Index

Alcohol

Alcohol

Altitude, high

High altitude

Arby's

Arby's

Arms race

Avoid positive feedback

Bad days

Late night, hungry,

Bang-bang control

Bang-bang vs. proportional

Berra, Yogi

Losing Weight

Beverages

Beverages

Bickford, Robert A.

Programmer, hack thyself

Body odor

Stinko!

Bran

Solid waste

Bread

Bread

Breath, bad

Stinko!

Brick wall

Hitting the wall

Burger King

Burger King

Caffeine

The fast track, Caffeine.

Calorie consumption, men

What you burn

Candy

Candy

Cereal

Cereal

Commons, tragedy of

Eating out

Confucius

Perfect Weight Forever

Constipation

Solid waste

Control, bang-bang

Bang-bang vs. proportional

Control, proportional

Bang-bang vs. proportional

Cookies

Cookies

Crackers

Crackers

Daily log

Every day

Dairy

Dairy

DePugh, Robert B.

Planning Meals

Derby, Earl of

What, Me Exercise?

Dessert

Dessert

Domino's Pizza

Domino's Pizza

Dreams, bad

The dream

Dressing, salad

Dressing

Dunkin' Donuts

Dunkin' Donuts

Eat watch

The Eat Watch

Eat watch, components

Wired science

Eggs

Eggs

Engineering

Fixing problems

Epstein, Lewis C.

Pencil and Paper

Erasmus, Desiderius

The Rubber Bag

Excel worksheets, UNITS

About pounds and

Excel worksheets, WATEGOAL

What you burn

Excel worksheets, FEEDLAB

Fun with feedback

Excel worksheets, SMOOTH

Exploring moving averages

Excel worksheets, BESTFIT

Trying trend fitting

Excel worksheets, LIFEXT

Living longer

Excel worksheets, EXERPLAN

Introductory ladder

Excel worksheets, EXERPLAN

Lifetime ladder

Excel worksheets, WEIGTEMP

Start a logbook

Excel worksheets, MEALPLAN

Meal planning with

Excel worksheets, WATEGOAL

Weight goals

Excel worksheets, WATEGOAL

Weight goals

Excel worksheets, FORECAST

Diet planning

Excel worksheets, UNITS

The Weight of

Excel, configuration

About the computer

Exercise

What, me exercise?, What, Me Exercise?

Exercise, introductory

Introductory ladder

Exercise, lifetime

Lifetime ladder

Exercise, logging

Log exercise rung, With Excel

Exercise, to lose weight

Controlling what you

Fasting

The fast track, Pernicious painful plateaus

Fat, calories in

Seizing control

Feedback

Food and Feedback

Feedback, experiments

Fun with feedback

Feedback, negative

Apply negative feedback

Feedback, positive

Avoid positive feedback

Feedback, positive, arms races

Avoid positive feedback

Feedback, positive, microphone

Avoid positive feedback

Fish

Fish

Food, calories in

Calories in Various

Food, fads

Food fads

Food, frozen

Taking the easy

Frozen food

Frozen food

Fruit

Fruit

Fuzz, peach

Fuzzy thinking

Gardner, Irving

Signal and Noise

Geneen, Harold

Managing problems

Grateful Dead

The initial plunge

Hacker, definition

Programmer, hack thyself

Hackers Conference

Programmer, hack thyself

Hamming, Richard W.

Food and Feedback

Helpings, extra

Serving size: helpings

Henry IV of France

Accomplish more

Heywood, John

Better health

Hippocrates

Live longer

Homer

Late night, hungry,

Hunger

Breaking down (fat) , Late night, hungry,

Illness

When you're sick

Ingredients

Ingredients

Juice

Juice

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Kentucky Fried Chicken

Ketones

Fatty Metabolite and

Least squares

Calculating best fit

Life extension

Living longer, Live longer

Linear regression

Calculating best fit

Liquid, consumption during diet

Drink lots of

Liquid, daily throughput

Input/Output

Management

Managing problems

Manipulation

Motivation and manipulation

Manual calculation, calorie deficit

Calculating calorie deficit

Manual calculation, charting

Making weight charts

Manual calculation, daily trend

Calculating daily trend

Manual calculation, diet forecast

Forecasting weight loss

Manual calculation, feedback models

Calculating feedback models

Manual calculation, life extension

Forecasting life extension

Manual calculation, moving averages

Calculating moving averages

Manual calculation, trend fitting

Calculating best fit

Manual calculation, weekly loss

Calculating weight loss

McDonald's

McDonald's

Meals, planning

Planning Meals

Meals, schedule

How many meals, Planning and scheduling , Too many bad

Meat

Meat

Metric units

Units of Volume

Minerals

Food and fact

Monthly calculation

Every month

Moving averages

Moving averages

Moving averages, experiments

Exploring moving averages

Moving averages, exponentially smoothed

Weighted moving averages

Moving averages, simple

Simple moving averages

Moving averages, weighted

Weighted moving averages

Muscles, preventing loss

Getting ready

Nightmares

The dream

Nuts

Nuts

Pasta

Pasta

Peach fuzz

Fuzzy thinking

Physicians

Serious problems, Ask the doctor

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut

Plateaus, in trend

Pernicious painful plateaus

Plateaus, weight

Pernicious painful plateaus

Poultry

Poultry

Proportional control

Bang-bang vs. proportional

Regression, linear

Calculating best fit

Restaurants

Eating out

Rubber bag

The Rubber Bag

Salad

Salad

Sauces

Sauces

Serving sizes

Sneaky serving sizes

Shakespeare, William

The Rubber Bag

Snacks

Snacks

Soup

Soup

Stock market

Moving averages

Sugar

Sugar

Swift, Jonathan

The Eat Watch

Taco Bell

Taco Bell

Telephone switching

Solving problems

Thermometers

Food and Feedback

Toxic chemicals

Ask the doctor

Trend, analysis

Monthly analysis

Trend, fitting

Weight and calories, Calculating best fit

Trend, fitting, experiments

Trying trend fitting

Trend, long term

Long term charts

Trend, monthly calculation

Every month

Units of measure

Units of Volume

Vegetables

Vegetables

Vegetarians

Food and fact

Veins, bulging

I, Klingon?

Vitamins

Food and fact

Vitamins, C

Starving and health

Water, effect on weight

Input/Output, Dexter deceived

Water, pump, human as

Input/Output, Drink lots of

Weight, optimum, men

Weight goals

Weight, optimum, women

Weight goals

Weights and measures

Units of Volume

Weights and measures!specifying in Excel

About pounds and

Weights and measures, specifying in Excel

Start a logbook, Diet planning

Wendy's

Wendy's

Wodehouse, P. G.

When to start

Yearly filing

Every year