What Do You Know About Social Media Dieting?

If you need some extra motivation to shred those extra pounds, Social Media can become your best choice, read below to found out this out-of-the-box solution:


It didn't occur to me to use Social Media Apps to help me reduce weight but once I began to investigate this subject I found a pretty good collection of resources the can indeed give you that extra bit of motivation. To illustrate this idea I'm sharing today this great post from Larry Magid at huffingtonpost.com:

Twitter, Facebook and a website/iPhone app called Lose It! are helping me lose weight. I'm not about to write a diet book, but if I were, I think I'd call it the Social Media Diet (though "Twitter Diet" might be more marketable.)

Three weeks ago, I started measuring all the calories I'm consuming and burning and am posting my progress on Twitter, Facebook and at NoBellyPrize.com. I'm even using a $159 electronic scale from Withings that automatically tweets my weight every time I step on it.

The mere act of posting doesn't cause me to lose weight -- the social commitment of being public about it certainly does. I'm not sure if it's the positive feedback from friends or the fear of public shaming, but it works. So far, I'm on target at two pounds a week.

This is hardly the first time I've gone on a diet. In 2002 I started writing a weekly column about fitness for the Palo Daily News, after losing 50 pounds. My weight stayed reasonably stable during the column's run, partially because it would have been humiliating for a fitness columnist to gain weight.

Since the column's end in 2006, I've put some weight back on. I don't want to get as skinny as I was last time, but I do want to drop down to 165 pounds, 21 pounds lighter than I was three weeks ago.

The weight-loss diet that worked so well for me in 2001 was supervised by a nutritionist. But the reason it worked wasn't simply because she was more knowledgeable than I about nutrition, but because I had someone to report to each week.

On my Social Media Diet, I'm reporting to and getting feedback from a wider community on Facebook and Twitter.

Track My Progress

You can track my progress on Twitter @NoBellyPrize or my blog at NoBellyPrize.com. Either way, you can become one of my "diet counselors."

Lose It!

Of all the tech tools I'm using, the most useful is Lose It!, which is both a website and iPhone App. The free site and app exchange data between them and are easy to use. It can also be configured to share your progress on Twitter and Facebook.

It has an extensive food database as well as a tool to add foods or recipes. Lose It! also lists many exercises and the calories each burn.


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