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The Hacker's Diet
I recently found out about the book "The Hacker's Diet" on another
forum and I am about halfway into it. "The Hacker's Diet" is a free, online, brief, and downloadable book by the founder of the tech company Autodesk. Having founded a successful company and having made himself rich the author decided to apply engineering and programming principals to his life long weight problem. He lost weight and has maintained the loss for years. The plan in the book is basic monitoring of food intake vs weight......a no BS approach, but with a twist. He includes several excel speadsheets for readers to plot their weights on......frequently. He explains the role of water, air, as well as other things that have nothing to do with body composition for adding/dropping pounds on a daily basis on a scale. His graphs use moving averages to ferret out updward and downard trends from the volatile spikes in weight that appear with frequent weighings. If your graph shows a downward trend, you can save your sanity and motivation by seeing that. If you start to see an upward trend, with his graphs you will see it early, giving you plenty of an opportunity to take care of the problem while it is small and easily fixed. The book is clear and the author has a nice sense of humor: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ |
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The Hacker's Diet
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ups.com: I recently found out about the book "The Hacker's Diet" on another forum and I am about halfway into it. It's actually kind of fun to read and informative. Nothing new under the sun, but motivation is motivation, no matter where it's found. -- ~Donna~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot http://www.zensewing.com http://www.donationdolls.com |
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The Hacker's Diet
Steve wrote: I recently found out about the book "The Hacker's Diet" on another forum and I am about halfway into it. "The Hacker's Diet" is a free, online, brief, and downloadable book by the founder of the tech company Autodesk. Having founded a successful company and having made himself rich the author decided to apply engineering and programming principals to his life long weight problem. He lost weight and has maintained the loss for years. The plan in the book is basic monitoring of food intake vs weight......a no BS approach, but with a twist. He includes several excel speadsheets for readers to plot their weights on......frequently. He explains the role of water, air, as well as other things that have nothing to do with body composition for adding/dropping pounds on a daily basis on a scale. His graphs use moving averages to ferret out updward and downard trends from the volatile spikes in weight that appear with frequent weighings. If your graph shows a downward trend, you can save your sanity and motivation by seeing that. If you start to see an upward trend, with his graphs you will see it early, giving you plenty of an opportunity to take care of the problem while it is small and easily fixed. The book is clear and the author has a nice sense of humor: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ Keeping diligent of minor changes is key. I know from personal experience unless you watch your calories and weight religiously, you are likely to gain weight. Part of that is deep down knowing when you are off your diet and not wanting to know your weight so you stop weighing yourself and stop with your exercise program. If you are charting and reading dieting books, chances are you are keenly aware of your progress and it is working. It's the stopping that is the red flag that you are off the diet. Something like giving up AA meetings I suppose for alcoholics. I've been there and done that, luckily not the alcohol though, just the food. Overeating seems to work like an addiction. Problem is you can't quit eating so the temptation to overeat will ALWAYS be there. dkw |
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