Tweet What You Eat: Twitter Diet Shames People Into Losing Weight (VIDEO)

Move over, Atkins. Step aside, South Beach. The digital age has a new way to lose pounds and it involves more sitting at your computer, and less cardio at the gym.

"Tweet What You Eat" is a Twitter-based food diary that lets you broadcast, in real time, everything you eat and how many calories you've ingested.

The Telegraph explains the Tweet What You Eat "method":

The application, which already has more than 8,000 followers, has a 'CrowdCal system', a completely crowd-sourced calorie database, which fills in food entries' calorie count based on what other members have entered. It allows you to keep track of your weight to see if the diet is working while there is also a forum for dieters to discuss food.

What to know how your snacking compares to your peers'? Sign up for the Tweet What You Eat RSS feed, which will make you feel holy or heavy.

Alex Ressi, the creator of Tweet What You Eat, told the Telegraph his Twitter-based food diary has been a big help to people hoping to lose weight, including British actor Matt Lucas (pictured above) and celebrity Stephen Fry:

People need to be able to share in the success and lean on others. I've had people write in and share stories about 20 pound, 40 pound and the most dramatic - a 70 pound weight loss using the Tweet What You Eat tool and working in conjunction with a nutritionist.

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Comments

[yellowdoggie]

02:44 PM on 10/05/2009

I have a better idea. Just put a picture of that ... person... on your refrigerat­or. Appetite gone.

[bunnyv]

04:01 PM on 10/05/2009

ROTFLAMOLO­LOLOLLLLLL­LLLLLOLO! My sentiments exactly!

[bunnyv]

04:02 PM on 10/05/2009

Oh, and thank you for the laugh. I needed it after reading the kitten crushing article.

[MyMindSpray]

01:55 PM on 10/05/2009

WHAT ON EARTH IS THAT THING IN THE PICTURE! BLEAAAAAAG­GHHHH D=!!

[LucieLee]

01:04 PM on 10/05/2009

omg!

[allymojo]

12:24 PM on 10/05/2009

I think they should have a "Tweet how much you move" because I find that it doesn't matter how much you eat rather how much you move during the day. Journalist and doctors should encourage movement instead of strict and harsh diets. They mess up your metabolism and always seem to fail.

[quincyyyyy]

12:20 PM on 10/05/2009

Who is that a picture of?

[cungar]

12:51 PM on 10/05/2009

Matt Lucas of Little Britain. Not sure what it has to do with the article other than the fact that he's fat and looks like he's in shame.

[Patrick Barclay]

01:58 PM on 10/05/2009

matt lucas from little brittan

[DrCalif]

12:18 PM on 10/05/2009

I have a better idea: thumb-suck­ing. Thumb in mouth, no food in and no need for the electronic umbilical cord.

[amorvincitomnia]

12:15 PM on 10/05/2009

Prepostero­us.

[makeshiftriot]

12:00 PM on 10/05/2009

HP we need a tag for stupid. :|

[malodorousgit]

11:40 AM on 10/05/2009

I just think it's plain cruel to put a picture of a gorgeous cupcake on this article. I read the article while looking at the cupcake, and now I have a tension headache.

[blindhog]

11:21 AM on 10/05/2009

You know our entire human civilizati­on has progressed with groups forces us down the middle of the road. This force has veered the road ever so slowly to the left or right.

Twitter is doing the same thing by helping people (those who have veered into obasity) get back onto the path.

[llee611838]

10:46 AM on 10/05/2009

And people actually follow someone's endless posts about their All Bran cereal and two carrot sticks with split pea soup?