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Kids and adults: don't try this at home!
How did I do it? Eat like a monk and run a lot.
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The French Running Diet
Category: Self: Meet Center. Center: Meet Self.
Posted on: August 11, 2009 8:22 PM, by Dave Bacon
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Wow dude, nice.
Posted by: NE1 | August 11, 2009 9:51 PM
How do you define eating like a monk, and what do you consider a lot of running?
Posted by: Joel | August 11, 2009 11:20 PM
6 miles/day, bread, wine, and cheese.
Posted by: Dave Bacon | August 11, 2009 11:43 PM
Awesome. My sincere congratulations. Not too many folks can do what you have done.
"Mr. President, zee technology required is easily within the means of even zee smallest [dieting] power. It requires only zee will to do so."
Posted by: John Sidles | August 12, 2009 12:18 AM
Wow Dave! Congratulations! That's pretty awesome...
Posted by: Mark Wilde | August 12, 2009 10:31 AM
That is some pretty rapid weightloss! Are you hoping/planning on losing much more weight?
Posted by: Steven O | August 12, 2009 11:25 AM
No sign of a horizontal asymptote yet ... How much "bread, wine, and cheese" and what kind? Also, would you mind providing "before" and "after" photos?
Posted by: John Preskill | August 12, 2009 3:02 PM
I don't find this kind of self-congratulation helpful. If you really have lost 40 pounds over the course of 75 days, you've been losing almost 4 pounds per week, far above the medically recommended rate of 1-2 pounds per week or even 1% of total body weight per week (for you, 2.45). Any weight loss beyond this can only result from a loss of water weight and muscle, not fat. Furthermore, a diet of bread, wine and cheese is nutritionally deficient. Any weight-loss plan should focus on long-term, healthy, sustainable eating patterns--at this rate, I wouldn't be surprised if you rebounded to your original weight or higher once you decide to stop "eating like a monk." You seem to recognize this by warning your readers not to "try this at home," but why wouldn't you listen to your own advice?
If this post is sarcastic, my sincerest apologies for being so gullible--there are far too people getting recognition for "succeeding" on ill-conceived crash diets like this.
Posted by: Katie | August 12, 2009 3:29 PM
My bad: 2.35, obviously, not 2.45
Posted by: Katie | August 12, 2009 3:44 PM
You seem to contradict the cover story of Time magazine,
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1914857,00.html
Posted by: Gordon Pasha | August 12, 2009 5:34 PM
If you were a supercon magnet, you would be due for liquid He re-fill soon.
Posted by: milkshake | August 12, 2009 9:58 PM
I see a reverse correlation with the performance of the stock market.
Please let me know when you go off your diet so I can sell my portfolio.
Posted by: Rocky Humbert | August 13, 2009 10:24 AM
So by Aug 23 2010, you will wink away into the vacuum?
Posted by: David | August 13, 2009 10:45 AM