Archive for June, 2007

SW’s Site of the week: The Faddist. Dieting by Self Experimentation

With SW’s Site of the week: We’ll describe a relevant website or blog that caught our eye.

We’ve always said, you can use whatever Fad Diet you want and use Simpleweight to track it. As Ryan mentioned in a previous post, a Diet is what we eat. You may choose to eat healthy or unhealthy, but [...]

With SW’s Site of the week: We’ll describe a relevant website or blog that caught our eye.

We’ve always said, you can use whatever Fad Diet you want and use Simpleweight to track it. As Ryan mentioned in a previous post, a Diet is what we eat. You may choose to eat healthy or unhealthy, but either way it’s still a diet.

Well, I recently learned of Andy - The Faddist. To paraphrase the Faddist, Andy is using self experimentation as a way to restore his life by adhering briefly to a passing variety of unusual diets.
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What will it take to manage your weight, diet, and fitness?

Just do it.

Short and sweet!

Choose what you want and become committed to the process. That is what it takes to manage your weight.

In a future blog post, I’ll delve into the process of positive self change.

For now, please let us help you get started.

If there was one thing we could do to motivate you to sign up to manage your weight and fitness, what would it be?

Patent Search Diet

Did you know you could use Google Patent Search to diet?
That’s what I learned at lifehack.org. I found an article Kyle wrote describing Unconventional Diet Tips, Lose 50 lbs in 3 months. First, the tips are worth mentioning:

Buy a Digital Scale
Weigh yourself everyday
Drink 8 glasses of water everyday
Make your Diet Public
Don’t Diet on the weekends
Don’t [...]

Did you know you could use Google Patent Search to diet?

That’s what I learned at lifehack.org. I found an article Kyle wrote describing Unconventional Diet Tips, Lose 50 lbs in 3 months. First, the tips are worth mentioning:

1. Buy a Digital Scale
2. Weigh yourself everyday
3. Drink 8 glasses of water everyday
4. Make your Diet Public
5. Don’t Diet on the weekends
6. Don’t sacrifice your life for your diet
7. Make Small Changes
8. Gain perspective by understanding the fractions
9. Rationalize your workouts
10. Have a red flag weight

Lastly, for the curious out there…I followed the Weight Watchers diet. I did not pay for the diet, nor did I go to meetings. I found out all the information about the diet on-line. The first place to look is at their patent.

All well known diets are available via Google Patent Search.

Author: Kyle Pott, Source: lifehack.org

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The Slow Weigh to Weight Loss Defined (Part 1).

The Slow Weigh to weight loss is increasing methodical minute changes to your eating and exercise habits until you achieve the results you desire.
When using The Slow Weigh to weight loss, you must follow four simple rules:

Measure my progress at regular intervals (suggested: every day).
Decrease my Food In.
Increase my Food Out.
Review and Adjust my routine [...]

The Slow Weigh to weight loss is increasing methodical minute changes to your eating and exercise habits until you achieve the results you desire.

When using The Slow Weigh to weight loss, you must follow four simple rules:

1. Measure my progress at regular intervals (suggested: every day).
2. Decrease my Food In.
3. Increase my Food Out.
4. Review and Adjust my routine at regular intervals (weekly or monthly).

Stop reading now, write the rules down on a piece of paper 5 times. Then, recite them to yourself 5 times every day.

There is no weight loss pill, there is no weight loss gimmick, there is no surgery, nor alien abduction that causes miraculous weight loss. We must follow those four rules for weight loss.

What are they again?

1. Measure my progress every day.
2. Decrease my Food In.
3. Increase my Food Out.
4. Review and Adjust my routine at regular intervals (weekly or monthly)

That’s it! The simple way to weight loss is The Slow Weigh to weight loss.

Your Next Action or Homework for the next 7 days:

1. Memorize the rules by reciting them to yourself every day.
2. Begin to visualize yourself doing these rules in vivid detail.
3. Start to decide what rule you want to attack first. I will give you a hint. Start with rule number 1.

That’s it? Yes, I told you it was going to be slow and methodical. That’s the first step. Memorize The Slow Weigh to weight loss rules.

SW’s Site of the week: Losing Weight Zone.

With SW’s Site of the week: We’ll describe a relevant website or blog that caught our eye.

This week, I ran into Losing Weight Zone.
I don’t read People magazine, watch The View, Barbara Walters, or much TV at all really. I know that many people do, and I realize that we all have our own [...]

With SW’s Site of the week: We’ll describe a relevant website or blog that caught our eye.

This week, I ran into Losing Weight Zone.

I don’t read People magazine, watch The View, Barbara Walters, or much TV at all really. I know that many people do, and I realize that we all have our own influencers and for some of you that is Celebrities.

Now, I am not making a distinction whether that is good or bad. It is what it is. Influencers can be strong motivators. For me, watching my brother make great decisions with his eating and exercise habits has really motivated me. Finding your influencers will make an impact on your weight management success. We’ll delve into influencers in a future blog post.

If your influencers are celebrities, I recommend you read Losing Weight Zone’s Celebrity Weight Loss category.

From what I can tell, Losing Weight Zone is a new blog that is building a nice niche of weight loss articles. Don’t get me wrong, they are not just about celebrities. They’ve done some good research gathering different press releases and news articles that people losing weight might find interesting. Of course, you will often find some of the same exercise, nutrition, diet, and weight loss content on our Simpleweight Blog, but I really like the way they mix different content together. The site has a clean open wordpress theme.

The thought I leave you with is who are your influencers? Find them and use them to help your motivation, and I’ll have to watch Losing Weight Zone for a bit to see if they become a permanent member of my daily reading.

Dieting with Pareto’s Principle

Scott Young wrote a great tip on applying Pareto’s Principle to your Diet.
Food - Record your eating habits for a week. Calculate up the calories of the different items of food. I’ve done this before and I’ve found it surprising how some treats contribute a high percentage of your calorie pie for no nutritional value, [...]

Scott Young wrote a great tip on applying Pareto’s Principle to your Diet.

Food - Record your eating habits for a week. Calculate up the calories of the different items of food. I’ve done this before and I’ve found it surprising how some treats contribute a high percentage of your calorie pie for no nutritional value, when other vices consumed in smaller portions take up only a sliver but still offer a tasty treat.
Source: Scott Young, Twenty unique ways to use the 80/20 rule

Just in case, Here is Wikipedia’s definition of Pareto’s Principle:

80% of the effects comes from 20% of the causes
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

How do we apply Pareto’s Principle to our diet?

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Why Build Simpleweight - Defining Simpleweight Success

Back stage, the building of Simpleweight.com. Why did we build Simpleweight?
With any project or goal, we personally like to define our own success. Yes, we are human, and of course we value other people’s opinion, but we really try to rely on our own internal value system.
Consequently, before [...]

Back stage, the building of Simpleweight.com. Why did we build Simpleweight?

With any project or goal, we personally like to define our own success. Yes, we are human, and of course we value other people’s opinion, but we really try to rely on our own internal value system.

Consequently, before we started creating simpleweight, we defined how we would know our project was successful. If you look at our pricing structure (only $18/year), you already know we’re not out to make a fortune. In fact if you take into account our referral system ($5 per referral), you are certain we’re not going to make a fortune!

So you ask, why did we build simpleweight.com? Here are our goals for success:

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Weight Management Checklist

Ian McKenzie wrote a great self management checklist that we can apply to Weight management.
Ian Writes:
Some people look at self-management techniques as cumbersome, getting in the way of productivity. The truth is, if you look at successful and productive people, you’ll find some type of system guiding them. Give it a try.
1 ) Set [...]

Ian McKenzie wrote a great self management checklist that we can apply to Weight management.

Ian Writes:

Some people look at self-management techniques as cumbersome, getting in the way of productivity. The truth is, if you look at successful and productive people, you’ll find some type of system guiding them. Give it a try.

1 ) Set Specific Goals, 2 ) Set Specific Times, 3 ) Track your Progress, 4 ) Set Rewards or penalties, 5 ) Take small steps, 6 ) Break it down into pieces, 7 ) Monitor time increments, 8 ) Share your Goals, 9 ) Have a work buddy, 10 ) Review with your buddy, 11 ) Eliminate distractions, and 12 ) Review and rework your system.

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You Don’t Diet?

Ever looked up the meaning of the word diet? Well here it is from Websters dictionary
Main Entry: 1di·et
1 a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed b : habitual nourishment c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d : a regimen of [...]

Ever looked up the meaning of the word diet? Well here it is from Websters dictionary

Main Entry: ¹di·et

1 a : food and drink regularly provided or consumed b : habitual nourishment c : the kind and amount of food prescribed for a person or animal for a special reason d : a regimen of eating and drinking sparingly so as to reduce one’s weight <going on a diet>
2 : something provided or experienced repeatedly <a diet of Broadway shows and nightclubs — Frederick Wyatt>

I used to say that I don’t diet. Really? How could that have been? I didn’t regularly eat food and drink? Well, if that’s the case, where did the extra 20 pounds come from? Read the rest of this entry

Do I really eat 3790 calories a day?

When I first read at diet-blog.com that Americans eat 3,790 calories a day, I thought that number is insane. Do we really eat that much, 3,790 calories a day?

When I first read at diet-blog.com that Americans eat 3,790 calories a day, I thought that number is insane. Do we really eat that much, 3,790 calories a day? Read the rest of this entry