An End But Also A Beginning

Two years ago I started 60 in 3 as a way for me to help people who were struggling with the same health and fitness issues that I was.  It was a way for me to share what I had learned and also to learn from others.  In that time I have greatly enjoyed both the writing and the reading that were part of maintaining this blog.  However, in the past few months, as I’ve gone through a few life changes and as I’ve learned more about myself, writing 60 in 3 has become more of a job and less of a passion.  I began dreading the days on which I was to write posts and I started seeing this blog more as a way to make money and less as a way to help people.  That’s wrong, and it’s not what I want to do.

So, in the past month I started looking for a new passion, a new way in which I can help people and still feel motivated.  I had quite a few ideas but the one that finally stuck was one which popped into my head at random while strolling through New York.  As some of you know, I’ve always disliked the fashion industry for fostering an unrealistic and unhealthy body image for men and women.  The various magazines and websites out there show you pictures of people who are impossibly thin, have a dozen people to do their hair and makeup, wear outfits that are professionally assembled and use an army of photoshop artists.  Then they tell you to do the impossible and imitate the way they look.  At the same time, I do enjoy dressing well and I like seeing other people looking good.  So it occurred to me, why not show the world that it’s possible to look fashionable without going to the extremes that the fashion industry tells us to go to?

And thus, Look A Day was born.  Look A Day is my way of telling people “you can look great even if you’re not a fashion model”.  I know, it’s a very different idea than 60 in 3, but for me, it’s all part of the same idea, a way to show people that being healthy is not out of their reach.  Looking beautiful is not impossible.  So if you like the idea, join me over there.  I will be posting a new “look” every day, and yes, while the site currently has only women, I am planning to add men too.  If really like the idea, feel free to share it with friends, Digg it, stumbleupon it or any other way in which you can help spread the word.  And if you don’t like the idea, stay tuned.  60 in 3 is going on a short hiatus, but it will be back in a somewhat different form in a month or two.

Thank you all for being with me through this journey and I hope you stick with me as I take my next step.