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Hacker's Diet without microsoft excel
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 |
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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 |
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