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Open Thread: The "43 Folders" of health and fitness sites?
Merlin Mann | Feb 8 2006
Over the last six months or so, I've gotten a lot of requests via email from people looking for (yes, thanks, more than one person called it this) "the 43 Folders of (health|exercise|fitness) sites." Naturally I set my Google fu in motion, fully expecting to turn up dozens of excellent sites on how to stay motivated about workouts, how to eat properly, and how to psych (or "hack," if you prefer) yourself into straightening out, losing weight, and getting that fat ass in motion. Funny thing: I came up pretty thin -- and not in that good, healthy, slender kind of thin way. In at least three sittings of searching over the past few months, I just did not turn up more than a couple of independent sites that really blew me away. Really surprising, and maybe I was just looking in the wrong places. Like under a 12-pack of beer and a rib roast. BUT. I'm sure they're out there, and I can't think of smarter people to ask than you, so you tell me: what's your favorite website or blog about getting healthy? What are your favorite apps for tracking progress and watching a diet? Who's got the best "health hacks?" Post your faves in comments and help your geeky friends get as theoretically fit as they are theoretically organized. 95 Comments
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The reason a 43 'style'...Submitted by codemac (not verified) on February 8, 2006 - 3:59pm.
The reason a 43 'style' weight loss site is hard found, is that eventually people lose their weight. Reach their goal. There is a drop off in user participation, because they have been told by that very site they are done. They lost the 40 pounds they originally joined the site for. The site loses it's relevance. GTD? If anyone can say they are perfectly efficient, then they can use both sides of their brain independently... or something superman like. Our goal here is an organizationaly perfect lifestyle; a weight loss site's is 40 pounds lighter. You can reach the second one. Dieting can be made into a lifestyle, though. That is something that I think The Hacker's Diet presents. A life style change, not a 'diet'. Thus a goal that is perfection, one you can just always improve towards. Perpetual user base. So if there is a "Hacker's Diet" community site, go there. I don't know of anything but the document itself. http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/ » POSTED IN:
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