The Hacker's Diet challenge - continued (in Off-topic)

The Hacker's Diet challenge continues from this thread. I'm very pleased that Tezmac and G Beee have stuck with me on this.  We've been doing it for a month now guys.  Great going!

weight 195
rung 8 (woot!)

3-Feb 267.0
4-Feb 271.0
5-Feb 270.5
6-Feb 270.0

That's me off the booze for the next 6 weeks. It's killing the weight loss every weekend :(
Also, I'm not doing the Hacker's Diet fitness plan as it's not compatible with my bad back and leg, however I have increased my calorie burning by doing other low impact exercise.

Graph updated on my user pic.

Weight 192
rung 8

Hey, while I am not over weight*, I now travel 30 kilometers by bike per day.

On average I cycle with 20 km / hour to my intern job, and around 22 km / hour back home.

Don't know if I can keep up weighing myself but I should be doing that once a week perhaps, trying to think about it tomorrow or at least this week.



* ~70 kg with a length of 175 cm.

Weight 192.5
Rung 8

Measure whatever means something to you Shade. Feel free to post your daily bike workout if you want. We'd love to have you join us :-)

Weighing ourselves daily (not that you have to do so) helps give a better picture of our real weights since it's easier to take into account differences due to having food working it's way through our systems or problems with the scale (humidity or temp can effect some scales).

weighed myself last night, 71 kilograms

This morning: 15 kilometer in 1 hour, had wind and rain in my face
This afternoon: 15 km in 45 minutes, bit of rain but nothing too much

7-Feb 270.0
8-Feb 269.0

18 miles to work today - 40mins. Bit of wind and rain in my face but that stopped when I put my cigarette out and closed the car window.

lol!

Now now G Beee, play nice.

Weight 193
Rung 8

I think rung 8 is going to kill me.

weight 192
rung 8

9-Feb 269.0
10-Feb 268.0

weight 192
rung 8

again.

weight 191.5
rung 8

218 lbs.

can't find the ladder, so no rung (bad back= different game plan)

weighed: 71 kilos

last week traveled 150 km by bike +some more

next week will go by train and bus most likely because of the very poor (read horribly bad) weather.

weight 192.5
rung 9

11-Feb 267.0
12-Feb 264.0
13-Feb 264.5

Milestone for me :)
In the UK we measure using St. and lbs. (14lbs in a St.) so normally I'm 19st something... This weekend saw me dip to 18st 12lbs which is the first time I've been on the 18st anything mark for what seems like ages now. Next target is 17st something.... :)

That's great G Beee, all it takes is some motivation and persistence, to change your diet (not drastically) and exercise (regularly, rather than never). And why wouldn't you? I mean to get yourself feeling better on the inside and outside, it's worth it. Good work guys! :)

I don't know what this Hacker's Diet is, but I had always been a bit chubby ever since I was a kid. But finally decided to get myself in order, more healthier diet and being much more physically active. And I'm better off for it. :)

weight 192.5
rung 9

Carbonize, read the link in my initial post to this thread. The author gives the whole book (and excel worksheets) away for free.
You're welcome to join us using his system or whatever it is you're doing now. Just post your daily progress as an incentive to keep at it.

216...

14-Feb 265lbs

After reading all of this I have to say I'm impressed. I think I'll be joining you guys in a few days once I'm brave enough to go back to my gym and step on the scale again. (I've been useing work and school as an excuse sense the end of December)

my baby does not care how fat I am today for today is a day for lovers :)

Happy Valentines Day !!!

hope I don't crush her :P

217 lbs.

Don't tell us what you going to do. Tell us when you start actually doing. :-) :-)

weight 191.5
rung 9

weight 192.5
rung 9

again

hadn't weighed myself yet this week, last week was 71 kilo.

had been cycling another 3 days, with 2 more to go this week :)

Bah, I was out of town for a few days last week and I've been sick ever since, damn that horrible air in Phoenix. Whilst I was gone for those 4 days I just used the same weight value from the previous day.

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Weight - 184.74 lbs
Exercise - Rung 5

weight 189
rung 9

Think I'm coming down with my daughter's flu. I know mommy and I have been teaching you to share but you don't have to share *everything*...

weight 188.5
rung 9

18:
weight 188.5
rung 9

19:
weight 187.5
rung 9

Sick for the last few days. One way to suddenly lose a few pounds I guess... too bad they'll come back once I start eating again.

Tezmac, G Beee, Shade, House Shannara, Drownedbubble: where are those posts guys?

walked home from work on Thursday last..uphill all the way..1 mile...haven't been able to move very since then...lol...damn back...took me 30 minutes

218 lbs
atleast I have stopped growing

15-Feb 265lbs
16-Feb 265lbs
17-Feb 264lbs
18-Feb 266lbs
19-Feb 267lbs
20-Feb 267lbs

OK, there's an underlying theme on my graph and it's weekends and beer. Dunno what I'm going to do to get around this as I have NO intention of stopping my weekend activities just so I can be healthier and live longer - hell, I'd be as well off dead if I can't do weekends.

Anyone know of any good low calorie high alcohol content beer ? I even stooped to asking for diet lemonade in my brandy this weekend - the indignation !!

What's your usual brand, GBee?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Good-Living/Fizzy-blonde/2004/11/22/1100972317318.html

Pure Blonde....low carbs.

I must add that this beer is aimed primarily for female drinkers. But I have never once seen a woman drink one.

So it's ok Mr B :P

Have been cycling all week long, will go weigh myself tonight to check if i've lost weight.

Current mileage (in km's) from the start:

week 1: 150 km
week 2: 125 km (went by bus on Monday as a test) and a detour through the center of Tilburg
week 3: 35 km (had to buy new headphones in Tilburg, so detour)

Weight: 70 kilo !!!

I feel your weekend pain GBeee, this is the first weekend in a long time that I've weighed less on Monday than I did on Friday. I can attribute this to being sick and not having access to my usual intake of Chimay and vodka assorted drinks. Luckily for me, I enjoy diet drinks more than regular ones. :O)

Yesterday 184.31, Rung 5
Today 183.87, Rung 5

190.5
rung 9

weight 188
rung 10

I'm so pleased that I'm at rung 10 when my goal was to hit rung 15 by June 1st. Since the difficulty keeps ramping up I don't plan to push my goal forward right now. But I feel certain I'm going to make it with plenty of time to spare. *happy*

216 lbs

sore and tired

weight 190.5
rung 10

weight 187.5
rung 10

Sukotto, you're such a stud. Keep up the good work!

I'm feeling good, and my wife's told me (a few times now) that she's pleased.

I think the exercise has helped me lose the weight (I was 210 when I started in mid-December) as I've boosted my metabolism. But I think it's mostly come off to simply cutting out some of the junk I used to eat. I used to have a morning bagle with inch-thick cream cheese, burger-n-fries for lunch, a 3pm doughnut, a 4pm coffee with cookies, multiple-per-day vending machine snacks, and regularly ate an entire (big) bag of Doritos in an evening. I also drank way too much pop.

I stopped eating all of that (getting laid off helped as I didn't have co-workers inviting me for coffee and doughnuts 3 times a day. I also started drinking flavored seltzer instead of pop). But I still enjoy my morning bowl of sugar cereal, my cups of coffee, and sometimes ice cream after dinner.

My original idea was to ignore diet and just focus on the exercise. I've tried to lose weight before and found it so hard. I also had a pretty negative way of thinking about dieting. I would treat it like I was punishing myself... no wonder I kept missing days until I was completely off.

But I thought I could at least do 15 minutes of exercise per day. I treat it like a fun thing. My daughter and wife demand so much attention that my little 15 minutes is sometimes the only time I feel is my own in a day. Thinking about it as a special little thing I get to do... something that's only about *me*... makes it so much easier. It's also pretty easy to keep track of what I'm doing so I can spare brain power to think about an interesting programming problem

That sense of "me time", coupled with my public commitment to stick with it "no excuses" and Tezmac's idea of daily posting has really helped me keep at it. For the first time in my life I'm sticking to a resolution to improve my health... even if it's just 15 lousy minutes per day :-)

Anyway, sorry to ramble on. This has turned into such a wonderful experience for me I kind of started gushing there. I just feel really happy that I'm doing something right for once and glad that Tezmac and G Beee have stuck with me. It's also great to see other people giving it an effort. I just wish more people would try.

Thanks for the words of encouragement SNK3R.

21-Feb 264lbs
22-Feb 264lbs
23-Feb 264lbs
24-Feb 264lbs

I guess I still have a problem with the exercise thing and the vast majority of my weight loss (14lbs since Jan 7th) has come as a result of "thinking" about what I'm eating. Lifestyle change is what you are always told and you know what - I think I've finally caught on.

Now if I could just find that low calorie beer...

Well done Sukotto for your improvements - and well done Sukotto for mine too :D

week 3: 150 km now.

don't know when i'll weigh myself again but i will have a relaxing weekend. :)

"week 3: 150 km now."

Ermmm...... "km"?

Your improvement is your own doing G Beee, not mine :-)

PirateKing: km = Kilometer
A measure of length, being a thousand meters. It is equal to 3,280.8 feet, or 0.62137 of a mile.
[Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)]

~93.75 miles then :p

I live in the Netherlands, and we measure distance in kilometers.

Sukotto: I know that. But since this thread has an obsession with weight, I was thrown off by a distance being used. But then, if Shade really meant 150 kilometers and not kilograms, what the hell was he talking about? :P

Shade is measuring his bike workouts and, sometimes, his weight.

rung 10

weight 190.5
rung 11

I make reasonably up to date measurements of how much I have cycled, and every week (sometimes 2 times a week) i weigh myself and let people know how much I now weigh...

218

weight 192
rung 11

I have this bit I tell whenever I hear girls use weight as an indication of health and diets as a means of achieving it. I try to tell them that weight itself doesn't matter. I try to tell them that food alone isn't the answer to feeling good. I sometimes go so far as to tell them to throw away the scale. Now this isn't a way for me to criticize you guys at all. I say this so that you'll understand why I don't have a scale myself.

Since you guys are using other factors aside from weight to measure your progress, and since exercise is a part of your plan to get healthy (not just dieting), I'd say you guys are on the right track. Good work to you all and I wish you all the best of luck. (Even to G Beee and his search for a better lighter beer.)

I'd also like to join up with you guys and start posting my daily exercise and stretching routines. Like I said, I don't have a scale and so I won't include my weight, but I'll certainly try to give as many details as I can. Err... tomorrow that is. This day is spent.

Stretching: 6:34, 9:02
Reverse Push-ups: 19, 11
Push-ups: 9, 4
Wall Press: 2:18
3xCrunches: 25, 25
Bicycles: 0:58, 0:40

weight 189.5
rung 11

25-Feb 264lbs
26-Feb 262lbs
27-Feb 262lbs
28-Feb 262lbs

weight 191
rung 11

Stretching: 15:20
Reverse Push-ups: 18, 17
Push-ups: 7, 5
Wall Press: 1:44
3xCrunches: 25, 25
Bicycles: 0:30, 0:47

weighed: 69.5 kilo

weight 191
rung 12

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Im proud of you GBeee and Sukotto, you've both been doing so well! I however have been hovering just above 184 lbs (and rung 5) for quite some time now, it's getting really frustrating. But I guess the good news is I've stopped expanding :O) Not sure what more I can do, maybe just be patient and step up the exercise more....

Stretching: 11:44

Push-ups: 13, 6
Reverse Push-ups: 21, 15
3xCrunches: 25, 30
Bicycles: 0:35, 0:37
Wall Press: 0:58

Congrats to Sukotto to reaching. Good work G Beee. Tazmac, I'm sure the steady weight is do to your hard-core muscles. Just don't beat me up when you see me.

*Congrats to Sukotto for reaching rung 12.

Thanks Tezmac.

You're a success simply because you've been putting in the time and making the effort. Sticking with it every day is a major accomplishment and something you should be proud about.

I'm sorry to hear about your plateau and I hope you can get past it soon. You know that G Bee and I are cheering for you right? (which I know sounds kind of stupid, but it's true.) Stick with it! If you still feel that you're just not making any progress maybe you can try some kind of variation or tweek to mix it up a little.

And *please* don't compare your progress to anyone elses. Everyone has their own pace and their own challenges. It's not a contest about who gets to what point the quickest.

216
tryin :)

weight: 191
rung: 12

Me too, me too!! Can I join in?

I want to get in shape and I need some sort of incentive to keep me exercising. This looks great!!

Weight 190.5
Rung 12

Everyone is welcome. To join, all you need to do is start posting. I suggest you start with something simple since it's easier to do a simple thing daily.

I am only doing exercise and my weight is there simply for my own interest. Other people are actively dieting and may or may not be doing exercise. What you do and how you do it is your own business. This thread is just here as an incentive to keep going.

Proof is in the pudding though. It's no use saying you're *going* to do it. Do it first, then tell us :-)

Weight 192
rung 12

weight: 192
rung: 12

01-Mar 261lbs
02-Mar 262lbs
03-Mar 263lbs
04-Mar 263lbs
05-Mar 261lbs
06-Mar 263lbs

March 2 - swam 1km
March 5 - skied 17.5 km
weight - 140 lbs (as always)

Weight 194.5 (ack!)
Rung 12

This thread is just about done. When it locks, I'll start another one for us to continue.

Please remember to post daily folks, that keeps the incentive at the maximum. (hey, if you login to play you can take one minute to post right?)

March 7 - 139 lbs

weight 191.5
rung 12

Wont' be travelling by bike coming Friday, will have school then and can walk instead, which is 1.5 km forth and back.

Will have my bike in repair then to even out some flaws :)

Skated 3 km
Weight 139

Weight 184.31 Rung 6
Weight 184.75 Rung 7
Weight 184.31 Rung 7
Weight 184.75 Rung 7
Weight 185.19 Rung 7
Weight 185.63 Rung 7
Weight 185.19 Rung 8
Weight 183.87 Rung 8

Welcome back Tezmac!

Weight 190.5
Rung 12