Anyone Want To Try The Shangi-la Diet With Me

[miel]

It seems like the ultimate fad and yet I'm curious.

Yes, you have drink either sugar or oil but not in such quantities it is bad for you. If it is olive oil it might actually be good for you!

http://www.diet-blog.com/archives/2006/04/10/the_shangri_la_diet.php

I find it interesting that people who drink diet soda are fatter than others. I found this true of myself. I've grown to hate all soda and haven't had any for years but any period where I drank diet soda (for the caffeine not the taste) I gained weight. There's no free lunch.

OK, it's a weird diet. Who wants to try it. If you don't want to, how about I run the experiment on myself and see the results. Anyone interested?


I'm going to start Thanksgiving week. (I never eat much on T-giving because I often don't even make the usual T-giving dinner. I think sometimes I've even made beans and rice! So it's not the holiday eating thing so much as I'll actually have a few days off to remember to try this thing.)

[miel]

Here's what I'm going to do:

Try one disciplined week of the diet. Drink three tablespoons of sugar in a cup of water every morning at ten o'clock (with no other food or flavors, including mints, diet drinks or chewing tobacco) from 9:00 to 11:00 and two tablespoons of olive oil at 2:30 (with the same no food or flavors from 1:00 to 4:00) and see what has happened after a week.

If it works, keep it up for another week.

[meggiedarlin]

miel: anything to report? I read the link you posted and this sounds very interesting.

[miel]

Yes, I didn't have a chance to do it for the last couple of days. I'm just forgetful! BUT IT WORKS. Your appetite is markedly reduced. I lost 3 lbs. in less than a week.

I'm going to keep doing it and be more vigilant. I find the oil more effective at killing my appetite than the sugar but they both work.

[suzubeane]

Looks more like an appetite suppressant than a diet. It's not that weird if you think about it. I already know that certain foods or food combinations eaten at certain times are going to make me more hungry, less hungry or fall asleep. This one seems like it would make me want to eat lunch later, and then be less ravenous when I get home at dinner time.

That said, how did someone manage to write an entire book about this? I find that most books on diet plans could have been six page pamphlets, and this one is no different. Not that nutrition information isn't valuable, but when the subject is stretched into a book, there tends to be a lot of repetition.

How are you taking the olive oil, miel? Straight up? Or mixed with something.

[jennylou]

Do you have any updates?

[miel]

It is an appetite suppressant. That is very compelling to me because, although I do need to lose weight, I actually don't like to eat. I would really welcome something that made my appetite go down because being hungry is distracting and I have other things I want to do.

Update is: It works as an appetite suppressant but so far it made me gain weight rather than lose weight. It's weird because it works amazingly well to suppress appetite. Another issue is that you are supposed to alternate sugar with oil and I just did the oil as the sugar is more time consuming (you have to drink it very slowly over time). This might have been my fatal flaw. Also, I might be preggers. If I am, then all bets are off and I am not a good test case.

I put light olive oil (meaning: light in flavor) in water. I honestly could not taste the oil at all although I would feel it a bit on my lips. I also used safflower oil and grapeseed oil as these have very little flavor. The key is to have no flavor when you ingest the calories.

I think I'll try it again if this TTC cycle didn't work out just to see if my first impression was right that it's not working even though I am eating less. My body is also freakish and who knows what would work for me at this point.