Tag: diet
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The Hacker’s Diet: My 3 Month Report Card
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…
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The Hacker’s Diet – January 2012
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…
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What’s Happening to Me?
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…
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The Fruitfly Conspiracy
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…
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The Hacker’s Diet – December 2011
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…
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The Gift of Yourself
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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Learning to not Hate Green Tea (Love is Out of the Question)
It’s five weeks since I started my diet and exercise regimen… now with assistance from green tea in lieu of my preferred beverages: coffee and diet soda. I used to hate green tea. Hate it. H-A-T-E This is one of the reasons I suspected it was probably very good for me. I tend to dislike…
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Can you look at yourself naked?
Today is four weeks since I started this physical rebirth. Sixteen pounds doesn’t seem like much to have lost, and maybe it’s gone unnoticed by other people, but there’s already a perceptible effect to me. The other day I passed by the large mirror in the washroom at my workplace… and I actually caught my…
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The Hacker’s Diet – November 2011
So, when my weight hit 222 pounds I had something of an epiphany and decided on a diet and exercise regimen. I chose The Hacker’s Diet, which I’d actually tried 2 years ago. Nothing wrong with the diet, I just wasn’t committed enough to stick to any kind of reduction. As diets go, Hacker’s couldn’t…