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Buster McLeod

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I'm doing 19 things
  

How I did it
How to lose weight
It took me
21 days
It made me
healthier

How I did it: The way I lose weight is by making it a game.  Games are fun, and if you happen to be highly competitive like me, offer a way to create motivation to achieve your goal beyond the normal motivations of looking better and feeling healthier.Make it a game by giving yourself short term goals, on the scale of a week or a month.  Recruit others to play as well.  Determine a list of arbitrary rules that you think will result in a … Read how I did it…

Sep 10, 11:46AM PDT | 7 comments | 16 cheers


How to post to Twitter and Flickr at 8:36pm every day for a while
It took me
30 days
It made me
immortal

How I did it: I set a daily alarm on my iPhone to ring at 8:36pm. At 8:36pm, every day, I take a picture using the Mobile Fotos iPhone app. I title, tag, and upload the photo using that same app. Using the Exposure app, I click through my recently uploaded photo, and upload it to Twitter.  This ensures that my Twitter post matches the subject line of my photo, and includes a link to the Flickr photo. Read how I did it…

Sep 09, 05:10PM PDT | 1 comment | 2 cheers


How to do a cleanse
It took me
6 days
It made me
clear-headed

How I did it: I've done this a couple times now.  The first time I blended my own fruits and vegetables and fasted for 4 days.  I did a lot of research and learned that you really can't go wrong with drinking blended fruit and vegetable juices for a couple days.This last time, I decided to try a packaged solution from BlessedHerbs.com.  It came with an instruction manual, different levels of difficulty, digestive stimulants, and toxin ab… Read how I did it…

Sep 09, 01:59PM PDT | 1 comment | 2 cheers


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buy a bespoke suit (read all 7 entries…)
Picked it up yesterday. 1 month ago

I tried on the suit for the final time yesterday, with the shoes, and I’m totally in love with it, so much as someone can be in love with an inanimate object.

The bespokeness continues, though, because Scott Kuhlman is also making my shirt and bowtie, and they too are going to be totally awesome.

The whole process has been truly delightful, and I recommend Kuhlman for anyone in Seattle who needs a perfectly tailored suit.

Sep 08, 12:54PM PDT | 2 cheers | 0 comments


build an iPhone app (read all 11 entries…)
It's launched! 1 month ago

It took a bit over 2 weeks from submission to the iTunes Store before it actually showed up. But it’s there now!

Here’s a direct link to its page in the iTunes Store, in case you have an iPhone and want to try it out.

Aug 27, 02:49PM PDT | 3 cheers | 2 comments


count my calories every day for a month
entering the wacky world of calorie counting for a while... 2 months ago

I am getting married, and part of the hope is to be able to present my best self to the altar of forevercore and make the best promises with the best intentions in the best state of mind. So, Kellianne and I decided to take our little adventure one step further and become all crazy about calorie counting for a while. Why not?

Also, I’m working on an iPhone app that’s all about recording daily morale, health, sleep, etc, and it’s sort of in the same ballpark.

After looking at Absolute Fitness in the iPhone store for a second time, and every other calorie counting app there so far, I’ve determined that the current state of iPhone app calorie counting leaves MUCH to be desired, unless you eat at fast food restaurants all the time.

Turning to the web, I found a bunch of equally lame sites dedicated to giving you free calorie counting software in exchange for signing up for their 36 mailing lists and navigating their insanely confusing food database. I had almost given in to using the company Lance Armstrong bought and rebranded, The Daily Plate. Luckily, Lia Steakley had already done all of this and found that myfooddiary.com is the best, for a $9/month fee of course. No problem. This is wedding-related, work-related, and fun-related, the expense is excusable 15 different ways.

So far, it’s still a bit of a pain to manually enter each thing you’ve eaten, but it’s not nearly as bad as any of the other options I saw. They have actual foods rather than just crazy lists of ingredients. Also, it’s well-designed and packed with reports, stats, and charts. Sort of perfect for me. Not only does it count calories, but it tells you which parts of your diet are healthy, which are unhealthy, and even tells you when you’re not eating enough (like both of us yesterday). I actually don’t need to lose any weight, I mostly just want to be mindful of health for these next two months.

A funny realization I had is that this is pretty close to being the ungameable game that I’ve been thinking about for many years now. In the exercise section, it gives you “points” for doing all kinds of household chores, for shopping, gardening, various kinds of working, etc.

In order to be truly complete, would it have to also take into account spending? And earning? It’s a daydream of mine to turn the boring tasks of calorie-counting, budgeting, and socializing into a game that is easy to play.

For now I’m just gonna return to being OCD and enter that I’ve had another delicious iced coffee from Vita, and that it’s 70 calories on account of the cream.

Aug 14, 10:52AM PDT | 1 cheer | 2 comments


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