Tweet yourself thin with a Twitter diet

One of the latest trends on Twitter is a diet application which lets the user list the food he or she has eaten.

Tweet What You Eat is essentially a food diary that you can keep up to date with everything you consume, with calorie values provided for the foods.

The idea is that everyone can see what you’re munching, and the potential calorific damage you’re doing to your body, hence you’ll be shamed into a healthier diet.

In theory anyway, although we imagine some people will use it as a boast sheet of how many kebabs they’ve had this week.

You could also argue that the calorie values may be suspect in some cases, as they’re compiled using CrowdCal, a user-driven calorie database which isn’t guaranteed to be accurate.

However, the proof is in the pudding (or indeed not eating the pudding), and Tweet What You Eat has been used successfully by several celebrities.

Stephen Fry reportedly lost an impressive six stone in six months, and Matt Lucas dropped half a stone in two weeks. Presumably it was more effective than “Fat Fighters” anyway.