Interested in objective analysis of weight loss techniques

rellik

rellik

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Hi everyone. I just found this site and it looks like a great
resource.. What I'm particularly interested in is weight loss/gain
patterns. My pattern, it seems, is that I am usually about the same
weight, but sometimes I gain a little (and don't lose it). So, over
time I slowly creep up the scale.

Now, I'm starting to take control and drop the weight, but that
doesn't address the bigger issue here, which is why I tend to gain
weight over time, and what needs to change to make my weight more
constant.

I've been doing some reading on this stuff, and I came across this
site which talks about how the body processes food, and kinda the
(dumbed-down) science behind the whole process of weight loss/gain.
It's called the Hacker's Diet, if anyone is interested
().

In relation to that, I've been keeping track of my daily weight lately
(something I've never done before, but it's interesting). I put up a
little site which generates graphs from a list of weights
(), since I
figured it would probably be of interest to more than just me.

I'm interested in what other thoughts people have on this subject...
 
That hacker's diet made my head spin. The guy needs to hit by a 'concise stick'.

I would avoid it like the plague. He makes something quite easy incredibly complicated and silly.

Michael
 
Yea man.... losing/maintaining weight isn't all that difficult.

Figure out your maintenance intake where calories in = calories out.

Eat less than that more days than you don't.

The weight will come off.

We can certainly get into specifics, but stop looking for some secret/magic answer and start focusing on consistency.
 
Well, *I* found the Hacker's Diet quite interesting, but to each his own, I guess :)

As far as my post being spam, I have no association with the Hacker's Diet (it's free and ad-less anyway, so why would I spam it?).. The other site I mentioned is mine, but is also free and ad-less, so I don't know why I would spam it either.

In my own defense, I put the latter site together as a tool that I use myself, and figured might be of interest to others. From the handful of comments on here, sounds like it may just be useful to me, but, seeing as I'm the target audience, that's ok :)
 
It's interesting if you like 1840 court cases. The information is just way too out there. There is no need to go through such trouble.

Michael
 
I'm a fan of the Hacker's Diet. I'd guess it's a personality thing - the 5 million pages (available in a dozen different interfaces customized for the browser of your choice!) amuse, rather than annoy, me. And the basic information (eat less, move more, repeat, forever) is pretty much what the regulars here seem to say.

I really really like the weighting / smoothing algorithm, because it keeps me from obsessing about random fluctuation. Are your graphs based on the same formula (with a non-weighted average line added)?
 
allyphoe,

glad you The Hacker's Diet.. admittedly you have to be pretty analytical to find that kinda stuff interesting, but there should be a fair share of programmers/techies around (cause we're one of the jobs that has to sit at a computer all day, not that that's my *only* problem) :)

But yeah, I agree that it's not aimed at giving new information, but rather at explaining what we already take for granted.

As far as my site, thanks for your comments :) The averages are computed using the same formula, but the "daily averages" give more weight to more recent days, so the line stays closer to actual recorded weights. I'm still playing around with it (I'd consider it in a beta phase now -- functional but still being added to).

One guy suggested that I add a BMI line, and a way to set a goal (weight or BMI).

Glad to hear someone likes it, though.. I made it for myself, like I said, but it would be cool to get a few people using it and develop some new features. I think it's a nice tool for those of us that are really visually-oriented.
 
There are much better explanations than that one. Long-winded =/ analytical. Not to mention some of his ideas are flat out wrong.

If you want to learn more about the subject in regards to diets pick up a nutrition textbook.

Michael
 
rellik: I'm scared to even attempt to find the flaws I found in that rant. Needless to say it is approached too much like an engineer: for all the long-windedness it avoids important discussions about specific satiety, hormones, metabolic differences, etc.

Michael
 
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