The Hacker’s Diet

In prepa­ra­tion for meet­ing my first res­o­lu­tion, I found a cool plug-in for Word­Press called The Hacker’s Diet. It’s based on the book of the same name by John Walker, the co-author of AutoCAD.

The way it works is that I just punch in my weight when­ever (ide­ally every day, but you can skip days and it will just guess your weight on those days based on your before and after weights), and it charts your weight and “real weight” trend against your goal. After you hit your goal, it will let you go into “main­te­nance mode” which trig­gers an alarm if your weight goes out­side of a cer­tain window.

I think I did well last time I went on a weight chal­lenge because of a few fac­tors — the con­test forced me to check my weight reg­u­larly and keep it in mind, the par­tic­i­pants gave each other encour­age­ment along the way, and the threat of los­ing money kept me focused. This plug-in will hope­fully take care of num­ber 1. I’ll be post­ing my results weekly like before, so I’m count­ing on you to take care of num­ber 2 for me. And as for num­ber 3… I’m debat­ing whether I should pick an anti-charity to give money to, or just pun­ish myself in some more direct man­ner. What do you think?

Here’s my 0-Day Report:

Keep going! 40.1 lbs to go!
Hacker's Diet Day 0
Weekly loss: 0 lbs. — Daily deficit: 0 calo­ries.
You will never reach your goal of 155 lbs at this rate.
Adjust to a 0 daily calo­rie deficit to meet your goal.

For future ref­er­ence, here is the “Fit­ness Ladder” -

Rung Bend Sit Up Leg Lift Push Up Step Count
1 2 3 4 2 105 1–30
2 3 4 5 3 140 1–65
3 4 6 6 3 170 2–20
4 6 7 8 4 200 2–50
5 7 9 9 5 225 3–0
6 8 10 10 6 255 3–30
7 10 11 12 7 280 3–55
8 12 13 14 8 305 4–5
9 14 15 16 9 325 4–25
10 16 16 18 11 350 4–50
11 18 18 20 12 370 4–70
12 20 20 22 13 390 5–15
13 23 21 25 15 405 5–30
14 25 23 27 16 425 5–50
15 28 25 30 18 440 5–65
16 14 10 12 9 340 4–40
17 15 11 14 10 355 4–55
18 16 12 16 11 375 5–0
19 18 13 17 12 390 5–15
20 19 14 19 13 405 5–30
21 21 15 21 14 420 5–45
22 22 16 23 15 435 5–60
23 24 17 25 16 445 5–70
24 25 18 27 17 460 6–10
25 27 20 29 18 470 6–20
26 29 21 31 19 480 6–30
27 31 23 33 20 490 6–40
28 33 24 36 21 500 6–50
29 34 26 38 22 510 6–60
30 36 28 40 23 515 6–65
31 38 29 43 24 525 7–0
32 40 31 45 25 530 7–5
33 43 33 48 26 535 7–10
34 45 35 51 27 540 7–15
35 47 37 54 28 540 7–15
36 49 39 56 29 545 7–20
37 51 41 59 30 545 7–20
38 54 43 62 31 545 7–20
39 56 46 65 32 550 7–25
40 59 48 68 33 555 7–30
41 61 50 72 34 555 7–30
42 64 53 75 35 555 7–30
43 66 55 78 36 560 7–35
44 69 58 81 37 560 7–35
45 72 61 85 38 560 7–35
46 74 64 88 39 575 7–50
47 77 66 92 40 575 7–50
48 80 69 96 41 575 7–50

Posted by Dinh at 2:53 pm on January 1st, 2009. 6 comments... »
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6 comments.

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