“I’m too tired to eat well” might be a chicken-and-egg loop. Poor eating depletes energy, which makes healthy eating feel harder, which leads to poorer eating. The fatigue is real — the question is whether it’s causing poor eating or poor eating is causing it. Often both, creating a cycle that can only be broken by intervening somewhere.
This companion covers the energy-food cycle, whether it’s actually fatigue, food as intervention, and reducing effort required. (3 min read)
Known defects on this page:
- more pages still describe willpower as a draining tank More pages describe willpower as a tank that empties — the same unsettled research, found by searching for the claim instead of the citation
- We overuse the em dash in our prose. We use the em dash more often than easy reading allows, and we are changing how we punctuate.
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