First of all, you guys, my regular readers, all sort of get my sense of humor at this point, right?
I mean, I'm not a friggin' doctor and I'm certainly not any kind of expert but if someone asks for my opinion, I'm happy to give it. And to those of you who write often, or even those who just write once in a while to not at all (!), I appreciate you.
So I was upset and then guilt-ridden when I got this comment:
I hate to break it to you but this is not a health blog. A friend of mine suggested looking at your page and I read it and thought it was sweet and funny, until I realized you stopped talking about your weight loss. I looked at all the pictures you have linked to this page and it seems you haven't lost weight. Unless I missed it, you don't have any medical training and this is mostly just a blog where you complain about being fat and now apparently get free stuff from companies for talking about them. I can't take tips or suggest someone takes tips from a person who has no training and no experience in an area. If you wanna complain about being fat, go ahead, but don't say it's a health blog, that's just offensive to people who have lost weight and changed their lives.
Well, I think she kind of missed the point and by the way, OUCH, man. Big thanks for making sure to point out my pictures make me look fat.
I was debating all day if I should post this or not. But I realized that I wanted to explain to EVERYONE, not just her... so there was what she said (which was a comment on my blog so anyone could have seen it) and here was my response earlier today"
Let me just say I'm sorry my sense of humor does not appeal to you and assure you that in no way have I EVER proclaimed to be a health expert. Just a regular person that (hopefully) people can relate to. I've never offered a tip that was not submitted to me by a reader, a doctor or something with some cred. And I have openly admitted, more than once, that this blog was something i started for purely selfish reasons and that I find it silly that people wanna send me stuff -- but if people relate to me, and I make someone laugh or know they are not alone, then I am happy with that. And if TWO (yes, just two) companies wanna send me free stuff? Why should I say no? They know who I am and what opinion they are getting.
Is my blog about health? No. Not in the traditional sense. But a healthy mind? A healthy perspective? A healthy sense of humor? Yes. Making myself feel better and making other people laugh and know they are not the only ones going through stuff like this? I think that's healthy.
And as I work in TV and hear complaints about programming all day long, I offer you what I often offer viewers: if you don't like it? Change the channel.
Best,
AJ
First of all, you guys, my regular readers, all sort of get my sense of humor at this point, right?
I mean, I'm not a friggin' doctor and I'm certainly not any kind of expert but if someone asks for my opinion, I'm happy to give it. And to those of you who write often, or even those who just write once in a while to not at all (!), I appreciate you.
So I was upset and then guilt-ridden when I got this comment:
I hate to break it to you but this is not a health blog. A friend of mine suggested looking at your page and I read it and thought it was sweet and funny, until I realized you stopped talking about your weight loss. I looked at all the pictures you have linked to this page and it seems you haven't lost weight. Unless I missed it, you don't have any medical training and this is mostly just a blog where you complain about being fat and now apparently get free stuff from companies for talking about them. I can't take tips or suggest someone takes tips from a person who has no training and no experience in an area. If you wanna complain about being fat, go ahead, but don't say it's a health blog, that's just offensive to people who have lost weight and changed their lives.
Well, I think she kind of missed the point and by the way, OUCH, man. Big thanks for making sure to point out my pictures make me look fat.
I was debating all day if I should post this or not. But I realized that I wanted to explain to EVERYONE, not just her... so there was what she said (which was a comment on my blog so anyone could have seen it) and here was my response earlier today"