[ SECRET POST #2384 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2384 ⌋

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Comments

[thene]

I lost about 25lbs last year and I wrote a long post about both what I was doing and what I'd been reading on the topic. I'm just going to copy-paste the linklist I made for that post, because it's all stuff I found interesting and useful.


The Fat-Positive Feminist Skeptical Diet from Greta Christina - this is a series of which I habitually link to the fourth part, because it's a good place to start and the others all neatly branch off from there. The series is a little repetitive but it covers a lot of research and goes into the mental depths of it very well, and I used it as a primary starting point.

The Fat Trap from NYT (if you hit the paywall, reload and then hit the stop button once the article text has loaded. I guess someone in the NYT web design department hates the revenue department because the paywall is the last piece of javascript to load, wtf). I've seen a fair bit of wank over this one, mostly from NWCR paleo types who swear they can keep weight off just fine, but they would say that wouldn't they? And this is interesting and the writing is good. [ETA: see also Yoni Freedhoff's response.]

The Perfected Self from The Atlantic - about rehabilitating Skinner via behavioural apps, with a focus on healthy living. It also notes that, contrary to the oft-quoted 90% fail rate statistic (more on this later), something like 30-40% of people can keep weight off successfully if they have medical support, which is what apps are now trying to replicate. I've been using the free version of LoseIt since July myself, along with four friends; three of them flaked out after a month or so, but the two of us who kept at it are still very much on track; this is nothing more than an indication that some people like counting things.

Cooking Isn't Fun But You Should Do It Anyway, self-explanatory from Slate.

DIET score from Weighty Matters - "Weight lost through suffering will almost certainly be regained." Also, Weight Ain't About Exercise.

Obesity and the human brain on BoingBoing - the tone is overly simplistic but it's interesting if you want to know about what happens when you feed human junkfood to rats (it is amazing what researchers can get paid for!)