Comments on: It’s a New Phil, Week 1

By: Ross the Heartless Conservative

Ross the Heartless Conservative — Mon, 09 Jan 2006 16:05:00 +0000

Phil,
You should have gone ahead and gained an extra 4 pounds before starting your weight loss program. Once you get down to 150 pounds it would sounds a lot more impressive to say “I was over 300 pounds before I started my new lifestyle” instead of saying “I was alomst 300 pounds before I started my new lifestyle”. Oh well, good luck with the lifestyle change.

By: ivankirigin

ivankirigin — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 16:30:55 +0000

Public humiliation is a good motivator (at not meeting goals, not being overweight). But don’t get your hopes up with CR. I’ve seen reports that show is matter less the more advanced the species (translation: don’t get excited by results with yeast and worms).

I’ve seen some pretty amazing public diets. A blogger was posting everything he ate, with excel spreads of progress, based on formulation from “The Hacker’s Diet”. I would recommend you google it. It’s from the maker of AutoCAD, who clearly has some hacker cred.

If your diet fails, I’m certain some legit (non meth) drug treatments will be getting FDA approval any day now. That is the main reason I just don’t worry about obesity.

By: Phil Bowermaster

Phil Bowermaster — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:46:28 +0000

Jim

I realize this seems iffy as a Speculist piece, but the editor-in-chief okayed it, and who am I to argue with him? (The one that really surprised me getting past him was that blonde joke; but he seems to have softened up his editorial stance ever since USC lost the Rose Bowl.)

Plus I did work in the obligatory reference and link to Calorie Restirction and life extension; was actually hoping we might get some discussion on that in the comments.

On the “respectable weight” reference… no offense intended to anyone. It ain’t easy being big — a lot of the world is set up for smaller people and you run into insults and gratuitous “help” everywhere.

By: Jim Strickland

Jim Strickland — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:26:27 +0000

This is appropriate for The Speculist how, exactly? I mean, bully for you that you’re loosing weight, certainly, but this kind of article is not what I come here for.

Also ’300 pounds is not respectable for anyone not in the NFL’ is a pretty broad generalization, and one imagines that some people being swept up in it will take umbrage. While I’m not suggesting you dumb down the science and speculation content to avoid offending, in a piece of fluff like this, it seems gratuitous.

-Jim

By: Stephen Gordon

Stephen Gordon — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:20:31 +0000

“and I must come clean — neither of those apply to me.”

Heh.

Godspeed my friend.

I could stand to lose weight myself. Keep us informed about what works.