Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 08:30PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 09:37:50PM 12 points [-]

No... it... DOESN'T. I tried that. I ate a simple Paleo diet which consists of nothing except healthy foods; my staples were home-cooked turkey and bananas. I did it for months. I lost not a single pound.

You CANNOT BEGIN TO IMAGINE how much stuff that really truly seems like it ought to work simply DOES NOT WORK when you are metabolically disprivileged.

Comment author: AlexU 10 April 2009 09:40:38PM 2 points [-]

Are you saying it didn't work because it didn't curb your hunger or your desire for other, less healthy foods? Or it didn't work because you stuck to the diet of healthy foods and gained weight nonetheless? The latter seems hard to believe, though I suppose it's technically possible to accumulate an excess of calories via turkey and bananas...

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 April 2009 09:42:34PM 3 points [-]

The latter.

Comment author: arfle 10 November 2010 10:23:23AM -1 points [-]

So are you claiming to be a counterexample to 'weight change=calories in - calories out'?