One Pound at a Time

I finished Pretty in Plaid – Jan Lancaster yesterday. I have to say that of the entire book my favorite part was the Epilogue. Here she talks about how she met Candace Bushnell, how she found out that she made it to the New York Times and USA Today lists and how she felt.
I think that I liked this part the most because she achieves what readers look for in books most of the time, a connection. Her words made me feel happy for her and for some minutes congratulated her in my mind and then went to imagine being in her shoes for a second. The feelings of someone that considers herself middle class with a pretty normal life and starts writing and all of the sudden she realizes that people all over the country want to read her books because they connect with her. In so many levels. From spying on the neighbors to trying to look and feel better with yourself, to eat a lot because you are happy or nervous or excited or just because you want to eat a lot. I really felt very happy for her and happy that I got to read her books. I am waiting for Bright Lights, Big Ass to arrive to my library so I can start reading that one.

Then today, during my one hour walk with Luci, I started thinking about why I started writing this blog. Really, why? And why in English, when English is my second language. I realized that losing weight is a very good reason but discovered that I want this blog to be more than a diary of my efforts. I want to write about so many other topics that don’t involve losing weight.

After that, a thought hit me. I want to write about me, my family and how I became the person I am today thanks to them. I always wanted to write about my family and in that way give credit and recognition to the people that deserve it. After that thought I started thinking about language, would it be better to write in Spanish or English? Should I have two blogs now? What would the title of the second one would be?

One thing that I read in Jen’s website is that writers are readers and the only way to write better is to write. So I decided not to complicate my life for now. For the future postings I will have some posts about me, my family, etcetera. I will keep this blog as my diary and when I am ready with the title of my other blog I will just transfer the postings related to that blog to their new space. I will keep thinking about having two blogs in two languages since I haven’t reached that decision yet. I don’t know how easy or hard this is going to be but I sure will give it a try.