WIRED features The Geek Diet

Traffic has really spiked to the geek diet today following another mention on the WIRED GeekDad blog as part of a roundup of various geek friendly means to get into shape.

Read the whole thing here: http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/08/httpzenhabitsne.html

OK, OK - so this blog needs to get into shape- the summer is over and time to stop eating Dorset cream teas (guess where I went on summer vacation) and in case you were wondering, piling strawberry jam on top of your clotted cream scone does not count as 50% fruit....

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If you like the Geek Diet, why not try The Blight Byte Review - an English take on the world of gadgets...

Reader Feedback

I've been really encourage by some recent reader feedback, including:

there's definitely been a positive impact on my energy levels. It's also brought some eating habits to my attention like the increasing plate/portion size, and watching TV whilst mindlessly putting food in my mouth. I now think about which plate to serve food in before each meal. Also really enjoyed reading the rules as simple formulas, made it much easier to remember!

GC

I really think it’s great, and most people will find it incredibly useful!

ZB

Does the Geek Diet work for Girls?

Special offer for readers of iVillage - 10 free copies of the Geek Diet e-book to the first 10 female volunteers who drop me an email.

Just one catch - please send me your thoughts of the book once finished at let me know how it helped you on your diet!

You can email me using this address markfaithfull[at]googlemail[dot]com

The Diet Plate Diet

Let PLATE = PLATE * 0.8

One of the key rules of The Geek Diet is to reduce the size of your plate and portion size - we eat too much most of the time and all that food goes to waste- I mean waist.

Here is a great tool I've just discovered- the Diet Plate - its a plate that is sized and marked out with portion sizes just the right size for a healthy dinner - and what a great companion to The Geek Diet!

Here is a picture of one of the plates.

Meet Geek Man

Here he is, in all his glory - the Geek Man from Happyworker.com - you can buy geek man and all his friends.

Notice the poor diet of Geek Man?  He needs the Geek Diet!

LifeHacker loves The Geek Diet down under!

Sarah Stokely of the Australian edition of Lifehacker has written a great review of The Geek Diet which can be read here.

It's great to see the Geek Diet gaining momentum around the world! Geeks of the world unite - and loose weight! 

Happy Workers love the Geek Diet

Heidi Bedore of happyworker.com has written an excellent article about The Geek Diet and even come up with some excellent new Geek Diet style formulas for dieting geeks to try out, including:

LET SERVING = .2 * BAG OF CHIPS

and 

TANGO ≠ FRUIT SERVING

Brilliant!

Happy Worker make a range of toy figures for the 21st century including Super Mom, Boss Man and of course: Geek Man.  

This is how they describe Geek Man:

With oodles of brain power he authors code, battles tech holy wars and moves nerdom to new heights...

A geek superhero and light-hearted take on techy types, GeekMan's a 6-inch tall plastic geek action figure that can be posed in lots of nerdy positions. GeekMan comes equipped with 5 'weapons' of Wisdom and Tech Gadgetry: Visual Input Device (removable glasses), PDA (handheld computer), Cerebral I/O and Trusty Sidekick (laptop), Geek Battery Charger (coffee mug), and Wristwatch. 

Feliz Año Nuevo

Happy New Year from the south coast of Spain, where the Geek is spending New Year with Mrs Geek's parents in Almunecar, Granada.

Here in southern Spain, it' not just the expected festive feasting that poses a challenge to the Geek's diet- here is another problem - where did all the vegetables go??!!??

It's proving harder than expected to consume half a plate of vegetables for dinner when no vegetables are offered.  There's lots of cheese (Manchego- made from sheep milk)  and Ham (Jamon, made from the salted flesh of raw pork kept in a pit on a mountain side for a year- or so I'm told...) but nary a stick of Broccoli, carrot or bean to be seen on the home stove.  It's not just the domestic cooking either, in the restaurants it is very much the same story.

Now I am being a little disingenuous, as there is lots of Salad to be had... but this geek is not a fan of most salad and while the rain is noisily flooding the cobble streets outside (it is the middle of winter after all!) I want hot food not chilled.

Oh well, not to worry - next week I'll be back in good ole Blighty and able to over-compensate on the veg-front for a few days to make up for it.

Pass the tapas... and a Satsuma please!