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The hacker's diet is a perfect example of a watched metric improving just by being watched. When I needed to lose weight recently, I watched what I eat (in a g
by gstar 18y ago
The hacker's diet is a perfect example of a watched metric improving just by being watched.
When I needed to lose weight recently, I watched what I eat (in a google docs spreadsheet) and weighed myself every day, and lost 10kg in about 10 weeks.
- Oxryly 18y agoCan you see yourself doing that for the next 30-40+ years?
- gstar 18y agoNo, but the principle of the hackers diet is to keep doing it. I'm hoping that something I read recently about people likely having two different weight equilibriums (can't find a link) holds true.
- Oxryly 18y agoYour weight equilibrium is definitely not fixed. It depends almost entirely on your hormone levels. If they are brought in to balance, your weight equilibrium will fall somewhere in a healthy range of 14%-20%. The good thing is it will stay that way. You'll have to keep your blood sugar and other things like cortisol under control, but you won't have to count calories.
- lacker 18y agoWhy not? It doesn't really take much time to note down what you ate, or step on a scale. I brush my teeth every day and that takes much longer.
- dkarl 18y agoSeconded. When my weight starts ticking up and I can't bring it under control, my "nuclear option" is to record my weight every morning and write down everything I eat. At the end of the day I put everything on a blog. Even though the blog doesn't bear my name, doesn't have any readers, and can't be connected to me in any way, it hurts like hell when I have to record a bad food day. It hurts even worse than eating right. It's my bogeyman.