Comments on: On Asymptotes http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/12/09/on-asymptotes.html The Internet's Best Diet Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:18:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: Holland A. Sullivan, Jr. http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/12/09/on-asymptotes.html#comment-74 Holland A. Sullivan, Jr. Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/12/09/on-asymptotes.html#comment-74 The human body must have distinct points of inflection. My rate of loss increases between 188 and 178, decreases from 178 to somewhere below that, and will likely approach zero around 160 lbs. sometime next year. So I suppose we exhibit asymptotic behavior at the end of the weight loss, but at least the rate of weight loss is more favorable when weight loss is more desirable.<br /><br />I'm starting to see how work can accelerate or deccelerate weight loss. I've been busy talking over lunches and dinners, so I haven't been able to eat. That's about the only way to keep me thin--keep me in a group so I talk instead of eat. The walking at work is more than I expected and more than I have performed in the last few months. So either I overeat when I get home or just go to sleep. If I sleep, then I loose weight.<br /><br />Matt, I predict you will weigh 157 lbs. on December 31. Then in January, you'll rocket down to 150 lbs. and become buff as you take on working out between work and sleep time. Yes, I'm serious. I've got a side career as a psychic. The human body must have distinct points of inflection. My rate of loss increases between 188 and 178, decreases from 178 to somewhere below that, and will likely approach zero around 160 lbs. sometime next year. So I suppose we exhibit asymptotic behavior at the end of the weight loss, but at least the rate of weight loss is more favorable when weight loss is more desirable.

I’m starting to see how work can accelerate or deccelerate weight loss. I’ve been busy talking over lunches and dinners, so I haven’t been able to eat. That’s about the only way to keep me thin–keep me in a group so I talk instead of eat. The walking at work is more than I expected and more than I have performed in the last few months. So either I overeat when I get home or just go to sleep. If I sleep, then I loose weight.

Matt, I predict you will weigh 157 lbs. on December 31. Then in January, you’ll rocket down to 150 lbs. and become buff as you take on working out between work and sleep time. Yes, I’m serious. I’ve got a side career as a psychic.

]]> By: David J. Hughes http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/12/09/on-asymptotes.html#comment-75 David J. Hughes Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 http://www.hollandodiet.com/2004/12/09/on-asymptotes.html#comment-75 Asymptotes are certainly intrinsic to the body: as time goes on, the belly's curve becomes deeper. Low-hanging fruit indeed.<br /><br />Along the line's of Holland's advice of talking rather than eating, I might suggest the following complementary dieting alternative:<br />(a) earn a musician's salary; then<br />(b) live in Manhattan; then<br />(c) only eat when dining out, like a good New Yorker; then<br />(d) eat out every other night.<br /><br />Who says city-dwellers can't be desert aescetics, too? Locusts, anyone? Asymptotes are certainly intrinsic to the body: as time goes on, the belly’s curve becomes deeper. Low-hanging fruit indeed.

Along the line’s of Holland’s advice of talking rather than eating, I might suggest the following complementary dieting alternative:
(a) earn a musician’s salary; then
(b) live in Manhattan; then
(c) only eat when dining out, like a good New Yorker; then
(d) eat out every other night.

Who says city-dwellers can’t be desert aescetics, too? Locusts, anyone?

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