Monday, April 19, 2010

Thank You for Reading!

This morning I had a smaller cup of oatmeal with raisins, and a banana. Went to the gym for a good work out. My abdominal work has greatly improved! For example, when I started I would take a 12 lb medicine ball, and while balancing on my tailbone with my feet off the ground rotate my torso touching the ball on the mat to my left, and then my right. I would do one rotation - touching the ball down on my left and on my right - 10 times. The I would do 20 crunches holding the ball in the air. I would then do three sets of that. It was quite a work-out on my abs. However, now, I use a 20 lb medicine ball and performing the same exercise do 50 full rotations, and 30 crunches for two reps. I am far from six pack abs, not even a one pack, my stomach circumference is still a spare tire, albeit 9 inches smaller than when I started! -- but my core is alot stronger and now my ribs are visible which I have not seen in years!

Well, it took me 5 1/2 months, but I figured out Google Analytics and how I can see the type of people visiting and reading my blog.

In the U.S. people from 30 different States are regular readers, and people in 15 countries read MyVeganQuest! In order of the most number of unique visitors:

U.S.
U.K.
Canada
Australia
Denmark
France
Brazil
Spain
Ireland
Switzerland
Singapore
Japan
Bulgaria
Estonia
India

Thank you for reading!! Needless to say I was shocked, and very humbled at the reach of this crazy blog. It is not enormous numbers, but there is great diversity of where our little community of readers come from!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That's pretty cool!

That's why when I sign my comments to you I generally try to post where I am that week, as my life is lived these days in a triangle of Asheville, Chapel Hill/Durham/Raleigh, and San Francisco.

However, this week I'm in DC, and so I write from here to say thank you for sharing your quest. It's been VERY inspiring to me in my own dietary changes.

Best of luck in these final days.

Tan in DC.

Terrence said...

Great stuff, thank you Tan