Thanks to my trusty readers for alerting me to two pretty cool sites about weight loss.

Billy Palmer let slip FatSecret.com, a nifty place with journals, recipes, tips and more about diets and dieting. I love the feature in which members track their average pounds lost per week on different diets. And then there are the people who make up their own diets.

And unlike many diet sites, you can go in as a guest and tool around before deciding if you want to sign up.

RKSun06 told me about WeightCircles.com, where dieters can give tips and comments and blog. RK says blogging helps him/her stay on track because they do it on a daily basis.

I can attest to that. More than once I've turned down some treat because if I'm gonna talk the talk on this blog, I gotta walk the walk, as the Super Bowl-winning Dallas Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson said.

-- Amanda Barrett, amNY.com