I don'Tknow the Hackers Diet. I found the app on Fat2fit. Will it work for me?
I can’t guarantee that you will lose weight (that’s ultimately up to you), but if you are trying to lose weight, I do believe FatWatch is useful, regardless of the diet you follow.
First of all, you should know that The Hacker’s Diet isn’t really a prescriptive diet, like Atkins or South Beach, that gives you a lists of foods to eat or avoid. It’s more like a general strategy for monitoring your weight, and then analyzing your weight history to determine how to adjust your diet. A calorie is a calorie, and — as far as your weight is concerned — it doesn’t matter what you eat, just how much.
To be clear, what you eat does matter to your health: if you miss certain nutrients you can get diseases like scurvy. It also matters to your psychology: eating certain foods at certain times of the day can make you feel better or worse and make it easier to eat less overall. But when it comes to accumulating fat cells, your body is a marvelous machine: it can make fat from healthy food and junk food alike.
So, if you’re on a low carb diet, you can still enter your weight into FatWatch and the Trends feature will tell you how well it is working. If you’re on a diet where you only eat tuna sandwiches, you can still use FatWatch to find out whether living with permanent fish breath is worth it.
In fact, if you are using FatWatch continually, as you try different strategies, you will be able to compare them and see what kind of diet and exercise plan works best for you.
Just like some people can see fine without glasses, some people maintain a healthy weight without ever thinking about it. Those with less-than-perfect eyesight get a pair of glasses and deal with it. Likewise, those who have to monitor their weight should use something like FatWatch, to give them the feedback that their body isn’t providing.
A pair of glasses doesn’t care what books you read. FatWatch doesn’t care what diet you’re on. They just try to make the task a little bit easier.
