Counting Calories Over Following Trends
In 1987, John Walker was struggling with the same internal conflict Chad Fowler faced in Tokyo. John is a brilliant programmer and the founder of Autodesk, a multinational corporation that sells design software such as AutoCAD, but he couldn’t seem to manage his own weight.
John had been a self-described “fat person” since grade school. He’d lost some weight in the 1970s, but put it back on within a year. Eventually John realized he’d been approaching the whole thing from the wrong angle. He is an engineer, so the best way to think of weight loss was as an engineering problem.
John believes that the human body is like a rubber bag. Calories go in as food while calories come out as exercise, metabolism, ...
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