(Note, the below plot is indicative of a method for losing weight which not exactly healthy and is not recommended!) Results of the great wedding diet of 2007:
The method? Little food and running four to five miles every morning. Funny how that works.
Okay, for old times sake, here is, for comparison, my last diet:
O brave new quantum world!
Hi Dave,
is that a diet plan for 2008? Check the dates on the graph!
Ernesto.
Doh, fixed. I am not yet a time traveler.
Woah. I’m just trying not to GAIN weight. Impressive!
I find that drinking lots and lots of hot drinks like tea helps with the “eating less” part.
Bravo, Dave! I calculate that your negative-slope curve will intersect my positive-slope one by the end of May.
I can testify that Dave’s mood remained good through this entire period. Amazing! Congratulations!
Dude, I hope you are never in a position to talk to young folk about healthy eating and exercise!
BTW, I made it back to the gym after my six month exile. Rock-hard abdominals are only a matter of time now :-).
Hey Dave,
If you want to learn how to eat healthy, go check out Walter Willett’s popular books. (He’s the chairman of Harvard’s nutrition department, and the most-cited author in his field, with over 1K publications. Some people have to use metric prefixes to measure publication number.)
Congratulations, Dave. I did a similar diet in 2002, but stuck with eating little, no exercise. I lost fewer pounds (25) but never regained them.
Dietologists say a diet is only successful if the weight loss is maintained for 5+ years. I am just now past it… It was much harder to avoid regaining it than to losing it in the first place, but the atout is that you now know how to lose weight, and can do it whenever a threshold is crossed. If I were you, I’d set it at 200, and whenever I got past it for three consecutive measurements, I’d start a diet until three consecutive measurements were below 190.
THat did work for me, at least.
Cheers,
T.
Running everyday is not good. Your body needs rest days. A better way to run your 28-35 miles/week (and burn more fat in the process) is to use the concept of hard/easy days and incorporate a long run. A hard day is a day of increased mileage; and easy day is a rest day or a short jog. The idea is you should never do two “hard” days in a row. The long run will burn more fat because it takes the body about 25-30 minutes to go into fat burning mode when running and you will spend more time in the fat-burning zone. Therefore, I propose the following schedule.
Sun – 8-12
Mon – Off
Tue – 5-7
Wed – 3
Thur – 5-7
Fri – 3
Sat – Off
You’ll burn more calories while keeping your weekly mileage the same. And you’ll reduce the risk of injury.
I call it the physics diet: Less in, more out. Works every time.
Drinking really chilled water is supposed to burn off 37 kcals per 500ml. Multiply this by 10 and you’ll see it’s quite significant calorie burning.
Wao… that is very Impressive Congratulations, Dave.
🙂 Great graph and good post. Keep it up!
Wow I can’t belive that is possible I will pass it on to my readers. Great post
Impressive stats Dave.
Running 5 miles a day would probably do the trick. 😉
Great Post!
Hey, hope this comment gets through I’m still somewhat new to this whole blogging thing.
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Awesome post
There’s nothing like being healthy. In today’s America, we have toworkout occasionnaly and get rid off our unhealthy diet habits. It’s not extremely hard. You only have to stick to a diet program and continue until you reach your goals.
Thank you for sharing this with your readers.