What did I do on my day off from work today? I read a diet book of all things. Chris Hardy mentioned that he'd lost ninety pounds by following the plan laid out in The Hacker's Diet.
Written by John Walker (founder of AutoDesk, makers of AutoCAD), it combines engineering and management approaches to come up with a feedback cycle to control weight. I'll boil it down to its essence:
The home page for the book (freely available online in a variety of formats) describes the book thusly:
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.
I plan on giving it a try. Hopefully those of you who know me personally will be able to tell a few months from now...
—Michael A. Cleverly
Monday, February 21, 2005 at 20:43
I believe in this diet, but you have to remember two things to this diet
- Self Control.
- You need to exersize for when your body goes into storage mode (body doesn't like it when all the sudden it doesn't get the calories it's used to.)
I followed very simply the first couple of chapters of this book a few years back and lost about 20 lbs. in a reasonable amount of time. I have been meaning to take up the diet yet again since I'm far heavier now than I ever was. Maybe I'll join you Michael.