I lost 40 pounds of body fat in 3 months by not eating carbohydrates, and eating an over 2000 calorie high fat diet. I think that losing 30 lbs of body fat the normal way isn't that extraordinary. I think what I did by hacking the system was more so extraordinary.
did the same thing, this works. I've learned to enjoy avoiding bread. http://reddit.com/r/keto
Re:Ask PG: What Changed?
by ghshephard on Sunday December 16, 2012 @04:28AM
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You've identified a task that 98% of motivated persons can accomplish. Building a billion dollar company is something that less than 2% of the YC companies have done.
Regardless of whether it is or isn't "hacking the system", that answer tells you something about the someone in question. From that, I learn that they are able to exert focused discipline and flex willpower where others might not be able to.
I've flown a kite once in my life, as part of a competition, that I won. My kite flew more than twice as high as the next highest kite. After the competition, people asked how I got my kite so high, and my answer was just that I brought more string than they did. Some might attribute that to dumb luck, but I have a history of winning silly little competitions like this by being prepared.
So it is possible to get extraordinary results through the application of discipline to boring, traditional approaches.