clean up my weekend eats and bust past my plateau.
November 5, 2012 at 10:07 am
I really love this post Susan. It really is true that we are somehow programmed to announce all of the things we’re doing that are “good” for us and to hide the things we do that aren’t “healthy” especially as health and wellness bloggers. But the irony of the whole thing is the more we reveal the truth and push ourselves to be honest about all of our days, the more we can help because we all have an ebb and a flow to our days. Revealing our humanity about it means we can all help each other, just like you said.
I didn’t realize that NaBloPoMo was and organized thing with WegoHealth. I’m doing my own blog everyday in November as a personal goal, but that’s very cool!