Weight loss:a tech guy's lessons losing 50lbs(2013) and keeping it off(2014)

As Bruce Lee put it: Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

Hope it helps someone and Happy New Year!

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Speaking as a high school wrestler...my last year I had to cut from 130 to 112...most of it was water weight though I tried to keep under 1,000 calories a day. After the season, I gained that weight back in about 3 days, and then an extra 10 pounds that I have never been able to lose (not that I'd want to be less than 130 pounds). Not contradicting the OP...just pointing out, even if you are a wrestler, season-long dieting sucks :)

Also, one mistake that I hear of from casual dieters/exercisers...getting excited about losing 1-2 pounds after their first day of a decent workout and light meal...and then getting depressed a couple of days later when that weight ticks back up. Over that short period of time, that weight is almost definitely just water weight...for wrestling, we obsessively weighed ourselves...and the number of pounds (of water) you could lose in a 2 hour workout was always impressive. Taking a short piss was almost a sure way of losing at least half a pound. And even if you stopped eating the day before weigh-ins, did a normal workout, and restricted your water usage...you could expect to be at least a pound lighter by weigh-ins early morning due to water loss through respiration during sleeping.

Overall this was a good read; for me it really was accepting that my lifestyle was unhealthy and making permanent changes.

That said I really dislike weightloss articles that speak in absolutes.

Cardio helping weightloss isn't a 'myth'; if you can't impose enough self control on yourself to not eat more after cardio, then sure, it might not be beneficial. I know for certain that I wouldn't have lost weight as fast without doing cardio regularly. In fact a healthy choice oftentimes begets another and I would find myself eating less on cardio days.

Same with protein after workouts. Sure it can be an excuse to eat more if you let it be, but if you're counting calories properly it is also a good time to intake protein.

So, as usual, I had Firefox put the text on the system clipboard, pulled that text into my favorite editor, used a favorite macro to insert a blank line after every existing line, used a macro to flow the text to a column width of just 60 characters, but honoring existing left indents (nice macro), used another macro to remove extra blank lines, and, then, read the text easily, in my favorite editor, with large, dark fonts.

Worked fine! Gee, such formatting can also be done in HTML and CSS, right? I thought so! Without JavaScript? Yup. Without the screen jumping around from JavaScript reacting to cursor movements? Yup. So, that I can actually read the actual text? Yup. Ah, a world with such wonders in it! Just a few editor macros to clean up a total mess of a Web page and enable reading the actual text! The text, the text, the actual text, being able actually to read the actual text -- will wonders never cease!

"Formatted poorly" you say! Such delicacy, such circumlocution, such discreet decorum, such reticence, such dignity and restraint!!! Me? I'd just scream myself hoarse with outrage except I've done that too often and found it doesn't help but just using my favorite editor does! Or, just have Firefox give me the HTML and use my favorite editor to change each case of to a single blank -- that can work well, too!