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February 2010

Being Obsessive vs Being Thorough

February 27, 2010
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I don’t believe one can plan too much. When I say that, I’m saying that it is always possible to be more thorough in your approach. However, it is possible to be too obsessive in your approach. There is a distinct difference: Being obsessive means that doing what you’re doing degrades the long-term quality of [...]

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Shifting the Blame of Fat

February 24, 2010
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I’ve seen a derivative of the phrase, “being fat is not your fault”, many times. It comes up in various forms. Some of these are videos, like this one that cites Gary Taubes, stating that “your’e not getting fat because you’re eating more, you’re eating more because you’re getting fat”. Even in books like ‘Mean [...]

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Intermitting Fasting

February 20, 2010
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This is a topic which I have some fondness towards, mainly because I have gained many benefits from its practice. What intermittent fasting is, is a regular scheduled period of time whereby no food is consumed; a fast. This can be done in various ways. With popular approaches being fast5, the warrior diet, eat stop [...]

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Sprinting vs Spelunking

February 18, 2010
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Sprinting is straightforward. The path is predictable, and the sole determinant was your effort and ability, you charged forward and finished first. Navigating a cave (spelunking) is tricky. The goal is clear but the path was foggy. Much was beyond your control, and you didn’t want to charge into a wall, fall into a crevasse [...]

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Stop Preaching Long-Term Goals to the Short-Term Minded

February 16, 2010
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Some people think in the short-term, some in the long-term. The only way to get to someone is to talk in the language of his/her time perspective

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Adopting Healthy Habits

February 13, 2010
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Be it trying to lose some weight, sticking to an exercise regime, taking your vitamins, quitting smoking, or any other goal, if it is something that goes against your usual routine, adopting a new habit is going to be met with some resistance. You can reframe the problem (it’s about building NEW habits, not destroying [...]

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Chinese New Year Goodies: The Long Version

February 9, 2010
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In my original Chinese New Year Goodies post, I gave a brief look at the differing caloric density of various foods. This post is the long version. It is for the people who want a deeper discussion into the vagaries of holiday eating. What I want to talk about today is not the traditions of [...]

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Chinese New Year Goodies

February 6, 2010
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Chinese New Year is coming. That means lots of festive treats, which also means lots of binges and bulging waistlines. Recently, an article in the Singapore Straits Times, ‘Bulge-Free Binge’ (with the online version here), tackled just this topic. It showed pictures of various festive foods, giving the caloric count for 100g of each type [...]

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Life isn’t Linear: What Dieters and Stockbrokers have in Common

February 4, 2010
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A linear relationship means that if you put in 3 units of effort and get say 2 units of reward, adding another 3 units of effort should yield you another 2 units of reward. Life isn’t like that of course. More often than not, the progress of any condition comes in spurts and stops. Let’s [...]

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