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Hacker's Diet Update - Week 10

March 13, 2009 Family / Friends / Health
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Time for another Hacker’s Diet update.

Keep going! 17.6 lbs to go!
Hacker's Diet Week 10
Weekly loss: 2.6 lbs. — Daily deficit: 1310 calo­ries.
You will reach your goal of 155 lbs on 2009-​04-​29. (247 days early!)

So far, I’ve lost 25.1 lbs of mea­sured weight (0.5 lbs in the last week) and 22.5 lbs of “real weight” (2.3 lbs in the last week). When I was doing the fam­ily chal­lenge, I had still only lost 15 lbs at this point.

Despite my ear­lier post, I think the scales so match up pretty well, so it seems that this really shows me what one bad day can do to my progress. I basi­cally lost a week of results due to care­less­ness. I snacked a lot at Chris­tine N’s party and even had a can of soda when I couldn’t find water at first. Should have had a lot more water and a lot less salty/​oily good­ness. Luck­ily, my “real weight” con­tin­ues to drop, so I’m still doing alright.

Just need to keep vigilant.

Exist To Resist

March 10, 2009 Food / Friends / Quote of the Day
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When I went to Chris­tine N’s engage­ment party on Sun­day, she was play­ing with one of her dogs after most of the guests had stum­bled home/​into bed.

“Resist!“
 – Chris­tine N, hold­ing a piece of food in front of the dog. Then she would alter­nate between eat­ing the food her­self and feed­ing the dog a piece.
“Wow, that’s well trained!“
 – James S and me.
“You should have seen his mom. I could hold a piece of food in her mouth, tell her to resist, and then pull it back out and eat it. She would shake and tear up, but she wouldn’t bite it.“
 – Chris­tine N.

Cruel, but awe­some. And James S and I agree, we have not seen a dog cry before. I guess we missed out.

I wish I had that level of self-​control.

Margin Of Error

March 9, 2009 Friends / Health / Work
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I am start­ing to think that there may be more sys­temic error in my Hacker’s Diet weight mea­sure­ments that I pre­vi­ously thought.

I men­tioned the pat­tern of ups and downs I’ve been hav­ing in my mea­sure­ments before, and I thought it was just due to dif­fer­ent eat­ing habits and weigh-​in times in Sacra­mento and the Bay, based on the peo­ple I’m eat­ing with and my work sched­ule. How­ever, I am start­ing to sus­pect that the scales I’m using may not be giv­ing me equal readings.

I know I ate a lot yes­ter­day at Chris­tine N’s engage­ment party, but this morn­ing, I logged a four pound increase over yesterday’s mea­sure­ment, and there is no way I ate four pounds of food. Might need to bring the scales together to see what’s going on, but for now, I will take solace in the fact that the pro­gram is still work­ing, even if I might be a week behind where I thought I was.