I never learned to skate. My father gave up on trying to teach me because I was never athletically gifted. This has stayed with me my whole life. I barely played sports, and didn’t try when I did because I never believed I could be any good. My wife bought me skates last week and [...]
For the last 3 months I’ve weighed myself every day. I’ve obsessed about numbers. I’ve been angry when my scale has been borrowed and not returned (not by the borrowing per se, but because it’s usually locked in someone’s bedroom and they won’t be getting up until the crack of noon). I’ve even allowed myself [...]
What does 3 months of weight loss look like? Here’s a graph of my experience: (click here to enlarge) Here are some bulletpoint take-aways from my experience so far on The Hacker’s Diet, referencing the chart above: General: My start weight was 222 pounds on November 3, 2011. Today’s weight is 185.0 pounds. I was [...]
The math doesn’t lie—it was a good month! On the last day of December I was 197.6 pounds, and on January 31 I’d dropped to 186.8, for 10.8 pounds lost for the month and 35.2 lost overall since November 3, 2011! In December I lost slightly less (9 pounds), so what did I do to [...]
The plan is this: No health club membership. Other than free-pass visits to friends’ gyms or 1-week promotional specials, you will work at home. Why? Pick a reason. You don’t want to spend entirely too much money each month paying to access a dirty, poorly-maintained club where the profits go straight into building more locations [...]
The changes I’m undergoing since beginning this food and fitness regimen are more than just physical. They’re mental. They’re emotional. I don’t recall such a sustained period of high functioning without periods of stress, depression or exhaustion… well, not since before parenthood, anyway. It’s not that my circumstances have changed significantly. If anything, life has [...]
burned 306 calories doing 26 minutes of “Manual treadmill (with HRM and calorie readout)” #myfitnesspal completed his food and exercise diary for 01/08/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal Tips to Burn More Fat on the Treadmill – http://t.co/KP0nuFIw Just in time for doomed New Year Resolutions, Costco’s got a lots of diet supplements [...]
This past Saturday marked the end of my 9th week of diet and exercise. The scale read 194.2, a new low, for nearly 28 pounds lost so far. Just the boost I needed to reinforce my commitment to fruit, which has gone from an occasional diversion to a multiple-times-daily staple of my diet. If only [...]
I lost 9 pounds lost this month (and 24.4 pounds in total)! My lowest weight was 197 and I’m not exactly certain why it spiked up nearly two pounds only one day after. Two theories: (1) my body is continuing to fight the weight loss, because the change is sudden and my equilibrium is still [...]
It’s six weeks since I started my diet and exercise regimen… I am now just over 200 pounds, or nearly 22 pounds down from where I started. To her credit, my wife took our wedding vows literally, loving me for better and for worse. At the beginning of November 2011, I’d certainly never looked worse. [...]
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