I lost 60 pounds this year. How can I best share what I've learned?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7563247
by melindajb • 12 years ago
9 17 12 years ago

I am bootstrapping a startup, and went on quite a journey this year to losing 60 pounds. I've learned a lot. I have requests to write about what I learned but the last thing anyone overweight needs is another preachy, judgy post that says, "it's easy!"

to that end, if you tell me what you want to know, I'm hoping to make it more useful to the community as a whole.

Here are some potential topics:

diet, aka "yes, this stuff is hard." exercise, aka "how I learned to love running after being a couch potato for 40 years" Psychology: managing all the crap around this and the feelings it brought up. resources: books, apps, tools, inspiration, playlists. Gut Health: what I've learned about probiotics

I'm no expert at all in anything other than myself, but I've had so many requests to tell how it was done, I thought this would be more scalable than 1x1 conversations. And where else but Hacker News would I get the unvarnished feedback on how to present it.

Watch the fat shaming please in your responses. While I could care less what you call me, there are a lot of your peers out there struggling mightily with this issue who feel pretty bad about themselves. Think of them before you speak. Thanks.

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