Between us we can build up the knowledge base to help us all do whatever we want with our diets, but sustainably. Sustainably in the sense we can step round the diet yo-yo and sustainably in a way that will reduce the environmental impact of western eating habits.

On My Diet Friends you can keep a diet blog, or web diary, you can comment on other people's diaries and give them support, you can write an article on diet issues, you can seek out people with similar diet needs.

In time we will add new features but for now this is the place to come to find friends to help you achieve your diet goals, to find people that need you to motivate them, and to discuss the wider implications of bad eating. We felt there are too many sites out there trying to persuade people to go onto weight loss diets of one kind or another without providing a healthy context.

The most important point of eating is to be healthy. Weight is important to health but there is more to health than weight.

Research has shown that even very overweight people can improve their health prospects, by eating better and by exercising.

At the same time we understand a whole lot of people have a weight-loss diet in their immediate plans.

We reckon if people were able to reach out to others it might help them in their ambition to lose weight or to manage their weight better. And if we can provide the right context for that then we might begin to converge our individual diet needs with more sustainable eating habits. Care to join?