army1987 comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 April 2012 04:20:18PM *  3 points [-]

This looks like evidence against that to me. See also this. (All that publicity for anorexic models is still a Bad Thing, but “opposition to fatness” needn't mean endorsement of emaciation; the latter is signalling gone out of control.)

ETA: FWIW, all other things being equal I feel better (e.g. more stamina) when I'm slimmer; YMMV.

Comment author: wedrifid 16 April 2012 04:33:14PM 0 points [-]

ETA: FWIW, all other things being equal I feel better (e.g. more stamina) when I'm slimmer; YMMV.

How have you managed the 'all else being equal' part? Most things that cause you to have more stamina* also cause you to be slimmer. It seems more likely that you will have more stamina because all else is almost certainly not equal.

* In the non-trivially-short-term. ie. I'm not talking about drinking 5 bottles of Gatorade giving you more stamina for that day.

Comment author: [deleted] 16 April 2012 04:45:13PM *  0 points [-]

How have you managed the 'all else being equal' part?

By eating less for a couple of months without any other major change of habits.

Most things that cause you to have more stamina* also cause you to be slimmer.

(provided slimmer is defined in terms of fat mass alone and not total mass: muscle weighs a lot, and...).
Sure, eating a lot by itself also makes me less energetic for a while (probably due to digestion requiring energy), but I'd expect that to be a short-term effect only.