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I was fed up of being too fat so I decided to lose weight and increase fitness (running in my case) on August 29th 2008 and was challenged in public so here is the deal: we're a group of social software junkies who will report in public together on what is our goal and how we progress. Anybody is welcome to join the only rule is to report in public, there is no beginning and end date per say to join but we're quite a few who are taking 2 months from Aug 30th as a challenge.

Where you can follow or participate

• post videos to the challenge thread on Seesmic (please remain on this thread so that we can keep up)
• post any links or tweets with the tag seesfit or #seesfit on twitter, here are mine on del.icio.us
• post what you eat on Flickr tagging it seesfit too here is what I eat you can also join the seesfit flickr group
• you can also follow yourself on the WiiFit and then share the videos of your progress see my first one
• I opened a Friendfeed room under seesfit
• Feed for #seesfit twitter posts via twitter search

People participating, goals, duration

(feel free to add yourself)

1. name (link to website) - twitter - seesmic - start date - target date - goals
2. Loic Le Meur - @loiclemeur on twitter, Flickr and seesmic - aug 29 2008 - oct 29 2008 - from 104kg to 96kg and run daily to get ready for a semi-marathon - here is the page where I follow my progress and explain how I decided to do it (no alcohol, low fat food etc).
3. Otto le chauffeur de buzz - @chauffeurdebuzz on twitter and seesmic - aug 31 2008 - oct 29 2008 - from 102kg to 92kg and swimming and running daily to get ready for The Web 08 ;).
4. Rob Cooper = @robcthegeek on twitter, seesmic and now flickr - sept 01 2008 - one simple goal, I want to look good naked, weigh-in pending. [My Progress Here]
5. Rodrigo Amaya -  @ramayac on twitter. Sept 01 2008 - November 01 2008 - Goal: Look Good and Healthy, run a complete marathon and make 100 pushups. Weight: Pending.
6. Jenaelee - @jenaelee on Twitter & Seesmic. Start Date: August 6th, 2008; Goal: From 127 lbs to ----> 115 lbs, toned/muscle definition, complete marathon and triathlon :) See my progress here.
7. conej - @conej on Twitter. Start Date: Mon 01 Sept | Target Date: Sat 01 Nov | Goal: Eat properly, sleep well, incorporate physical activity (at least something!) everyday. Possibly start swimming again and build endurance. Weight: Nunya (but I'll track progress here...)
8. Sopalin - @Sopalin on Twitter. Start Date: Mon 01 Sept | Target Date: Sun 28 Oct | Goal: From 100 kg to 92 kg to run Marseille Cassis (21km) in less than 2 hours. Running 2 times a week 10 km at least.
9. Dylan Goubin @dylangoubin on Twitter. Start Date :  21/08/2008 - from 112,5Kg ---> 99Kg before 2009 - Eat properly, Low-fat meals & acupuncture.
10. John Yamasaki - @jyamasaki on Twitter, Flickr, Seesmc, FriendFeed - Sun 31 Aug to Sun 30 Nov: Goal from 104kg to 95kg - Begin Sparring, Pass level 2 or 3 in muay thai. Here's my seesfit progress page.
11. iMorpheus - @imorpheus on Twitter, Seesmic, FriendFeed and TweetWhatYouEat - Mon 1 Sept to Fri 31 Oct: Goal from 100kg to 90kg - No munchies *Sigh*, no café mochas from Starbuck's, limited meat intake, ramen once a week, increase veggie intake, 100 Pushups, resistance exercises, and light jogging 3 to 4 times a week. NOTE: The occasional piece of chicken and homemade café mochas are fair game.
12. Shinchi - @shinchi on Twitter. Start Date: 01/9/2008 - 02/11/2008 (my birthday), from 75kg to 65kg. Eat properly, sleep properly, run everday, no coffee free.
13. ledretch - @ledretch - seesmic too - Sept 1st - LeWeb'08 - I'm 1.85m and 88kg, I comment, analyse and give advice about diet/nutrition, that's my full time job :-) Goal is to cure my back and be able to exercise again. Here are 10 tips I give everyday at my nutrition consulting office.
14. Henry Michel, @henrymichel on twitter, flickr, friendfeed and everywhere else. From 98.5 kgs to 85 kgs | Target day : March, 1st 2009. I was a good runner, i eat and work a lot. I plan to do more sports and eat properly. My seesfit flickr page is here.
15. Antoine Olbrechts - @aolbrechts on Twitter and Seesmic, but a lot of other sites too - Starting September 1st with a target date of november 30th - Goal is from 95kg to 85kg (but maybe that's a lot...) - Follow my progress here
16. Cathy Baker - @cathbaker on Twitter. Starting September 1 till November 30. Goal of minimum 2 lbs per week. Seems reasonable. Cutting out snacks and decreasing eating due to stress. Increasing exercise. Love the idea of watching what I eat on Flickr. Will start ... now. Keeping progress here. Geotagging Flickr Photos of meals. Location: Outside Chicago, IL (Oprah... are you watching us?)
17. Yann Kerhervé - @yannk (twitter) - yann (seesmic) - 1.80 for 77kg. It's been a while I wanted to write software around fitness tracking. I'm a new dad and seriously to control my shape.
18. lezepf - @lezepf on Twitter & seesmic too - on Sept 1st - I'm 1.78m and 84kg (I have to check : no balance here...), let's start with recovering normal sleep periods and then have some home training and then be under 80kg for Chrismas.
19. Sandrine @metoo on twitter. Flickr here - aug 31 2008 - oct 29 2008 - I'm 1m64 and 62kg (put 10kg in one year !!!). Objective is to go back to 52kg by the end of October... And go running (started with the Nike+ Human Race) and swimming 3-4 times per week.
20. Darius Dunlap - Darius on Seesmic; dariusdunlap on twitter, identi.ca, flickr, Starting Sept. 1, 2008, Lose 16lbs (from 206lbs to 190lbs) by October 25th... by increasing exercise and cutting  dough, alchohol, and sugar - eating lots of veggies, and some good protein.
21. Patti Serrano -  on twitter; http;//www.twitter.com/PATTIwithan_i  ....on Seesmic Patti-with-an-i Started August 31st target date 1.31.09  Run a race in January 09 in the 60+ Div. doing C25K at www.coolrunning.com and joined Gold's Gym
22. Blogontravel - @Blogontravel on Twitter, Starting Sept. 1st, 2008: 1m90, almost 92kgs. Goal 87kgs. Swimming everyday and recuding food volume. Ending 1st of nov 2008. Here's my progress page.
23. Dan Martell
24. Craig Given - @cgiven on Twitter & on Flickr. Dates: 9/3/08 - 11/3/08. Goal: Lose 15lbs. How: Improve eating and start running again, get comfortable w/ 10K again. Here's my progress page.
25. Trukmus - @trukmus on Twitter & seesmic too  & on Flickr - on Sept 4th - I'm 1.63m and 84,5kg (I already lost 7.5 kg since the 23rd of june), I hope to lose around 20Kg, in some month, slowly but surely, decreasing amount of food and doing a little sport (beurk!)
26. Maria - @encinar on Twitter & Flickr (and everywhere else).  Trying to get ride of 7kg in about 4 months by improving eating and exercising. My progress here.
27. Stephen - @trib just about everywhere (and I answer to it) - Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Ma.gnolia and my underused Seesmic. I plan to drop from 92kg to 77kg by Christmas 2008. Ambitious, but totally doable with hard work. I'm blogging this here.

Events

• social software seesfit run #1 this Friday Sept 5th at 7:30 in front of the DMVT in San Fran add your self to the seesfit run page if you plan to join

Useful links

Tracking sites for diet, running and exercise and more

• I am gathering them on my del.icio.us tag seesfit

Learnings

• looks like we should also avoid cafeine
• and not eat any burnt or overcooked meat for cancer

Running

• coolrunning
• itrain for running coach podcasts on a treadmill
• mapmyrun.com for running distance calc and training tracking.
• If your goal is to run in a marathon check out this site: Run To Win.

Exercises

• For core strength, do Janda sit ups (I [Rob Cooper] did these all the time when training before, I had a solid stomach). Warning, they are tough!
• Do 100 push ups! an simple, gradual, six (6) week program, try it out: One hundred pushups .

Nutrition

• Calorie-Count Database - great (relatively accurate) resource for those that want to get a guesstimate of their calorie intake.
• Vegan and vegetarian recipes from Open Source Food.