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Hackers On Atkins
`Sean writes "Salon.com has published a story about Hackers on Atkins. Although going on a diet is the last thing on the minds of the stereotypical geek basking in the ambient radiation of multiple monitors for 15 hours per day, many hackers have been embracing Atkins because utilizing low-carb methods to modify the metabolism is analogous to hacking and overclocking the body. Others have been combining Atkins with other systems, such as John Walker's The Hacker's Diet. I've personally lost a hundred pounds so far and will toss in the obligatory if I can do it, anyone can ism."
Though it might be appetizing (hehe) to use this diet, do you guys know that Atkins died? and it was a result of his diet? Frankly, any diet that starves is not a good idea. If you are a fatass, then maybe computer time should not be first on your list of things to do. jgraham (not a fatass)
--Pat / zippy@cs.brandeis.edu
Actually I take that back. One woman I know did loose weight on a high protein diet. She had been trying to get pregnant for many years, and when she did she went to the doctor and got a stern talking to about her weight, which when combined with the pregnancy wasn't a good thing. Like nearly life threatening.
So after the baby was born, she went on a high protein diet that was recommended by her doctor. Since she was very obese, her medical health insurance paid for it. She went through a special medical firm that specialized in this program. She had heart check-ups like daily to make sure there were no imbalances in um potassium I think, and she had a boatload of proscribed vitamins that she was taking to replace what she was loosing daily due to ketosis.
That medically managed program worked for her. Buy the book do-it-yourself jobbies are disasters. If you think you might qualify, see a doctor and find out if your health insurance will cover a medical program.
If not, then there is only one answer. I'm sorry I don't have the Opus cartoon to link to, but I do remember the quote after Opus's latest fad diet, a combination of the Parsley and Prunes diet and the Frog legs and Flatulence diet.
"Eat less and exercise more."
Darlin' there ain't no other way.
Really, if you're looking for sensible health advice, body-building lore is best avoided. (No offense to body-builders, it's just that they do a lot of undeniably unhealthy stuff in order to get so extremely ripped.)
Ah, here we go, the "moral superiority" of the metabolically skinny.
"The metabolocally skinny"? Give me a break. You could make just as strong a case for individual differences in the desire to rape and pillage. Some people just don't like to rape women and burn the homes of their foes as much as others. For them, maintaining the peace isn't really a matter of "strong will" any more than it's a matter of strong will for me not to eat broccoli. Does that mean that someone who goes around raping and looting is just "weak willed"? And so forth...
Whatever happened to taking responsibility for yourself?
-- MarkusQ
It worked for me, and everyone else with a backbone.
Everybody is different. I have seen people who lost a lot of weight just by doing a *little* excercise, and the opposite. What works for you may not work for others.
Pick up an Indian cookbook.
I don't like indian food. Any food without a certain amount of fat and oils just plain tastes like cardboard. Spicy cardboard is not much an improvement.
Run a consistent daily caloric deficit and your stomach will adjust within a few weeks.
I have seen a lot of people who make this claim slip back into their old eating patterns. It is like those religious nuts who say, "If you pray for 5 years, your prayer will be answered." The smell of a BigMac (or your fav food) will NOT loose its allure power over time. I guarentee it. The longer you go without, the more tempting it will be.
What a bunch of nonsense. You are addicted to food;
I don't LIKE dealing with food. There is too much fussing and guilt associated with it. I would rather just inject myself with raw calories rather that futz with food issues.
Darwinian evolution made us ALL addicted to food.
Don't be such a fucking baby.
Maybe so. The cure is worse than the desease as far as delivering happiness. I would rather live for 60 years in comfort than 75 years with that horrid awful empty feeling of hunger. It is just as bad as constaint low-to-mid-level pain.
Would you rather live 60 years with sex or 75 without? That is the kind of choice being offered by the It-Only-Takes-Discipline jerks.
Eat and exert like one lives in a 3rd world country? That is "progress"? Fuckit!
Table-ized A.I.