Weightloss and diet - Hacker's Diet without microsoft excel

On Feb 22, 11:02 am, "Steve" wrote:
I've been using the Hacker's Diet for the past month and a half with
very good results.

If anyone doesn't know what the Hacker's Diet is, this URL will take
you to a thorough but SHORT introduction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_diet

Anyway, the guy who wrote the free online Hacker's Diet book made some
great tools in excel for using the Hacker's Diet, but microsoft being
microsoft those tools do not work outside of excel. I tried them in
Open Office on Linux and much was broken.

The author does have a version of the tools that run on PalmOS.

However, if you don't use Windows or PalmOS, there is a great site
with the Hacker's Diet tools implemented online. The site is
simple, elegant, and thoughtfully put together. I actually like it
better than the original spread sheets:

http://www.physicsdiet.com/

It is available completely free of charge and you can use it anywhere,
regardless of platform.

FYI

Steve

Steve -- I like the Hacker's Diet and have plugged it several times
here I think.

Rather than the arcane mathematics associated with the weighing
process of the Hacker's Diet is the balance beam scale method I use --
that of moving the indicator down if you're taking significantly fewer
calories than you need to maintain your weight. I'm going for about
1000, although I've eaten less the last several days ('cause I ate
more several days before then) and not moving it higher if you have
temporary water/roughage/salt gain, etc.

For me the indicator can move in only one position -- that is, to the
left (i.e., down). This also reduces the error variance attributable
to water/roughage/etc. while it helps preserve motivation. (I don't
find it hard not to move the indicator to the right to see how much
temporary weight I might have gained from one day's gnoshing, and
every morning there is the possibility that I've lost weight -- and
it's a lot of fun to get on the scale with a sense of anticipation.)

As you may well know, in statistics people talk about a given score as
being a combination of a "true" score and error variance (plus or
minus a certain amount). With the balance beam system I describe
above, one may never know what one's "true" score is but over time one
will see the outermost margins decline and that will mean that the
"true" score is declining as well.

Anyway, this is something that people with a balance beam scale can do
within seconds when they weigh themselves in the morning.

When I reach weight, I anticipate the other side of the coin -- that
is, setting it so that if the upper border of true and error reach a
certain limit -- 200 -- it will be time to motivate me to immediately
take action.

I certainly think the Hacker's Diet has a lot of neat things going for
it! I recommend it to people!

Yours truly,

Caleb