BerryPick6 comments on The Unfinished Mystery of the Shangri-La Diet - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 October 2012 08:31:35PM 13 points [-]

Not for as far back as I can remember. One of the scarier parts of my childhood was having to hide food so that I could get something to eat on Yom Kippur, and hoping my parents never found out. I do remember at some point being too exhausted to walk either to or from the synagogue even with my father yelling at me - maybe that was when I was young enough to believe enough to actually fast?

I reasonably expect I would do better now, especially if I'd eaten all protein for a couple of days previous - my adult metabolism is not quite as bad as I remember it being in childhood, and my mind is a whole lot stronger. I'm not particularly inclined to test it, though.

Comment author: BerryPick6 11 October 2012 08:34:24PM 2 points [-]

When I was younger I would often consider buying a mini-fridge to put under my bed solely so that on Yom Kippur I would be able to eat without the fear of getting kicked out of the house and shunned because "you aren't respecting our traditions."

Good times...