--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 20, 2008, at 6:44 PM, sparaig wrote: > > > Wait loss can come about due to changes in how your body digests food, > > or in changes in metabolic rate, or a host of other things besides > > raw caloric > > intake as measured by the grams of food you eat or by huffing and > > puffing. > > You're still taking in less than you're expending if you're > losing weight, whatever your metabolic rate may be. >
Sure, but to insist that there's no way that a "magic mantra" could have an effect is to be engaging in as unscientific a stanace as insisting that it must have an effect because "it worked for me." > You know, for someone who had a problem with chronic > obesity at one point (I think you said that, right?) I can > understand the appeal of a magic mantra, which would > relieve you of the burden of actually doing the work > of maintaining a healthy weight. Quite so, but I'm not practicing any mantra method that I believe will automatically cause me to loose weight, so in fact, you're just looking for ways to ignore the validity of what I said. > But it doesn't exist, > any more than a magic rudrashka, a magic rosary, or a magic > jellybean does for that matter. See what I mean? You have no idea if some "magic mantra" for weight loss exists or not, so to speak in such absolutist terms puts you into the same category as those who do. Worse, since you have convinced yourself that you are a skeptic, you need not even consider evidence that might cause you to re-evaluate your position, making you every bit a Believer as the person you've been arguing with, while pretending to yourself that you are not. Lawson
