Welcome to those visiting from Claudia Zapata’s article in the San Antonio Express-News, Dieters finding willpower on Web.

As Claudia mentioned, I started this blog more than a year before Blogging Away Fat. This blog has kept me focused and motivated to pay off our debt and I hoped that blogging about my weight would help me do the same. So far, so good…and I’ve lost 13.5 lbs.

I do find many similarities between losing debt and losing weight. While different goals, they both require that you have motivation and a committment to changing your lifestyle. Tackling both is not easy, but blogging about it is keeping me focused.

Here’s a few tidbits about Blogging Away Debt:

1.) I post monthly where my money went, and share what we are doing to try to keep our spending down.

2.) I post monthly how much we make. We currently make around $36,000-45,000/year (depends on if my husband has work available), but I am always trying to bring in more income.

3.) I post almost every day and usually it is personal finance related.

4.) You can bookmark this site to keep updated, or if you have a feed reader you can Subcribe to my Full Feed. If you have an email address, you can also Subscribe via Email. Every day that I post you will receive one email with the posts that I wrote for that day.

5.) I love comments and I love the interaction with readers. Some of the best information on here is when I post something and then my readers give suggestions or tell about their own personal life. That’s the beauty of blogs!

As for where to start, here’s a recap of 2006:

A Reflective Look Back at 2006 – Goodbye to $13,000 of our Debt

And here’s something I wrote that highlights my frugal posts of 2006:

My Top Frugal Posts of 2006

I’d like to give a quick shout-out to the other money and health bloggers mentioned in the article:

Lazy Man:
Lazy Man and Health
Lazy Man and Money

NCN:
No Calories Needed
No Credit Needed Blog

Thank you for stopping by, and feel free to stick around for a while :)



  1. Amy responded:

    You are a great inspiration. I absolutely love your blog. You are helping quite a bit of people.
    I am also working to pay off my debt, except I have set a goal to pay off $72,900 worth of debt by April 2009. =)

  2. mapgirl responded:

    Hi Tricia!

    Pretty cool!

  3. John responded:

    Thank you for the nice post.

  4. Pat Wadsley responded:

    Dear Tricia,

    I am doing a story for Quick and Simple Magazine about erasing debt and think you might be a good subject. My email is wadsley@aol.com. Congratulations! Love to share tips with our readers.

    Pat

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