Less Me  

I have this amazing blog-friend.  His name is Bonna B. He’s a great blog-friend, a gregarious, loving, funny person.  He’s also a success at weight-loss (he’s lost over 70lbs in less than 8months)  and an inspiration to many.  You see, Bonna B is phat, not fat.  A really great guy.  You can click on his name to go to his blogsite.  It is filled to the brim with knowledge, advice, motivation and love.  His was the first site I stumbled upon when I started this earlier in June.  His advice was to start a food log.

At the same time I started reading his blogsite, I got my new droid incredible phone.  Instead of looking for some fancy app that may have caused me to stumble, I stuck with what I know.  Twitter.  Twitter is easy.  It’s easy to access it from my desktop, netbook or phone.  It only takes a moment. With 140 character limit, there’s no room for whining.  I just get on it, document whatever I just ate and the calories, then click update and I’m done.

Now I am currently in the throws of some really bad habits, so tweeting out to nobody isn’t a great motivator.  (you can set your twitter account so your tweets do not show up in the public tweetfeed.)  But WordPress has this fabulous widget that attaches your twitter feed to your blog.  So every time I eat & tweet, all of you know what I am eating.  And I won’t be able to post and whine for long if I’m not eating the right things, so it causes me to be more selective in what I eat.  (keep in mind I’m pretending there are thousands of you out there, hanging on my every bite.)

Because I have a Droid Incredible with a droid widget for twitter on my phone, it seperates all my tweets by whatever day it is.  So, today’s will all be together, yesterday’s are all in one group and so forth.  I really love it.  It’s been very helpful.  Like, for example, last week when I got all discouraged, I totally refused to blog about it.  Feeling way too whiny.  But I did tweet about what I ate.  So now, I have a record of it and can document a difficult period even though I skipped the blogging.  (this past sunday & monday, I even stopped tweeting, I was that discouraged)

I just wanted to take a minute an blog about something that has been helpful to me.  Let me know what you think…