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Actress Kirstie Alley is venturing into the microblogging world with the bizarre launch of Phitter.com, a Twitter-like community site dedicated to helping consumers share tips on weight loss, dieting, fitness, exercise and living a healthy lifestyle. Alley has been publicly battling with personal weight gain over the past few years, and even sells her own branded weight loss products.
According to a release, Phitter.com is a “phitness phocused community that encourages members to talk, or Phit, about fitness, weight loss, working out, dieting, exercising, and healthy living while making new ‘Phriends’ and having ‘Phun’!” The site lets users write and post messages in 140 characters via the web or SMS. Similar to Twitter, you can send private messages to other users. And Phitter also integrated with Twitter to allow users to post directly to Twitter and to find Twitter friends who have already joined Phitter.
The site’s UI definitely needs some work, but the ambition of the site may resonate with folks who want to share the trials and tribulations of weight loss and fitness. Of course, there’s no shortage of social networks who are trying to serve the same purpose, including DailyBurn, WorkoutBOX, and ZodBod.
The hardest part of losing weight, eating right and getting in shape is not the exercise. It’s in your head – it’s understanding and remembering the benefit of physical fitness. It’s that mental barrier that many people fail to knock down.
When we come home from work, tired, fed up and starving it’s the barrier that stops us from preparing the right meal. Instead, we opt for eating junk food until the void is filled. For now.
The number one cure for this problem is to have a fitness buddy to encourage you, pick you up when you’re feeling down and maybe even shame you for not going for that run. But we don’t all have those. That’s where the magic of the Interwebs comes in!
Phitter
Like Twitter? Good. Then this one is for you. Phitter is an online web app which allows you to post health, diet and exercise ‘Phits’. It works in pretty much the same way as Twitter, right down to using ‘@’ to reply to messages and even the real-time stream of ‘Phits’ looks almost identical to Twitter’s.
It has only launched recently but already there are loads of positive reviews and stories going around. By giving people daily reminders of the benefit of physical fitness through encouragement, tips, advice and conversation throughout the day it assists them in overcoming that mental barrier of ‘I can’t be bothered’ when the novelty of getting fit starts to wear off.
Traineo
This website is designed for those who like a bit of social media – but not the intensity of Twitter/Phitter. Put simply, this is an online community of people getting fit and staying healthy. You’re put into small groups with each member playing the role of ‘motivator’ for the others and reminding them of the benefit of physical fitness in their lives. If someone needs help, they’re helped. If they need encouragement, they’re encouraged. If they’re feeling down, they’re uplifted.
The beauty behind this is that you’re put into close contact with others rather than an entire network. This makes it similar to having an exercise buddy in real life.
Your stats (weight, BMI, goals etc…) are also recorded and displayed. These are there to motivate you and to let the others know how you’re getting on.
Fit Day
Fit day is for those who don’t embrace the social media scene. See this as more of a tool – there to keep track of your progress, plan your future fitness regime and to give yourself that boost to get off the couch.
Features include a calorie counter, weight loss and goals area, detailed nutrition for thousands of foods and long-term diet analysis and advice.
One of my favourite features about Fit Day was the Journal. This allows the user to make quick entries as regards their progress and more importantly their personal opinions, feelings and reflections on their fitness and the work involved. Given the fact that journals are proven to improve your analysis of your own life and act as a catalyst for action taking, the importance of this feature shouldn’t be overlooked.
Another series of great articles you should also look at are :
One Hundred Pushups – A Geeky Pushup Workout Program To Get In Shape – Tobias.
MedHelp- A Mental & Physical Fitness Log to Monitor your Health – Ryan
Best Workout Websites That Combine Technology and Fitness – Ryan
So how do you keep in shape? Do you use apps and websites to help you? Or do you go it alone?
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Are you feeling ready to give up on your weight loss plan?
For some mysterious reason, no matter what you do for a diet or exercise you simply cannot lose weight?
Here is a simple way to look at your health without getting stuck in thousands of so called weight loss tips that contradict and confuse the simple truth of optimal health. First, become aware of the relationships between the basic 11 human body systems.
Why? Because it is in the relationship between how you think, eat and exercise that unlocks that weight loss frustration.
All basic body systems are connected in one way or another to how you think, eat and exercise.
When you understand the most general interplay between the 11 body systems you begin to see how you can make small changes for big health results!
It easier way than trying to focus on the thousands upon thousands of details about which are the best vitamins, counting calories, what is the best type of exercise and other approaches to health.
1. Circulatory System the body's transport system, moving critical nutrition, hormones, anti-bodies and more via blood.
2. Digestive System the body's grinder that breaks down food into protein, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, and fats, to be used by the body for for energy, growth, and repair.
3. Endocrine System the body's messenger service group of glands that produces your body's that travel through blood and muscle tissue – hormones. Major glands include the pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, thymus, pineal body, pancreas, ovaries, and testes.
4. Immune System the body's defense alert system against infections and diseases from viruses or bacteria. The system includes tissues, organs, cells, and cellular products that work cooperatively against external foreign threats to the body.
5. Lymphatic System the body's cleansing system that filters out nasty organisms that cause disease. They also produce white blood cells, and generates disease-fighting antibodies.
6. Muscular System the body's power system controlling movement of the body.
7. Nervous System the body's control center made up the brain, the spinal cord, and nerves. It sends, receives, and processes signals, nerve impulses, throughout the body.
8. Reproductive System the fertility system. Sperm from the male fertilizes the female's egg, or ovum, in the fallopian tube
9. Respiratory System the ventilation system that brings air into the body and removes carbon dioxide.
10. Skeletal System the mechanical system made up of bones, ligaments and tendons. It shapes the body and protects organs.
11. Urinary System the waste removal system eliminates waste from the body, in the form of urine. The kidneys remove waste from the blood. The waste combines with water to form urine. Remember, you do not need a medical degree to be aware of the relationships between your body's different systems. Your body is always talking to you telling you what is going on any part of your body, it is your true personal coach!
This what Nutrition Expert Caroline Smith of, calls your metabolic messengers. When you learn to hear what your body is telling you will unlock the keys to optimal weight, health and emotional well-being.
For example, can you recognize any of the following messages that you body is telling you:
- Which foods make you feel full-bloated verses full satisfied? Just think, have you ever eaten pasta until you felt bloated., yet within 30 minutes hunger started again?
- After a nights sleep, have you experience heavy legs or soreness, like you have run a marathon, but having not done any exercise in the previous 48 hrs?
- Have you notice that eating certain foods can make your nose running or produce more mucus in your throat and mouth?
- Have you ever slept for a shorter period of time, but felt more rested
Our body is speaking to us all time through the various bodily systems and you can learn more by simple watching and observing your body's reaction to food and stress . When you become your own health expert in yourself, you will never get loss in the hype and false promise of short cuts to health and vitality. Everything you need to know is within you. Learn to listen and experience the miracle of life.
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