revamp

I've been doing some thinking about the site, and what I'd really like to do with it. I've been thinking about the other weight loss blogs I read, and what I like about them, and what I don't like. There are parts of maintaining this site that have grown stale, and just aren't working for me as well as they used to (Rob isn't as obsessive as I am, so he's fine one way or the other). There are other things that I don't do now that I'd like to put into place, eventually.

So, here's what's going to be changing around here, effective immediately:

No more diet and exercise logs. Documenting these things in detail in two different places (here and WW Online) is tiresome, and I don't want to do it anymore. And let's face it, unless you came here from a google search for the points value of cheetos, you probably don't care about them anyway. Instead, I'm going to incorporate Points summaries into my....

Daily posts. Sometimes, it's going to be just the points information. Sometimes, it'll be more than that. Sometimes, there may even be more than one post in a day. But since, as a geek with no life whatsoever daily browser of many, many blogs, it irritates me when people don't update for weeks at a time (including myself, ironically enough), I figure the least I can do is throw up something every day, even if it sucks and/or I suspect it will be mind-numbingly boring to everyone but me. I'm going to try my best to be at least mildly interesting, though. At least some of the time.

Monthly reports instead of 4-week reports. I'm tired of TOM bloat skewing my measurements. If I stay on a 4-week schedule, it happens every time. Plus, it's easier to keep track of when it's coming, and I can give them names like "Monthly Report - October 2003", instead of "4-week report #14", or whatever. This one goes for Rob, too...since his next 4-week report was scheduled on the first Wednesday in November anyway, it all works out. Monthly summaries and goals will be posted the first Wednesday of every month to coincide with weigh-in day. They will be titled by the previous month (October's monthly report posts on 11/5, for example).

So, when the 4-week report comes out later this afternoon, my short-term goals will be set with an end date of 11/5 in mind. It's just 3 weeks away, but after that, both Rob and I will be in sync, and the reports will go monthly.

And that's just about it. There may be some little tweaks here and there, and if I don't like things this way, I'll change them again. But I think this is going to work.