Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] "The Shangri-La Diet"

Saturday, April 10, 2010

Re: [fast5] "The Shangri-La Diet"

The experience of a lot (probably most) people on Fast-5 is

that the hunger eventually goes away, so there is no need

to eat between meals. Which is just easier. Taking plain

oil as a stopgap might work ... the Warrior Diet does something

similar, by eating raw vegies or fruit all day, then eating

at night. My experience with that is that I just gave up eating

the raw food during the day, because I didn't feel like stopping

to make something. Eating plain oil strikes me as

unappetizing, so I wonder of people on the Shangri-la diet

end up giving up the oil and just eating once a day, in which

case the diets are the same diet!

I'm not sure what fats the body *needs* in the diet. As a food,

fat is nice in that it doesn't stimulate insulin production. But

I kind of figure that if a person has, say, 30 lbs of extra fat

on them, the body should learn to eat THAT fat, rather than

depending on it coming in from outside.

The two main reasons to eat fat, by that theory, would be

1. To assuage hunger (some fats are good at that).

2. With vegies, to help the Vit A get absorbed.

Eating fat between meals might help with #1, if your body

hasn't adapted to eating once a day, but wouldn't help

at all with #2.

On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, de Vie <de_vie@post.harvard.edu> wrote:

Do any of you have personal experience with "The Shangri-La Diet"? This could be done at the same time as Fast-5, and alternatively the author (not referencing Fast-5 though) said he ends up usually eating one meal a day as a result (i.e. the two are potentially complementary/in-sync). The main idea of it is to add high-quality flavorless (or nose-clipped) oil IN-BETWEEN meals/flavors - or once a day - and that this easily reduces appetite. It's really fascinating.

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