Author, performer technology enthusiast and Twitter guru Steven Fry doesn’t just use technology to enhance his working life — he’s also taken up listening to audio books as a means of losing weight.
Many people working on getting in shape find that they frequently crave food in between meals, if you’re trying to cut down on your in-between snacking, these simple deterrents can help.
Traineo is a web-based fitness tracker that not only covers the basics like letting your log your weight and activity, but graphs the results and projects future outcomes.
There’s not too much rocket science involved in losing weight, but conveying that information concisely can be a challenge. Fitness trainer Rehan Jalali offers up a summary of how to stay lean that fits within the 140-character limit of a Twitter post.
This time of year people resolve to give up all the foods they love in a Herculean effort to shed some kilos. Take the easy way out and just fidget a lot.
Yahoo Health rounds up five essential weight loss foods and drinks high on fibre and other nutrients, highlighting millet, asparagus, pomegranates, pine nuts, and green tea as must-haves. Let’s hear your favourite weight-loss essentials in the comments. Photo by pizzodisevo.
If public humiliation via Twitter isn’t your preferred weight loss strategy, how about gaming? Blogger Mickey DeLorenzo lost 6.8kg in simply 41 days by adding regular use of the Wii Fit to his daily routine. This isn’t exactly surprising — any conscious increase in physical activity should peel off some of the pork — but it might be more appealing than taking up jogging in mid-winter.
Blogger Dennis Best is peer-pressuring himself into losing weight by using Twitter to broadcast his progress and setbacks. Twitter’s 140 character update limit makes for an easy, low-overhead method of staying accountable to friends. [via]
