The author of The Hacker’s Diet, John Walker, has generously given me permission to discuss his diet in detail using some quotes, with links back to his site.
And today we’ve reached the last of the Introductory sections as he sets the stage by explaining the concept of the Eat Watch:
You strap it on your wrist, set it for the weight you want to be, then rely on it to tell you when to eat and when to stop. Whenever it says EAT, just chow down on anything you like until EAT goes out. Obviously the EAT indicator will stay on longer if you’re munchin’ cabbage instead of chugging München’s finest beer.
(snip)
The eat watch wouldn’t control you any more than a regular watch makes you get to work on time. You can ignore either, if you wish. You decide, based on the information from the watch, what to do.
Some people are born with a natural, built-in eat watch. You and I either don’t have one, or else it’s busted. But instead of moping about bemoaning our limitations, why not get an eat watch and be done with it?
(snip)
Once you possess the power to circumvent limitations, to control things most people consider immutable, you’re liberated from the tyranny of events. You’re no longer an observer; you’re in command. You’ve become a hacker. This book is about one simple, humble thing: getting control of your weight and health. By circumventing the limitations that made you overweight in the first place and keep you that way, you’re hacking the most complicated and subtle system in the world: your own human body. Weight control–what a hack! Once you realise you can hack your weight, who can imagine what you will turn to next?
(Hacker’s Diet – Weight Watch, by John Walker)
John Walker’s invention, The MarinChip Eat Watch is his name for the collection of tools he created to give him the knowledge he needs to know when to eat and when to stop.
I’m getting so excited as I read this (and I think it’s more than the fact that my mom worked at Marin Ship during The War.) I’ve been using a program called FitDay, which might be similar to his idea. But FitDay took considerably longer than 15 minutes a day. And I wasn’t totally satisfied with the graphs provided by the program (they also have a web version, but I’m reluctant to post personal data like that on a corporate site so I haven’t used it.)
Tomorrow we’ll discuss the concept of inputs and outputs (My Body is a Rubber Bag) and how the difference between the two controls our weight.
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[...] Something switched off in my brain last night and I just didn’t care. I guess that’s the whole broken eat watch story again. So, while I feel horrible about my lack of discipline and control the last couple of days. I am very grateful that I discovered The Hacker’s Diet. Because of it, I already knew that I don’t always control how much I eat. And because I weigh myself everyday, I know that in just these two days I’ve gone too far (what could I do to myself if I went on vacation — somewhere away from a scale?). [...]