The first 2-5 weeks of big diet changes are fucking hard, but it gets easier like any habit change.
As far as I understand the literature suggest that many people succeed with the first 2-5 weeks of big diet changes only to have the yoyo-effect later in the process.
I suspect many people are doing things that are unsustainable or difficult to sustain in long run, such as:
dehydrating themselves (the easiest, but also completely stupid way to lose your first kilogram);
eating tasteless food (unsustainable unless you are willing to give up eating tasty food forever);
spending too much time on e.g. slow exercise or complicated calorie counting (when real life comes back, you will not afford doing 3 hours of yoga each day).
Which is why for myself I tried to (1) minimize the time spent exercising, which ultimately led to exercising with my own body weight at home, and (2) optimize also for the taste of the healthy food, even if it means letting an extra calorie in, as long as the outcome remains better than my previous food habits.
As a consequence, I was able to keep doing this for almost a year, even if real life keeps happening, because I like the taste of the new food (so I am not tempted to replace it with the old one), and if sometimes I only have 30 minutes of free time during the day, I can still do some meaningful exercise (as opposed to shrugging “well, no time for gym today”).
Eating tasteless food might be useful in weight loss and health. Vegetables usually have phytonutrients, which evolved to be for example insect repellents. However many of these phytonutrients have, for example, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory mechanisms in our body, Sapiens. Like Curcumin and Sulforaphane. Since IQ goes down by age, though crystallized not so much, it might be worthwhile to try and include these foods. Curcumin can pass the blood brain barrier in certain instances.
Not Relevant, Not written by Yvain (srs):
“He pointed to Absolute Infinity and told Him, including himself. why Blind-Every-thing-No-thing God, don’t you allow us to enjoy, Qualia:tetively, useful food, rather than processed food? Unless we can’t eat enough calories to satisfy our leptin-VNM-feedback system with unprocessed food, it should not be done”
Maybe AGI and CRISPR can edit the genes to enjoy “useful” food, it’s after all only food for our real purposes.
To the extent people yo-yo, I think the novelty wears off and old habits come back. You’re often dealing with months or years of new diet versus decades of old habitual diet.
I mean you notice the differences more in the first phase of a diet. You may have some New Diet Energy! that gives you a boost and helps counter the differences.
After a while, you can get accustomed to less food.
As far as I understand the literature suggest that many people succeed with the first 2-5 weeks of big diet changes only to have the yoyo-effect later in the process.
I suspect many people are doing things that are unsustainable or difficult to sustain in long run, such as:
dehydrating themselves (the easiest, but also completely stupid way to lose your first kilogram);
eating tasteless food (unsustainable unless you are willing to give up eating tasty food forever);
spending too much time on e.g. slow exercise or complicated calorie counting (when real life comes back, you will not afford doing 3 hours of yoga each day).
Which is why for myself I tried to (1) minimize the time spent exercising, which ultimately led to exercising with my own body weight at home, and (2) optimize also for the taste of the healthy food, even if it means letting an extra calorie in, as long as the outcome remains better than my previous food habits.
As a consequence, I was able to keep doing this for almost a year, even if real life keeps happening, because I like the taste of the new food (so I am not tempted to replace it with the old one), and if sometimes I only have 30 minutes of free time during the day, I can still do some meaningful exercise (as opposed to shrugging “well, no time for gym today”).
Eating tasteless food might be useful in weight loss and health. Vegetables usually have phytonutrients, which evolved to be for example insect repellents. However many of these phytonutrients have, for example, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory mechanisms in our body, Sapiens. Like Curcumin and Sulforaphane. Since IQ goes down by age, though crystallized not so much, it might be worthwhile to try and include these foods. Curcumin can pass the blood brain barrier in certain instances.
You’ve read this? It’s long, but if you CTRL+F for “taste” you’ll see some obvious writings. http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry-brain/
Not Relevant, Not written by Yvain (srs): “He pointed to Absolute Infinity and told Him, including himself. why Blind-Every-thing-No-thing God, don’t you allow us to enjoy, Qualia:tetively, useful food, rather than processed food? Unless we can’t eat enough calories to satisfy our leptin-VNM-feedback system with unprocessed food, it should not be done”
Maybe AGI and CRISPR can edit the genes to enjoy “useful” food, it’s after all only food for our real purposes.
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To the extent people yo-yo, I think the novelty wears off and old habits come back. You’re often dealing with months or years of new diet versus decades of old habitual diet.
I mean you notice the differences more in the first phase of a diet. You may have some New Diet Energy! that gives you a boost and helps counter the differences.
After a while, you can get accustomed to less food.