I just saw this part of the forum and went and set one up. It seems that it would be a useful tool and I was just wondering how many of you all have one?

Have a wonderful LC day!

Welcome! I think most of us have a journal in which to write, rant, read, rest, resist, roam, and ribald. A chart of the journey and the friends met along the way.

I was nervous about writing a journal and posting. The subject of weight loss is a very personal one to me. I'm finding that if I put into words my thoughts, and post those words in front of other people, it helps to make knowledge, goals, and changes to my WOE more concrete.

This is a personal decision. For most people, a journal is a great tool for all the reasons stated elsewhere in this thread.

For me, I find that a journal really does not help. It becomes too much of a chore rather than a WOL. Again, this is my personal decision.

Lots of us have journals. If you read someone's post and you want to know more about them, you can click on the journal icon at the bottom of their post (next to profile, pm, search, buddy) to get to their journal.

Thank you all! I haven't written in my journal since the first entry. I guess I should, it may help me stay on track.

I really really love having a journal here. Is my home in this forum. Anyone can come visit me, leave a post, read my posts, and encourage and support me in daily basis.

I have one, but I'm not very good at keeping up with it. I usually spend my time here catching up with other people and forget to catch people up with me.

I love the journals here...great way to get to know people..understand everyone's personal journeys and get the chance to share your own. Its a great place to get a lot of encouragement and support. Good luck with journaling.

Hi. I really like my journal. I can process the day, and put my ideas in there, and talk to myself as I go through the day. MrE is right... it is a great place to rant and rave and keep myself accountable to myselkf.

Rena

I'm so grateful that I can journal here...

I've tried journalling many times before, but this time it works for me. Aside from the fact that journalling is a great way of recording the facts, dates and times (and bumps in the road), it also keeps me involved during those times when I need to take a little time off from other areas of the forum. And it goes without saying that I've made some wonderful friends and experienced the extreme generosity of others via my journal.

Oh, one other thing...it can be highly motivational to return to your earlier journal entries if you find yourself slipping. I know many, many people who have benefited from doing so.

So journal!

Donald

I'm a writer, so anything involving writing is fascinating to me. I've been involved as a volunteer moderator with the SBC (formerly Prodigy Internet) Communities' Books and Writing Bulletin Board for almost 4 years now. SBC is shutting us down on the 24th of this month, and so I've been looking around desperately for another forum to run my online journal on. Since the old one had become very involved with my endless weightloss battles, it was a natural to bring it over here, and it was really one of the things that got me to register after lurking for quite a while. I even gave my journal here the same title - Slices Of Life - because I just couldn't stand to let it die out. You know, us writers just love to get attention anyway we can!

I have a journal, but I seldom write in it. I do have a journal at home by my bed that I write in every night though....doesn't really do you guys any good though, does it...Sorry.