The Data Diet: How I Lost 60 Pounds Using A Google Docs

Sounds a lot like The Hacker's Diet (http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/)

I don't know that there are many problems humans face that you could not, in some way, attribute to a lack of meaningful data (or understanding what data is meaningful and what data serves only to further dilute or affirm our poorly constructed models of what is meaningful)

Well I'm confused why it's so hard for people to face basic facts about their diet and what they eat. However, I suppose when you don't care or educate yourself about diet then one would wonder why they're overweight.

I enjoyed reading your writing but I stopped reading at: "Exercise, I’d say, is irrelevant, to weight loss too" Exercise is most definitely RELEVANT to weight loss and to blatantly disregard it seems ridiculous. A decent diet paired with solid exercise is the cornerstone to a mental and physical prosperity. Neither is irrelevant.

I did this exact same thing starting back starting in 2007 with the Hacker's Diet and building out my own spreadsheet with a 10 day moving average I only need to lose about 40 lbs, but I got down to less than 11% bodyfat using it too. I was so amazed at seeing the curves of my abs.

Then I got married and the withings scale and stopped using my spreadsheet and I put back on a lot of the weight.

That 10 day moving average in your face is a huge helper.

This is an interesting idea. I have been trying to loose weight for the longest time and succeed for 1-2 weeks by not looking at the scale but weighing myself after 2 weeks hoping to see a big drop. This treats weight loose less about the number, and more about the trend. Im gonna try it.

I may integrate that into my Indoctrinator program (a program that uses the power of obsessiveness to achieve anything): http://indoctrinator.com