5 Weight Loss Tools

Being the start of a new year, I imagine quite a few of you are restarting the diet you started a year ago. Let’s face it: you’re fat. Or, is it just me? Well, in case it’s not just me, here are a few techie weght-loss tools that may help you reach your goal weight:

1. Jeremy Zawodny’s Diet Tips: Take diet tips from a fellow techie and give his weight and calorie tracking spreadsheet a try. It helped Jeremy lose 50 pounds!

2. Calorie King: Zawodny mentions this useful site in his diet tips post. Track the calories you’re consuming or look up how many calories that Big Mac with Fries and a Coke has.

3. Run Fat Boy: Run Fat Boy is a web based self-pace personal training site. After each workout, log the results and mark them as easy or hard. Run Fat Boy follows up with recommendations for your next workout, increasing your strength, endurance, and beach muscles over time.

4. Chris Carmichael: He’s trained Lance Armstrong, written best-selling books on sports nutrition, and has a team of personal trainers who will work with you on a consulting basis to help you be your best in a wide variety of endurance and strength sports.

5. Garmin 305 GPS Heart Rate Monitor: Ben uses one of these and loves it. It tracks how fast your heart is pumping when you’re working out, helping you figure out how hard you’re training. This is particularly helpful for people starting out who often train harder than they really should to build a strong base. The GPS system tells you your pace in real-time and can be exported to show you the path you ran on a Google Map.