If your New Year’s resolution was to get in shape in 2007, you now have some new tools to keep you on the straight and soon-to-be-narrow.
If you’re happy with the shape you’re in, remember the sobering fact that South Carolina remains in the top ten states for obese adults. S.C. libraries have great health resources for library users, and so much good information is available now online.
Two new social websites, FitDay and Traineo, offer free, fun to use interactive tools to motivate and support users to reach weight loss and fitness goals. The websites have familiar social software components. If you join, you can use your new TechTracks skills to blog about your progress along with other members, join interest groups and chat.
Both sites allow you to input daily calorie intake and calculate calories burned, get detailed nutritional analysis, log weight changes and analyze progress. FitDay offers journaling (blogging). In Traineo, you can identify a set of “motivators” – family and friends who will receive emails of your progress and who can cheer you on toward your goal.
The best thing about these new tools is that they provide a sense of community and common purpose. The biggest winners? South Carolina library users!
