December 4th, 2005
The Hacker’s Diet: How to Hack Your Own Body and Get in Shape the Techie Way
By Alice Hill
RealTechNews
You can read this two ways, as a funny take on diet books, or as someone in the tech demographic applying a tech mind at the problem of spending too much time in front of a PC. Sound like you (or me?) Then, this book: The Hacker’s Diet is worth a look. Why? a) it’s free and all online and b) why not click on a few pages between burger bites?
The statistics are remarkable. We’re talking megayards here; one wonders what the numbers would be if T-shirts came in Extra-Extra-Large, Jumbo, Gigantic, Colossal, Planetary, and Incipient Gravitational Collapse sizes as well as the usual S, M, L, and XL. People who thrive on unscrewing the inscrutable–figuring out how complicated systems work and controlling them–sometimes fail to apply those very techniques to maintaining their own health. How strange to on the one hand excel at your life’s work and on the other, XL in girth.
But not that strange, really. I’ve been there. For decades I believed controlling my weight was impossible, too painful to contemplate, or incompatible with the way I chose to live my life. I’d convinced myself that the only people who were physically fit were lawyers and other parasitic dweebs who, not forced to earn an honest living, had the time for hours of pumping various odd machines or jogging in the middle of the road while hard-working, decent folks were trying to get to work.
Most extraordinary things are done by ordinary people who never knew what they were attempting was “impossible.'’ Hackers have seen this happen again and again; many of the most significant innovations in computing have been made by individuals or small groups, working alone, attempting tasks the mainstream considered impossible or not worth trying.
Once you possess the power to circumvent limitations, to control things most people consider immutable, you’re liberated from the tyranny of events. You’re no longer an observer; you’re in command. You’ve become a hacker. This book is about one simple, humble thing: getting control of your weight and health. By circumventing the limitations that made you overweight in the first place and keep you that way, you’re hacking the most complicated and subtle system in the world: your own human body.
Click Here to Read The Hacker’s Diet
rick says:
Two pages into this, and I’m downloading the zip version to read on my flight(s) home.
Thanks Alice … see you at the finish line.
Rick
November 1st, 2005 at 6:31 am
Adam says:
When I found out about this diet I read through it and it made a lot of sense. I was able to follow its directions and lose 10 pounds in 1-2 months (it was awhile ago). I’m loosely following it now and have steadily lost 1 pound a week for the last month.
It’s a fairly straightforward systems analysis of the human body. It appeals to my engineer side - when I understand a closed system then it’s easier to manipulate.
While one can use this to lose weight the main purpose is to determine what you want your body to be, then get it there, and make the necessary changes to your diet and exercise routine to keep it there. Too many people diet for a short period of time to lose weight, but a ‘diet’ is actually what you consume. You currently have a diet. This book helps you change your diet for the better.
-Adam
November 1st, 2005 at 8:46 pm
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