Using free Internet tools to help you lose weight

February 1, 2008

I’m a pretty keen Internet user, in fact I spend just as much time surfing around reading stuff online as I do work (usually the line between ‘work’ and ‘play’ overlaps, so I do have a bit of an excuse).

One of the main topics I want to explore in this blog is how some of the fantastic tools available online (most of them free), can help us lose weight. I’m really keen to dig a little deeper into the many social networks and build a huge support network that we all can feed off and help motivate each other.

Twitter

The first web site I will be looking at is Twitter – I won’t go into too many details right now (it deserves a whole post that I’ll put together early next week), but essentially it is like an Instant Messaging service where people can not only type messages to each other in real time, but follow the thoughts of a whole network of people. It’s like having all your friends in the one room, if you say something, they will all hear it… think of the possibilities, if you’re thinking about eating that ice-cream and need a little extra motivation to leave it alone, send a tweet on Twitter and get instant feedback from some of your friends to help build your resolve.

If you’re already on Twitter, you can follow my conversations by going to my Twitter page, it’s a bit empty right now as I’ve only just setup the profile, but I’m keen to grow a network of people who follow this blog, so ‘follow me, and I’ll follow you!’.

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February 1, 2008 | Filed Under Social Networks, Weight Loss Tools 

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  • Current Status

    • Weight: 128.2kg
      Next Weigh-in: Mar 14th 2008
      Current Goal: Lose 4kg/month
      Weight Loss this Month: 0.3kg
      Total Weight Loss: 2.8kg
      (since Feb 1st 2008)

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