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/

"Steve" scribbled while perusing
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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.

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~Donna~
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot
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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

wrote:
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

I could not agree more with your comments. I experienced all the above.
I will always continue my weight and calories monitoring.