Comments on: How To Be Skinnier

By: mod converter

mod converter — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 03:05:20 +0000

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By: Jamey

Jamey — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:53:10 +0000

You don't know the half of it! Vetri is considered by many to be the best Italian restaurant in the country.

Bing and purge, bing and purge…

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:32:22 +0000

Hi, Brad,

Have you looked into Evolutionary Fitness? (here is the PDF: http://www.arthurdevany.com/webstuff/images/Revis... I think it'll be helpful to you.

cheers,
Bill

By: Henry Yates

Henry Yates — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:08:45 +0000

The killer is that if you lose just a few pounds running becomes SO much easier. When I'm overweight I feel like I am cracking the pavement (sidewalk) as each stride thuds downwards. Lose a few pounds and you get that feeling of actually running – your effort seems to propel you forward instead of downward.

The most effective way for me to lose weight is reducing the carbs you eat. I focus on cutting out bread, potatoes and pasta. Fewer carbs + running = pounds off quickly. Good luck.

By: Ruchit

Ruchit — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 06:14:43 +0000

Thanks for sharing this Brad. I have started riding bike daily to my office uphill 4 miles. i feel lighter.

Thankfully I dont eat so much of precooked boxed food, but yea…I need to dash beer with wine

By: micah

micah — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:51:35 +0000

given Ian is the CEO of TopSpin, anyone else get his reference to Digital Underground's Humpty Dance?

within this song is the true secret: Dont eat at Burger King, get busy in its bathrooms.

By: Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:37:56 +0000

I've lost 35 pounds in the past year with one simple method: Making bets with friends. Health, looking good, the desire to be there for my family–all meant nothing in comparison to the opportunity to win money and trash talk.

As shallow as it sounds, my advice is to make a bet with someone to whom you'd hate to lose.

The other thing that helped me was setting up hard rules about what I would and wouldn't eat. Portion control requires exercising willpower. Far better to just tell people, "Sorry, I have a rule."

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:26:04 +0000

Nah. I'll just eat intelligently. Damn this is hard.

By: Jamey

Jamey — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:39:32 +0000

Brad –
Does this mean I should cancel Vetri?

By: tobias

tobias — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:29:55 +0000

Brad, i'm not a nutritionist, so I’m only guessing that certain food groups impact different people in different ways… but the one I learnt to stay away from was ice cream. When I eat it, I carry a tire. When I don’t, I don’t.

I think the real trouble is that I can’t eat ice cream in moderation. It’s the whole tub of Haagen Dazs (straight from the tub) for me, or nothing.

But try an ice cream free month and see what happens… you might be surprised.

By: Alex Chiang

Alex Chiang — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:09:07 +0000

Hi Brad,

Maybe you've already heard this before, but I highly recommend "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes. His main thesis is: our intuitions about weight loss are misinformed, due to bad science starting around the 1950s or so.

"Burn off more than you eat" is simple, intuitive, and wrong, because your biochemistry isn't simply a set of meters that say "convert ice cream to numeric equivalent of 1500 calories ; ooh, now we're running, we've got some surplus so let's burn it!" Perhaps unsurprisingly, body biochemistry is more complicated than that.

And really, should we be surprised? After all, we software guys have internalized the concept of GIGO in the computing domain; to apply it to biochemistry (a much more complicated system than a computer due to its analog black magic) shouldn't be that much of a leap.

cheers,

/ac

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:55:05 +0000

I agree that cooking helps a lot. However, Amy and I both eat a lot of these 30 minute meals and my biggest problem with them is portion control. I find that I chronically overeat, even when I eat healthy. Yeah – I know, “eat less.” Grrrr.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:48:05 +0000

Yeah – but it’s pretty hard not to eat after a 1+ hour run.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:47:06 +0000

I am living proof of this.

By: Rick Gregory

Rick Gregory — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:00:08 +0000

Brad,

Ian's post isn't anything really new. If you eat well, eat limited amounts and work out, you'll stay skinny/lose weight. Um, yeah. The thing I didn't like about it and generally don't like about those kinds of posts is that it was either/or. Either his kind of a diet or Totino's Pizza. Those aren't the only choices though and his regimen sounds, well, dull and boring. That doesn't mean you have to fall back to prepared garbage though.

What we've lost since the 80s is the habit of actually cooking stuff from scratch. Prepared food is evi – usually high salt, sugar and fats which means calorie dense. All people need to do is learn to cook a dozen health meals that they like and then try variations. You can easily end up with 20 or 30 different meals that take 30 minutes to prep – and I reject the notion that most people don't have the 30 minutes.