To Weight or Not to Weight
There was an interesting topic on Food Food Body Body the other week that I thought would be of interest to my friends here as well, and it’s on the subject of whether or not you use your real weight on your website/blog or not.
I guess I kind of tread the line when it comes to using real weight and not revealing the numbers.
Sometimes I wonder about whether I should reveal my real weight at all because I know people I know in person could easily (or have already) find this blog. Do I really want them to know?
I can understand why other people wouldn’t want the people in their lives knowing, but I am okay with that – keeping in mind how much I do/don’t post my real weight these days. I can’t exactly hide the fact that I’m overweight, so it doesn’t make much difference to me if people know *how* overweight I am.
If anything, revealing that I am trying to lose weight has garnered me support from some unexpected places.
I think it is wonderful when people use their real weights because I think there is a freedom in doing so. However, I know personally what it’s like to post your weight when you have gained or there is a stall in the weight loss. It’s almost like pouring lemon juice in a wound to have to do that.
In the end, I don’t care what anyone does. I just love reading blogs about people who are getting healthy.
June 17th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Well, no mystery on mine. I’ve posted my feet on the scale with the number visible.
I tried to just post pounds lost when I first started my blog, but could never remember what my weight was the week before since it was a different number every day! 
I finally came to the realization that it’s just a number. It’s not who I am.
June 17th, 2009 at 4:51 am
I agree! I don’t really care what other people do. It just never occurred to me not to put mine there, along with my real name and my face… But as I told Foody McBody, I think it has a lot to do with the fact that I’ve never going to run for public office, or return to the corporate world, where people might want to google me. This is me, warts and all, and one day I’m sure my weight loss story will be an inspiration for someone else who is starting at the same unenviable place.
June 20th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
I’d like to do videos eventually, but I have to figure out how to do it…