I saw a great piece on Mashable yesterday that begs the question: How many calories do you burn while using Twitter?  Want to find out? Check out a fun Twitter application called TweetCalories, which shows how many calories you burned over the last 24 hours by Tweeting.

I didn’t Tweet too much over the weekend, so I only scorched a measly 2.06 calories. I think you burn more calories sneezing. I might Google that. Furthermore, this isn’t actually meant to be a top-notch weight-loss tool, but rather, it’s a marketing trick for a fitness center in Brazil.  I happen to think this is a cute technique though, not to mention somewhat successful on the viral side of things.  I mean, they got me to blog about it, right?

You grab a stack of chocolate chip cookies on your way out of the office potluck party.  You also grab a quick photo of your snack with your iPhone.

If you were using PhotoCalorie, the free iPhone application could generate some feedback, letting you know how each cookie had roughly 100 calories – so your snack ran you around 400 calories in total.  (Bummer! I guess it might be a salad for dinner.) PhotoCalorie would also log your snack in a food journal, helping you track your meals day by day.

I’m sold! When they get the iPhone on Verizon, guess what the first app I download will be.  And as a new Boston girl, the project is particularly close to my heart, as it was developed by a group of researchers from MIT, Boston University and Harvard. Boston is so smart.

Learn more about PhotoCalorie in this Boston Globe article, also, follow them on Twitter @PhotoCalorie.

When I’m not working out or eating or making healthy/yummy food…or blogging about working out or eating or making healthy/yummy food…I’m Tweeting. A lot.

Twitter lists are nothing new, but I’m still loving them and adding to mine on a regular basis.  It helps me organize my personal network as well at categorize the conversations I’m following. For the most part, I follow people who chat about marketing, PR and social media.  But I embrace my inner health nut by keeping up to date on Tweets about health and fitness.

Here is my fitness list from Twitter:

SELF Magazine – @selfmagazine – Official Tweets from SELF magazine

Chalene Johnson – @chalenejohnson – Super friendly and super fit. Creator of Turbo Jam, TurboKick, and Chalean Extreme, just to name a few.

Fit Sugar - @fitsugar – Check out this fitness blog at www.fitsugar.com

Gaiam – @gaiam – Hippie food, organic fibers, granola-crunching yoga-freak awesomeness. Namaste, ya’ll. www.gaiam.com

YogaDork – @yogadork – Check out this yoga blog at www.yogadork.com

Jillian Michaels – @jillianmichaels – It’s Jillian from The Biggest Loser!

Bob Harper - @mytrainerBob – It’s Bob from The Biggest Loser!

Hungry Girl – @hungrygirl – Check out this nutrition blog at www.hungrygirl.com

Smash Fit - @smashfit – Tweets from Smash Fit founder Heather Frey. Trainer/client match-making at www.smashfit.com

Bethenny Frankel – @bethenny – Bethenny is the “health foodie” and that awesome chick from Real Housewives of NYC

Taryn Perry - @choose2befit – Taryn is a hot mom! She is  a Beachbody coach with great advice and will she take the time to personally answer your questions about P90x and Insanity.

Tony Horton – @tonyhorton – Tony is an animal. He created P90x, Power 90, and Ten Minute Trainer. (Tony darling you need to Tweet more!)

Mark Sisson - @mark_sission – Check out his blog at www.marksdailyapple.com to learn about the Primal Blueprint approach to health

Eat This Not That - @etnt – What’s the best of two evils? Check out the Eat This Not That nutrition books

Women’s Health Magazine - @womenshealthmag -  Official Tweets from Women’s Health Magazine

SHAPE Magazine - @SHAPE_magazine – Official Tweets from SHAPE Magazine

Oxygen Magazine - @Oxygen_magazine – Official Tweets from Oxygen Magazine

Healthy Eats - @healthyeats – Check out this nutrition blog at http://blog.healthyeats.com

Jackie Warner - @jackiewarner10 – The star of Bravo’s Workout, fitness icon, uber-intimidating trainer-to-the-stars, creator of Sky Sport Spa, entrepreneur, self-made millionaire by age 22..nbd. This lady inspires me. (Tweet more, please!!)

I hope this helps you find some great information that will motivate you 140-characters at a time.  Have any suggestions for me? Who else should I follow to get my health nutty Twitter fix?

You know those affected phony hipster peeps who ride the T and read mystery books, Jane Austen novels, and Hemmingway's best of the best?

Yea… that's not me.  Working in consumer PR (read: fashion clients), I'm surrounded by free copies of the check-out line's greatest hits – namely: US Weekly, People, Cosmo, etc.  That and some coffee? Let's get this commute party started.

So these magazines.  You know what one of the top stories is every time?  Some skinny celebrity and her miracle 1,200 calorie diet.  You read this stuff, wonder if you could do the same thing, and then you proceed to feel guilty five hours later when you're stuffing yourself with office potluck party cupcakes.  Yet, at the end of the day you come to your senses and call BS on the whole thing. Yea freaking right [insert celebrity name] actually eats that.  Adderall and Belvedere aren't exactly the South Beach Diet.  

 What you need to read is Cristin Dillon-Jones' Eat Like Me blog on Self.com.  She's a legit registered dietician who blogs about her day-to-day diet.  The point is plain and simple: you can have a busy life and still eat healthy.  She leads by example.  It's realistic and motivating to read Cristin's cooking tips, shopping ideas, and responses to reader questions.

One of the things I love most is that at the end of each post, Cristin describes her meal in terms of what nutrition it provides.  So often "healthy" is qualified by how little the portion is, how few calories it is, how low-fat it is.  It's always focused on taking in less of something.  It's about deprivation.  Here, the focus is how much the meal gives.  It's about fueling your body with what it needs.

It's almost cool enough for me to get one of those iTampon I mean iPad things so I can enjoy it on the T.