Interesting article from the NY Times from 2003 on Diet Blogs

Puts this site in perspective... and how much work goes into it!
--amanda911

August 25, 2003
Finding Comfort in Strangers With an Online Diet Journal
By AMY HARMON

From her starting weight of 182 pounds, Jennifer Hardesty, 5 feet 2 inches tall, faithfully recorded her daily weight-loss battles down to 140 in an online diary that attracted an audience of hundreds of strangers a day.

When she abruptly stopped posting last month — still 15 pounds from her goal — Ms. Hardesty's readers, who know her by only her World Wide Web pseudonym, were dismayed. Several sent inquiring e-mail messages. "Where have you gone?" one reader demanded.

The prodding was just what Ms. Hardesty, 32, of Metairie, La., was counting on. She had regained a few pounds, she finally admitted on her Web log. "Sadly, there have been deli muffins," she wrote in a recent posting. "It's time to get back on track."

In one of the most personal genres to emerge from the online journal format known as Web logs or blogs, hundreds of overweight women — and some men — are sharing detailed reports of their calories and cravings on self-created sites like Tales of a Bathroom Scale, Pound and the Fat Diaries.

At a time when more than a third of Americans are trying low-carb diets, low-fat diets, and everything in between — almost all without lasting success — Web journals have come to serve as an unlikely grass-roots support system, especially for the severely overweight. Their collective readership appears to number in the tens of thousands.

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