Health, fitness and weightloss blogs can be fun, informative, inspiring and compelling, but searching through the rif-raff to find the ones you’ll identify with can be exhausting. That’s why we’ve spent hours searching the web to pick our top 22 favourites.
The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl
Witty and comical, the Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl is a blog you should definitely add to your favourites list. Entries are jam packed with fat focused content ranging from spinning classes to shopping for plus size ladies.
Visit www.dietgirl.org
Random Acts Of Reality
Random Acts Of Reality is a blog written by a London-based ambulance worker. He’s very funny but also offers interesting anecdotes that make for compulsive reading.
Visit randomreality.blogware.com
Celebrity Plastic Surgery
Dr Tony Youn is a Plastic Surgeon based in Michigan in the US who has featured on E!’s Dr. 90210 and blogs about celebrities’ cosmetic surgery, dealing with all your has-she-hasn’t-she needs, but also explaining whether the procedures of choice are safe and ethical.
Visit www.celebritycosmeticsurgery.blogspot.com
Diabetes Mine
Diabetes Mine is wonderfully written and insightful. Blog entries detail exactly what it’s like to live with diabetes- from the need to inject and the importance of watching what you eat.
Visit www.diabetesmine.com
Untreatable Online
Untreatableonline is an anonymous social services worker who has severe major depressive disorder with psychotic tendencies. He thinks it’s important for people with mental illnesses to speak out and he blogs honestly about what it’s like to experience mental problems like paranoia, flashbacks and more. Compelling and insightful.
Visit www.untreatableonline.com
NHS Doctor
From health tips to the politics of the health service, this wide and varied blog is highly recommended for those keen to keep up to date with the goings on within the British healthcare system.
Visit nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com
Shaping My Way
For a dose of reality TV/soap opera visit the Shaping My Way, a blog written by graduate mum Savy. Typical entries cover the day to day chaos of everyday life plus her relationship with health and fitness.
Visit shapingmyway.blogspot.com
Cystic Fibrosis Husband
Nathan’s wife Tricia has Cystic Fibrosis and had been preparing for a double lung transplant until they couple discovered we were pregnant. They now have a baby girl, born 15 weeks prematurely. This is their story from Nathan’s perspective.
Visit cfhusband.blogspot.com
Dr. Katz Bad Breath Blog
For all the advice possible on oral hygiene have a visit to the blog site of America’s top oral health doctor. While the title of this blog verges on comical the content is quite profession and provides some sound advice. Expect a lengthy blog entry roughly once a month.
Visit blog.therabreath.com
Stupid Cancer Blog
Regularly updated with the latest cancer related news stories and an insight into the disease, the Stupid Cancer Blog is a firm favourite among our picks of the best health blogs.
Visit imtooyoungforthis.blogspot.com
Eating Disorder Recovery Blog
This blogger writes about recovering from an eating disorder that lasted 10 years and nearly killed her. “There were abusive relationships. There were heart attacks and hospitalizations. There were suicide attempts. And there was therapy - years of therapy.”
Visit edrecoveryblog.com
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My Cancer
Leroy Sievers has been a journalist for more than 25 years and he blogs every day about his cancer, the treatment process and what it’s really like.
Visit www.npr.org/blogs/mycancer
Namasteph Yoga Blog
Stephanie is training to be a yoga teacher with the legendary Shiva Rea. She started yoga in the 1990s to help with her chronic fatigue syndrome – now she blogs about how it affects her daily life.
Visit www.namasteph.com
Big Fat Deal
Big Fat Deal or BFD covers all topics related to weight loss and popular culture. BFD explores the positive and negative representations of weight in society and offers a unique insight on losing weight.
Visit www.bfdblog.com
Too Much Brain to Contain
Zipperhead was a high school English teacher until the progression of her Chiari Malformation made it impossible. She blogs about the huge effects it has on her life.
Visit chiarian.blogspot.com
The Health Care Blog
Discover more about the complex health system by following entries submitted to the Health Care blog. Despite a specific focus on America topics highlighted in the daily blogs will appeal to anyone with an interest in health.
Visit www.thehealthcareblog.com
Livin La Vida Low Carb
On January 1st 2004, Jimmy Moore made it his New Year's resolution to lose weight on a low-carb diet after weighing in at a whopping 410 pounds. Since then he’s lost 180 pounds and kept the weight off, all the time documenting his exploits.
Visit livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com
The Paramedic’s Diary
“A record of the working life of a London Ambulance Paramedic. All in-confidence. All real.”
Visit theparamedicsdiary.blogspot.com
Men’s Health
This one is especially for the guys and covers health and lifestyle topics daily. Blogs are easy to relate to making for an entertaining and easy read.
Visit mhtoday.menshealth.com
Delicious Wisdom
Nicole deVries is a natural foods chef who specialises in turning unhealthy, processed food recipes into whole food ones, and she regular posts healthy new recipes.
Visit deliciouswisdom.com
Blacktriangle
Dr Anthony Cox, a West Midlands pharmacovigilance pharmacist, blogs his expert opinions of health stories as they happen.
Visit www.blacktriangle.org/blog
Dr. Buttery's Public Health BLOG
If you’re interested to read a professional comment on the latest health news stories and advice we suggest you stop by Dr. Buttery's Public Health blog. Entries are brief but descriptive.
Visit blog.vcu.edu/cbuttery
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