the whole thing has been going so properly currently, that i've been feeling truly amazing about myself and in which i am at this second in my existence. multiple days ago, a reader contacted me to tell me that my before and after pics have been being utilized in a mailer from a personal teacher. She forwarded the mailer to me, and sure sufficient, my pictures had been there (my watermark cropped out). the e-mail implied that the teacher trained me to get to my "after" image.
i was pissed, of path. This has passed off earlier than, where a few scam organisation makes use of my pix to attempt to promote weight loss plan pills or some thing. that's why I started watermarking my earlier than and after pictures. i've messaged the instructor twice now (once by way of e-mail, once on facebook) and he still hasn't spoke back. I requested him to thrill remove my photo from anywhere that he has used it, and i stated i would recognize it if he could retract what he'd written inside the mailer. I just want him to renowned that what he did was incorrect. He earns money via his website online, not just from education however via selling memberships to personal jogging agencies.
besides, i was angry approximately that, however i was making plans to provide him one extra chance to respond privately earlier than I went public together with his wrongdoing. As I went to the message part of fb, I noticed a message in there from any other reader. She said she observed that my blog put up was on a extraordinary website. I checked it out, and someone had copied my whole weblog publish approximately the weight Watchers SmartPoints plan, consisting of my scale picture, onto their own blog... word for word.
Stealing a image is scary to me, but copying my complete publish? How ought to every person probably assume it's okay?! I looked at the facebook web page for this weblog, and they have over 90,000 enthusiasts. that they had posted a link to "their" publish on the blog, making it appear as if they had written the entirety. on the very backside, in tiny lettering (mild gray coloration) become "source: www.runsforcookies.com". it is it! it is one component to put up a hyperlink to a person else's weblog, in which people can study it at the supply (it really is totally satisfactory); however it is definitely illegal to copy and paste my complete blog publish the manner they did.
The put up had most effective been up for an hour, but the damage had been finished--there were a dozen or so stocks on facebook, and masses of repins on Pinterest. I immediately reported the copyright infringement to Pinterest and fb, and i messaged the facebook web page to delight get rid of it all. i used to be absolutely upset with the aid of the entirety, specifically thinking about it took place just after the non-public teacher stole my pictures. I published a public comment that it were stolen from my weblog, and some random man or woman spoke back that due to the fact my weblog is public, every body is free to copy something they want (now not true!).
At that second, I desired to just take down my whole blog. it is tough to describe, but I simply felt very violated. I began to think about all the other things that have probably been copied and posted somewhere else, which includes my children' pictures. i was so disappointed that I started out crying, and it had been a long time when you consider that i have cried--like I said, the entirety has been going so properly for me lately. As I waited and hoped for a response from the facebook page, i used to be SO TEMPTED to binge eat. The tension i used to be feeling would had been eased in just seconds if I may want to stuff my face with food.
And you know what I did? I went for a stroll. The youngsters and i took Joey for a walk across the community, as it became so fantastic out of doors (50 tiers!) and that i just desired to break out from my laptop. We best walked one loop of the community, which changed into approximately three/4 of a mile, but i used to be beginning to sense higher. I were given a text from Jerry (he became at paintings), who stated that the submit were removed from fb, and i used to be so relieved once I heard that.
once I got domestic, there was a message from that fb page, telling me that they have been sorry and had removed the submit from the blog, Pinterest, and fb. Now, if simplest I ought to get the private instructor to admit his wrong doing in stealing my images. (ETA: I in the end got an email from him. He apologized and stated he would remove my photograph; it's already been mailed out to heaps of human beings, so I do not know how a lot accurate so as to do. however i'm happy he at least responded.)
besides, the complete factor of this put up turned into now not to complain approximately humans stealing my property. i was very happy with myself for deciding on to deal with the strain and tension i was feeling with out food. within the past, i've constantly became to meals to make me experience higher, however i've been getting certainly desirable at warding off binge eating. tension is my largest binge trigger, and being able to address that mess nowadays in a wholesome manner (going for a stroll) is massive development for me.
All of that said, i'm just not certain in which to go from right here. i am feeling less and much less comfy posting approximately my lifestyles online (you may have noticed that i have been writing much less regularly). once I had just a handful of readers, i was very open about everything--probably manner an excessive amount of data, in reality! I leave out the ones days--once I ought to make a funny story without someone being offended, curse freely, post a food log without being nitpicked and criticized, and write approximately such things as sex due to the fact my mother wasn't yet a reader ;) My weblog has always been an area for me to just write approximately my day and my thoughts; in no way a place to evangelise or tell others how they need to be doing things, so i hope it does not come across that way.
i have been considering making some changes to my weblog, and retaining quite a few my private lifestyles out of it; however alternatively, i love to keep a journal documenting my daily life. And i've met a few completely high-quality humans via my blog! I think I ought to just keep a handwritten magazine at domestic, however there is some thing amusing about having a public platform to proportion my thoughts and thoughts. It has sparked some remarkable conversations through the years, and i've discovered a ton from readers who have commented or emailed.
Over 99% of the comments I obtain on my blog is wonderful and/or constructive, so I don't need the few negative components to alternate the way I write. but, as my kids have become older, i am starting to assume that perhaps it is time I simply persist with writing about my jogging and weight loss/advantage/renovation, even supposing this is uninteresting. I don't need the kids or different family individuals to feel "on show", if that makes experience.
i'm now not announcing that i am going to be doing something drastic; however if you observe that I do not write as an awful lot approximately my family as I used to, it is just because i'm trying to conserve some privateness for them. And due to this, I won't be writing as frequently as i've for the past few years. This blog has been this sort of blessing in my life (great possibilities, meeting people who've come to be extremely close pals, assisting me live accountable within the weight reduction desires) and i just cannot actually consider what life could be like without it!
thank you so much for studying. i am not going anywhere, but I need to take a moment to mention thank you--for uplifting me, for recovery me, for teaching me, and for growing with me :) xo
I have no right pictures for this submit, so i will proportion this photograph of Joey and me. February third was his one-year "adoptiversary"!
