VA Lifers

A handful of readers already know about this project, but with over 25,000 page views last month it’s probably safe to assume this will be news to many of you. (The topic of how on earth I achieved such stats will, or at least should, be the topic of another post.)

I’ve been doing my best to follow the Body-for-Life (”BFL” for the acronym-happy) lifestyle. This involves following some dietary guidelines and exercising six days a week.

A few weeks back I set out to find a nice online community for people doing the BFL thing, preferably targeted at people in Virginia. I struck out, so I decided to roll my own.

Enter VA Lifers (http://valifers.com/). In a weekend I deployed a mildly-tweaked phpBB forum with a very simple design. “Mildly tweaked” in that I installed a mod or two and added some custom logic to make it a little more BFL-centric.

I’m holding off on doing any more work on the site until it actually gets some use. Myself and Chance started bantering back and forth about various BFL topics, but without other users we may as well just chat about it at the gym.

Ultimately I hope that participating on and maintaining this site will keep me on track with the program. We shall see!