Jason Calacanis and Fatblogging™
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Jason Calacanis, who I had the pleasure of meeting in LA at the beginning of the year, is blogging his new year weightloss plan.
What a rocking idea. Support, friendship (and a bit of pressure) are what keep people on the straight and narrow. Following his call for more fatbloggers to join the conversation, I'm saying - heck, why not!
My girlfriend is a super-fit sports freak, and she's doing a full-on trialthlon in the summer. As part of her morale support, and for my own good, I'm excercising and eating healithy along with her, especially since I wouldn't mind getting back down to my 'dating weight' from a couple of years ago.
So we started at the beginning of February, and I weighed 248 pounds. Last Monday's weigh-in was 244. This Monday's was 240. I want to get down to 210, which was where I was at when I was at college. Damn desk-work and 2-hour commutes have killed me the last 18 months.
In the spirit of starting a conversation about this, can anyone recommend a good Web 2.0-esque service for tracking your weight and competing against your friends? The Nike+iPod site is awesome, but requires the little Nike attachment which I don't really need/want.
Jason - c'mon man, let's get our treadmill on!
My tip for the week - when you're craving carbs, a baked sweet potato, rather than baked potato, has less carbs. Try it with ultra-light cream cheese and baby spinach leaves for a simple, quick lunch.
9 comments:
Wil, I've recently stumbled across physicsdiet.com. The interface is not fantastic, but it is quite complete and you can share your stats.
the best one that I have used is www.fitday.com
I have read a lot of positive reviews of traineo.com as well.
Try this: http://www.calorie-count.com/calories/calories-goal.php
A great weight loss goal tool.
I've been vblogging my diet for six months now (uglyfatlady.com) and I have to recommend SparkPeople. You can track your calories as well as your fitness and other goals (like "I will relax for five minutes." :)
I love this idea, and have started adding these posts at my blog, TheLifeLedger.com
I don't necessarily advocate weighing daily as a standard practice, but doing something daily that constantly keeps your goals present in your mind is, I think, key to successfully making lifestyle changes as opposed to simply dieting.
Hi Wil,
Just saw someone mention SparkPeople (my employer), our "SparkTeams" allow people to engage and compete with their friends. Check out the Blogger SparkTeam that has been around for a while. You can easily create & customize your own team and invite your friends to participate.
Feel free to email me with any questions: grant at sparkpeople.com
I am going to do the fatblogging with twitter
Hey this made me smile as Heather Gorringe and I - both bloggers and podcasters started a public diet in Jan...not for any other reason than if we had to blog daily and podcast our weigh in then that would be motivation in itself to lose weight. It has worked I have lost 24lbs in 7 weeks - still 26lbs to go! Anyone wanting to join in or come on the podcast come to http://www.middleageshed.co.uk
How about some brown sugar and marshmallows with a sweet potato? Gotta love some sweet potato pie. haha