LoseIt Reports Progress towards goal
It took nearly 5 months but I reached my weight goal of 165 today on what I’m calling my “social media diet.”
It’s by no means the first time I’ve lost weight, but it’s the slowest weight loss I’ve ever sustained which, I’m told, is a good way to loose weight. My average loss was exactly one pound a week.
A little help from my friends
At other times that I’ve lost weight, I’ve used the service of a diet counselor or a nutritionist but this time I got the necessary support I needed via Facebook and Twitter. To keep track of my progress I used LoseIt which is both a website and an iPhone app that lets you track your intake and exercise. LoseIt has a direct link to Twitter so my followers @NoBellyPrize got regular updates on my progress. I don’t know if anyone following me really cared that much about these updates but dieting in a public way was helpful to me because it made me accountable — much as if I were “reporting” to a diet coach.
Another tool I experimented with was the WiFi Body Scale from Withings. It’s a Wi-Fi equipped digital scale that not only tracks my weight on Withings site but Tweets it as well. Frankly, I didn’t use that scale very often during my diet because I preferred to update LoseIt manually. But for people who like the idea of being forced to report their weight to friends or who just want an automated record of their progress, it could be a useful tool.
Withings WiFi Body Scale
