Buy Walking VideosKathy Sierra Reviews The Shangri-La Diet
I met Kathy Sierra at the South By Southwest convention in March and I’ve been reading her weblog ever since. She usually writes about making websites better, but she diverged from her basic theme the other day and talked about a diet that she has been trying, The Shangri-La Diet.
Here is her description of the diet and how it worked for her:
“You must MUST be able to find at least one two-hour time window each day where you have nothing but water. Nothing with any flavor of any kind is allowed–NO EXCEPTIONS–during that period, including brushing your teeth. For most people, two hours is no problem at all… but you have to be extremely careful or you risk not just eliminating the positive effect, but potentially ruining your chance of using it correctly in the future.”
“In the middle of that two hour window, you must ingest one of two things… either a tablespoon of sugar dissolved in water, or a tablespoon of extra light olive oil. If either of those are not do-able for you, you’re out of luck.”
“For me, in two weeks, it’s been working too well. I don’t have a weight problem, so I wasn’t interested in losing weight. I wanted to try it because it’s fascinating, seems impossible to believe, and MAINLY for the claim that by reducing cravings, it helps you make better eating choices. My goal on this “diet” was that when it was time to eat, I wanted to find carrots and broccoli as viable an option as Ben and Jerry’s. That hasn’t completely happened (although cravings have virtually disappeared), but within three days, I was actually forgetting to eat.”
Forgetting to eat is one thing that can trigger a binge, so this doesn’t sound like a good diet for me, but I’m sure there are people who this would work for. Click over to Kathy’s site and read her full review. It contains links to other reviews about the diet and more information.
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May 4th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
Kathy’s description is spot on.
I’ve lost 52 pounds so far on the diet and all I can suggest to people is that they try it for a week and feel the difference in the way they think. Nothing describes it as well as experience.
Stephen
May 5th, 2006 at 4:59 am
Shangri-La Diet I find the fascinating and really want to read the book so that I can go over it in more depth instead of gleaming what I saw on the web. Shangri-La Diet seems to be like an ultra cheap version of slimfast. A diet that might work for others just doesn’t fit me. My concerns are not that it works some people it seems to lose weight in it. My concerns are about the set points and people getting enough nutrients in a day. My theory is unless someone is suffering from illness, a diet should not lower their set point, hat is actually a bad thing. I think maybe Seth just hasn’t properly logged his calories and he might be eating more in maintenance than he realizes. The diet requires no journaling so it would be easy to confuse how much you’re eating.
May 6th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
My concerns are about the set points and people getting enough nutrients in a day.
Well, drop by my blog. I’ve got down exactly what I eat every day posted with the exception of 6-7 breath mints (at 2 calories each).
Seth seems to journalize everything, though I don’t. I just plan and implement the plan.