Fit Til 30
By Tudor Tatar
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Fit Til 30Aug 25, 2021
Episode 18: Man versus nature
In this episode I talk about my weekend hike, running and my more than amazing weight loss since last week.
Weight loss progress and historical data
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Episode 17: The Meta Episode
In this episode I talk about why there wasn't an episode last week, some behind the scenes of how the podcast is made and what my plans are for the future of the podcast.
Weight loss progress and historical data
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Episode 16: The Right to Erasure
In this episode I talk through one of the articles of GDPR and how it relates to the concept of change in humans and their right to be judged by their current actions instead of their past ones.
Weight loss progress and historical data
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Episode 15: Nihilism - an explanation
In this episode I talk through the philosophical concept of nihilism, as well as present a few of its more important views: existential nihilism, cosmic nihilism, metaphysical nihilism and political nihilism.
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Episode 14: The Ship of Theseus - what defines identity
This week we go through the age long dilemma known as the Ship of Theseus - can an object retain its original identity even when all its components have been replaced?
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Episode 13: Barnum effect - the connection between astrology and recommendation algorithms
This week I speak about the Barnum effect, also known as the Forer effect, as well as astrology, horoscopes and YouTube recommendations, among other things.
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Episode 12: The IKEA effect - I made it, therefore it's better
This week I speak about the IKEA effect, as well as how it relates to effort justification, a type of cognitive dissonance.
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Episode 11: Holiday dieting - do's and don'ts
This week I speak about my recent vacation and the lessons learned from it, positive and negative.
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Episode 10: Hyperbolic discount - why we choose the bird in the hand
On this episode, I touch on an often encountered bias with a less popular name, with its roots in economic theory, but applications in understanding why we choose immediate rewards and disregard larger delayed rewards.
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Episode 9: Health halo effect - making foods healthy through marketing
This week we talk about 3 foods that deceive us with their purported healthy properties and discuss this effect as a general trend in food advertising.
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Episode 8: Survivorship bias - the known few versus the unknown many
This week we talk about the cognitive bias that makes us look up to successful people as role models, without noticing the countless others who have tried the same methods and failed.
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Episode 7: Empathy gap - the pit between us and future us
This week we talk about how trying to incorporate new habits often fails due to a lack of empathy towards our future self and what steps we can take to mitigate this problem.
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Episode 6: Negativity bias and the white bear problem
This week we tackle the 3 phenomena that can cause a lack of adherence to a diet: the conflation between diet and behavior, the negativity bias and the white bear problem. I also offer a few quick tips on how to overcome them and I find out I will need to practice what I teach.
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Episode 5: The hedonic treadmill or how our brain hijacks our happiness
This week I talk about the psychological / philosophical concept of the hedonic treadmill and how it impacts so many facets of our lives, as well as some of the ways to work around it.
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Episode 4: My running experience
This week I talk about my previous running experience, including how I ran a half-marathon, as well as a tangent on why humans are uniquely suited to running.
The updated weight tracker:
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Episode 3: Let's talk about metabolism
On this episode I explain what metabolism is and its three components: resting metabolic rate (RMR), thermogenic effect of food (TEF) and active energy expenditure (AEE). I also go into what influences the metabolism for each individual and some pretty surprising facts around the impact of daily activity on our calorie expenditure.
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Episode 2: CICO, dedication vs. motivation and accountability
In this week's episode we dive in the method I employed with the best results with regards to weight loss, CICO (Calories In, Calories Out), why I believe dedication is a better predictor when it comes to weight loss success long term rather than motivation, as well as how accountability can be a great motivator for certain personalities.
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Episode 1: Today I turned 29...
In this intro episode, I go into my motivation for starting this podcast, the goal I have set, as well as many, many ramblings around the turmoil of turning 29 and realizing the time is nigh to make a significant change in my fitness/ diet.
Resources mentioned in the podcast:
Weight loss progress and historical data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Z65LhrZhxBAhGa1ZcnCADqCpFisW7cv_osHO7d3cUjk/edit?usp=sharing
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