You know it’s time to diet when you push away from the table and the table moves. «The Cockle Bur» Since about 23 days ago, I’m trying to influence my weight. Never been on a diet, but after seeing how fat I’ve become, it was time for a change. And frankly, it’s … interesting. Never thought about it, but combining ideas from gamification, statistics, and a few other things can make weight modification fun. 🙂 So far, the success it rather limited, but it’s given me some fun data. For example, I’m currently well able to predict my weight loss, thanks to a simple linear regression model (red line): Fun how well predication works. But then again, the drop is rather constant. Plus, each data point is the mean of measuring weight in the morning and evening (which sometimes deviate hugely — after all, it’s warm and I drink a lot of water). And yeah, the graphic fucks with you — the y-axis starts with 75 kg (not even my target weight). This is one of those cases in which a manipulated y-axis is actually helpful. Otherwise, I would have quit after a few days. It’s wont go this way [...]
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