aezell

As someone who recently embarked on a restricted-calorie diet, I can say that I'm not inclined to live longer in the sense of past the average life-span. I'm more inclined to have a higher quality of life and live long enough to see my child into his adulthood.

That said, outside of weightloss and increased energy and stamina, I have noticed a few things about a reduced-calorie diet (and I'm talking 1000 calories or less most days):

1) I don't think about food as anything but fuel. I no longer think of it as a way to be social, to pass the time, or to be happy.

2) While it's possible to eat 1000 calories of calorie dense food with almost no other nutrition (sugar), I find that hunger demands I eat things that have more mass with less calories (vegetables and some proteins).

3) My day no longer revolves around eating. Pretty simple, but previously, I would be very concerned with what I had eaten the day before and might eat tomorrow. Outside of the measurements I'm keeping about caloric intake, I seldom think about food.

4) I'm saving money. I used to eat out a lot. Eating out, except for maybe a salad, makes it hard to reduce caloric intake. Now, I eat at home on the pound-for-pound cheaper food we can get at the farmer's market or grocery store.

These sorts of tracking pixels or tracking items are long-standing methods of analytics gathering in the email marketing and delivery space. This is not an attack of privacy. They also know every click you make in that email as well. And of course they track the number of times you do these things. They also track that traffic anonymously if you forward the email to a third party who interacts with it.

This is the same practice as any tracking done on a web page even going back to the pixels that AWStats used to use.

I work for an ESP and we've been doing something similar since 2003.

I wonder if they'll publish any statistics about the results? I'd be interested in both how many solutions were submitted and the average score per challenge. Additionally, I'd like to see how many interviews are granted and how many positions filled.