Ask HN: Diet/Fitness program resources?

Re:Ask HN: Diet/Fitness program resources? by RiderOfGiraffes on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @09:16AM (#1535080)

I got a lot of useful information, tips and techniques from the Hacker's Diet: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

It's been discussed many times here on HN:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/hacker%2527s+diet?sort=by_da...

Personally I used it to lose about 30 pounds over the course of about 6 months, and I've mostly kept it off. I'm going back onto it to lose about 10 pounds that have crept back on.

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Re:Ask HN: Diet/Fitness program resources? by whatusername on Wednesday July 21, 2010 @09:44AM (#1535145)

Hackers diet is good.. but very simplistic as far as diet information goes. Sure it's easy to model your body as calories in = calories out + weight change, but that's kind-of like modeling atoms as pure indivisible lumps of matter.... It gets you 80% of the way there (and that might honestly be enough for most people) -- but there's a whole world of nutritional science that it ignores.

Related note: http://alwyncosgrove.com/2010/01/hierarchy-of-fat-loss/ is probably the best summary of what to do on the exercise side..

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