Two years ago I felt like I was getting fat, so as an experiment I started recording my weight in a spreadsheet to see what would happen. I had nothing else to do, so why not?
Once I started tracking things I saw my behavior change. I started paying attention to what I ate and how much; I started to drink only water and skim milk; I started playing Ultimate Frisbee on the weekends; for my New Year's resolution in 2011 I've taken the stairs to my office on the 6th floor every day.
Today I hit minus 30 pounds. I'm 2 pounds away from what I weighed in college. I'm no longer in the "one danish away from obese" category on the tall BMI. I now dress exclusively in clown pants.
Watch Amazon for my upcoming book, "The Microsoft Excel Diet." And if anyone has a bank job that requires somebody slipping through a ventilation shaft, I'm your man.
2 comments:
I read an interesting article about how feedback loops (IE: seeing progress and results) can help people to achieve goals. I think I read it in Scientific American. It was pretty cool!
That's so great! If Levi ever gets fattish, he will be ideally suited to this Get Skinny With Excel protocol. Genius.
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