I’ve always been a big dude, even when I was younger and did competitive swimming I was still ‘fat’. I’ve tried most of the types of diets out there. Be it weightwatchers, atkins, itrim among others. Some more successful than others.
Now I’ve actually found something that might be possible to use for an extended time and that seems to be working, for other at least. I’m actually looking forward to starting it - which is weird in itself.
Tim Ferriss book The Four Hour Body is the reason behind me finding it, after tips from my sister and a former workmate that was reading it. After divulging the content on what you should and shouldn’t eat during this diet both me and my wife concluded: “this diet we can live with”. The reason is simple. There’s a scheduled cheatday and it’s ‘mandatory’.
I’m not going to cheat Tim from his money by giving you the diet in it’s glory - just google 4hourbody or 4hbody and you’ll find lots of info on the subject.
Me and my wife, as well as a colleague at work are starting this coming monday. I’m giving myself 100 SEK per kilo I lose - payable if/when I reach my ‘final’ goal. That being 90 kilos (I might reconsider and go lower when and if I reach it). I will not be posting my starting weight here - I’ll give you, on a weekly basis, the amount of lost kilos as well as the centimeters lost in total (having measured both arms, chest, stomache, behind and thighs and then presenting the total of those measurements).
Added later for clarity: We will not be doing the diet during my summer vacation of three weeks - but we’ll ‘reset’ and ‘restart’ the moment it’s over and keep running it. Although we might do it - but we’re saying we won’t in case we don’t want to :)
Slow Carb Diet vs The 4-Hour Body: Some have said that it’s a waste of money to buy the book since it’s basically a regular Slow Carb Diet. Yes, I guess it is - but like a aquiantance said ‘a good diet is diet that works’ - and we’re going to see if it does :)
If anyone has any ideas for bets, for motivation, to be made let me know - I’m open for it!
Start: Monday May 28th 2012 - but you’ll get the first measurements the week after :-)
I can get very, very ‘tired’ from time to time. Especially when I’m told that “hey, our ranking on ‘arbitrary rankingsite’ is declining”. I answer: so? does anyone take notice of that site? Yes, they claim.
So I look into how this ranking is done. The quick answer? The bulk of the ranking is done using the toolbar that people have to install. Well.. suffice to say, I haven’t installed a toolbar during the last 10 years on any computer. I haven’t seen anyone, in my part of the world, using a toolbar - other than the default ones that came with the browser - during the last 10 years either.
But for some reason some agencies take notice of what ‘arbitrary rankingsite’ thinks. So now I have to increase our ranking on this ‘arbitrary rankingsite’. Due to that fact I’ve found out what SEO-consultancy firms do for a living and man.. in most cases it’s not a pretty sight to see what they’re up to.
I don’t deny that they normally work, they get the job done, but what the **** - it’s a manipulation of data that is only made to do one thing - increase your ranking in different searchengines. They artificially inflate the number of links you get to your site, they artificially adds more visitors to your website - and for that they take ‘top dollar’.
I thought that I had an idea what to do to make a website more or less searchable and more indexed on a searchengine (like for example google). But I’m an honest mane.. I can’t go around setting up fake websites that links to my own websites just to boost my own website. It’s making me sick seeing that people actually get paid to blow smoke up the searchengine’s *** to ‘boost’ the traffic so you can end up higher up on your ranking.
Ok, I’m ranting I know, but sometimes you have to do that as well.. now back to figuring out how to increase our rating, without actually blowing smoke up it’s *** and faking it.
Apple reports Q2 2012 results: $39.2 billion revenue
35 million iPhones, 12 million iPads
I wish I could make that amount of money
“Att tänka innan man talar är som att torka sig i arslet innan man skiter…” — Arne Anka (och kanske Gert Fylking)
Spotify can never be profitable? -
Michael Robertsson thinks that Spotify never can be profitable like iTunes. Interesting read, but it is by default, speculative.
For some reason I always keep hearing Flash and the Pans - Waiting for a train when I get into ‘waiting for something’ mode.
Currently waiting for what you ask?
We had a client conference today and I’m just waiting for the verdict on our offer. Since it’s been a rather long road getting to this point it would be nice if we could get the order. Even though it would mean ‘hell’ for a while in terms of workload.
Keeping my fingers crossed. Sources say the meeting went well, now we’re just waiting to hear…
If you don’t know the song I mentioned above.. you can listen to it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skVv0__xKdY
Recording for nordic brand of headache medication
Recording in progress. VoiceOver for a lottery in Sweden.