Wow. Super relevant to my situation, at a BMI which is close to 40, and has climbed from 25 over the years. I make changes that feel sustainable and then they disappear.
I have questioned whether I would be happier as a skinny person not eating frozen pizzas for dinner than as a fat person eating frozen pizzas and ice cream. I really like eating frozen pizzas and ice cream. I have at best a theoretical liking of being more attractive and having more of an opportunity to have sex with non-fat girls, and to ski a whole day, and to not face the embarrassment of looking like shit all the time. I can recall having a BMI of 35 and being quite happy, and even of having a BMI of 30, but I do not know if my metabolism would support my still being happy at those BMI values or whether my aging metabolism has put them out of reach.
The portions controls resonates. Clearly, the first quarter of the frozen pizza has about equal utility to me as does the following three-quarters and the full feeling that follows it. At something like 3 times the cost, but is it 3 times the cost? It has seemed to me that until I slake the hunger I will keep looking for things to eat, that I might as well eat the pizza OR learn to live with the hunger, which has obvious disutility.
I have thought in the past that I would one-box because I think Omega is a charlatan but I’d rather have the million dollars than to even begin to do the work required to demonstrate to the (stupid) world who believes in omega that he is a tricking them with tricks no better than what you can see on stage at the Magic Castle every night. THat the people who were credulously buying in to Omega as “real” were exactly the same group who believed in God because of a promise of heaven or even just of superiority over all the other humans for being chosen. I.e. that outrageous unrealistic claims about something supernatural could be accepted if it raised your status to accept them.
But what if I need TDT to lose weight? What if I need to believe in a higher power than myself to lose weight (to shift the formulation to Alcoholics Anonymous/religious one)?
What if I am fat because I am an atheist and an anomeganist? Could it be true?
I know there are fat religious people and skinny atheists out there. Is there a systematic BMI difference between one-boxers who believe in Omega and one-boxers who fight the hypothetical?
Wow. Super relevant to my situation, at a BMI which is close to 40, and has climbed from 25 over the years. I make changes that feel sustainable and then they disappear.
I have questioned whether I would be happier as a skinny person not eating frozen pizzas for dinner than as a fat person eating frozen pizzas and ice cream. I really like eating frozen pizzas and ice cream. I have at best a theoretical liking of being more attractive and having more of an opportunity to have sex with non-fat girls, and to ski a whole day, and to not face the embarrassment of looking like shit all the time. I can recall having a BMI of 35 and being quite happy, and even of having a BMI of 30, but I do not know if my metabolism would support my still being happy at those BMI values or whether my aging metabolism has put them out of reach.
The portions controls resonates. Clearly, the first quarter of the frozen pizza has about equal utility to me as does the following three-quarters and the full feeling that follows it. At something like 3 times the cost, but is it 3 times the cost? It has seemed to me that until I slake the hunger I will keep looking for things to eat, that I might as well eat the pizza OR learn to live with the hunger, which has obvious disutility.
I have thought in the past that I would one-box because I think Omega is a charlatan but I’d rather have the million dollars than to even begin to do the work required to demonstrate to the (stupid) world who believes in omega that he is a tricking them with tricks no better than what you can see on stage at the Magic Castle every night. THat the people who were credulously buying in to Omega as “real” were exactly the same group who believed in God because of a promise of heaven or even just of superiority over all the other humans for being chosen. I.e. that outrageous unrealistic claims about something supernatural could be accepted if it raised your status to accept them.
But what if I need TDT to lose weight? What if I need to believe in a higher power than myself to lose weight (to shift the formulation to Alcoholics Anonymous/religious one)?
What if I am fat because I am an atheist and an anomeganist? Could it be true?
I know there are fat religious people and skinny atheists out there. Is there a systematic BMI difference between one-boxers who believe in Omega and one-boxers who fight the hypothetical?