Trey says:
August 11th, 2006 at 3:14 amdude, you look really fat in that picture on the elephant.
just fyi, you need to photoshop that shit or something.
trey thought it was some sort of optical illusion or something, but he was right. i was getting fat. by the end of august i couldn’t button my pants and hit 178 lbs at one point. (remember, i’m only 5′6″) well, the hacker’s diet, a few months and 30 pounds later i’m feeling good.
so, hm, weight loss. losing weight is easy. just eat less calories than your body burns in a day; it’s just a big math problem. not eating is the hard part. it helped that every once in a while i would just say “fuck it” and go get fried ice cream and margaritas or eat an entire can of grand’s biscuits. (did you know that has 1600 calories? holy shit!) you know the ironic part? subway is my secret weapon. that’s right, the eatery we all know and love helped big time. i’ve basically eaten subway for lunch everyday for the last 5 months. when you’re counting calories, making somebody else count for you is the way to be. and with those daily deals, i probably saved a bunch of money. (fuck you Tuesday and Friday!)
so now i’m in “maintanence mode” which basically means i still weigh myself everyday and count my calories, but i just get to count more of them. (1700 a day to be exact, up from 1200 on my diet) its kinda funny, the last time i weighed this much was back when i had heartburn so bad i couldnt eat or drink for like 2 weeks.
i actually wrote a wordpress plugin to help me track my weight. it was my first attempt at one and i think it came out pretty well. my next pet project will be to rewrite the plugin as a standalone ruby on rails app, but thats for another post :]
I used a lot of the ideas in the hacker’s diet recently, though I didn’t formally track it or count up caloies (I just stopped eating horrible food). I went from ~190 in august to ~165 currently. Kind of funny we both went on the same diet at the same time and didn’t know it.
hilarious
Interesting…I might look into this. I’ve lost 30 lbs since I moved home. By June my goal is 200 even…I haven’t weighed 150-165 since I was in ninth grade or something…fucking skinny people.
30 lbs! wow tyler, you must look dead sexy!!!
yeah i think you’ve got another convert here too keith, sign me up. soon we’ll all be sexy skinny studs.
but for now i’m with you tyler…..fucking skinny people
Yous an inspiration to all of us, Keif!
After I came back from Venezuela I havent touched a single fast food place, and plan on keeping it that way. Cut down on cokes so much that I have been going days without it, not like I need it. No more beer at home, since I rather pay for it when I go out which gets me to drink less.
Funny thing is that when I was in Venezuela I ate and drank like there was no tomorrow, yet I managed to lose about 5 lbs. Its all the shit they add to the food here that fucks us up.
I think Im gonna try this and working out to my Wii when I get new controllers.
Tyler lost the 30lbs of beard he had on, SNAP!
yeah, he got me hooked too. i’ve already lost 20 lbs, and still going!
god damn we are gonna be one fine group of friends
At least we’re not going to be bragging about how much we bench.
Yeah…I suck at bench press. Now inclined leg press on the other hand, THATS something I can brag about!
I would like to formally request the weight everyone is losing be sent my way. Thanks.
In my last 2 week trip to Cali where I ate pretty well (not having to pay for it helps) I gained 5 pounds.