The dream of all of us is to lose weight and at the same time to not lose our cheer­ful­ness by starv­ing and through depri­va­tion of our favorite food that obvi­ously helps us put on weight.

I have found my for­mula with­out any real inten­tion of find­ing it and I want to share it with you.

1^st To become a geek

First off, you have to become a geek. There are many def­i­n­i­tions of geek and the one I like most is Julia Hayden’s def­i­n­i­tion which includes many fea­tures I can relate to. For­tu­nately not the one at point 4 “You are wear­ing ten year old spec­ta­cles, made of steel.” and I still have more shoes than email addresses, point 8, but this is merely because I am a woman.

But yes, I have planned to get a sec­ond Master’s Degree and I do my best work after 11pm (Do not tell my mother) and yes, I am cre­at­ing my own social net­work.
If you read through the def­i­n­i­tion you will see how much brain work you need to be a geek, this is extremely calo­rie burning.

2^nd To become a social media member

To be a Face­book mem­ber, a Linkedin mem­ber, a Twit­ter mem­ber, a Blomap mem­ber, a Plurk mem­ber, a Stum­ble Upon mem­ber, a Pos­ter­ous mem­ber, a Friend Feed mem­ber, a Digg mem­ber, a Xing mem­ber, a Seesmic mem­ber etc. is some­thing ques­tion­able for nor­mal peo­ple. This is why you need to be a geek before becom­ing a social media member.

Even this activ­ity requires a huge effort and speed­i­ness which brings along a good amount of calo­rie burning.

3^rd To cre­ate a Social Network

If you are social media mem­ber and indulge in it, you could come up with the idea of cre­at­ing your own social net­work. Basi­cally you can do it quickly through Ning, you have just to sign up for it, invite your friends and that’s it, from a tech­ni­cal per­spec­tive. Then all the net­work­ing work will be time con­sum­ing and adren­a­lin pro­duc­ing, so you should lose some of your spare tyre.

If you want to make an attempt at some­thing stronger, then you should cre­ate your social net­work from scratch, as I did, and I called it Blomap, a mix of struc­tured Blog and Maps. Blomap embeds Google maps and enables users to mark their favorite loca­tions, it geo-localises the con­tent, it has fil­ters for all the con­tent the users post, and above all, it has been cre­ated through out­sourc­ing teams. Oh that is like run­ning 4km a day!

4^th To cre­ate a Social Media Agency

After cre­at­ing your own social net­work you should be close to reach­ing the desired weight and start think­ing how to reach the last step. Actu­ally it could not be any­thing else than set­ting up your own busi­ness which would obvi­ously be a Social Media Agency. You can­not set up a Social Media Agency if you have not com­pleted point 1,2,3. In fact, you have to be a geek, an all social media mem­ber and the owner of a social net­work to found your own Social Media Agency.
In fact, only then you can mix the geek, the social media mem­ber, and the social net­work owner that are in you and pro­vide com­pa­nies with this social media shake.
Obvi­ously to lose fur­ther Kgs you have to use the strength of all social media ana­lyz­ers, find  ways to earn through social media and finally you have to be able to cal­cu­late, through def­i­nite met­rics, the R.O.I. for your clients.
My Social Media com­pany is Swis­site Inter­na­tional and it has helped me to lose some grams so far, but merely because it is a start up.

5^th To plan your wed­ding day through Social Media

If you have arrived at this stage you should have reached the desired weight and be very happy with this. The thou­sand net­works you cre­ated will help you to keep the weight at the level you desire.

In case you are going to have a big party soon or get mar­ried, then this will sup­port you in keep­ing fit and slim at least till the wed­ding day. If you are think­ing that you will go here and there to organ­ise your wed­ding and will lose Kgs this way, you are wrong.

You won’t have to run so much and so far to lose weight, you still have to exploit the social media skills you have acquired by pass­ing through phase 1, 2, 3 and 4 to plan your wed­ding day through social media.

First off, you can search for and add your favorite wed­ding loca­tions, cater­ing, bride and groom’s dresses shops, accom­mo­da­tion for your guests and so on to your per­sonal map in Blomap. Then you can send the wed­ding invi­ta­tion to the hun­dreds of geeks you have known dur­ing phase 1, 2, 3, and 4 through Blomap: you just have to send an event invi­ta­tion and share your wed­ding loca­tion with your geek guests and that’s it.

So you will be relieved of some costs whilst burn­ing calo­ries through your adren­a­lin pro­duc­ing work-out made of blo-mapping and sharing.

Does it really work or it is only a joke?

If you are won­der­ing whether or not it really works, well if it worked for me, why not for you? I have recently felt my jeans are looser than usual and I have thought that they were just about to split due to my latin but­tock.
It is true that I have been a geek and social media mem­ber for ages and I have worked on my own social net­work for 2 years. So I only had to inten­sify my activ­ity and finalise phase 3 and 4 by sit­ting for 2 weeks in front of my com­puter to cre­ate the design for my social media agency and test last issues of my social net­work. Dur­ing that time I have been eat­ing a lot of carbs, choco­late and what­ever anti-depressive food you can imag­ine and I have been plan­ning to go to the gym the day after tomor­row again and again. Well, when I finally made up my mind and went to the gym I thought it was high time I weighed myself to face up to the sad plight of the over­weight. Noth­ing could have been more wrong, I went up and down to the scale but actu­ally it was true: I had lost weight through Social Media!!!

Do it and let me know if you have reached the weight of your dreams.