TheOtherDave comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 February 2011 03:16:55PM 9 points [-]

I have given up, and it was indeed a great improvement in quality of life when I stopped trying to manage my weight - gave up and ate whatever, stopped going to the gym - and observed that my weight behaved in exactly the same way as before, the same slow upward creep at the same rate.

I don't know to what degree being overweight would be less painful if there wasn't a social stigma attached to it, but we don't actually live in that world.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 09 February 2011 03:26:17PM 1 point [-]

I'm curious: leaving aside weight and social stigma, have you found that the different levels of diet and exercise you've experimented with had any positive or negative effects? (E.g., mood, energy levels, endurance, etc.?)

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 February 2011 03:29:10PM 5 points [-]

I can walk farther after getting in a couple of weeks of regular walking.

That's it.

Basically, "no effect that I can detect with the naked eye".