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Experimental Fat Loss
Personal blog · exfatloss.comhealthscience
Experimental Fat Loss is a personal blog at exfatloss.com about health and science. Since 2023, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 78 times, most often “Nutrient Density and Other Stupid Magic Words”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-25, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog of self-experiments on fat loss and diet, including a post about losing 43 lbs in 144 days. One commenter values its data and experiments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Experiments in Reversing Obesity, 30 days at a time.
Most-linked posts?
- Nutrient Density and Other Stupid Magic Words2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-17
- Chaotic Food: The Attraction of the Standard American Diet2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-31
- Fuel-Partitioning Causes Obesity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-01-19
- Obesity: Root Cause Analysis2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-12-24
What Hacker News says?
I'd also recommend Experimental Fat Loss, although some of his stuff can be a bit ranty. He's got good data and experiments, though, which is why I recommend him. Notably, he cured his non-24 with his diet. https://www.exfatloss.com/p/losing-43lbs-in-144-days-on-ex15...
Comment linking /p/losing-43lbs-in-144-days-on-ex150-diet
on “Americans Have Lost the Plot on Cooking Oil”Submitted Nutrient Density and Other Stupid Magic Words as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Stopped Grounding as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSubmitted The microbiome people are full of shit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted RIP Paleo as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Signs That You Don't Understand Obesity as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chaotic Food: The Attraction of the Standard American Diet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted I burn 4,600kcal/day being sedentary as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Constituency: Tough Obesity Cases as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Visualizer: Obesity by Country as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted I am once again asking my fellow ketards as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obesity: Root Cause Analysis as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted A reply to Dynomight's "Thoughts on seed oil" as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Quicksort of Science as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Entrain Your Circadian Rhythm for Jet Lag as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex150-17: The Unbearable Lightness of Being as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Evaluate Diet Gurus as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Water Kettle Warning: Danger of Burns as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cook Like an Engineer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex_bread+butter review: Visited swamp, did not explode, gained 8lbs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex_acv_fast review: "water" fasted 6 days, new record as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex150nosauce+ACV-2 review: Blasted through plateau, new record low weight as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chaotic Food: The Attraction of the Standard American Diet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted I went to Japan and gained 19lbs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CICO and FO In which your humble author does a carolie restriction (and fails) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex150hclflp review: Gained 6lbs on super low-fat diet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Ex150honey review: gained 5.4lbs lean mass, no fat loss as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What causes obesity and how to reverse it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted CO2-curious. Does it give you headaches? Or is it just a correlate? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Obesity: Root Cause Analysis as a story · 2 points
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