The-Diet: Week 0

So, as I mentioned in my previous post I was clicking around the interwebs and discovered a website that got me inspired. Inspired to cut the crap and get back in shape; to start eating right, and generally being more healthy.

Some of you video bloggers out there may know, or know of, Colin Devroe from viddler. If you follow his blog, you may also know that he some time ago started “The Diet” which was really just a goal to start eating and living healthy along with an agreement between friends to blog their progress and be held accountable.

As it turns out, his idea really took off and people from all over started to join in with him and his friends in this self-organized blog-roll-oriented support group.

People all over started posting their weekly updates, tagging them appropriately, subscribing to each others feeds, joining the flickr group, etc etc etc.

As I surfed through this distributed group and saw the results these folks were seeing, I found it all really inspiring and I loved the way a group had formed up a sort of distributed social network using blogs, tags, technorati, rss feeds, flickr, etc to document/support/inspire/accomplish their mutual goals.

Through all the times I’ve tried to come up with some way to keep motivated and be accountable, I’ve always stopped short of publishing such efforts to my blog. I’m not sure why I was so reluctant to do so … I mean I post videos of myself here – it’s not like I’m fooling anyone. Maybe what I’ve needed was this sort of public accountability and public support … possible humiliation.

Now I’m not real excited about the idea of publishing for the world in cold hard numbers just how out of shape I am (and don’t expect any official before pictures) but I am eager to get back in shape, and I’m willing to risk publishing my missteps if it means someone out there is going to call me on it.

So if you are interested why not come along for the ride? Pick a goal or a series of goals, publish your updates on your blog or in the flickr group, and we’ll all follow along with each others progress to stay inspired and offer support.

Regardless as to if you participate yourself – if you plan on reading the content here please feel free to call me out if you notice I’m slacking in this in anyway … that’s why I’m doing this so publicly on the website. Of course also feel free to offer whatever support or encouraging words you feel inspired to provide as well.

I’ll be posting weekly updates, and may create a special page/view here at DavidMeade.com for the topic. So without further ado here are the horrible depressing and gut wrenching starting numbers:

Update: I’ve renumbered the weeks to start with zero rather than one 1. This way “week X” numbers are reporting the results for that week, rather than the starting numbers for that week … this just makes more sense to me.