Book 48: The Hacker's Diet by John Walker

So this software engineer realizes that he's succeeded pretty well in life as far as his career goes, but he's a failure health-wise. So he tries to apply some logic to losing weight. This is all very common sense stuff, but he uses a practical engineering way to go about it. It's mostly about taking in less calories than you use every day. Pretty standard stuff, right? He created some tools that help you graph your weight every day and it shows you a trend line, so you can easily see how your weight is trending and you can avoid the daily ups and downs that you see on the scale that can be so frustrating. He talks about how so much of the body is water and so much of it is processed in and out every day that the scale is always going to have variations. This trending graph is really useful because you can see that even though the scale says you're heavier today, you can see that you're still going down. He has some other things in there about an exercise program and some heavy math to calculate the graphs and similar stuff. I mostly took the trend line approach out of it. I found Physics Diet online and it does the graphing for you, so you just have to enter your weight every day. Like I said, everyone knows how to lose weight, this is just a different, more structured way of looking at the process.