A Thinner Geek

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Ian's Posts

Staying Awake with Less Calories

by: Ian in Eating Healthy posted on:06/01/2008

If you’re like me and many other geeks, it’s not uncommon to enjoy a few energy drinks from time to time. Sometimes it’s to stay up for a few more lines of late night coding, other times it might be to give you a bit of jump for that next Halo match. Unfortunately, most energy […]

Weight Watchers Psychology

by: Ian in Motivation posted on:05/27/2008

Every time I’ve started a diet or new exercise routine in the past, I’ve looked at is as a mostly physical endevaor. Eating less, eating healthy, getting off my ass and just about every other part of losing weight is physical. Right?
One of the things that’s become clear to me over the various weight loss […]

Welcome to A Thinner Geek, Again

by: Ian in Uncategorized posted on:05/21/2008

Those of you who are visiting this site for the first time may be a bit confused. This is clearly not the first post on the site, but it’s our official launch post. Kelley and I came up with the idea for this site in January and started working right a way. We were determined […]

Book Review : The Geek Diet

by: Ian in Eating Healthy posted on:05/19/2008

The site’s not even officially launched yet, and we’ve already started recieving books to review. Author Mark Faithful stumbled upon our site and sent me a copy of The Geek Diet to review. Hopefully this is the first of many reviews on this site.
Overall, the book is pretty good. I’m normally afraid of the word diet […]

Burning Calories with Video Games

by: Ian in Staying Fit posted on:05/14/2008

There are hundreds of different types of geeks our there. For example, I can easily fall into the D&D Geek, Sci-Fi Geek and Band Geek categories. However, there is one thing that seems to be a common tie amongst almost all geeks. Video games.
This attachment to video games can be quite fun, but are not […]

Better Snacking

by: Ian in Eating Healthy posted on:01/14/2008

One of my biggest problems with eating better is snacking. I’m a big snacker, I nibble on this an that all day long. At first, I didn’t really think it was much of a problem. Each snack was small and I thought that they wouldn’t add up to much.
However, after a few unsuccessful months of […]

Welcome

by: Ian in Motivation posted on:01/12/2008

I’m a geek and I’m proud of it. I get to spend my day designing a developing website and my geekiness carries through to my personal life too. In many ways it’s great because I get to work with technology and apply my creative skills on a regular basis. However, like many geeks, I spend […]

Author Bio

Hey all. I'm Ian. I'm a dedicated geek and a little on the hefty side. I started this website for 2 reasons. First of all, I wanted to have a place to write about my current efforts at weight loss. In addition, I wanted to provide a place where fellow geeks could share their stories about the successes and failures in their own attempts to lose weight. Now for the typical bio stuff. I'm a proud resident of Manchester, NH and make my living creating things on the web. I'm married to fellow geek Kelley who is my partner in crime and the wonderful mother of our geek in training Mannix. I attend a boatload of geek events in New England and a few around the country, so feel free to say hi if you ever see me.