You couldn't resist tweeting about that gooey cinnamon bun you had for breakfast. And all your dusty cookbooks? Ditched in favour of gourmet recipes shared in 140 characters or less.
But if all that food tweeting is making you fat, look no further than the microblog itself to help you melt off the pounds.
Tweet What You Eat is a new Twitter-based diet diary that lets users track their food and calorie intake and publish it for all the Twitterverse to see (or, as the bloggers at Lemondrop.com put it, "so the entire world gets to know that you just ate an entire can of whipped cream for funzies").
By posting each item of food consumed and its calorie count, the more than 8,000 users shame, er, motivate each other into sticking to a diet. They can even link individual food journals to compare nutritional notes (the newest members list urges you to click a user to see what they're eating). The Do Not Eat list keeps in plain sight all the nibbles you've deemed verboten.
There's also something voyeuristically satisfying in knowing "alivicki" ate boiled potatoes (68 calories) and seafood sticks x 4 (48 calories) for dinner Monday night.
Despite claims from users that their pounds have melted off since the service launched - British actor Stephen Fry shed 84 pounds in six months by logging his meals, The Daily Telegraph reports - the site is far from scientific. Unless users know the calorie count of certain foods, they'll just have to guess - a loophole that makes fudging entirely possible. Mmmm ... fudge.
