Start Being So Self Actualized and Appealing

[SwirlyBear]

You've lost so much weight that you've flipped over into an alternate dimension!

[isoS]

This intrigues me:

http://gizmodo.com/5709902/4+hour-bo...effective-dose

I'm definitely going to pick up this book. And hey, if it doesn't work I can always go back to my current regimen: Mousercise!

[SeanX3]

I dunno. Did you read the Four Hour Work Week?

[Berliner]

I'm no expert, but I think the lessons I've learned are that in order to lose weight, you just need to sacrifice and work hard. You need to try to eat more healthy and work out. Unless there's some genetic factors at play, you will lose weight.

I talked to a nutritionalist, and her recommendation was that your intake should have about 55 percent carbs (multi-grain, more complex except in the case of fruit), 30 percent fat, and 10 percent protein. You should spread your meals out through out the day, instead of eating three meals which will give you more energy than you need. Burning a net of 500 calories per week should equal one pound of weight loss, and that should be your target: one pound per week. If you are doing more than that, you are losing muscle or water.

A lost a lot of weight when I first started doing this, but in retrospect, I wish I took it slower, and ate healthier and exercised smarter.

[SeanX3]

500 calories a day = 3500 calories a week = 1 lb.

[Berliner]

Whoops, yes 500 per day.

[SeanX3]

Whoops, yes 500 per day.

Sorry, should have prefaced that with "minor correction" —*didn't mean to sound like a git.

Not that it wouldn't be great to eat 1.5 fewer Snickers bars and lose a pound a week.

[Harry B]

I'm no expert, but I think the lessons I've learned are that in order to lose weight, you just need to sacrifice and work hard. You need to try to eat more healthy and work out. Unless there's some genetic factors at play, you will lose weight.

I talked to a nutritionalist, and her recommendation was that your intake should have about 55 percent carbs (multi-grain, more complex except in the case of fruit), 30 percent fat, and 10 percent protein. You should spread your meals out through out the day, instead of eating three meals which will give you more energy than you need. Burning a net of 500 calories per week should equal one pound of weight loss, and that should be your target: one pound per week. If you are doing more than that, you are losing muscle or water.

A lost a lot of weight when I first started doing this, but in retrospect, I wish I took it slower, and ate healthier and exercised smarter.

That protein number seems really low if you're lifting any kind of weights. The ratio I see most often for people who are going to the gym and lifting is 30/50/20 -- protein/carbs/fat.

[isoS]

Can't believe Android Boy isn't jumping at the chance to "hack" his body. Would it help if the book referred to it as "rooting?" (Although I think "rooting your Droid" means something else when in reference to the human body.)

[Berliner]

That protein number seems really low if you're lifting any kind of weights. The ratio I see most often for people who are going to the gym and lifting is 30/50/20 -- protein/carbs/fat.

Weight loss, not body building.

[Berliner]

Can't believe Android Boy isn't jumping at the chance to "hack" his body. Would it help if the book referred to it as "rooting?" (Although I think "rooting your Droid" means something else when in reference to the human body.)

The only reason to hack something is to make it better. Pointless if it's perfect already.

But really, I just think you shouldn't try to take shortcuts. Just do the work (though I only skimmed it a little, maybe it does just tell you to do the work).

[isoS]

I've done the work, and I've gotten the results I wanted. I just thought it sounded interesting, and I find that there is often a lack of scientific foundation to a lot of diet and exercise programs. The excerpt (or whatever it was) on Gizmodo piqued my interest because it was applying hard science instead of building on flawed, old research and dogma.

[Berliner]

Well there's just so much hearsay, with people saying exactly the same thing: that there's old, flawed research and dogma, but follow this new research and dogma, which will definitely work, be it Adkins, that book, or whatever. I'm starting to get the feeling that people are overcomplicating things with a bunch of pseudoscience, and they are better off not trying to lose 30 pounds in 30 days or whatever, and just sticking to the basics.

I guess I'm just talking about how fad diets don't work, which everyone should already know.

[SeanX3]

Ferris' first priority is promoting Ferris. He's really good at that. Very compelling writer. But I'd question the shit out of any scientific claims he makes on the basis that he picks and chooses whatever tidbits best support what he wants to say (i.e. sell). My spider senses went up when I read 4HWW, with the blithe way he talks about his "ingestibles" products, and his m.o. of insulating himself from all consequences. I was creeped out. That was my perspective on it, FWIW.

[Monty]

I've done the work, and I've gotten the results I wanted. I just thought it sounded interesting, and I find that there is often a lack of scientific foundation to a lot of diet and exercise programs. The excerpt (or whatever it was) on Gizmodo piqued my interest because it was applying hard science instead of building on flawed, old research and dogma.

Going by that book's Amazon page, it looks like they're throwing a lot of things in there and hoping some of it sticks:

Is it possible to:
Reach your genetic potential in 6 months?
Sleep 2 hours per day and perform better than on 8 hours?
Lose more fat than a marathoner by bingeing?

Am I supposed to answer "No" to all these questions? Because that middle one is the Polyphasic Sleep System, which I'm pretty sure doesn't work. No one I know who's tried it has been able to make it stick.

(EDIT: And one of the things you will learn is apparently "How to pay for a beach vacation with one hospital visit" -- this is a weird claim, not least because some hospital visits cost about as much as a beach vacation)

[ev1lchris]

I eat lots of chili burgers.

[Americas Team]

I eat lots of chili burgers.

I'm starting to wish there was one more abortion in this world.

[pissedpissedofferson]

I could totally afford an iPad and a fancy new mac desktop, but I don't buy them because they aren't good enough for me... yet.

[ev1lchris]

Try the chili burger diet, it works wonders.

[Big McLargehuge]

I'm down to the last hole in my belt (due to thinness) before I have to start drilling new ones.

(The above sentence is an example of how to give the middle finger through text. I apologize.)