August 7, 2003

Looking for dietbloggers?

I 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. Posted by dsifry at August 7, 2003 10:36 PM | TrackBack | View blog reactions
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What about Joi? http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/04/06/fat_club_update_i_won.html

Posted by: Michael Fagan at August 7, 2003 11:00 PM

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/

Posted by: David Sifry at August 7, 2003 11:23 PM

My friend Maf has a diet-related blog, including a Javascript calculator for WeightWatchers points, and discussion on points hacking.

Posted by: Kevin Marks at August 8, 2003 12:42 AM

doh! You filtered it out

http://maf.blogspot.com

Posted by: Kevin Marks at August 8, 2003 12:49 AM

An InfoSec blogger I read, Bowulf, also posts on weight loss efforts every now and again: http://bowulf.custom-hosting.net/blog/

Posted by: Alexander Payne at August 8, 2003 8:00 AM

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

Posted by: Steve at August 8, 2003 8:40 AM

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...

Posted by: Glenn Fleishman at August 8, 2003 1:06 PM

Maybe you can persuade http://www.qlogger.com/ to come up with a diet log.

Posted by: Phil Wolff at August 8, 2003 7:07 PM

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.

Posted by: Bowulf at August 12, 2003 8:23 AM

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

Posted by: Will at August 12, 2003 9:56 AM

I have a site ( http://wannalookgood.com ) which goes into weight loss topics a lot.

Disclaimer : The site's intent is commercial.

Posted by: guru at August 15, 2003 8:57 AM

How can you start a diet blog? How do you link with others doing same?

Posted by: norma watkins at August 26, 2003 1:26 PM