Posted on November 26, 2009 in Diet-Types
What it is:
The shangri-la diet is a book written by Seth Roberts who has proposed a theory. It says that you can regulate your body’s set point by wanting lesser food.
The diet sets ways to curb your hunger and lower the appropriate body’s weight also known as ’set point’. It is usually done with the help of portions of sugar water and olive oil taken in between the meals.
The diet explains how hard it is to lose weight using the basic formula to eat less and exercise more. People who have already tried dieting knows the feeling of hunger due to which most of the diets fail to succeed.
The diet is based on taste association. The author says that when yoiu eat food with great tastes, you would want more of them. This is not the case when you eat food with lesser flavors. The brain would keep you away from food which is not tasty. Thus this would lower the set point and cause weight loss.
What you can Eat:
People following a shangri-la diet can eat according to their wish. But they are advised to stay away from processed foods and food that contain corn syrup. They are moreover advised to eat fruits, vegetables, and foods high in fibre.
The main key to this diet is to have 1-3 spoons of sugar water and 1-2 spoons of light olive oil twice a day. These things provide with calories but little taste. It also teaches you to stop looking out for taste in your daily meals. Automatically, it would push you to eat lesser quantities.
For extra lowering the set point, eat things with unfamiliar flavors.
- 100-400 calories of sugar water annd olive oil to be consumed daily.
- Consume the sugar water and oil an hour after meals.
How it works:
It is actually the feedback from the food that helps in changing the set point. The flavorless food pushes you to eat less.
The author tested his theory on himself. He consumed hundred flavorless calories each day. He instantly lost his hunger and began eating meals only once a day. He exercised simultaneously (parallel) and lost around 35 pounds in 3 months. He has been keeping off his weight for the past 5 years now.
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