The Hacker's Diet

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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next: Introduction Up: The Hacker's Diet Previous: The Hacker's Diet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface This is not a normal diet book, and I am not a normal diet book author. I'm not a doctor. Nor am I a nutritionist, psychologist, sports hero, gourmet chef, or any of the other vocations that seem to qualify people to tell you how to lose weight. I'm an engineer by training, a computer programmer by avocation, and an businessman through lack of alternatives. From grade school in the 1950's until 1988 I was fat--anywhere from 30 to 80 pounds overweight. This is a diet book by somebody who spent most of his life fat. The absurdity of my situation finally struck home in 1987. ``Look,'' I said to myself, ``you founded one of the five biggest software companies in the world, Autodesk. You wrote large pieces of AutoCAD, the world standard for computer aided design. You've made in excess of fifty million dollars without dropping dead, going crazy, or winding up in jail. You've succeeded at some pretty difficult things, and you can't control your flippin' weight?'' Through all the years of struggling with my weight, the fad diets, the tedious and depressing history most fat people share, I had never, even once, approached controlling my weight the way I'd work on any other problem: a malfunctioning circuit, a buggy program, an ineffective department in my company. As an engineer, I was trained to solve problems. As a software developer, I designed tools to help others solve their problems. As a businessman I survived and succeeded by managing problems. And yet, all that time, I hadn't looked at my own health as something to be investigated, managed, and eventually solved in the same way. I decided to do just that. This book is a compilation of what I learned. Six months after I decided being fat
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up: The Hacker's Diet Previous: Index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents Preface Introduction About losing weight About this book About you About me About the computer tools About pounds and inches About time! Engineering The Eat Watch Food and feedback Motivation and manipulation Programmer, hack thyself Problems: managing, fixing, and solving Managing problems Fixing problems Solving problems Weight: what's the connection? What, me exercise? The Rubber Bag What goes in What you burn What comes out Inside the rubber bag Too much goes in Too little goes in Seizing control Controlling what you burn Controlling what goes in Input/Output Food fads Fuzzy thinking Food and fact Summary Food and Feedback Measure the quantity Determine the goal Apply negative feedback Avoid positive feedback Bang-bang vs. proportional control Three possible outcomes Three different people Skinny Stable Sam Calories and weight Overweight Oscillating Oscar Bulky Blown-up Buster Fun with feedback Signal and Noise Wired science The calorie counting catch Cause and effect Dexter's diet Dexter's diary July 1. 154.2 pounds. July 2. 153.8 lbs. July 3. 157.1 lbs. July 4. 156.5 lbs. July 5. 151.8 lbs. July 10. 153.2 lbs. July 11. 155.6 lbs. July 12. 151.7 lbs. August 5. 149.1 lbs. August 9. 142.9 lbs. August 10. 144.6 lbs. August 11. 147.8 lbs. August 12. 148.3 lbs. August 14. 146.7 lbs. August 19. 142.9 lbs. August 20. 142.3 lbs. August 21. 146.2 lbs. Dexter deceived Dexter's discovery Moving averages Meet Movin' Marvin Simple moving averages Weighted moving averages Exponentially smoothed weighted moving Marvin The truth in the trend Floats and sinkers Steady as she goes. Bulking up. Take
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next: Introduction Up: The Hacker's Diet Previous: The Hacker's Diet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Preface This is not a normal diet book, and I am not a normal diet book author. I'm not a doctor. Nor am I a nutritionist, psychologist, sports hero, gourmet chef, or any of the other vocations that seem to qualify people to tell you how to lose weight. I'm an engineer by training, a computer programmer by avocation, and an businessman through lack of alternatives. From grade school in the 1950's until 1988 I was fat--anywhere from 30 to 80 pounds overweight. This is a diet book by somebody who spent most of his life fat. The absurdity of my situation finally struck home in 1987. ``Look,'' I said to myself, ``you founded one of the five biggest software companies in the world, Autodesk. You wrote large pieces of AutoCAD, the world standard for computer aided design. You've made in excess of fifty million dollars without dropping dead, going crazy, or winding up in jail. You've succeeded at some pretty difficult things, and you can't control your flippin' weight?'' Through all the years of struggling with my weight, the fad diets, the tedious and depressing history most fat people share, I had never, even once, approached controlling my weight the way I'd work on any other problem: a malfunctioning circuit, a buggy program, an ineffective department in my company. As an engineer, I was trained to solve problems. As a software developer, I designed tools to help others solve their problems. As a businessman I survived and succeeded by managing problems. And yet, all that time, I hadn't looked at my own health as something to be investigated, managed, and eventually solved in the same way. I decided to do just that. This book is a compilation of what I learned. Six months after I decided being fat
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Up: The Hacker's Diet Previous: Index -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents Preface Introduction About losing weight About this book About you About me About the computer tools About pounds and inches About time! Engineering The Eat Watch Food and feedback Motivation and manipulation Programmer, hack thyself Problems: managing, fixing, and solving Managing problems Fixing problems Solving problems Weight: what's the connection? What, me exercise? The Rubber Bag What goes in What you burn What comes out Inside the rubber bag Too much goes in Too little goes in Seizing control Controlling what you burn Controlling what goes in Input/Output Food fads Fuzzy thinking Food and fact Summary Food and Feedback Measure the quantity Determine the goal Apply negative feedback Avoid positive feedback Bang-bang vs. proportional control Three possible outcomes Three different people Skinny Stable Sam Calories and weight Overweight Oscillating Oscar Bulky Blown-up Buster Fun with feedback Signal and Noise Wired science The calorie counting catch Cause and effect Dexter's diet Dexter's diary July 1. 154.2 pounds. July 2. 153.8 lbs. July 3. 157.1 lbs. July 4. 156.5 lbs. July 5. 151.8 lbs. July 10. 153.2 lbs. July 11. 155.6 lbs. July 12. 151.7 lbs. August 5. 149.1 lbs. August 9. 142.9 lbs. August 10. 144.6 lbs. August 11. 147.8 lbs. August 12. 148.3 lbs. August 14. 146.7 lbs. August 19. 142.9 lbs. August 20. 142.3 lbs. August 21. 146.2 lbs. Dexter deceived Dexter's discovery Moving averages Meet Movin' Marvin Simple moving averages Weighted moving averages Exponentially smoothed weighted moving Marvin The truth in the trend Floats and sinkers Steady as she goes. Bulking up. Take