Congratulations—noticing that you are confused is an important step!
What are you doing while “awaiting additional evidence”? This is a topic that doesn’t have a neutral/agnostic position—biology forces you to eat, you have some influence (depending on your willpower model) over what and how much.
This belief wasn’t really affecting my eating habits, so I don’t think I’ll be changing much. My rules are basically:
No meat (I’m a vegetarian for moral reasons).
If I feel hungry but I can see/feel my stomach being full by looking at / touching my belly, I’m probably just bored or thirsty and I should consider not eating anything.
Try to eat at least a meal’s worth of “light” food (like toast or cereal as opposed to pizza or nachos) per day. This last rule is just to keep me from getting stomach aches, which happens if I eat too much “heavy” food in too short a time span.
I think I might contend that this kind of reflects an agnostic position. But I’m glad you asked, because I hadn’t noticed before that rule 2 actually does implicitly assume some relationship between “amount of food” and “weight change”, and is put in place so I don’t gain weight. So I guess I should really have said that what I tossed out the window was the extra detail that calories alone determine the effect food will have on one’s weight. I still believe, for normal cases, that taking the same eating pattern but scaling it up (eating more of everything but keeping the ratios the same) will result in weight gain.
Congratulations—noticing that you are confused is an important step!
What are you doing while “awaiting additional evidence”? This is a topic that doesn’t have a neutral/agnostic position—biology forces you to eat, you have some influence (depending on your willpower model) over what and how much.
This belief wasn’t really affecting my eating habits, so I don’t think I’ll be changing much. My rules are basically:
No meat (I’m a vegetarian for moral reasons).
If I feel hungry but I can see/feel my stomach being full by looking at / touching my belly, I’m probably just bored or thirsty and I should consider not eating anything.
Try to eat at least a meal’s worth of “light” food (like toast or cereal as opposed to pizza or nachos) per day. This last rule is just to keep me from getting stomach aches, which happens if I eat too much “heavy” food in too short a time span.
I think I might contend that this kind of reflects an agnostic position. But I’m glad you asked, because I hadn’t noticed before that rule 2 actually does implicitly assume some relationship between “amount of food” and “weight change”, and is put in place so I don’t gain weight. So I guess I should really have said that what I tossed out the window was the extra detail that calories alone determine the effect food will have on one’s weight. I still believe, for normal cases, that taking the same eating pattern but scaling it up (eating more of everything but keeping the ratios the same) will result in weight gain.