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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Sayonara Mr. Fatty! A Geek's Diet Memoir by Toshio Okada Sayonara Mr. Fatty!: A Geek's Diet Memoir by Toshio Okada. By Toshio Okada Vertical, Inc., 191 pp. When Toshio Okada, co-founder of Gainax ( Neon Genesis Evangelion , among others) and Japanese pop culture expert, began to wonder exactly why he was so overweight, he decided to analyze his eating patterns in the hopes of discovering an explanation. What he found was that the simple act of recording what he ate helped him to lose weight. This revelation led to the development of his own method, which he calls the Recording Diet. In Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! , Okada describes the six stages of the Recording Diet while incorporating advice and anecdotes from his personal weight loss journey. Just to be clear about things, even though this book is written by a renowned otaku, it is still 99.99% about his experiences losing 110 pounds in a year. The references to Japanese pop culture are scant and confined to sentences like, “If I had the time to exercise, I’d rather use it to read manga and watch anime.” For the most part, it’s a lot like any other self-help book. There are some sections that tell you things you already know (“It can be a mistake to follow a celebrity’s style without considering whether it suits you”) and others devoted to proving why the Recording Diet is superior to various other ways to achieve weight loss. Okada tries to make his method sound fun and easy, touting its applicability for “people who are not good at exercise, who are sedentary and fond of reading books and thinking deeply.” As a geek who has dieted off and on for years, I did indeed find some of Okada’s insights useful—I particularly like how he differentiates between people who eat because the brain desires the experience (D-types) and those who eat only when the body needs sustenance (N-types)—and can see myself recalling them in future. Some of his advice was a bit confusing, however. At one point he says, “Don’t exercise while you’re losing weight!” only to later write, “Exercise is another recommendation.” I think the difference depends on what stage of the diet one happens to be in at the time, but these boundaries are not always clearly delineated. One might think one is in the final stage (Orbit), for example, but upon testing one’s ability to quit eating a favorite dish when the body signals fullness, find that one is actually still a couple of stages back (Cruising). The bottom line: if you’re a geek who’s looking for a self-help diet book to which you might relate, then Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! may be for you. If you just want to read about a guy who helped introduce the world to Shinji Ikari and Nerv, however, you’ll probably be disappointed. Sayonara, Mr. Fatty!: A Geek’s Diet Memoir is available now. 'Sayonara Mr. Fatty!', la dieta geek. No voy a decir yo que los geeks tengan que ser gordos, con gafas, granos y ese aspecto friki con el que siempre aparecen estereotipados en las películas, pero haberlos haylos. Uno de ellos es el japonés Toshio Okada , co-fundador del famoso estudio de animación Gainax y uno de los mayores conocedores de la cultura pop, que un buen día, y tras alcanzar los ciento y pico kilos, decidió poner fin a su problema de sobrepeso creando para ello su propio método sin privarse de ningún tipo de alimento. Antes había probado todo tipo de dietas sin que dieran resultado por lo que basó la suya en comprender las razones que le llevaban a desear comer y a partir de ahí llegar a controlar sus impulsos . En tan sólo un año consiguió adelgazar casi 50 kilos y encima escribió el libro ‘Sayonara, Mr. Fatty!: A Geek’s Diet Memoir’ en el que relata su experiencia y anima al lector a imitarle y eliminar esos kilos de más. ¿Funcionará? Yo no creo en dietas milagrosas, pero tratándose de quien se trata su lectura seguro que es muy interesante. Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! In this uplifting memoir, famous Japanese pop culture “King of the Geeks” Toshio Okada tells of the diet and lifestyle changes he made in his fight against obesity, and how his public perception dramatically improved as a result of his healthier appearance. Okada lost 110lbs in one year, without the use of funky dieting techniques or exercises, using nothing but a notepad. He recognized that a diet is doomed to fail if it’s unsustainable, and a person cannot continue something they do not enjoy. Examining various diets and exercise regimes— even considering surgery—he concluded that a recording diet would be the most effective method. By succeeding in the recording diet, a person will learn a means of self-control that can be applied to other aspects of life, such as budgeting. Toshio Okada’s diet reflects the six stages of space flight, each stage a little bit closer to the final goal of health and self confidence! “The diet book of the Obama era… A valuable illustration of otaku-problem solving. The process of building these arguments is a fascinating exercise in otaku-think, erected with risk/reward, cost/benefit analyses.” —Scott Green, Ain’t It Cool News. “If you’re at all interested in losing weight, or controlling any part of your life, Sayonara, Mr. Fatty is indispensable. The book is warm and inviting, and treats you with reassurances and life stories from a man who is just like the rest of us.” —Brad Rice, Japanator. “The real results, when achieved, are so worth it. In his last chapter, Okada describes it as landing on the moon. When you lose a lot of weight, everything about you changes… If you can achieve this landing on the moon sensation using his methods, this book will be the best fifteen bucks you’ve ever spent.” —Chris Beveridge, Mania.com. Toshio Okada is an expert on otaku ("“geek"”) culture in Japan. Calling himself “OtaKing”—short for “King of Otaku”—he’s published more than 10 books, with such titles as Introduction to Otaku-ology and International Otaku University . He is a co-founder and former CEO of influential animation studio GAINAX, which was responsible for the highly popular and award-winning series Neon Genesis Evangelion . He frequently appears on talk shows and is quoted in magazines. Okada has lectured on pop culture in universities and colleges around the world, including The University of Tokyo in 2002 and MIT in 2003. Sayonara Mr. Fatty!: A Geek's Diet Memoir by Toshio Okada. “Reality counts for a lot.” Despite the label on the cover ( A Geek’s Diet Memoir ), Sayonara, Mr. Fatty! is not a “diet book”. If anything, it’s an anti- diet book, much as Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos was an anti-self-help book. The latter was designed to make you laugh at the absurdity of expecting someone else to be able to tell you who and what you are; the former lets you realize that dieting in the abstract is not going to help you lose and keep off weight. It’s an anti- gluttony book, a guide for waking yourself up and making you realize that you are best equipped to carry out your own self- destruction. Maybe that sounds a bit over-the-top, but if the events of the last decade or so—financial, political, ecological—have taught us anything, it’s that our biggest problem as a species is that we think we want things we simply don’t need. We eat too much, we spend too much, we gobble up far more than our slice of the pie—and we condition ourselves to not even notice any of it. It’s this last part that’s the most damaging, because it allows us to go right back out and start all over again with no thought to the consequences. Toshio Okada’s book is about getting off this thoughtless Möbius strip treadmill of consumption, and the fact that it’s in the guise of a personable, friendly, you-can-do-it-too guide makes it all the better. It’s not a frothing condemnation of the Consumer Culture, but a DIY guide to picking the locks on your jail cell. Okada is positive most people reading the book won’t know him, although his name carries a certain degree of geek credential. He was the founder of the animation studio GAINAX, which produced everything from Evangelion to Gunbuster and much more besides. As befitting someone of those credentials, he’s an authority on Japanese pop culture, so much so that he even chaired up a position at one of Japan’s biggest universities to teach on the subject. He was also morbidly obese for most of his life, weighing some hundred-odd pounds more than he ought to— but at the same time, he simply accepted it as a kind of otaku’s fate. Then one day he decided he’d had enough of having to deal with things like special seats on airplanes (they had to give him an extension for the seatbelt just so he could strap himself in), and set about figuring out what to do about it. After several failed-to-disastrous attempts at dieting and forced exercise, Okada dropped back to a much simpler approach. Rather than attempt to modify his existing eating habits, he decided instead to carry a small notebook with him and document every piece of food, every drink, everything with caloric content that went into his mouth.

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