The Hacker’s Diet: How to Lose Weight and Hair Through Stress and Poor Nutrition

John Walker

The Rubber Bag

If, over a period of time, the calories in the food you eat exceed the calories you burn by 3500, you’ll put on about a pound. Conversely, if you reduce your food intake so that you burn 3500 calories more than you eat, you’ll lose about a pound. Page 52 @ 24 April 2025 07:30:09 PM

Losing Weight

A hungry stomach will not allow its owner to forget it, whatever his cares and sorrows. —Homer, The Odyssey, c. 800 B.C. Page 313 @ 03 August 2025 09:06:24 PM

Fat men are more likely to die suddenly than the slender. —Hippocrates, Aphorisms, c. 400 B.C. Page 316 @ 03 August 2025 09:06:32 PM

What’s the trade-off between a few bad days in the course of a diet, or even low-level irritation for several months, against living for five or ten more years? Of seeing your grandchildren grow up? Of seeing your life’s work serve as the foundation for the next generation? Of finally getting the money out of your IRA? Of a happy retirement on the Moon? Whatever…death disqualifies you from every activity. Dieting is unpleasant and bad days are wretched, but dropping dead is worse. Tomorrow will be better. Page 316 @ 03 August 2025 09:06:51 PM

Great eaters and great sleepers are incapable of anything else that is great. —Henry IV of France (1553–1610) Page 318 @ 03 August 2025 09:07:55 PM

As we’ve seen, most overweight people don’t suffer from flaws in character or weakness of will; they just have a broken feedback system. But if others assume there’s something wrong with them, the consequences will be no less severe for being unjustified and unfair Page 320 @ 03 August 2025 09:08:57 PM