Thanks so much for all of you well wishes following my post about my trip to the emergency room on Saturday night. It was definitely an unnerving experience, but I’m glad it wasn’t any worse. After resting most of the day yesterday, I am feeling much better today!
Workout
My Monday began as usual with an early morning workout that focused on my legs. I kept cardio on the lighter side and completed a 10 minute elliptical warm up and cool down.
The lower body strength portion of my workout included squats, dead lifts, lunges, leg extensions and hamstring stability ball curls. It was a good one!
I will be heading back to the gym as soon as this blog post is published for work. I am subbing for another group exercise instructor today and hope it goes well!
Breakfast
The highlight of my morning meal was almond butter!
Last night I prepped a bowl of overnight oats and stirred a small spoonful of almond butter into the mix. This morning, I added another scoop on top and loved the addition of the creamy nut butter!
Nice and filling!
Now it’s time for a fun giveaway for those of you out there who may be interested in starting your own blog!
Start Blogging Now
Every single day, I receive emails from people who want to begin blogging but don’t know where to start. They’re excited, enthusiastic and completely overwhelmed. I typed up my Blog Talk Tuesdays series to help address the most common questions I receive, but when it comes to coding and all that jazz, most questions are way over my head.
When my friend and go-to web guy, Tim, emailed me about his new business, I knew I want to help spread the word. Tim is so, so knowledgeable and explains things in a way that makes them easy to understand which, as someone who is extremely intimidated by html coding and website set up, I really appreciate!
Tim recently launched Start Blogging Now, a six-week program detailing everything you need to know about setting up a blog, self-hosting, great plug-ins, high-quality themes, SEO, social media and more.
Each week there will be an in-depth video for participants to download and watch at their own pace or as often as needed. In addition, there will be written instructions, helpful links, and any necessary files that may be needed.
Here are the topics for each week:
The program also includes a weekly conference call to answer any lingering questions.
For the first 100 people who sign up, the program is $70, 50 percent off the normal enrollment price of $140. Tim also offers a 30-day money back guarantee, so if you are not satisfied halfway through the course, you can request a refund.
The first session will begin on August 1 and one PBF reader will win free access to the program!
To enter this giveaway, simply comment below, telling me what excites you the most about blogging. I will randomly select a winner on Tuesday.
Good luck!
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I use to blog two years ago and quit after my dad passed away suddenly. After having my baby (whose now nine months old) I feel that urge again, but a LOT has changed in the tech world and its so overwhelming!
Glad you are feeling better! Very scary for you I’m sure!
I just started blogging and could use all the help I can get! I’m curious about all of the fancy stuff full-time bloggers use. Right now I have an average of four readers… I think… so I could use a crash course!
Meeting people is a reason I’d want to start a blog! As well as knowing more about these new-fangled compter-izers! :0)
What excites me most about blogging is having a creative outlet to express all of my non-work interests. Great giveaway! I have been blogging on and off for about 6 months now but could DEFINITELY use some improvement.
I have a blog but Im really interested to learn about self hosting, plugins, and anything apart from the basic write and tag a post using wordpress tools.
What excites me most about blogging is sharing my thoughts and experiences, as well as hearing feedback from readers. I also think the blogging events you attend seem so amazing!
I randomly started a blog more for my own use than anything else. I just needed an outlet to get things out of my head and to express myself a bit more creatively than my day job allows me to. I update is every so often, whenever something pops into my head – but I’ve only toyed with the idea of making it into a “real” blog. It’s the most basic format that I could find on Blogger and doesn’t have any bells or whistles, save for the occasional link or image. So I’d really love to learn more about what goes on behind the scenes and would go into making my baby blog a full-fledged adult blog.
What excites me the most about blogging is the chance to become location independent. My dream is to travel all over the world while sharing my adventures & supporting myself through freelance work.
Blogging to me is an awesome way of doing what you love and sharing it with the rest of the world.
For me, the exciting part about blogging is the blogger community.
What excites me most about blogging is being able to express myself and share what I care about with others. I find it to also be a great outlet for relieving stress and relaxing. In my downtown I love to read blogs, like this one!
It would definitely be a perk to know the more advanced techniques of blogging!
What excites me most about blogging is possibly inspiring others. You and so many other bloggers have inspired me to live a healthier lifestyle and I hope that by joining the community I can follow in those foot steps! Thanks!
The best thing about reading others blogs that have told you about their experiences. It lets you know you aren’t the only one and others have gone through it too.
You use the same “creamy nut butter” line every time you describe it.
What excites me the most about blogging is being a part of a creative, blogging community.
What excited me most about blogging is doing something I love to do.
What excites me most about blogging is learning more about others!
I am most excited to start blogging so that I have a way to easily share pictures and updates of my newborn with family and friends!
As a young audiologist, what excites me most about blogging is getting to share and spread awareness of hearing health and what people can do NOW while they still have good hearing to maintain good hearing health. (And how it’s connected to other healthy body functions ..etc.)
I’ve always wanted to start blogging. I would love to create a blog that is a space for me to share my life so that I can revisit it later, but also can be a place where others can learn something new or relate to my experiences.
I get really excited about helping people. I am studying to become a hollistic nutritionist, and have found that providing a place where people can come and learn how to change their lives is overwhelmingly rewarding. I love creating new recipes and ideas, and providing healthy substitutions for “indulgent” foods. It is also exciting to find your own voice. I love that my new blog is a place where I can really be me.
it is just awesome.
Well, I already have a blog on sparkpeople.com but that one only members can comment on it and so it’s not exactly what I want. I want to start my own blog on wordpress so that I can share my weight loss (I’ve lost 38 pounds so far, had lost 48 but gained back 10), keep me accountable, and just share my healthy living enthusiasm with the world! I will be starting a healthy living/ weight loss blog eventually no matter what but I do feel a bit overwhelmed with the whole process. That is the main reason I have not started one yet.
I am currently finishing school to get my degree in Nutrition Communications. My long term goal is to be self employed doing freelance writing for fitness websites and magazines. I really need and want a blog to be able to have articles I’ve written on there for the public as well as to reference potential clients and business partners too. This would be an amazing opportunity (: and it would really help get my career and life in swing!!!
This is such an awesome program! Lack of technology knowledge definitely keeps me from starting up my wedding blog again… it’s so intimidating!
Although I’ve already started my blog, I still feel like I’m at a loss! I would feel so much better having some guidance and training to really get into it. I’m excited to share my life with my family and friends but I would also like to be an encouragement to other young women.
This is a great resource (as are your Blog Talk Tuesday posts!). My SEO stinkkkkkkkkks – I need to work on that. Maybe Tim can help? 😉
I really would like to learn how I can get my blog updated, looking sexxxy, and out in the public. It’s definitely hard to keep up with!
What excites me most with blogging is connecting with other bloggers! Where I live, the quiet/snowbird capital of FL, lol, it is a rarity to see anyone close in age interested in the same things as me! However, when I come home, I can read and share stories with people all over and feel connected 🙂
So cool! My sister and I put a blog together a few weeks ago – not really sure what we are doing. This course would be great! We would love to get this off the ground on the right foot!
The most exciting thing about blogging is the opportunity to become a part of someone’s daily routine. You become the voice they follow for everything from fitness to books to cooking.
I come to your site for workout tips and cooking daily!
I manage a blog that does fairly well, but I’d LOVE to learn more and this sounds like the perfect opportunity.
What excites me most about blogging? Connecting with people! I love finding new recipes to try, workouts to do, books to read, ect. through blogs. Blogging is like having a best friend that is interested in all of the same hobbies as you and is always ready with a new recommendation. I get to read ideas and opinions from people that I never would have met otherwise. I love reading blogs and I would really like some help starting one myself!
What excites me most about blogging is the amount of creativity I can use, however I want, day in and day out.
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog for a while now, especially because I’m having a baby soon and I’ve loved other people’s “how to deal with a new baby and regain your previous fitness level” blogs. This is kind of the perfect time to start, and I think this would give me the tools I need to be able to just do it!
What it excites me most about the thought of having a blog is being able to share my ideas on how to renovate and re-purpose things into useful beautiful items. Just need to get started!
Oh no! I’m so sorry you ended up in the ER. What an awesome giveaway! What excites me most about blogging is the awesome community of bloggers out there and meeting/interacting with new bloggers and reading their stories and perspectives on things. I love how I may see something one way and someone else will look at it and see it completely differently.
I would LOVE to win this! I’ve been on a weight loss and fitness journey for the last few years and I think blogging would provide such a supportive and motivating community for me to become a part of. I would love to share my ups and downs with people as well as hear about theirs!
Is it wrong to say I am most excited to start blogging so I can share photos of my dog and my favorite chocolate/peanut butter/coffee smoothie?
I just graduated college, and I want to start a blog to keep me busy while I’m job hunting!
I really want to start my own health/fitness blog but you hit the nail on the head – I am SO COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED!! I also want to start blogging because I’m a youth soccer coach for 5 different girls teams, and I want to show them that I practice what I preach! I need all the help I can get!
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog (about elementary music education with a little bit of my other interests thrown in) for a little over a year, now. I’ve been very inspired by your blog!!! What excites me the most about blogging (or beginning a blog . . . ) is the possibility to share my passions with readers who share the same passions so that together we can get this great energy going. I am excited just typing this comment!!!
I am trying to start my own health/fitness/paleo blog. I am a senior in college and I want to grow a brand per se as I head into my final year and hopefully start to educate people on the benefits of health and fitness
I would like to start a blog (a) as an outlet for all my pent-up creativity — working in finance doesn’t really do it for me!– and (b) to help people live healthier, happier lives.
I was going through an extremely tough time in my life and was clinically depressed when I found PBF. Your positive attitude and healthy lifestyle inspired me to turn my life around; I can never thank you enough for that. Now that I am a much happier, better version of myself, I just want to pay it forward! 🙂
Wow, I would love a chance at this program! I currently have a blog and am so eager to learn more about growing my readership and anything tech related! I follow the very simple type and publish setup at wordpress and am so eager to expand on that. This program looks to be filled with so much valuable information that I would eat up!! I love writing my blog for the creative outlet it gives me and the satisfaction I feel when I receive a “like” or comment that someone actually enjoyed what I had to say, such a nice feeling to connect.
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I’d love to attend!
Yay for blogging!!! 😀 I am obsessed with it!
I would love to start a blog to hold myself accountable and to inspire others to live a healthy lifestyle!
I have been getting the itch to start my own blog the past couple of months, and I would love to do so now that my husband and I have starting planning to have our own family! This would be such a great opportunity!
What excites me most about blogging is giving and getting nutrition and fitness advice. As a personal trainer, I love to help others and blogging about it gives me another outlet to do this!
blogging is my way of sharing my journey with like minded people. I get excitd when I hear people tell me that my blog inspired them, i get excited when I see someone quoting me, and I also get excited when people will say ” I love your blog it makes me feel so great reading it”. I am also really excited for the chance to win these sessions because I think it will help me take my blogging to the next level and onto a path I desperatly want to be on!!!