I was going to say.. the website says I'll see my parents close to 1300 times... however, I believe that unless I make drastic life changes, my father will outlive me - I'm overweight and have heart risk and have a relatively low salary and long working hours, while he's extremely fit and lean and very well off, and only 18 years older than me.

Soooo, what are you going to do about those facts?

Well, being aware is the 1st step I guess :) .

I'm treating the money and job ones first, after that I'll tackle my weight (I did manage to lose 40 pounds a few years ago, but got them back compensating for the shitty job and money troubles).

Thanks for the prod :)

Calorie & weight awareness. It's really the simple guaranteed key to keeping weight off and losing it. More than exercise, more than ketogenic diets and a billion bits of contradictory information, being aware of how many calories you eat is really the key to not being overweight.

You can lose weight even with really busy schedules under $10/day with a combination of liquid egg whites with salsa, carrot stick snacks and subway/chipolte for example. Just eat at the -1.5lbs/week calorie level to lose weight with a calorie calculator[1]. Remember to recalculate every 5lbs or so of weight loss.

Also record your weight at least weekly with something like myfitnesspal or a wifi weight scale (like the fitbit aria) to snip weight gain trends in the bud. I once gained 30 lbs over a period of 5 months without realizing it due to not tracking my weight, stress and my exGF getting into baking. %70 of americans are overweight, your not alone.

[1] http://www.calculator.net/calorie-calculator.html

I'll second what mahyarm said about being aware of calories.

Download Myfitnesspal (or bookmark the website) and use it for one week.

I'll disagree with mahyarm about needing anything fancly like liquid egg whites. For most people substituting water for softdrinks will make a substantial difference to the calories. Carrot sticks do make a good snack though (they have a high satability index). Pears are also good if you prefer something sweeter.

If you like that you may find this interesting:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3568125/clock.html

You might show what format the form expects, e.g. mmddyyyy.

But now that I think of it, I would probably have to count pixels to tell if I switched month and day. The effect of seeing that is still neat.

Arf! That can't handle people older than the Unix epoch. Unsure whether to consider this a bug in the code or in me.

Never mind, I'll just head for the Carrousel.

Good find, in what browser?

That's really wonderful! Is it yours? Have you considered hosting it somewhere? Dropbox seems so ephemeral...

Thanks, it is, and now that you point it out I suppose I could put it up somewhere.

Check it on - http://liveconsciously.me/

On average, of course. Some 25-year-old out there has, like, half a dot.

This is really powerful. As morbid as it is, I'd like to have a big poster of this that I can mark off.

I read in a book a long time ago and I still remember clearly when the protagonist said everytime that he was shaving early morning: "minus one".

Ugh, I turned 25 last week and had already felt awfully mortal without this. Thanks, I guess, but ouch.

I find this oddly motivational.

>:(