Hello pals buckle up and seize your self a comfy drink, as a result of I’ve a giant (and fairly wordy) announcement to share with you right now.

Earlier than we bounce in, it bears mentioning simply what number of instances I’ve gone backwards and forwards with this choice. How can we ever know we’re making the proper selection? What I’ve decided is that, truthfully, we don’t. However we can keep in mind that selections don’t need to be eternally. We are able to change our minds if we wish to. It’s okay both means.

So, with that in thoughts – let’s do that.

The massive information: I’ve determined that after 15 years (!) of writing for fANNEtastic meals, it’s time for me to hold up my running a blog hat. This shall be my final weblog submit. (For now? Perpetually? I do not know.)

The excellent news: I’m not deleting the weblog (truthfully, I couldn’t bear to do this – it has a lot of my on it, and likewise so many recipes we use ourselves!). So which means that all of the recipes you utilize and , and all of the outdated way of life/journey/marathon coaching and race recap/and so on. posts that you simply may wish to look again on will stay right here the they’ve all the time been.

The opposite excellent news: When you’re right here for the recipes (slightly than/along with the approach to life content material), my e mail e-newsletter will proceed to exit (ish), that includes seasonal recipes from the archives.

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You’ll additionally see an choice on the subscription kind to pick “lifestyle-related updates.” It is a new e mail record I’m beginning for these of you who may like to listen to what’s subsequent for me (sooner or later, I imply – proper now, I do not know!). For that record, you’ll solely hear from me if/when I’ve an replace to share.

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Why cease running a blog? Why now?

The quick model is I’m prepared for one thing new professionally. I do not know what it’s, however I’m working with a coach to assist me determine it out, and I would like/must unencumber some psychological and logistical area with the intention to decide what my subsequent transfer is.

Need the lengthy model? Yeah, me too, all the time. 🙂

I began this weblog again in 2009, which truthfully looks like many lifetimes in the past (not stunning, because it was). The weblog world was fully totally different, and I used to be additionally a totally totally different particular person. I used to be 27 years outdated, single, no children, working half time as an editor and taking stipulations to return to grad college to turn out to be a Dietitian.

I had boundless vitality and tons of ardour round diet and recipes, too. I posted 7 every week and in some way by no means ran out of concepts or issues to say. I beloved getting actually artistic and foolish with posts, testing recipes in a brilliant non-scientific and largely simply enjoyable means, and taking photographs of mentioned recipes that didn’t need to be excellent/tremendous fancy.

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I used to be additionally coaching for my first longer working races and sharing my journey in difficult myself bodily on the weblog, run by run, and race by race. I ran my first 10 miler, after which my first half marathon (nonetheless can’t imagine I completed that one, tbh), after which just a few years later my first full marathon.

Readers have been actually enthusiastic about blogs in these days. Feedback got here flying in and I used to be capable of have interaction with you in a really actual, tangible means. We constructed a real neighborhood round my phrases – one thing that also astounds and humbles me, even now. It was so extremely enjoyable – and greater than that, it was extremely rewarding to attach with you, to study your lives, to search out frequent floor and coaching buddies and kind real friendships by this , nebulous factor known as The Web.

The Web felt totally different again then – much more type. I felt so related to folks I’d by no means met in particular person, and would regularly meet up with weblog readers and fellow bloggers and turn out to be actual life pals, too.

I really feel lucky to say that it was like this for a few years. If I needed to slim it down additional, I’d most likely say the years 2013-2016 have been most likely amongst my absolute favourite running a blog years. I had graduated with my Masters of Public Well being in Diet and handed the nationwide examination to formally turn out to be a Registered Dietitian after years and years of onerous work.

I used to be happening tons of press journeys, working a lot of races, talking at conferences, doing a whole lot of sponsored partnerships, and dealing with a full diet teaching shopper load. It was tremendous, tremendous busy (trying again at my outdated paper from these days I’m like, WTAF), however all very energizing. 

Lately, although, I’ve struggled to search out my place within the weblog world. A whole lot of the extra informal kind weblog content material has moved over to social media, which was by no means actually my factor as I like lengthy kind writing vs. quick kind writing or being a video producer.

I’ve additionally discovered spending time on social media isn’t nice for my psychological well being, so I’ve been actually intentional about limiting my time there, particularly prior to now couple years. It’s unlucky although as that’s the principle place the place the reader neighborhood engages as of late, vs. within the feedback part of blogs. (Which I perceive, as most individuals learn on their telephones now and commenting on a weblog in your telephone is form of annoying…)

To be sincere, I’ve additionally misplaced a whole lot of the fervour I used to have for cooking and diet, notably since having children. Meals has turn out to be increasingly more one thing that must be fast and simple, and I simply don’t have the time or curiosity I used to need to mess around within the kitchen and benefit from the recipe testing course of. Which, ya know, is form of an issue when you may have a meals weblog. 😉

I’m additionally not in a life part the place I’ve the capability (bodily or logistically) to coach for longer working races. I nonetheless love working and figuring out, and prioritize health for my very own psychological well being, however as of late it matches my life finest to stay with studio courses (yoga and pilates) and quick, social runs. And that doesn’t precisely make for attention-grabbing weblog content material when my exercises are just about the identical each week.

Plus, the older the children have gotten, the much less I’ve felt snug sharing their lives, photos of them, or what we’re as much as collectively, and I’ve struggled to determine easy methods to write about my life with out writing about theirs. Truthfully, it’s inconceivable, as a result of they’re in fact woven into the whole lot. It’s left me much more cautious right here than I was, and increasingly more like I don’t have something attention-grabbing left to say or share with readers, in addition to being form of burned out/uninterested in sharing my life on-line generally.

I’m truthfully unsure why I’ve held on for thus lengthy. It’s bizarre, as a result of although I knew I wouldn’t maintain running a blog eternally, I by no means actually had an finish recreation for myself. I’ve thought of ending the weblog for years however all the time stopped myself from critically contemplating it as a result of it simply felt foolish and even egocentric to throw away this enterprise that I’ve spent so a few years constructing and investing in, and that I do know I’ve been so extremely lucky to have.

I imply, except about 5 years working in PR, the overwhelming majority of my complete grownup profession has been very interwoven with the weblog. What would I do as a substitute? Who am I with out this factor that has been a giant a part of my identification for thus lengthy?

However I’ve been realizing increasingly more currently that the model of this profession that I’ve been holding on to is a model that truly doesn’t exist anymore. It’s the model of running a blog that I used to be doing within the /mid 2010’s, and the neighborhood and pleasure round it. It’s one thing that I received’t get again regardless of how a lot I strive new issues, rent new technique groups and contractors like I’ve tried, and so on. and so on. Plus, I’ve simply modified. I’m not the identical particular person I used to be within the early years of the weblog, and that’s okay.

Sooner or later a couple of month in the past, I used to be in savasana on the finish of a yoga class, and for no matter cause I let my thoughts wander down the trail of really ending the weblog. Like, what wouldn’t it appear to be? What steps would I must take, and who have been all of the folks I’d want to inform and the providers I’d must cancel? It introduced up an enormous nicely of grief in me, but in addition a whole lot of reduction – and that feeling of reduction that I seen was what had me understand that it was lastly time to let go.

After I acquired house from that class, I spent a while texting with shut pals, and likewise speaking all of it by (very tearfully) with Matt. And inside an hour, I had made the choice. I wished to go forward and publish the remaining content material that I had already deliberate/within the works, however after that, I used to be carried out. After years of waffling, it was actually time to maneuver on.

I wish to thanks from the underside of my coronary heart for studying my weblog. Particularly these of you who’ve been right here because the starting. I can’t thanks sufficient for sharing in my (and finally, my entire household’s) journey all these years. Each time you tried one in all my recipes, took the time to depart a remark, forwarded my weblog on to your folks or members of the family, or just quietly shared in my adventures, it meant a lot to me to have you ever right here alongside for the trip.

Thanks, actually, for making my dream of incomes a dwelling by writing on-line a actuality. I wouldn’t have been capable of do it with out you, or with out the various fellow bloggers who’ve helped me alongside the best way by sharing assets, concepts, contacts, and fervour/pleasure. I’ve made some actually good pals by running a blog who I do know will stay good pals no matter whether or not I’m nonetheless running a blog, and I’m so grateful for that!

And as for what’s subsequent – I’m as excited to search out out as you’re.

Goodbye for now,



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