Comments for justdrew http://blog.justdrew.net Interactive musings from a creative technophile Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:10:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Day 15 AI plan by Drew http://blog.justdrew.net/2009/08/26/day-15-ai-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-952 Drew Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:10:03 +0000 http://blog.justdrew.net/?p=239#comment-952 I believe the above post is just SPAM, (so I removed the affiliate links to the sites mentioned) but the sentiment is one I hear often. People in search of the "best diet" are doomed from the start. Diets do NOT work. What does work is making lifestyle changes that you can live with. The only thing that works is eating a healthy, balanced and varied diet (limiting processed foods and foods that are very dense in calories and fats), getting plenty of liquids and exercising regularly. THAT works and is really the only thing that works. Going on a restrictive calorie diet for a short period of time, only to return to bad eating habits later will INCREASE your ability to gain and retain excess body fat. It's a bit more complex than that, but that is the heart of the solution-- the rest is just detail. I believe the above post is just SPAM, (so I removed the affiliate links to the sites mentioned) but the sentiment is one I hear often.

People in search of the “best diet” are doomed from the start.

Diets do NOT work. What does work is making lifestyle changes that you can live with.

The only thing that works is eating a healthy, balanced and varied diet (limiting processed foods and foods that are very dense in calories and fats), getting plenty of liquids and exercising regularly.

THAT works and is really the only thing that works. Going on a restrictive calorie diet for a short period of time, only to return to bad eating habits later will INCREASE your ability to gain and retain excess body fat.

It’s a bit more complex than that, but that is the heart of the solution– the rest is just detail.

]]> Comment on Day 15 AI plan by Jules http://blog.justdrew.net/2009/08/26/day-15-ai-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-945 Jules Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:23:40 +0000 http://blog.justdrew.net/?p=239#comment-945 I've been trying to lose weight for years. Actually I have over and over again. It gets old. :( I'm going to try another diet plan, but I'm not sure which one. Have any of you tried the Every Other Day Diet or the Diet Solution Program? If so, how did it work for you? I’ve been trying to lose weight for years. Actually I have over and over again. It gets old. :( I’m going to try another diet plan, but I’m not sure which one. Have any of you tried the Every Other Day Diet or the Diet Solution Program? If so, how did it work for you?

]]> Comment on Don’t make me think! by Drew http://blog.justdrew.net/2009/03/02/dont-make-me-think/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Drew Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:20:31 +0000 http://blog.justdrew.net/?p=99#comment-61 Funnier example of labeling silliness on a web form: <a href="http://failblog.org/2008/10/15/optional-fail/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://failblog.wordpress.com/files/2008/10/fail-owned-optional-required-fail.jpg" alt="fail owned pwned pictures" title="fail-owned-optional-required-fail" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6512" /></a><br />More <a href="http://failblog.org" rel="nofollow">pwn and owned pictures on failblog.org</a> Funnier example of labeling silliness on a web form:
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]]> Comment on Jeopardy is Wired by Drew http://blog.justdrew.net/2009/02/07/jeopardy-is-wired/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Drew Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:25:43 +0000 http://blog.justdrew.net/?p=34#comment-58 Weird synchronicity... Okay, get this: I posted this article in the afternoon after I stumbled across the Jeopardy Wired piece. Then, as I worked on some repetitive catalog work for a client, I was listening to an audio book about Miles Davis (great book, BTW- called Miles to Go, by Chris Murphy). I got to the point in the book where the author makes a temporary break from a depressed Miles to work with the new band, Weather Report. He just finishes talking about <strong>Jaco Pastorius </strong>and his awesome work on his fretless bass when I hit the pause button and wrapped for the day. Later last night, when I got back from meeting some friends, I fired up the DVR in bed and my jaw dropped when several of the days' clues tied back to my day. It was like a dream you have that plays back elements of the previous day's events. It would have been spooky enough to have one of the answers to a clue be the British show, <strong>Mastermind</strong> (yep, it happened), but to beat that; in a category called "J.P." there was a video clue about this Weather Report fretless bassist who sometimes had to take a fretted bass and remove the fretbars from the neck himself... I truly thought I was hallucinating. Weird synchronicity… Okay, get this: I posted this article in the afternoon after I stumbled across the Jeopardy Wired piece. Then, as I worked on some repetitive catalog work for a client, I was listening to an audio book about Miles Davis (great book, BTW- called Miles to Go, by Chris Murphy).

I got to the point in the book where the author makes a temporary break from a depressed Miles to work with the new band, Weather Report. He just finishes talking about Jaco Pastorius and his awesome work on his fretless bass when I hit the pause button and wrapped for the day.

Later last night, when I got back from meeting some friends, I fired up the DVR in bed and my jaw dropped when several of the days’ clues tied back to my day. It was like a dream you have that plays back elements of the previous day’s events.

It would have been spooky enough to have one of the answers to a clue be the British show, Mastermind (yep, it happened), but to beat that; in a category called “J.P.” there was a video clue about this Weather Report fretless bassist who sometimes had to take a fretted bass and remove the fretbars from the neck himself… I truly thought I was hallucinating.

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