Looking for dietbloggers?
12I got pinged today by a reporter looking for people who are using blogs in innovative ways to help them diet. I know that I was inspired by folks like Cory, Glenn and Doc when I got started doing Atkins, but I wouldn’t say that I was using my blog to help motivate me or keep track of progress or anything. It does seem that lots of other people are using blogs to talk about their diets, however. Searching through Technorati, I found 592 weblogs that mention “Weight Watchers” and 740 that mention “Atkins”, for example. Seems natural, given that most of us feel comfortable to talk about our lives, and that’s a part of our lives.
I remember seeing some group weblogs where people were reporting regular diet progress, and egging each other on. I know I saw some folks start a public bet with each other – $100 each in the kitty? – to see who could reach their goals. It is late though, and I can’t seem to find the sites (yes, insert irony here). Can anyone send some pointers or links? Is the blogosphere seeing a new trend of dietbloggers? Got any great diet blogs or diet stories? Post ‘em in the comments section, or drop me an email. BTW, I’ve dropped another 10 pounds since the last time I blogged about it. Feeling great.
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What about Joi? http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/04/06/fat_club_update_i_won.html
Hmmm, here’s a couple that the folks on #joiito gave me, many thanks to anode and rojisan:
http://www.3fatchicks.com/journals/weblog
http://tlsfan.blogspot.com/
My friend Maf has a diet-related blog, including a Javascript calculator for WeightWatchers points, and discussion on points hacking.
doh! You filtered it out
http://maf.blogspot.com
An InfoSec blogger I read, Bowulf, also posts on weight loss efforts every now and again: http://bowulf.custom-hosting.net/blog/
Dave, take some of your search results, or the above URLs, and throw them at Waypath. For example, posts related to maf.blogspot.com’s most recent diet post are at http://www.waypath.com/query?type=url&key=http%3A%2F%2Fmaf.blogspot.com%2F2003_07_20_maf_archive.html%23105901832554881311&x=17&y=12
There’s something about geeks, iron wills, programmatic diets, and self documentation that put Geek and Diet together.
I did pitch an article to a newspaper once on the fad of geek-to-geek diet transfers like yours…
Maybe you can persuade http://www.qlogger.com/ to come up with a diet log.
I blog my results (gory measurements details and weekly progress) because if I can’t lose it for just myself, I will to prevent having to record I didn’t exercise as much as I should have or gained weight. It doesn’t always work to get me on the bike, but I have at least started a good trend lately.
I wrote about food blogs a while ago and mentioned diet tracking/weight loss blogs at the end.
http://groups.msn.com/Blogspotting/novemberarchive.msnw?action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=39&LastModified=4675401972640695160
Also, just the other day I ran into someone else who got the same call or a similiar one from a reporter. Check out the last item from August 7: http://weblogs.msnbc.com/#030807
Cheers,
Will
I have a site ( http://wannalookgood.com ) which goes into weight loss topics a lot.
Disclaimer : The site’s intent is commercial.
How can you start a diet blog? How do you link with others doing same?