The Hacker's Diet

Lightning talk going over some of the ideas in John Walker's _The Hacker's Diet_, an approach to weight management as an engineering problem.

Transcript

2. How to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition
6. ➖ = Body has Inputs (food)
7. ➖ = and outputs (water and waste)
8. ➖ = the difference between the two
9. ➖ = dictates your weight loss or gain
10. There are no miracles
11. The only way to lose weight is to burn more calories than you eat
12. The trend line http://caleb.click/fDmH
13. A n e x p o n e n t i a l l y s m o o t h e d m o v i n g average of your weight
14. used to compute your average daily calorie balance
16. Negative reinforcement
17. Track your weight consistently
18. don't ever look at day- to-day weight
19. weigh first thing in the morning, naked.
20. “Exponentially smoothed weighted moving average”
23. Calorie Counting
24. Measure and plan everything you eat
25. Eat anything - just manage calories.
26. I did this for a bit
28. Figured out what the deficit I was going for felt like, and am able to stick with that without counting
30. Activity Calories/hour Walking 300 Bicycling 300 Aerobics 400 Swimming 400 Tennis 500 Basketball 500 Jogging 700
31. Tasty Treat Calories Peanut butter sandwich 275 Pizza (3 slices) 500 Big Mac 560
32. Exercise to live longer and feel better
33. He provides a workout plan
34. I run and go to the bouldering gym
35. https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/