I lost about 25 pounds on the Shangri-La Diet before my attention wandered to other hobbies. But I still keep an occational eye on that community. One of the most impressive results is this chart showing various reports from folks on the diet.
This data is tainted by the how it is self reported, but none the less it is amazing. The other day Seth reported some fun data for one dieter, who lost about a pound a week for two years! He wrote a nice posting a while back about the fun he is having with his little community of users. And this is a nice research result that makes complete sense given the diet’s punitive explanation, i.e. that standardization make food more fattening.
I also did the SLD for a while. Little gross to start but really supressed my appetite over last 10 weeks.
As she links generically to a diet site, I presume that Lucy’s comment is self promotion. But I found the diet site an interesting business hack, so I thought others might enjoy it.
Nice site!
Myself, I, more and more sympathetic to the people want to
go and take them to Please, please link
http://beautiful70.blogspot.com/
I’ve used the diet successfully. I’m curious, when your attention wandered, did you keep the weight off and if not, have you tried the diet again?
Hi Stephen, Welcome. Your sort of famous in this little community. “When” … hm, after about a six or 8 months. My appetite returned over a few weeks. My weight crept up very slowly over maybe a year. I didn’t return to my original weight, in Seth’s terms my set point stayed lower. The diet generally made me more aware of my consumption habits and I think I was less casual about falling into the older ones. Not so much a matter of will power or lack of desire but a somewhat heightened awareness that the seconds, while fun and sociable, had a systemic cost.
Yes I went back on the diet about two months ago when I decided my pants were too tight. While my appetite is supressed my weight hasn’t fallen with the same satisfying rate this time. I suspect I maybe substituting beer calories; but I don’t really obsess about the details; and it does appear to be working abet more slowly. I’m not keeping records this time.
This new york time article shows a potential mechanism of the shangri la diet
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/health/nutrition/20best.html?_r=2
Apparently the mouth detect even tasteless carbohydrates and alters the metabolism accordingly.