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The Science Behind the Hacker's Diet

The science behind the Hacker's diet is based upon the understanding of how the body operates on a more scientific level, but explained in a way that you can grasp and understand from an easy elect...
5 Things You Need to Know About Hacker's Diet

...John Walker, the author of "The Hackers Diet," says that's all you need to know about losing weight. Put simply, you base weight loss on the amount of calories you eat versus the amount of calor...
3 Ways to Keep a Hacker's Diet Journal

...session and is counterproductive to the Hacker's Diet's goal of making weight loss as simple as possible.
5 Things You Need to Know About the Health Risks of the Hacker's Diet

...ere is some of that information in "The Hacker's Diet" somewhere. However, the Hacker's Diet is not going to benefit the majority of people. It's written and developed from an engineering standp...
3 Ways to Count Calories on the Hacker's Diet

The Hacker's Diet comes complete with a calorie counting chart of common foods. It even contains information on various fast foods such a Burger King Whopper. Use this chart to obtain the number o...
3 Ways to Choose Foods for the Hacker's Diet

...ohn Walker, the author of "The Hacker's Diet," recommends you eat the foods you like while Dieting. His approach to weight loss is to simply control calorie intake rather than rely on any miracl...
3 Ways to Lose Weight With the Hacker's Diet

...s crucial fact forms the basis for "The Hacker's Diet." To be successful with its method, you need to count all the calories in the foods you eat every day, and these calories need to be fewer t...

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Hacker's diet
- Posted On July 12, 2007 02:56:49 PM
  The hacker's diet is a geeky way of working out weight loss / calories (rather than nutrition). I haven't used it for tracking that, tdp more than fulfills my needs - however I did spot a useful to... Read More
- Posted On July 12, 2007 05:56:40 PM
  Interesting... Thanks for Sharing... Read More
Recommendations for nutrition/diet/fitness books?
- Posted On January 11, 2009 03:56:26 PM
  ...his, Not that David Zinczenko You! On a Diet Drs. Roizen and Oz SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life Steven G. Pratt and Kathy Matthews What to Eat Marion Nestle Re... Read More
- Posted On January 11, 2009 09:10:28 PM
  ...hey had six full shelves of the various diet and fitness books. I found books that hadn't even been out six months and getting to read the books I wanted for two weeks for free was so much bett... Read More
Anyone here on a specific diet?
- Posted On August 13, 2007 04:08:17 PM
  The Hacker's diet lol And it works for me. http://www.thedailyplate.com/diet/the-Hackers-diet It's pretty much what we are doing here.... I'm also eating healthy and stuff, so I'm sure that's... Read More
- Posted On August 13, 2007 09:59:31 PM
  I am Anti-diet and Pro-Lifestyle Change trying for the balanced diet approach. I think a diet suggests something temporary and I have always failed and yoyo'ed doing that. I have managed to mainta... Read More
First Day on Hacker's
I read the book, Hacker's Diet, online yesterday and I am really excited about getting started. I need to lose about 15lbs, but it seems that I have lost and "found" the same 15lbs over and over a...
- Posted On February 24, 2008 07:22:05 PM
  ...uld you tell me a little more about the diet? I need to lose 15 pounds tooo (which I just recently gained back)...and I am looking for all the help and inspiration I can find! Read More
- Posted On February 25, 2008 05:59:31 AM
  ...ries. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_diet for more info. Read More
19 Days as a Hacker

... I've been recording my weight daily on Hacker's Diet website and I can't believe how I feel about trending. In the past I would get so discouraged after carefully recording what I ate, staying ...
Tracking Weightloss
- Posted On June 22, 2006 05:24:09 PM
  ...#46;fourmilab.ch/hackDiet/:d7s4bl56]Hacker's Diet to some success. A model like that one would be perfect for me, and, I hope, others on the site. I just joined the site, and am finding ... Read More
- Posted On June 13, 2006 08:29:21 AM
  Hello! I just started using Daily Plate and am loving it so far! But I do have a question, I couldn't find anywhere that tracks your weightloss. Is there a place on the site to enter in your dail... Read More
What is moderation, anyway?
- Posted On June 10, 2008 10:00:53 AM
  ...I followed what I learned is called the Hacker's Diet...just eat whatever you want but stay in your calories. That being said, I'm still having a hard time keeping my junk "in moderation.&... Read More
- Posted On June 10, 2008 11:31:18 AM
  My version of moderation is the 80/20 rule or my own personal 80-90% rule: As long as I'm making healthful choices 80-90% of the time, the other 10-20% is for fun and splurges. So I leave about 10-... Read More
Shouldn't I be losing?
- Posted On April 8, 2008 12:25:18 PM
  ... sticks and barely add 100 cals to your diet.... or get some fruit. try going with stuff that has whoel grains. Read More
- Posted On April 8, 2008 12:42:04 PM
  ...SECTION0220600000000000000:1z6vxmkb]The Hacker's Diet: Input/Output You simply cannot just start weighing yourself one day/week/or even month and expect to have a clear understanding of how m... Read More
Weight up and down all the time
- Posted On November 9, 2007 12:31:09 AM
  ... happening? He doesn't have a very good diet as he is a very picky eater, but as he is 6'6 tall and weighs a little over 300lb he gets a lot of calories to play with. If it should be relevant he... Read More
- Posted On November 9, 2007 02:11:04 AM
  ..... you said he doesn't have a very good diet because he's picky, but that can be changed! I used to be incredibly picky; then I started adding in more whole grains, some veggies here and there, ... Read More
Focus on FAT LOSS, not Weight Loss..
- Posted On March 31, 2008 10:45:04 PM
  ...ckDiet/online/hdo.html:2fs8opdn]The Hacker's Diet Online to automatically generate a weighted moving average trend line based on a daily weight. Here's my chart for March. [url=http... Read More
- Posted On March 31, 2008 11:44:58 PM
  ...ckDiet/online/hdo.html:3i7syg37]The Hacker's Diet Online to automatically generate a weighted moving average trend line based on a daily weight. Here's my chart for March. [url=http://... Read More
Scale addicts...................record your weight everyday
- Posted On March 27, 2007 09:01:20 AM
  ...o the point of deviating from a healthy diet it is time to stop doing it. Read More
- Posted On March 27, 2007 03:12:07 PM
  ...at says "Researchers who followed 3000 dieters for 2 weeks found that those who weighted in dalily lost up to 2 x's as much. They say it's easier to make small, daily diet adjustments than to ... Read More
Some success
- Posted On October 7, 2008 04:46:36 PM
  ...nd the Weight Monitoring section of the Hacker's diet. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/e4/ Also the Rubber Bag section is good for understanding those scale fluctuations. In fact, I actually... Read More
- Posted On October 7, 2008 04:15:07 PM
  I don't weigh myself. I am afraid of the numbers. I know that may sound crazy but I probably won't weigh myself until I KNOW I am down to a number I can deal with emotionally. Instead I sort of KNO... Read More
Could Emotional Eating be GOOD for me?
...key for me? I wasn't ever a real crash dieter, I'd say "I'm going to starve today to lose weight!" and end up eating 3 bigmacs instead and telling myself I'd try again tomorrow, and of course n...
- Posted On April 1, 2008 07:34:52 AM
  I like the idea of calorie cycling, but I don't personally like how far to the extreme some of the calorie cycling goes. If it works for you and you can keep up with it I say go for it :) I do mi... Read More
- Posted On April 1, 2008 08:14:40 AM
  Thanks! I'm thinking the same thing, which is why I'm nervous. 1200 one day, I'm not worried about being too hungry - but 2400 the next? Yikes. I was wondering if I just went 1400-1800-1400-1... Read More
Hi, everyone

...works for me, and THEN I discovered the Hacker's Diet :) I don't own a scale (simply reducing calories has been effective in making me feel and look better), but I suppose after having read Joh...
Howdy!

...s Tina, I'm using the principles of the Hacker's Diet to lose about 4-5% body fat and about 10 lbs. I hope this group is more active than it appears... :)
Love seeing the group stats!

... Plate member, and a new convert to the Hacker's Diet. I guess the concept is not really all that new to me - the only way I've ever managed to get weight off and keep it off is if I step on the...
Feeling Frustrated! :-(
So today is my weigh in day and as I climed onto the scale this morning (after my morning potty trip before any water or food), I was expecting the scale to say 1-2 pounds less than before... 3 if ...
- Posted On March 11, 2008 10:26:25 AM
  I think we all know that feeling and sympathize. However, I'm sure you know that from reading around, your body can do weird stuff that accounts for weight fluctuations, and a lot of it can have n... Read More
- Posted On March 11, 2008 11:01:21 AM
  I couldnt agree more with the above comment. Heres a little something I found on healthdiscovery.net (and it may have been posted around here someshere too): "...The best measurement tool of all... Read More
Extreme Weight Fluctuation
You know... my calories each day have fluctuated alot and I've been working out for a few weeks now... my weight has been crazy the past week... Tuesday: 136 lbs Wednesday: 138 lbs Thursday: 1...
- Posted On March 10, 2008 08:21:03 AM
  are you weighing yourself at the same time every day and on the same scale? that could be it Read More
- Posted On March 10, 2008 08:23:34 AM
  Yes, same time and same scale... isn't that crazy? Read More
I survived the first week - -
After reading the Hacker's Diet, recommended by a friend - - who looks great by the way, and realizing that it entailed way too much paperwork I stumbled across this site the very next day. Destiny...
- Posted On July 2, 2008 12:01:08 PM
  ...tay on track instead of falling off the diet band wagon every other week. and then continuing to get ran over by it again and again! I hope you win your bets! You can do it, just stick to you... Read More
- Posted On June 30, 2008 02:14:33 PM
  Ditto, the education is a HUGE factor! :) I used to down those Chunky bars.. and it's 190 calories per serving, with ****4**** servings per par. Ridunkculous! I think you're going to do great-- thi... Read More
I'm confused!
When you look up activities on TDP...how do they calculate calories burned? For instance how in the world to they figure that I burn 175 cals by driving my car for an hour?!
- Posted On April 11, 2008 06:41:31 AM
  ...w people who do it while following "the Hacker's diet" to figure out how much they can eat in relation to how active they are in order to lose a certain amount in a week. However, most people... Read More
- Posted On April 9, 2008 02:22:49 PM
  I think those are factoring for "sedentary" lifestyle and adding basic life functions in with it... (activities like "sitting in class" and "showering" and what-not) I would like to add -- the a... Read More

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Scale addicts...................record your weight everyday

Some success

Could Emotional Eating be GOOD for me?

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Feeling Frustrated! :-(

Extreme Weight Fluctuation

I survived the first week - -

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