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Hacking Weight Loss: What I Learned Losing 30 Pounds

Posted by timothy on from the can't-be-more-than-a-hundred-and-ninety-seven dept.

reifman writes The CDC reports that 69% of adult Americans are overweight or obese. Techies like us are at increased risk because of our sedentary lifestyles. Perhaps you even scoffed at Neilsen's recent finding that some Americans spend only 11 hours daily of screen time. Over the last nine months, I've lost 30 pounds and learned a lot about hacking weight loss and I did it without fad diets, step trackers, running or going paleo. No such discussion is complete without a link to the Hacker Diet.

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  1. Amazing post by kamapuaa · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow! The guy ate less calories, and he lost weight!

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  2. dyson mod by xombo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Was I the only one who went to his site hoping for an Arduino mod for my dyson that will turn it into a liposuction machine?

  3. Re:Common sense by gatkinso · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't eat anything that wasn't alive.

    For instance, there is not a creature called a "Dorito"

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