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You Know You’re A Healthy Living Blogger When…

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You’re on a first name basis with the mailman and you see him more often than you see some relatives

Your local grocer knows you as “the squash girl”

You go to multiple stores looking for a specific brand to use in a sponsored recipe post

You haven’t eaten warm food in years (photos first!)

You have more bowls and plates than you do clothes

Your mom’s cloth napkins become your personal photo props

You start thinking in tweets and potential blog post titles

Your search bar auto-fills your favorite blog URL when you start typing it in

You find yourself buying tile and wood at Home Depot and having no plans for home renovation

The first thing you look up when you go to a new city is the nearest location of Whole Foods

You plan your day around light availability for food photoshoots

You actually get excited to go grocery shopping and find yourself browsing the aisles for much longer than planned

You get excited when your favorite vegetable or fruit is back in season

Runs and gym time are for recipe and post idea brainstorming

You always look like you’re either coming or going from the gym (athletic wear for the win?)

You’ve got a special love for rustic hardwood floors and have become well acquainted with them when attempting to get ‘just the right angle’

You spend the majority of your day in the kitchen

You knew about cacao nibs, quinoa, kale chips, and overnight oats way before they became mainstream

Your knees fall asleep after a long photoshoot on the floor

Green is the new black when it comes to smoothies

You get on breakfast food kicks: overnight oats, green smoothies, protein pancakes, yogurt bowls…you name it, you’ve been obsessed with it

You Pinterest board if FULL of recipes that you never actually get around to making

Daylight Savings is the bane of your food photography existence

You have your holiday menus planned weeks in advance and have already tested every single recipe

You regularly use cauliflower as more than just a vegetable side

You get so excited about a new recipe that you just have to ‘gram the heck out of it

You make slow-cooker recipes in the summer and ice cream recipes in winter in anticipation of the next season

Technology is your lover and simultaneously your worst enemy

You’re well versed in different fitness modalities like TRX, kettlebells, body weight training, tabata and HIIT

You have a special note on your phone for upcoming blog post and recipe ideas

Your Instagram feed is full of FOOD

Thinking about coding makes your eyes twitch

Your family knows you as ‘the blogger’ but still doesn’t really ‘get’ what you do

You share personal blogging wins with all your blogging buddies because no one else really understands 😉

You bond with other bloggers over the acai bowls, green juices, and black bean brownies

Breakfast is not only the most important meal but the BEST meal of the day

You’ve used every food under the sun as a bun (or a noodle)

You know your squashes varieties and have them ranked in a hierarchy of deliciousness

One man’s random kitchen utensil is your newest food photography prop

You meticulously research hashtags

Your kitchen is in a perpetual state of ‘sort of clean’

You feel like you won the Nobel Prize when you get a photo accepted to TasteSpotting, FoodGawker, or Healthy Aperture

You use beans in baked goods and spinach in smoothies

You never have trouble getting your five-a-day

You know the pain of waiting too long to cut into an avocado

You consider some people you’ve never met in person to be really close friends

You see brown bananas not as a bad thing a bad thing but as a baking opportunity

You’re a nut butter fanatic and have more in your cabinet than your local food store

You prefer kombucha to beer

You know ALL the acronyms…WIAW, OIAJ, SIAB, WOD, MPV, UVM, CPM, & more

You’ve attempted to make homemade nut milk (never again) 

Your birthday wish list includes baking utensils, kitchen appliances, and specialty food items

You add protein powder to everything

You regularly eat balls with no shame

You plan vacations around your race schedule

You’re known as the ‘healthy’ one among your friends

You’re eating the latest superfood months before the Today Show has a segment on it catches on

Your kitchen is never out of oats, sweet potatoes, bananas, or COFFEE

You regularly consume apple cider vinegar instead of using it as a cleaning product

Your friends and family send you pictures of their food to impress you

You own a spiralizer (let alone knowing what a spiralizer is)

Pumpkin season never ends for you

Your bowls of oatmeal come with a minimum of ten toppings

You spend your days writing, researching, and LIVING your passions 🙂

You know you’re a #healthy living blogger when…

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If you’re a blogger, can you relate to any of these?

If you’re a reader, have you noticed any of these trends among bloggers?

Finish this sentence: You know you’re an HLB when… 

 
 
 
 
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87 responses to “You Know You’re A Healthy Living Blogger When…”

  2. I know some of these are tongue-in-cheek (or at least I hope they are!), but how do you balance being a HLB while also trying to inspire people to let go of food & exercise myths/fads? I understand that the blog is your “business” and that sometimes you make things gf/low-fat/paleo etc. as marketing, but it somehow seems to contradict your personal philosophy that all food is OK. I guess I’m just wondering if maybe you could do one blog as the professional Healthy Helper brand and another as your person journey? It might help with some of the things that seem contradictory on your blog and instagram. Some of the points you made above (again, I know this is just meant to be funny) are eerily similar to having an eating disorder/exercise addiction.

    I’m just saying this mostly out of concern and to point out just how blurry the lines can be between HLBs and EDs.

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    • I was thinking much the same thing. There’s a fine line in this post between healthy living blogger and disordered eater.

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  4. hahahaha, planning my day around light availability is definitely a thing. 😛 (As are most of the rest of these.) WE ARE AWESOME. <3

    P.S. I actually originally got an instagram because I wanted to stalk food accounts. :O

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  7. I can relate to almost every single one! Especially planning my day around good lighting or even my week based on which days will have the best sun for recipes! I would add that my long abandoned pretty white wedding china finally has a purpose! And also having to identify the produce of the day to the cashier so they know what to ring it up as!

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  9. Haha some of these are too funny because I can totally relate!!! Gotta love those long runs when you start thinking of recipe ideas and trying to type it into phone so you don’t forget by the time you’re done with your run! Oy vey!

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  14. I can TOTALLY relate to so many of these. 😀 I don’t quite own all the bowls yet, but the workout time being time to plan potential blog post titles and recipes? Yep! 😀

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  16. Yes, I agree with so many of these! Although I’m just now narrowing down into this field after being general parent/lifestyle for forever. So true about the avocado though! And I’m still waiting to get that darn spiralizer! And yes, most of the pics in my instagram feed are food.

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  17. I’m a lifestyle blogger so the healthy eating ones aren’t really my thing but I could totally relate to all the blogging ones – buying things you don’t need to use as props, the list of ideas in my phone etc.
    Reading this, your passion for your subject is obvious, I think that’s brilliant! #brillblogposts
    Debbie

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    • 100% yes!! How did I forget that!? My freezer is PACKED with all sorts of bags of goodies I am still making my way through. It’s simultaneously a good and bad problem to have. 😉

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  24. I can definitely relate to most of these! Going to Home Depot for tiles and planning my weekends around the best time of day to take photos (here in Minneapolis that is a small window these days).

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  25. You get excited when your favorite vegetable or fruit is back in season – zucchini at the farmer’s market.
    You get excited when your favorite vegetable or fruit is back in season – yep
    Technology is your lover and simultaneously your worst enemy – fo sho
    You see brown bananas not as a bad thing a bad thing but as a baking opportunity – purposely wait for the bananas to get mushy to use in my banana bread
    You spend your days writing, researching, and LIVING your passions – instead of doing my day job :/

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  29. This is such a fun post! I definitely have a pinterest board filled with need to try recipes! So glad I found this post through the Fitness, Health, & Happiness link up!

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  30. YES!!!!
    Especially:
    The first thing you look up when you go to a new city is the nearest location of Whole Foods
    You plan your day around light availability for food photoshoots
    You actually get excited to go grocery shopping and find yourself browsing the aisles for much longer than planned
    Daylight Savings is the bane of your food photography existence
    You always look like you’re either coming or going from the gym (athletic wear for the win?)
    Technology is your lover and simultaneously your worst enemy
    You’re well versed in different fitness modalities like TRX, kettlebells, body weight training, tabata and HIIT
    Your birthday wish list includes baking utensils, kitchen appliances, and specialty food items
    You add protein powder to everything
    You regularly eat balls with no shame
    You plan vacations around your race schedule
    You’re known as the ‘healthy’ one among your friends
    Your bowls of oatmeal come with a minimum of ten toppings
    You spend your days writing, researching, and LIVING your passions

    Love this post =)

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  38. My Pinterest board is full of recipes I’ll never get around to making too but I sure hope I will!

    Thanks for sharing at Bloggers Spotlight this week. Come back to link up on Thursday and see who is features.

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  42. You penned the post that many of us have probably thought about but never took the time to compose! So thank you! Reading this was like participating in a therapy session. Blogging life is so crazy that sometimes I probably need therapy.
    My family and friends never understand why I am photographing my meals instead of eating like the rest of them! Only other healthy living bloggers really get us! I really loved: “Your bowls of oatmeal come with a minimum of ten toppings” &”You spend your days writing, researching, and LIVING your passions”. YES! Thanks for representing!!

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  45. Yes yes yes yes yes!

    Especially:

    You haven’t eaten warm food in years (photos first!)

    Your family knows you as ‘the blogger’ but still doesn’t really ‘get’ what you do

    You’ve got a special love for rustic hardwood floors and have become well acquainted with them when attempting to get ‘just the right angle’

    And forgot to comment on your other post like this: we’re definitely the original food IGers!

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