Simpleweight
Simpleweight Health-Club Has Started.
How did you spend your Friday evening?
Well, my brother and I had a fun evening deploying simpleweight health-club edition.
It’s late, and I’m tired. So, I’ll save a full report over the next few days. Here’s the abridged update:
All Customers have a new simple weight home page which we call the simple weight health club. You [...]
How did you spend your Friday evening?
Well, my brother and I had a fun evening deploying simpleweight health-club edition.
It’s late, and I’m tired. So, I’ll save a full report over the next few days. Here’s the abridged update:
All Customers have a new simple weight home page which we call the simple weight health club. You can now easily share your Simpleweight information with Friends and Family.
By the request of some of our users, we’ve made a couple of new reports.
Also, if you hadn’t noticed, we’ve integrated a new wordpress theme into simpleweight.
More Details to come.
What’s the one thing that if we added to simpleweight will help you become more fit and healthy?
Interactive Health Look of My Body
You didn’t expect to see “my” body did you? I’m not ready for that.
I saw this cool, interactive, guided health tour of the body at NY Times.
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Other Simpleweight News: We’re putting the final touches on our next Simpleweight upgrade. What can you expect?
Expect a new design.
Expect a couple of new nutritional reports.
Expect the ability to [...]
You didn’t expect to see “my” body did you? I’m not ready for that.
I saw this cool, interactive, guided health tour of the body at NY Times.
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Other Simpleweight News: We’re putting the final touches on our next Simpleweight upgrade. What can you expect?
- Expect a new design.
- Expect a couple of new nutritional reports.
- Expect the ability to create your own public page.
- Expect a little bit of downtime of the blog. I’ll post some timeframes when you will see a hic-up.
- Additionally, expect a price increase to $29/year. We feel we’ve added value and simpleweight is worth more. We’re still going to have a free account, but we’ll also have an advertising-free full account.
Now, if you sign up today, you will lock-in our current price of $18/year.
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What can we do to help you acheive your weight management goals?
Food back up!
Simpleweight Food is back up and running. Thanks again for your patience.
We’re in the process of rolling out some new features of the next couple of weeks. So, we’ll do our best to minimize any downtime. I’ll write a post with some details coming soon.
Thanks.
Simpleweight Food is back up and running. Thanks again for your patience.
We’re in the process of rolling out some new features of the next couple of weeks. So, we’ll do our best to minimize any downtime. I’ll write a post with some details coming soon.
Thanks.
Weight Loss updates completed.
Simple weight updates were completed March 21 evening. Ryan did a great job adding some new features for our free public users.
What’s New with Simple Weight Loss?
Exercise Calorie Calculators
The General public can now calculate their calorie burn using our nifty activity calorie calculators.
New, improved, and quicker Charts and Reports
We’ve replaced some of [...]
Simple weight updates were completed March 21 evening. Ryan did a great job adding some new features for our free public users.
What’s New with Simple Weight Loss?
- Exercise Calorie Calculators
The General public can now calculate their calorie burn using our nifty activity calorie calculators. - New, improved, and quicker Charts and Reports
We’ve replaced some of our flash charts with simple image charts. The site loads much faster. - Charts and Reports have the beginnings of Social Features: One can now easily paste their favorite chart or report into their own blog, facebook page, myspace, etc… Here’s my weight loss for the year 2008:
Of course, this chart demonstrates that one needs to focus on the trend and not the day to day fluctuations.
- Minor feature and bug fixes for various requests by users. For example, you can now save custom foods with your own serving size without having to click or save twice.
What’s Next?
Well, we’re working on a site design refresh to liven up the site and make it more attractive. We plan to re-organize the public pages to better explain our exceptional simpleweight offerings. We’ve been promising more social features.
Why do we add and make changes?
We’re always trying to make simpleweight easier to use, and we’re trying to make it easy to follow weight loss’s aggregate best practices:
- Weigh yourself on a regular schedule. (I suggest every day, or once a week.). Make sure you weigh yourself the same time with relatively the same clothes
- Track your energy expenditures and how much exercise you can do.
- Track how much you eat, when you eat, how you eat, and why you eat
- Make your weight loss social!
We’ve got tools simplifying the top three in that list above, and Social Features are coming. It will just make it easier if you just start using Simpleweight now.
What can we do to make Simpleweight so simple you will actually use it
StrongLifts 5×5 Fat Loss, Muscle Gain Free eBook Workout Review
I have been Robert Scoble like in my rabid reading of blogs. While doing so one day, I ran across stronglifts.com. I subscribed a while back, but I never really read much of the content. It was too body-builder-ish for me. But a recent post caught my attention: How Will [...]
I have been Robert Scoble like in my rabid reading of blogs. While doing so one day, I ran across stronglifts.com. I subscribed a while back, but I never really read much of the content. It was too body-builder-ish for me. But a recent post caught my attention: How Will Smith Became Successful and How You Could Too. Take a look. There is a great video where Will Smith says the two keys to life are Running & Reading.
Motivated and Inspired. I needed to do some reading. I thought to myself. What can I get my hands on to read? I have said in the past, “You are What You Eat, Read, and Do.” So, if you read junky, rumor-monger tabloids. then, you become a rumor-monger yourself. If you read economics books, you will become an economist.
I want to improve my physical fitness. So, I need to read Fitness books. Since, I subscribed to stronglifts.com rss feed, I noticed a link for a free StrongLifts 5×5 eBook, and I decided to check it out.
Wow, There are some gems in that book, and I can’t believe it’s free.
Bad workouts are better than no workouts. They train you mentally & reinforce the exercise habit. Don’t rationalize.
You are what you repeatedly do. Make a plan & stick to it. No matter what.
See, what I mean about gems.
I don’t agree with everything the eBook suggests, but I can not knock it because I have not tried the 5×5 program.
At a glance, The program suggests working out 3 times a week 30 minutes each time. During your workout you will perform:
- Squats
- Overhead Press
- Bench Press
- Deadlift
- Barbell Row
- Pull-ups & Chin-ups (optional)
- Dips (optional)
Here’s why I will not do it. The author strongly recommends squats. To do squats effectively one needs the appropriate gym equipment and fairly flexible hips and ankles. Guess what, that strikes me out on two accounts. I do not have the appropriate gym equipment and my hips and ankles are stiffer than a rusty break-dancing Wizard of Oz Tin Man trying to do a Mr. Robot move.
Of course, it does not help that StrongLifts does not mention Simpleweight as the service for tracking your eating, exercising, and biometrics. (strike 3 and your out) I’ll give him a pass since Simpleweight is still a rather new service.
The other thing I love about the ebook are the inspirational quotes from Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill is excellent. I love his books. So, Of course, I have to follow with the closing strong lifts Napoleon Hill quote.
“You can do it if you believe you can.”
If I believe I can follow the weight lifting program prescribed, then I can do it. There I go again: Thinking and Losing Weight.
So, Do I recommend the book?
Yes, I recommend the book. One can not beat the Price (free), and it’s a good quick read.
Do I recommend the workout?
I recommend the workout plan for those with the appropriate equipment and reasonable hip & ankle flexibility. The exercises are great and the program looks straight forward.
However for those without access to the appropriate equipment, I think the are other methods to achieve the same benefits using more of a dumb-bell workout. I’ll talk about those in the future.
Update soon.
Look out tomorrow evening. Ryan has been doing some great work with Simpleweight. We’ll be doing a minor upgrade Sunday, Jan 6, 2008. There may be some down time between 9pm and 12am updated: 6pm - 9pm CST.
There are no big feature changes for paying customers. (Those will come soon.) [...]
Look out tomorrow evening. Ryan has been doing some great work with Simpleweight. We’ll be doing a minor upgrade Sunday, Jan 6, 2008. There may be some down time between 9pm and 12am updated: 6pm - 9pm CST.
There are no big feature changes for paying customers. (Those will come soon.) But, we do have some changes. I’ll detail later.
Thanks for your patience.
Pay it forward - Simple Weight Loss style!
Leo Babauta from zenhabits.net is sponsoring a pay it forward web event, and I am giving away free 12 month simpleweight subscriptions. To learn how to receive your subscription, keep reading.
What is a pay it forward web event?
The purpose of the event is to bring people closer and restore kindness
To quote Leo quoting Ben Franklin:
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Leo Babauta from zenhabits.net is sponsoring a pay it forward web event, and I am giving away free 12 month simpleweight subscriptions. To learn how to receive your subscription, keep reading.
What is a pay it forward web event?
The purpose of the event is to bring people closer and restore kindness
To quote Leo quoting Ben Franklin:
Here’s Ben Franklin on this concept:
I do not pretend to give such a Sum; I only lend it to you. When you […] meet with another honest Man in similar Distress, you must pay me by lending this Sum to him; enjoining him to discharge the Debt by a like operation, when he shall be able, and shall meet with another opportunity. I hope it may thus go thro’ many hands, before it meets with a Knave that will stop its Progress. This is a trick of mine for doing a deal of good with a little money.
To Demonstrate the goodness of Humanity, The idea is to perform some act of kindness, but with the intention of never receiving anything in return except asking the person to perform some act of kindness to someone else in the future.
So instead of paying me back, you need to pay it forward.
Leo mentioned he would link to my website if I perform some act of kindness. I don’t know if he will or will not link to me.
(Leo if you’re reading this and you do choose to link to my fantastic simple weight loss site. Thank you.) Regardless, I plan to participate.
What do I have to give to fulfill my act of kindness?
- First, I have some positive inspiring comments I can give to my family and friends.
- Second, I have some stuff (clothing, home furnishings, technology items) I will bring to the local goodwill.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to clean the environment. - Finally, I will give free 12 month subscriptions to use simple weight to the first 12 people who leave a comment on this post describing how they will use our website to better handle their weight management goals.
(I recommend SMART goals).
What do I ask in return?
- You truly need to dedicate yourself to using the site. We want you to reach your weight management goal. Using the site can be as simple as entering your weight weekly or tracking exercise habits daily.
- Of course, I will trust you to pay it forward and help someone else down the road.
I know you do not want to be the Knave to stop the progress of random kindness.
Remember, weight management is as easy as food in = food out.
Simpleweight outage planned
We’ve been notified by our service provider slicehost.com, that we’ll be experiencing an outage sometime between 0600 - 1000 GMT Nov 9.
If my calculations are correct, that would mean sometime between 12:00 AM CST - 04:00 AM CST.
If you’d like to read more, you can read about the outage at our VPS provider: http://blog.slicehost.com & [...]
We’ve been notified by our service provider slicehost.com, that we’ll be experiencing an outage sometime between 0600 - 1000 GMT Nov 9.
If my calculations are correct, that would mean sometime between 12:00 AM CST - 04:00 AM CST.
If you’d like to read more, you can read about the outage at our VPS provider: http://blog.slicehost.com & http://status.slicehost.com/
Thanks for your patience.
Dalai Lama’s 7 steps to positive and healthy lifestyle change
Use these 7 steps to make positive changes towards a healthy diet, exercise, and weight.
Learning
Conviction
Determination
Action
Effort
Create Habits
Eliminate negativity
Use these 7 steps to make positive changes towards a healthy diet, exercise, and weight.
- Learning
- Conviction
- Determination
- Action
- Effort
- Create Habits
- Eliminate negativity
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:
- 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 sacrifice your life for your diet
- Make Small Changes
- Gain perspective by understanding the fractions
- Rationalize your workouts
- 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
