Those of you who know me, know that I have had my own personal battle of the bulge. Now, I am a solidly built guy, but even at 6′4″ I was in the 280’s. So a few years back, I decided to do whatever it took to loose the weight. I steadly dropped till I hit 204 and I’ve been in the 210-220’s ever since.
I have recently decided I want to drop to my target weight, or at least get closer, so, while I was surfing blogs researching the subject, I found a interesting fad diet that people were talking about in the blog-o-sphere. It’s called the Shangri-La Diet. People are also referring to it as “Hacking your Legacy Brain”.
Here’s the Jist: 6 Tablespoons Of Sugar over a two hour period during the day. Preferably in warm water.
Theory: Your brain associates good taste with foods that have a lot of calories. Thus, you tend to eat foods that are straight calories.
Now you consume the 1 liter of water and all that sugar, you get all the calories without the taste, thus breaking the connection between taste and calories.
What happened with me: I got feeling wierd walking around with a bag of sugar (also feeling like I was carrying around an illegal substance), the water was gross, and well, I didn’t last a day.
So. I’m just back to the old reliable. Cutting way back on calories and exersizing (Canadian Royal Air Force exersize program here I come)
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That would have been gross. You did real great with the discipline and exercise stuff. After all, you have been the inspiration for some of the other of us.
Comment by Mike — May 27, 2006 @ 4:53 am
Yeah, warm sugar water, bleh.
Comment by Chris — May 28, 2006 @ 7:51 am