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by John Walker
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This book is available online as an eBook at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/.
Older versions are available at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/.
From the Author
The Hacker's Diet, notwithstanding its silly subtitle, is a serious book about how to lose weight and permanently maintain whatever weight you desire. It treats dieting and weight control from an engineering and management standpoint, and provides the tools and an understanding of why they work and how to use them that permit the reader to gain control of their own weight. The book is intended primarily for busy, successful engineers, programmers, and managers who have struggled unsuccessfully in the past to lose weight and avoid re-gaining it. Computer-based tools and experiments in Microsoft Excel or the Palm Computing Platform are available, as well as an online Web application, but a computer is not necessary to use the techniques described in the book; paper and pencil alternatives are provided.
Older versions are available at http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/.
From the Author
The Hacker's Diet, notwithstanding its silly subtitle, is a serious book about how to lose weight and permanently maintain whatever weight you desire. It treats dieting and weight control from an engineering and management standpoint, and provides the tools and an understanding of why they work and how to use them that permit the reader to gain control of their own weight. The book is intended primarily for busy, successful engineers, programmers, and managers who have struggled unsuccessfully in the past to lose weight and avoid re-gaining it. Computer-based tools and experiments in Microsoft Excel or the Palm Computing Platform are available, as well as an online Web application, but a computer is not necessary to use the techniques described in the book; paper and pencil alternatives are provided.
This book gets to the heart of weight loss... giving scientific reasons for why our bodies act the way they do.
Great things I took from this book.
1. People can be overweight for different reasons, but the #1 reason is that your body doesn't stop you from overeating (by telling you you're "full").
2. Since your body won't do it for you, YOU need to tell yourself when to stop eating.
3. If you are hungry, it means you're losing weight. You have be hungry sometimes to lose weight.
4. When it comes to weight loss, forget exercise. It's easier for most people to pass on a snack than run on a tread mill for an hour.
A great read. Funny at times... especially for techies, hackers, and other computer nerds. But you don't have to be a programmer to learn something from this guy.
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