I heard about a weight-loss method on the Dennis Prager Show yesterday. For anybody that ever listens to DP, you know this is an extremely unusual subject for him to be examining.

Needless to say, this made me quite curious about it. After reading up on it, it appears that this (Shangri-La method) may be a good way to not only lose excess weight but also to attain longer-term success with regard to caloric restriction (for general health-promotion and perhaps life-extension purposes).

This program also appears to be quite easy to follow. Has anyone on this board experimented with anything like this?

https://calorielab.com/news/2006/04/1...-seth-roberts/

Be well,

HH

Well Harry, it sounds curious. Sounds too easy to be true, but at this point, Im grasping at straws, so I ordered the book... I will be the guinea pig for the group.

just me, another good use for rice bran oil! I don't think I would be brave enough to try the sugar-water routine.
Looking forward to your progress reports.

Soooooo, what if we traded the sugar for xylitol????? That still gives the sweetness that is supposedly needed, but without the sugar

Is rice bran oil "flavorless" - or at least very mild? All the oils I've come across that are neutral tasting are not exactly health-promoting ... extra-light olive oil, grapeseed oil, safflower oil, canola oil, etc.

I'm not sure if the xylitol would work or not. Perhaps that would be a good question to ask on the author's forum:

https://www.sethroberts.net/index.html

Good luck, Just Me. I think I'll try it out as well. Perhaps we can compare notes?

Be well,

HH

Yes Harry, Rice bran oil is very light, and basically tasteless. I was thinking about trading it out or maybe switching during the day... Like use rice bran oil in the morning, and olive oil in the afternoon, and then wonder what would happen if you used coconut oil in the evening? Thanks for the link to his forum, I am gonna check it out.....

100 times more powerful, 1,000 times safer.

well from the little bit that I understood in the article, apparently the flavor of foods is part of the reason why we over eat.. but the article did not go into full detail... We will find out though

I suppose we could probably use the more refined coconut oil - that doesn't impart much flavor. This is the variety that some people use for most cooking. Even Dr. Fife has a variety of oil like this:

https://www.simplycoconut.com/dr_fife...ooking_oil.htm

The main problem with coconut oil is that you need to warm it up in order to drink it down. Not very practical.

Be well,

HH

not here in texas you dont. Temperatures already are melting the oil.

100 times more powerful, 1,000 times safer.

Ok, I havent gotten my book yet, but I did go into the forum you posted. Asked a couple of questions. And yesterday I tried doing the oil. I took two tablespoons of oil... one at 12:30 and one at 7:30. And I have to admit, I wasnt really hungry... I had kefir in the morning, and had to make a road trip, so I had mcdonalds for lunch... The plan was to take the oil as soon as I got home, but got busy and forgot... so by the time I realized I was hungry, I stopped and took the oil, and figured I would eat an hour later... You are suppose to have a two hour window.. an hour before you take the oil and an hour after, where you dont eat anything... so I took the oil at 7thirty, and just didnt get hungry... So before I went to bed at 11, I drank another cup of kefir, figureing that would hold me over till morning.... and Im not hungry this morning.... Drank my kefir already, but havent taken the oil.... almost time to. This will be interesting to say the least... I dont see how this can work, but I am impressed so far... Now if I can just get motivated to get back to exercising, it will be great!!!

just me,

Yesterday I made some chocolate chip cookies, which I haven't made in years, and decided to try coconut oil instead of butter. My son, who can always eat more than one cookie, said how "stuffed" he was after eating just one! Same thing happened to me! Generally, not being hungry doesn't keep me from eating if something tastes really good. After one cookie I was too "stuffed" to eat another one. This never happened when I used butter, so we figured it must be the coconut oil! I know that coconut oil can help you lose weight because it has medium chain triglycerides, but I think it just makes you feel full, too! I cannot eat a spoonful of any kind of oil because it makes me feel nauseous! I am always looking for ways to lose weight and thought the coconut diet would do the trick, but it is so hard to eat the stuff straight. But I am for sure going to add it to anything I can that will make it palatable! Good luck!

Sally B.

Well apparently it does something to the appetite. I have been doing really good today too. I just dont seem to be getting that hungry, and when I am hungry, when I ate today, I wasnt able to eat the whole amount. Now I have noticed, that after eating, for some dumb reason, I get a chocolate desire.... badly today and yesterday!!!! But one hershey bar solved the problem yesterday, and a bowl of choc ricotta solved the problem today... and now I dont seem hungry at all... This seems really strange....
Its hard drinking the oil, but its worth a try... Figure if I can get use to the kefir, then I can get use to the oil!!!!!

Just Me,

Maybe it's not so strange after all:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-pno033006.php

Are you using the rice bran oil so far or a combination of different oils?

Thanks for the updates. I plan to start the program soon - possibly with my wife giving it a shot as well.

Be well,

HH