Have you heard of the perfect weight loss solution? You can eat as much as you want. You never go hungry. And it requires no will power. Sounds hard to believe doesn't it? Well it should.
Many weight loss solutions promise this and few deliver. But there is a "diet" that not only promises all this but is actually based on a powerful new understanding of why we eat as much as we do and how to change it. It's a strategy created by psychologist Seth Roberts that he calls the Shangri-La diet because it's a peaceful way to lose weight.
Here's what you need to know if you are going to try this:
1. Roberts believes in the idea that our bodies and minds work together to create a set point for our weight. Part of this set point is determined by genes and part by environment. Of course the set point theory is nothing new. Roberts discovery of the environmental factors that influence set point is what's new and makes his idea so useful for those who want to experience safe, easy weight loss.
2. Our set point can be influenced by the kinds of tastes available to us. Eating food that is flavorful and familiar raises the set point because it signals to the body that food is plentiful. Eating food that is bland or unfamiliar signals the body that food is scarce (why else would you be eating bland food if there was something better tasting to eat?).
3. You can lower the set point for your weight by eating food that has ver little flavor or no flavor at all.
Now eating bland food would be a bit hard to swallow (no pun intended) except that Roberts has come up with some creative techniques to take in calories without experiencing any taste.
The main technique is to ingest unflavored oil or sugar water (our bodies don't consider sweetness a taste). The liquid must be ingested in the middle of 2-hour window to keep the calories you take in from becoming associated with the flavors of other foods. And that means you can't even brush your teeth with minty toothpaste in that 2 hour window.
After a few days or weeks of ingesting anywhere from 1 to 4 tablespoons of oil a day between meals a person experiences a reduction in appetite. This reduction lasts as long as the person ingests the oil.
Now you might be thinking, of course you eat less, you just took in a few extra hundred calories of oil or sugar. Well, the weight loss stories of the thousands who have tried this diet suggests otherwise.
They are eating less and their waste lines show it.
Just go to google.com or amazon.com and search for "shangri la diet" and you'll find blogs and forums in which hundreds of people give their success stories.
And if it doesn't work, what have you got to lose but a few dollars spent on flavorless oils.
