Helping Both Your Body and Your Blog Develop Muscles

Sometime this past spring the Fitbloggin’11 Conference came across my radar screen. I was curious about it. The name told me that it included two things I care about … fitness and blogging.

'Rosie the Blogger' photo (c) 2007, Mike Licht - license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/

I wondered if I would fit the desired attendee. I’m not exactly a fitness blogger … sure I blog about some things related to fitness and healthy eating and some of my own journey about being fit, but I also blog about guilt on Mother’s Day, Dr. Oz’s Commencement Address, street corner preachers, giving love not reasons, not being a jerk and I do book reviews.

But I found myself back on the Fitbloggin’11 site more than once, looking over the schedule of great classes and workshops.

Then one happy day I came across Attune Foods website and they were giving away a ticket to Fitbloggin’ plus $500 to use toward travel expenses. I wrote a short essay about my story and a few days later I checked their blog and found this …

Drumroll, please …

The winner is Janet Oberholtzer.

A number of happy dances followed and in May, I headed to the beautiful city of Baltimore. I saw, I learned, I made friends, I ran a 5K and I learned about both fitness and about blogging. I discovered new ways for both my body and my blog to develop more muscle. Thanks to Matt from No Meat Athlete I’m finally understanding terms like SEO and anchor text. And there was no need to worry about whether or not Fitbloggin’ was for me … I loved everything about it.

With many conferences, I come home and forget too much of what I’ve learned, but there was something about Fitbloggin’ that was different. I’m benefiting longterm more from Fitbloggin’ than I do from most conferences.

Today I’m happy to share some positive chances since Fitbloggin’ in a …

guest post at Attune Foods!

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7 Benefits Affecting My Life 7 Weeks After FitBloggin’ 11.

Head over there to read it and then poke around on their site for some great information about health/diet/digestion and to see what products they have to assist you in eating well. (which includes healthy chocolate bars!)

Other guest posts I have done:
Painful but Possible: A Story of Perseverance at Jeff Goins
Word by Word at Shawn Smucker
It all Started with a Book, a Blanket and a Flashlight at Andi lit
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  • Barbaranne Kelly

    You haven’t forgotten what you learned there because you’ve been using and sharing it- and that’s the best way to retain new knowledge.  Use it or lose it!  I’m heading over to Attune Foods to read your post and poke around a bit.  Today, after all, is a good day to catch up on blog reading and writing… 

    • http://www.JanetOberholtzer.com Janet Oberholtzer

      Good point BA … I didn’t even think of that, but sharing what we learned is the best way to remember it, so I’ll chat away :)