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For years, a couple of my friends have referred to me by the rather unimaginative nickname of ‘big fella’. I can live with that. I’m six foot one, and er… big boned! However, nowadays those most familiar with me seem to have moved on to ‘fat bastard’. And it’s true. I’m a man of a certain age and a pint or a burger unfortunately go straight to the mid-drift these days. 

Well, enough is enough. Inspired by the success of my colleague Mike’s impressive weight loss, I’ve decided its time to make and effort to shed a few pounds myself.

Why am I discussing my flab in a blog that I attempt to keep business focused? Because not wishing to suffer the humiliation of weigh-in meetings with a bunch of ladies, I decided to subscribe to the Weight Watchers Online web site, which at first site looks quite impressive. Obviously, there are all the tools you’d expect to help control your diet – menus and recipes, health/fitness tips and weight tracking – but there’s also thriving community (that includes blokes!), success stories, and a host of content that gets to the heart of the psychology of it all.

As I’m often asked to review web sites to evaluate their design, usability, whether they achieve their business objectives and so on. So I propose to turn my weight loss efforts into and ongoing review of the Weight Watchers Online site. If the objective of this site is to help me lose weight, let’s see how IT does. Of course, it’ll have nothing to with my willpower – all down to the site!

(I suppose I had better confess that I weighed in at 17st 5lbs this morning – aiming to get back to the 15st 4lbs I was three years ago.)

Posted by Tim on 05 May 08, at 2:45 pm

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