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Austin, Texas
2008-03-08
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SXSW 2008: Body Optimization
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Body Optimization: At SXSW?
- question assumptions, simplify, be unconventional, hack
- you might know me from:
- the first HTML4+CSS1+PNG compliant browser
- IE5/Mac, in 2000, by Microsoft
- CSS Box Model Hack
- Meaningful Elements of XHTML
- A little thing called microformats
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Body Optimization: Why?
- personal wake-up call
- 2006 physical
- cholesterol too high
- blood sugar too high
- overweight (~200 lb with clothes)
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Body Optimization: Why?
- the before
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Body Optimization: immediate simple changes
- Some immediate changes
- cut fried food
- cut corn syrup
- dropped to ~185 lb in a couple of months
- still unhappy
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Body Optimization: empowerment
- complaining to a friend
- she pushed back, confronted me
- you can change it if you really want to
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Body Optimization: a simple plan
- keep a food log
- 48 hour juice fast
- calorie budget for slow weight loss
- structured exercise 3x week
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Body Optimization: difficult struggle
- grumpy
- having to fight various food cravings
- social awkwardnesses
- loneliness
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Body Optimization: the first month
- 2 weeks to get into a routine
- 1 month to see/feel real results
- just enough to motivate to keep going
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Body Optimization: SXSW 2007
- while packing realized nothing fit
- Kafkaesque - but in a good way
- shopping binge
- decided I had to share my experience
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Body Optimization: Why?
- question assumptions, simplify, be unconventional, hack
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Thanks!
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SXSW 2008: Body Optimization