June 2017 is when I came to steemit. This is one of a series of posts I’m writing in June 2018 to remember this year and how things have gone for me here. I’m not normally one to do milestone type posts, so this is something new for me.
Why am I here?
I came here to post my content. I have been posting my natural weight loss information online since I lost “half my size” in 2011. I thought steemit would be a good place to post and it has been for many reasons.
4800 Followers
4800 followers is a lot I think, but I do not see many of them. I have a handful of good friends, upvoters, people who comment, people who like my weight loss information, and others who are thankful for my minnow tips. Some are interested in my life in Thailand, and want to find out how they could move overseas too.
A lot of my followers are gone from steemit now. I follow all of them back and have lists of people I like to visit. I’m always sad to take someone off my working list and put them into the inactive one. I've brought in about 20 people this year out my content creating friends. Few have last more than a few weeks and only one is still here now.
I recently wrote a minnow tips post about how to get upvotes when you are new here, and sent it to everyone I know who is on steemit and is also my connection elsewhere. Two of those people told me to stop since they are never coming back.
My Favorite Follower
The remaining steemer I brought in is my son @bxlphabet. He joined right after me but just started posting in January 2018. He is the talented one in our family and his work is wonderful here. I am so proud of him for trying and being consistent in his posting. He has many wonderful followers as well.
My son posts often about healthy food. No one was happier than him when I lost weight with delicious and nutritious food. He also posts his photos to contests and challenges and does travel posts. He has recently caught on fire about the new Steem Monsters Game and is hoping we can afford to get him the cards for it soon.
If you follow my story, you know that my son has severe PTSD because of what he went through as a child with my obesity and constant illness. I was sick, near death, and frequently hospitalized during his young life. He was traumatized by many of those events. I can remember him trying to pick my broken, obese body up off the ground when I could not get up myself. At that time, my son was three years old, and I weighed about 250 pounds. I’m sure his memory of that moment is worse than mine.
The experience of posting on steemit and having people appreciate his work has done wonders for my son. This is the best of the good results for me and why I want to stay here, keep posting, and succeed.
What's Next?
I made a list of about 15 topics I plan to talk about in my One Year Milestone Series. I want to make these posts positive, but I’m having trouble doing that and they are hard to write. I’m thankful to all who help me at steemit and hope I will be able to carry on.
My first post in this series was a freewrite. This is a wonderful daily challenge by @mariannewest. Freewrite is a great place to learn to post on steemit and to meet and read the work of many talented steemit bloggers.
Freewrite gives you a daily prompt to write about for only five minutes. It's quite amazing to read the results from everyone. By coincidence, when I was planning my anniversary posts last week, the prompt was "One Year." This was a great help for me to break the ice on this series and get me to be able to post.
Before I lost weight I did not think I could do it. Now that I did lose "Half My Size" with natural methods, I know that anyone can do it if they learn skills and apply them.
If you want to help my son and I stay on steemit, but your upvote is just not enough, here are my wallet addresses where I will be so grateful for any help.
BitcoinCash - BCH
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Bitcoin - BTC
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Dash - DAS
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Litecoin - LTC
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