Recently Dave started an effort to be more healthy.
He’s elected to use a free-form, but suitably geeky, methodology known in the Blog-o-sphere as “The Diet”.

It works like this:

• Participants are free to do whatever they decide appropriate to get in shape.
• Participants are expected however to make regular (usually weekly) blog posts on their progression.
• Participants are also expected to tag the posts appropriately so that other participants (probably through technorati) can follow along.
• Participants also post any photos related to their efforts to a specific Flickr pool.

It is the brain child of Colin Devroe.

While I personally remain unconvinced that making such a public spectacle would actually hold me accountable…
I AM convinced that not doing so has PROVED itself ineffective.

So to that end…
I’m announcing my entry into the spectacle.

I will not be posting photos.
That level of public humiliation can serve no good.
However I will be posting and tagging as per the guidelines outlined above.

I’m not sure DougMeade.com has any readers left…
But for the sake of any who wander in here - my official start date will be Feb. 29th, 2007.
Until then I will be getting the proverbial ducks in a row.

If you read this - please feel free to check in and call me out if it appears I’m slacking.

In the coming days I will post more detailed information about my personal plan to become less spherical.