I’ve been using the Backpack service from 37 Signals, Inc. for the last few years as a journal to track my food & exercise each day. I’ve even given it a geeky title of I/O (shorthand for for Input/Output). Their interface is easy to use and they offer a free account for the basic service, so there isn’t any commitment to start playing around with it although you can’t go wrong for $5/month for their upgraded version.

And now, on to the second part of the subject: goals. They say the best way to stick to something is to make a public declaration of your goal so you won’t be able to squirm out of it. Here we go: I’m going to lose 40+ pounds by January 1st, 2008. That means clean intake, consistent output, and putting out a new podcast on a regular basis.

This is a public link to my backpack page that gets updated throughout the day as I eat and exercise: http://xinu.backpackit.com/pub/1218865. If you create a food log of your own, post it here in a comment and we’ll mention your name on each new show, encouraging you to keep kicking butt & and taking names. Let’s do it!

Jason’s public backpack page is: http://abstrakone.backpackit.com/pub/1229049