What are some great little diet and exercise tips and tricks to push weight loss and fitness progress over the edge? Not looking for a whole plan, just your favorite "diet hacks."
I've lost about 20 pounds since the beginning of the year using the shockingly effective method of eating a lot less and exercising a lot more. Who knew?! The problem is that after seeing daily progress on the scale and in the way my clothes fit, I seem to have hit a brick wall, even after cutting out more in my diet and working out even more.
I realize it's going to be a slow process and I shouldn't expect magical results. And I'm not looking for anyone's "eat as much celery as you want!" plans, no matter how tried and true. What I'm really looking for is the little tiny changes you've made that have helped greatly in your weight loss and fitness goals. Exercises I should be doing to get the most out of my workout time, great snacks that are still healthy, or even just ways to stay motivated even when I can't see the daily progress... any little tips you have would be great.
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Ask MeFi: Yet Another DietFilter (I think this is a decent one.)
Posted: February 25th, 2010, 4:56am PST by joshrholloway
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Ask MeFi: What clever relationship "hacks" have you come up with?
Posted: November 3rd, 2009, 10:48am PST by wyzewoman
What clever relationship "hacks" have you come up with? I'm looking to build up my mental catalogue of examples of non-obvious solutions to relationship difficulties. Help me think out of the box better in the future!
A few times over the years, I've solved a relationship problem in a way that I was really proud of, because the solution met everybody's needs when it looked like such a solution didn't exist. I still turn back to these examples when I'm faced with a new difficulty, because I may be able to model a new solution out of the old ones.
An example of what I'm talking about: a roommate declared one day that he was no longer willing to share dishes with me: I didn't wash them well enough for his liking, even after repeated reminders. Well, that sucked -- it would be extra time, expense, and bother. But, we were able to talk about it calmly, and we worked out that really it was only the glasses that I drank milk out of which weren't getting cleaned well. So I suggested that I get a set of milk-drinking-glasses, just for me, and that we continue to share the rest of the dishes. And it worked! We never fought about dishes again. The lesson I learned from that: try to whittle a problem down to its smallest core, and solve that.
It's just a silly example -- drinking glasses! -- but I've remembered this incident for years, and modified the solution in various other issues of household maintenance. I'd love to have other examples to draw upon going forward. So, MeFites, when did you come up with a relationship solution that you were particularly proud of, and what lessons did you draw from it? -
MeFi: "And here is a red balloon.. I think of DARPA and note its exact coordinates"
Posted: November 2nd, 2009, 2:25pm PST by jessamyn
"To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge.... The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States. Balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roadways." Teams must register by December 1st and have two weeks to submit balloon locations.
Popular Science has a bit more. The Register offer some hacks. The Twitter will be here. -
MeFi: The Wisdom of Salmon
Posted: September 24th, 2009, 10:33am PDT by Rumple
Functional MRI (fMRI) is a widely used technique of brain imaging in the cognitive sciences, allowing researchers to visualize what part of the brain is responding to certain stimuli, resulting in striking images of live brains. These days, fMRI is seeing more non-research use, such as forming the basis of controversial new lie detectors. Craig Bennett, a postdoctoral researcher at UCSB, submitted a whole Atlantic salmon to fMRI analysis, and found that this fish could apparently detect, and respond to, the the emotional state of human beings (poster). Remarkable science, especially considering the salmon was dead at the time.
Bennett's paper is an example of voodoo correlation in brain imaging studies, wherein some false positives cannot be statistically removed without removing real data as well. Basically, low probability events will occur if enough data are generated - and fMRI generates enormous amounts of data: "your average fMRI brain scan analysis can involve 40,000 comparisons, so even if there's nothing going on, some bits of the brain are going to seem active just through falsely detecting noise and measurement error as real effect." The issue seems to be that better data filtering and better reporting of raw and corrected data are needed in this field - less sexy a conclusion than emotional dead salmon, yet an important cautionary tale that the author found surprisingly difficult to get published, or even to present at a conference. [via John Hawks]
