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How to Compare the Hacker's Diet to Other Diets

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The Hacker's Diet is a weight loss program that uses a very complex set of macros and spreadsheets to chart your progress on the program. The diet premise is fairly simple. John Walker, the diet founder, states that you just eat less food than your body uses daily.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
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  1. Step 1

    Consider the target audience. The Hacker's Diet, complete with complex spreadsheets, was designed by John Walker. He created this diet for computer programmers and engineers who view spreadsheets as an addictive motivational tool. Many other diets use graphs but, the Hacker's Diet graphs require that you read and understand a lengthy set of instructions to use the graphs and understand the calculated results.

  2. Step 2

    Think about the fluctuating exercise required. The exercise required on the Hacker's Diet depends entirely on your daily weight loss. By using a Hacker's Diet online tracker, you can see if your exercise was effective for any particular day by viewing a chart. Many other diets offer a structured exercise program.

  3. Step 3

    Factor in the time required to successfully follow the program. On the Hacker's Diet, you have to weigh yourself daily and calculate your exercise rung. Both of these take time. That time is in addition to your exercise and food preparation time. Some other diets have you weigh yourself less frequently and simply write down the type and length of exercise you do daily.

  4. Step 4

    Talk to your doctor about the Hacker's Diet. This diet was founded by the creator of AutoDesk. He is a computer programmer, not a medical professional.

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pbienick said

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on 11/9/2008 Sorry - I meant "this diet", not "this exercise".

pbienick said

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on 11/9/2008 I agree 100% with Glamar. This exercise is simple calorie counting. I tried it for a couple of months and the hardest part was weighing myself each day and being honest with myself about the calories I was putting into my body. I didn't even bother to exercise, and continued to drink beer (although I switched to Beck's Premier Lite - 64 calories!) I easily lost 10 pounds.

Glamar said

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on 7/25/2008 This is so far off, this is the simplest way to successfully lose weight I have ever seen. The author did not read the book.

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