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Week Two: The Plan

Now that we’re into the second week, we should set up some sort of framework for the next seven days? Right? Come on, whose with me? Baahhh, to hell with you Stanley. On with the planning!

Fitness Benchmarks
Wii Sports and Wii Fit both assign you an “age” that is meant to represent your overall health, lower [...]

Simple Calorie Counting Made Complicated

With all the complicated diet plans and confusing hoopla out there, you’d think that weight gain and weight loss were mysterious forces beyond human comprehension. It turns out that it’s actually kind of simple.
Food is full of calories. Some calories come from fat, some come from sugar, some come from protein, but in the end [...]

Week One: Knowing the Unknowable

The first week of the project is well underway. You may be wondering what’s on the fitness agenda? Will it be Wii Fit? EA Sports Active? Keeping it real with Wii Sports? Actually, none of the above. Instead, it’s about getting in touch with one of Bill and Ted’s most righteous companions.
The goal of this [...]

Goali-O! The Search for a Reasonable Target Weight

Wowzers. There sure are a lot of different ways to calculate what your “ideal” weight should be. Using the magic of (pseudo-)science, I believe I’ve divined my number. How have I arrived at so auspicious a figure? I will gladly tell you this thing.
The Battle of the Bulges
First, I looked at height to weight charts [...]