Followup on the Hacker's Diet? 16
shayne321 writes "After learning about the Hacker's Diet on /., I started the program myself. In a little over six months I've lost a little over 35 pounds and around 6% of body fat. Lately I've been substituting the Tae-Bo workout in place of the recommended exercise program and I've been having even better results. I was just curious as to success stories/failures of other Slashdot readers... I was also curious for those who've had success as to if they've been able to keep the weight off."
Re:Works great (Score:1)
As a reference, the healthy range for weight corrections is 3-5 kg a month (~6-10 lb.). It's sustainable, and most importantly, it won't send you into toxic shock.
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Re:Interesting (Score:1)
Fat cells are used to store all kinds of toxins that you've ingested, and that your body can't expell at the moment. When you start losing weight and expelling those fat cells, then you're also releasing those toxins back into your system. It's your kidneys' job to flush them out. The faster you lose weight, the faster you release the toxins, the harder you work your kidneys (and other organs). This can, and does, lead to organ damage. Then you may need medication to make your kidneys work, or if you're really unlucky, dialysis.
As for the 3-5 kg a month, I have it on good authority from some well-known gastroenterologists, and I've also seen the figure in at least one book on fasting.
On a related note, here's something that I haven't experienced, but I've heard from people who claim to have: people who undergo a strict cleansing fast, properly, experience the recurrence of all sorts of illnesses they had had years ago and had forgotten about. Things like throat infections and abcesses. I guess as they purged themselves of new junk, their bodies focussed on expelling old problems.
Basically, be careful. Everything in moderation. :)
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No Palm & Office 2000.. what to do? (Score:1)
Re:Interesting (Score:1)
Extremely uneven moderation of your posts on Slashdot.
Lost 30lbs so far (Score:1)
I try to eat a 1500 cal/day diet, but I do go out to eat on the weekends with no significant effects. I don't exercise at all and the weight is just coming off each week. I've lost about 4 inches in my waist.
Overall, it's working great!
Works great (Score:1)
Then I moved. I lived with someone else temporarily (4 months) and so had to eat their dinner with them AND didn't have access to a scale. Afterwards I found I had gained 15-20 back. I'm now back on the semi-strict and have lost 10.
But is it easy to keep off? Yes. I don't attribute the 4 months of gain to "not sticking to the diet" but to "not weighing (and charting) myself every day". That is the absolute key.
For reference, for me "semi-strict" mean "never eat to the point where your stomach hurts" AND "take the low-cal alternative where possible (diet soft drinks, mop up the grease puddles on pizza, etc)".
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Interesting (Score:1)
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Re:Lost 30lbs so far (Score:1)
It's Worked for Me (Score:1)
I haven't been following the excercise plan in the diet, since I have some concerns about some of the excercises. However, now that I've lost enough weight that being more active is easier: I've started karate class, and am enjoying the ability to ride the local bike trails on evenings and weekends.
I've been using the Palm Eat Watch application to track my daily weight, and created a spreadsheet on my PC to record my food and calorie consumption. I also have a "mini" version of the spreadsheet in Tiny Sheet on the palm, so I can track my calories even when I'm on the road. Staying on track hasn't been incredibly hard, but I do have to be aware of what I eat, and how much.
My Unintentional Diet (Score:1)
Than as school started and I had to drive to college I hadn't had the time nor the money to eat. I would leave my house around 6:30am and sometimes depending on evening classes not get back until 9:30pm. I did work, but I never carried much money on me.
I went from 225 lbs in August to around 185 in September. Just get a busy, geeky, college, working lifestyle with no money on you and you be suprised how quickly you slim down.
Lost 10lb in 2 weeks (Score:1)
-Adam
Weight control is just mind over platter.
My Diet Success (Score:1)
It's mostly attitude, (Score:1)
Re:my hacker's diet (Score:2)
How do you think people get those big butts and have massive guts sticking out of thier shirts? Its the fat content. The body has an easier time burning sugar and would rather just store the fat.
My only problem is that greasy foods don't hit the sweet spot on my taste buds. So I look like a wimpy toothpick with no backbone.
my hacker's diet (Score:2)
//rdj
Re:Works great (Score:3)
Your liver and kidneys will need to handle anything dissolved in the fat, and that can include some pretty nasty toxins. But unless you live on the Love Canal it's unlikely you're talking about more than milligrams (or even micrograms) of toxins per gram of fat. Of course, when you consider how nasty dioxin and other toxins are...
(Before I get a nitpicking response, I believe the liver does use modest amounts of fat in the production of other compounds, but it's not enough to have any impact on your weight.)
Also, IIRC fat cells don't hold onto fat until you finally go on a diet. Instead, they constantly release a little bit at all times, and constantly absorb a little bit from the blood stream at all times. (I think they show up on blood chemistry profiles as triglycerides, but I could be mistaken.) That said, the fat (and dissolved toxins) could simply take a scenic trip around your body before being absorbed by another fat cell, but this does tend to "stir" the toxins up so you shouldn't get any nasty spikes in toxin levels.