Visualization of SARS-Cov-2 virus.
After some minor cold symptoms and feeling run down, my wife Erika tested positive for covid on Tuesday, May 10, 2022. I am writing this three weeks later, on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. The main goal of writing all this down is to …
The most important diet advice is extremely simple:
It matters more what you get rid of than what you add. "Superfoods" are more about marketing than health. As long as you stop eating the foods and "food-like-substances" that destroy health, you're moving in …
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read moreAs of February 15, 2020, I've been following a ketogenic diet for a full year. The results to date have been good.
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Body weight versus time.[/caption]
The data reveals that I've reduced body weight by approximately 40 pounds, year-over-year. Both the mirror …
read moreBefore the low-fat-diet insanity of the 1970s onward, sanity about diet and obesity was fairly common among the medical associations of the world.
Shown below is the abstract of an article published by George Thorpe, MD in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) in 1957 [1]. This article predates …
read moreAs so many others have said about low-carb eating, I can't unsee what I have seen or un-experience what I have experienced.
I can't pretend that I didn't drop 40 pounds with minimal effort, discomfort, or hunger.
And I certainly can't pretend that I didn't do this while eating foods …
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As shown in the plot above, I've been doing this practice and lifestyle for about eight months. During the past few days, I've attempted to update and enhance my representation and visualization of body weight data.
In the plot, the red vertical bars represent individual daily measurements. The solid black …
read moreLipid measurements after 8 months (242 days) on low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) eating.
These numbers have come in largely where I expected them …
read moreSeveral months before my recent weight loss (starting in February of 2019) I began the habit of eating a healthy low-carbohydrate breakfast: an omelet with egg whites, ground sausage, and spinach.
However, this new habit did not cause weight loss. Why? The answer is simple: I didn't change my foods …
read moreI presented a technical talk at the PyOhio conference this year, describing applications of elementary data science techniques to weight loss. (As I described here, I generally prefer the term "body fat reduction", because it's more specific, but most people are more familiar with the term "weight loss". So it …
read moreThe CodeMash staff posted my recorded lightning talk on Personal Journaling.
It's the same subject as my earlier post - the exciting difference is that it was a much bigger stage with a bigger audience that was sipping beer and whisky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIM_QIr_VHc
read moreThe screencast of my Stir Trek 2019 talk.
Official conference videos will follow, with live speaker action as well as screen recording. However, I had a glitchy radio microphone, so the audio quality of this presentation is likely to be better.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlF9x1MGbSw
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Body weight measurements from Feb 2019 to April 2019. 5 day moving average with +/- 1 sigma channels to estimate measurement error.[/caption]
I had a "goal weight" of 190 lbs, and I crossed that milestone recently, as the plot above shows.
My revised …
read moreDogFoodCon (DFC) is a popular conference that draws speakers and attendees from the Great Lakes region and across the nation. DFC has experienced sustained growth and popularity since the inaugural conference back in 2008.
Taking place in Columbus, Ohio on the weekend of October 3-4, 2019, DFC is a two-day …
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Thanks to Christopher Sauer for recording the video!
read moreFor the first time in quite a while - since April, 2018 - my body weight has dropped below 200 lbs. I'm pleased with this milestone and wanted to make a note about what techniques appear to be working:
In the morning, right after waking up drink this:
Drink it before coffee or anything else.
read moreI've accumulated a lot of body fat over the past 15-20 months. I am aiming to get back to a healthier body shape (lower body fat percentage, more muscle).
I'm thinking about what the optimal diet, or range of diets, would be: