I don’t know what the hell your mental model of me is like, but I can’t eat the tasty things that normal people around me eat, on pain of blowing up like a balloon. If you go to the SIAI office, you’ll see a lot of thin people eating chocolate, candy bars, chocolate-coated nuts, and so on—just their normal way of getting energy for a workday—and me drinking protein-powder in water.
If you go to the SIAI office, you’ll see a lot of thin people eating chocolate, candy bars, chocolate-coated nuts, and so on—just their normal way of getting energy for a workday—and me drinking protein-powder in water.
I don’t know what the hell your mental model of me is like, but I can’t eat the tasty things that normal people around me eat, on pain of blowing up like a balloon. If you go to the SIAI office, you’ll see a lot of thin people eating chocolate, candy bars, chocolate-coated nuts, and so on—just their normal way of getting energy for a workday—and me drinking protein-powder in water.
Thank you for your response. Sorry if I insulted you, but a few posts back you seemed to be saying that you did not want to expend the mental energy to diet and get and stay thin. At the same time, I think it’s worth keeping in mind that you do (apparently) spend some amount of mental energy to keep your weight in check. Which I think is totally reasonable and normal.
I am trying to develop my own theory of diet, exercise and weight loss. One idea which I had today is that perhaps one can take the mental energy which a normal, non-dieting person expends on his food intake and focus it so as to get the most bang for the buck, so to speak.
Here’s what you said that I was thinking of (it’s in the companion thread):
The basic answer is that you can do the impossible but it comes with a price. Burn down every obstacle, sacrifice whatever it takes, devote any amount of time and any amount of energy required? You only get a few shots of that magnitude. Sure, if I made it the one priority in my life and gave up that FAI stuff, I could lose weight.
Perhaps I misinterpreted your words, but I understood you to be saying that you thought you could get thin and stay thin if you devoted the vast majority of your mental energy to the project. Which I think is probably true.
P.S. What do you make of the posters here and in related fora who claim to have achieved and maintained significant weight loss? Do you think they are lying?
P.P.S. Are you really that optimistic about Adipotide? My sense is that over the years, I have heard many reports about promising new drugs; usually the excitement fizzles out. Based on past history, it would seem to be a bit of a long-shot. Any reason to me more optimistic on this drug?
I don’t know what the hell your mental model of me is like, but I can’t eat the tasty things that normal people around me eat, on pain of blowing up like a balloon. If you go to the SIAI office, you’ll see a lot of thin people eating chocolate, candy bars, chocolate-coated nuts, and so on—just their normal way of getting energy for a workday—and me drinking protein-powder in water.
I can confirm this. :)
Thank you for your response. Sorry if I insulted you, but a few posts back you seemed to be saying that you did not want to expend the mental energy to diet and get and stay thin. At the same time, I think it’s worth keeping in mind that you do (apparently) spend some amount of mental energy to keep your weight in check. Which I think is totally reasonable and normal.
I am trying to develop my own theory of diet, exercise and weight loss. One idea which I had today is that perhaps one can take the mental energy which a normal, non-dieting person expends on his food intake and focus it so as to get the most bang for the buck, so to speak.
Thank you again for responding to my question.
Reread. I was and am saying that mental energy doesn’t work to do that. There is no known procedure for “become thin” except Adipotide.
Here’s what you said that I was thinking of (it’s in the companion thread):
Perhaps I misinterpreted your words, but I understood you to be saying that you thought you could get thin and stay thin if you devoted the vast majority of your mental energy to the project. Which I think is probably true.
P.S. What do you make of the posters here and in related fora who claim to have achieved and maintained significant weight loss? Do you think they are lying?
P.P.S. Are you really that optimistic about Adipotide? My sense is that over the years, I have heard many reports about promising new drugs; usually the excitement fizzles out. Based on past history, it would seem to be a bit of a long-shot. Any reason to me more optimistic on this drug?
Thank you again for responding to my comments.