You’ll see I’ve put a couple of simple graphs up on this site, but to properly follow the Hacker’s Diet it is the trend that is important, not each daily measurement.  Your weight can fluctuate each day because of the amount of water you’re retaining so it’s easy to become disheartened if you suddenly have a day where your weight goes up by 4 pounds.  The Hacker’s Diet comes with a set of Excel templates for keeping track of your weight and tell you how many calories you should be eating but, to be honest, they all seemed a bit complicated.

Instead, I’ve signed up to Physics Diet which uses all of the same principles and calculations but does all the hard work.  You enter your height, weight, age, sex and activity level when you register and, based on these,  it calculates your TEE (Total Energy Expenditure), how many calories you use each day.  From that you work out how many calories you need to eat each day, based on the speed you want to lose weight.

It’s nothing fancy to look at and I’m a little concerned that the site seems to have been abandoned by whoever developed it, but you can export your daily stats so if the worst comes to the worst I can always enter them elsewhere.

You can view my public profile here.