5 Reasons why I love the Healthy Living Summit
Over the weekend of August 19th, I was lucky enough to attend the 3rd annual Healthy Living Summit in Philadelphia on behalf of Attune Foods. I had a wonderful time seeing good friends, meeting new ones, and helping to promote Attune by sharing product details and handing out samples at their booth with Annelies!
Here are 5 reasons why I love the Healthy Living Summit:
1) The original Healthy Living Summit in August 2009 was the very first blogging conference I ever attended – before I even started my blog! I’ve been to all 3 years of the conference – in August 2009 in Boston, August 2010 in Chicago, and this year in Philadelphia. I started my blog (fANNEtastic food) in October of 2009, shortly after returning from the first summit. I’d been thinking about starting a blog for awhile, and being there and meeting all the other bloggers was such motivation for me to finally go ahead and start my own!
2) There’s always someone to go running with. This year, there was an organized 5k run/walk on Sunday morning, but two HUGE groups of conference attendees made plans to run on Saturday morning, too. Since so many people are training for marathons, a super long run group went out at 5 a.m., and I met up with a group at 6 a.m. that wanted to run about 5 miles. Perfect!
3) It’s easy to find healthy food. At most normal conferences, the food is usually pretty gross and it’s hard to find healthy options without a big hassle. Not so at this conference! Instead of the usual sugary muffin and pastry “continental” breakfast, we got an amazing spread of Attune cereals, berries, and milk or yogurt!
4) It’s informative. I learned how to write a better recipe from Stepfanie of Spark People, how to combat negativity in the blog world from a panel of bloggers, how to monetize my blog without selling out from social media superstar Katy Widrick, and much, much more.
5) It’s FUN! Any conference that has a photo booth at their cocktail party gets my vote!
What’s the best conference you’ve ever been to?
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Aug 29, 2011 @ 05:08:35
[...] p.s. Please check out my guest post over on the Attune Foods blog today: “Five Reasons Why I Love the Healthy Living Summit!” [...]
Aug 29, 2011 @ 08:07:17
This post wins my vote for best people pictures ever! Love the attune photo (adorable) and the cute picture love just continues from there. So glad the conference was awesome!
Aug 29, 2011 @ 09:13:25
I LOVE this post Anne.
next year for me…
next year!
Carla
Aug 29, 2011 @ 10:11:34
Yay! love this post. Those are my five reasons too. HLS was my first blogger conference too! It was also the first conference I planned. hehe
Aug 29, 2011 @ 11:17:53
How fun! I’ve only ever been to HLS, so I don’t have much to compare it to, but I always have fun.
Aug 29, 2011 @ 11:57:16
Just love the pics! Looks like a great conference to be at! Hopefully next year!