Tag: weight loss
4 posts tagged "weight loss".
The project of shedding excess body fat, usually through some combination of diet, movement, and habit change. The blog approaches it less as a quick fix than as a systems problem — sustainable nutrition and durable habits beat willpower and crash diets every time. It connects to physical practices like running and strength training, which raise energy expenditure and preserve muscle, and to the psychology of behavioral economics, since most failures are failures of incentives and environment rather than knowledge. The recurring lesson is to engineer a default-healthy environment so the right choice becomes the easy one.
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Fat People Are Heroes
When I see an overweight person slogging away on the treadmill next to me, I think to myself: that person is a goddamn hero.
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After the Pizza Diet: Losing 20kg and Readjusting to Life as a Skinny Guy
When my friends visited, they roasted me mercilessly over my striking resemblance to Christian Bale in The Machinist.
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I Was Wrong About Running
YEAH SAME QUESTION AS OP. The mere existence of running as a 'hobby' has always seemed to me an affront to the dignity of mankind.
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How I Got Bigger, Stronger and Leaner Eating 222 Large Pizzas In a Row
I not only survived the pizza diet, but somehow ended up in the best shape of my life. Of course, there was some method to my madness.