Just six tablespoonfuls of sugar make the medicine go down

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)