> Spending almost the entire day thinking of food, never getting any real satisfaction from your meals, counting the minutes until you’re allowed to eat again… even if this actually worked (and I doubt that) it wouldn’t “work” in any real sense. Almost nobody’s going to stick to that. If your diet only works on prisoners, go back to the drawing board.
It’s wore than that IMO.
I can willpower-through relatively low caloric diets and lose weight. I’m doing it right now, mostly because I don’t have AC and I prefer being hungry than being too hot in summer.
If I cut myself while cooking, tho, even superficial wounds won’t heal in less than ~1mo. If I catch any bug, like a cold, it’s also going to linger forever.
Losing weight that way is not being healthier. It’s just trading some symptoms (overweight) for others (inadequate energy supply) — and it’s very unclear to me which side of the tradeoff is "better". "Working" would be having no symptom.
That weird sized Asian rice cup is called a "gou" (合 in Japanese). It's a traditional rice measurement unit equal to approximately 180ml or about 150g of uncooked rice, historically thought of as a "ration" for a single adult.
I'm still interested in seeing if some more minor amount of calorie restriction would work. I'm also interested if you can swamp without gaining weight if you keep it PUFA free!
> Spending almost the entire day thinking of food, never getting any real satisfaction from your meals, counting the minutes until you’re allowed to eat again… even if this actually worked (and I doubt that) it wouldn’t “work” in any real sense. Almost nobody’s going to stick to that. If your diet only works on prisoners, go back to the drawing board.
It’s wore than that IMO.
I can willpower-through relatively low caloric diets and lose weight. I’m doing it right now, mostly because I don’t have AC and I prefer being hungry than being too hot in summer.
If I cut myself while cooking, tho, even superficial wounds won’t heal in less than ~1mo. If I catch any bug, like a cold, it’s also going to linger forever.
Losing weight that way is not being healthier. It’s just trading some symptoms (overweight) for others (inadequate energy supply) — and it’s very unclear to me which side of the tradeoff is "better". "Working" would be having no symptom.
That weird sized Asian rice cup is called a "gou" (合 in Japanese). It's a traditional rice measurement unit equal to approximately 180ml or about 150g of uncooked rice, historically thought of as a "ration" for a single adult.
I'm still interested in seeing if some more minor amount of calorie restriction would work. I'm also interested if you can swamp without gaining weight if you keep it PUFA free!