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Fatblogs. What is a fatblog? Well gentle readers, I was wondering the same thing. Apparently there are people out there who find it fun and rewarding to share their weight loss experiences with the world at large. Jason McCabe Calacanis is a blogger who enlisted the help of his audience in his quest to lose weight.

The LA Times called it "Weight Watchers for the blog set, with a dash of public humiliation for incentive."

You might be wondering what's so humiliating about posting your diet or workout schedule on your blog. Well the answer is... not much. What's really humiliating is that he posted his weight, whether it was up or down, on his blog every day.

Now I used to go to Weight Watchers. It's a great program for people who want to lose weight and can't do it on their own. You're held accountable because every week, someone is looking at that number on the scale and writing it down. The key word here is someONE. Not however many people look at your blog, but just one person. And that is the reason for the question marks in the subject line of this blog. Never will I ever allow my weight to be known in such a public forum.

So readers, if you're logging on every day to see what fun and surprising subjects I'm posting about, keep logging in, because I will always be posting about fun and surprising subjects. But if all you're looking for is a number, I suggest you look somewhere else.