Thursday, August 26, 2010

How Twitter Helped One Man to Lose 75 Pounds!

If you had heard of weight loss supplements and slimming pills taking the load off people’s waistlines, this news is going to intrigue you more! In fact, even the best of social media experts wouldn’t have thought that such sites could be the source of inspiration for nay individual to lose weight, let alone think about it!



Yes, you read it right – social media (Twitter) has helped a man in New York lose a whopping 75 pounds simply by posting updates for the same. According to Brian Stelter, a writer by profession, it was the automatic update of his weight on the social networking site that helped him become conscious about his weight issues, and thus move mountains to reduce it.

Losing 75 pounds was no easy task, according to the now-phenomenal-inspiration-for-obese-people on Twitter. Stelter had to exercise rigorously as well as maintain a strict diet that had low calories and less of fat – all for a long period of time before he could actually register any difference in his post-dieting waistline.

Now that he has lost so much weight, Stelter has expressed his desire to maintain the same. In fact, he has already ordered a tailor-made weight scale that would be publishing the status of his weight online. Talk about keeping your fellows motivated!

Do you think you would have benefited from such extreme modes of weight loss techniques? Or do you prefer to lose weight on your own, away from the public eye?

Let us know through your comments on the same here!

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