The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
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#2Sounds like amphetamine abuse to me. Presumably de rigeur in chess.
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#3Sounds like amphetamine abuse to me. Presumably de rigeur in chess.
Did you read the article? It’s about diet, exercise, and the energy burnt playing chess.
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#5I track my vital metrics religiously. Last week, I interviewed at three companies who have intensive technical interviews (Dropbox, Google, Apple).
The morning after the second interview, at Google which was intensive, I was my lowest weight ever in several years (dropped three to four pounds from five days before)
I gained the weight back after a week. But it was interesting to observe the physiological effects from interviewing. I'm not surprised to read about such physiological effects from long, mentally intensive activities.
(I thought I did well enough in my interviews but I didn't make it past the hiring committee at Google, or Dropbox)
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#6This reminds me of the ordeals depicted in Sangatsu no Lion, a manga about professional shogi.
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#7> Robert Sapolsky, who studies stress in primates at Stanford University, says a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament
Citation, please.
I see him making this claim in a number of articles and talks, but am having trouble finding an experiment verifying this.
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#8I experienced this "diet" when I was having a tough time at work. Turned out for me that stress eating calories added up to way more than what the insomnia and nervous thinking burned. Your results may vary.
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#9I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep. (stay up all night and weigh your self repeatedly, in the morning, no loss, but after you sleep and wake, your weight goes back to "morning weight")
I found that if you don't sleep well, you don't lose as much. If you eat too late before going to bed, you don't lose as much.
If you adjust your diet (however you want is my experience) to always be hungry for around an hour before every meal, you will lose weight. (no exercise at all)
What these guys are doing seems to be actual "work", I don't think stress alone makes you lose weight. With the anecdotal data I have observed over the years "stress eating" is more common that "stress based weight loss".
Maybe the activity that causes the stress directly relates to it's effect? And not all stress is equal in this way? (tournament stress vs paying the bills stress)
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#10I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep. (stay up all night and weigh your self repeatedly, in the morning, no loss, but after you sleep and wake, your weight goes back to "morning weight") I found that if you don't sleep well, you don't lose as much. If you eat too late before going to bed, you don't lose as much. If you adjust your diet (however you want is my experience) to…
Lack of sleep pretty much affects every system in the body. Metabolism being no exception. Mathew Walker covers this in detail in Why we sleep.