Interestingly "gioza" and "gyoza" as factors come out with opposite signs. I guess that provides a heuristic confidence interval for the weights.
Maybe there's a correlation between weight gain and spelling ability? /s
Machine Learning and Ketosis
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#12This is all good if your goal is weight loss. However weight loss doesn't necessarily means higher fitness. Glycogen is fundamental if you do sports, and exercise is a major ingredient in getting fit. If I read correctly, exercise was not a big part of your experiment, how would you suggest modifying the experiment to accommodate one's exercising needs? On a side note, I reached a similar conclusion on the role of "c…
How did people fight off lions before there was sugar and pasta?
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#13This is all good if your goal is weight loss. However weight loss doesn't necessarily means higher fitness. Glycogen is fundamental if you do sports, and exercise is a major ingredient in getting fit. If I read correctly, exercise was not a big part of your experiment, how would you suggest modifying the experiment to accommodate one's exercising needs? On a side note, I reached a similar conclusion on the role of "c…
Losing weight means that your muscles (and also your bones) need to carry less weight, so while technically you're not getting more fit, the fitness you have becomes more effective. So losing excess fat is definitely one of the most important steps towards becoming fit.
If anything, I would question how healthy ketosis is, long term... But I'm pretty sure it's way healthier than any processed-food diet typical in the west...
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#14I really like your reading because I went to a time period when everything I read was so misleading even words from doctors. That's the time when I tried very hard to improve my health (I gained about 30 lbs since the time I came to this country 15 years ago). To do that, I ate less fat, avoid carbs, getting a lot of exercises (1-3hrs a day, at least 5 days a week), eating oatmeal, even taking statins. And all one failed after another. I went through a lot of things mentioned here. And finally I decided to forget about everything doctors and researchers said. I look at my parents diet and how I was raised and started slowly from there. My health then got improved much better. I'm glad that you wrote something here for everybody to read. But there's one point I would like to add to the recipe:
improve mental state by listening to the body (meditation, yoga, brisk walking are good methods), eat only when the body feels hungry and stop eating when it feels full, eat the food that it feels good after eating (you will develop your own list).
I lost about 10lbs and I don't gain/lose any weight for the last 3 years.
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#15It's astonishing (and really awesome) that they were able to extract such a strong signal from daily weight swings! This makes me a lot more optimistic about the possibilities of quantified-self-type stuff.
Three things I'm really curious about:
- How significant are the estimates of lifestyle factors? Do you have p-values? If you bootstrap resample, how much do the rankings change at the extremes?
- How much cognitive overhead did it impose to collect the data for this? Did you put a lot of effort into designing the tags beforehand or making sure you weighed yourself at a consistent time?
- It looks like the predicted delta from going from a "nosleep" day to a "sleep" days is about 1.4 pounds (sleep coef minus nosleep coef). That seems fishy, or at least like it will stop working fairly soon because you can't actually lose 1.4 pounds/day sustainably. Is it possible there's something weird going on with the data or those variables don't have the obvious meanings?
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#16This matches my experience of weight loss using high fat diet. I started it after hearing Sarah Hallberg's Tedx talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ&feature=youtu.be
For a vegetarian, starting and continuing the high fat low carb diet is difficult. Are there any resources for more vegetarian recipes for high fat low carb food?
The article was very impressive. I liked the graphs and presentation.
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#17This is all good if your goal is weight loss. However weight loss doesn't necessarily means higher fitness. Glycogen is fundamental if you do sports, and exercise is a major ingredient in getting fit. If I read correctly, exercise was not a big part of your experiment, how would you suggest modifying the experiment to accommodate one's exercising needs? On a side note, I reached a similar conclusion on the role of "c…
How did people fight off lions before there was sugar and pasta?
They got carbs from fruits, starchy root vegetables and whole grains. Ketosis isn't some magic thing that all our ancestors did all the time.
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#18This matches my experience of weight loss using high fat diet. I started it after hearing Sarah Hallberg's Tedx talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ&feature=youtu.be For a vegetarian, starting and continuing the high fat low carb diet is difficult. Are there any resources for more vegetarian recipes for high fat low carb food? The article was very impressive. I liked the graphs and presentation.
Many of these meals are vegetarian - it may be good inspiration:
http://eatingacademy.com/personal/actually-eat-part-iii-circ...
http://eatingacademy.com/nutrition/what-i-actually-eat
http://eatingacademy.com/personal/what-i-actually-eat-part-i...
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#19The challenge for me is always knowing what to eat to help me accelerate my weight loss. I need structure. If I don't have structure, it's easy for me to eat things I shouldn't. I started a weight loss program 5 weeks ago called "Ideal Protein," which uses the Ketosis method. They supply breakfast, lunch, and a snack. I only need to make dinner (plus 2 cups of veggies for lunch). I love how easy it is.
I'm wrapping up week 5 tomorrow and I'm down 25lbs (~14% of my body weight)! They promise 2-5lbs of fat loss a week. I generally drop around a pound a day, but I'll get stuck a few days here and there. This method really works for me.
The best part is how fast you lose it. When I did South Beach years ago, it took me months to hit my goal. I have 14lbs left now and I should be able to hit my goal by Labor Day.
Give it a try.
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#20The impact of sleep/no sleep. Wow.