I’m an engineer. I decided to approach weight loss as an engineering problem.
Bob Bickford, computer and video guru, defined the true essence of the hacker as “Any person who derives joy from discovering ways to circumvent limitations.”
You don’t need a computer to use The Hacker’s Diet; easy-to-work paper and pencil methods are presented in the book. But if you have a computer with Excel or a PalmPilot, the companion tools may save you time and provide more insight into the engineering underpinning of the methods described in the book, while producing an illustrated log of your progress.