--- author: Eric Wagoner date: '2000-01-11T02:10:50' draft: false title: I've been following a relaxed --- I've been following a relaxed version of John Walker's [_The Hacker's Diet_](http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/) for almost a month now. Relaxed because he makes a very strong case for menu planning and calorie counting that I have chosen to ignore, instead relying upon my intuition and experience to improvise all my meals. Of course, he says that's the worst mistake one can make, but in the three+ weeks I've been doing this I'm down 15 pounds and feeling great. I'd like to drop another 50 pounds this year. People who know me may gasp and say that there's no way I have anywhere near 50 pounds to lose, but they wouldn't guess by looking that I'm at 255 pounds right now, either. It's in there, somewhere near the middle, packed in like lead bricks. And it's coming out.