The Ongoing Shangri-La Diet Experiment

My experiment with the Shangri-La Diet has been interesting. At first, it worked exactly as Seth Roberts said -- I was simply less hungry. Facebook fans will recall that a couple of times I put back a chunk of my customary after-breakfast chocolate, because I just couldn't finish it. And I was having a really easy time keeping the cookbook weight off. Even went back to having a glass of wine most days.

But since Thanksgiving, and my couple-pound gain, I don't seem to be getting the same effect. I've been about as hungry as I was before I started slugging down shots of oil in the middle of the night. I've been good about sticking to super-low levels of carbs, but while I'm below my panic weight, I haven't dropped back down to where I was the week after I started the SLD -- about four pounds lighter than where I am now.

I don't know what happened, but I'm not so fond of oil shooters that I'm going to keep it up without results. However, I know that a fair number of nutritional supplements -- like my growth hormone releasers -- work better if you cycle them. So I'm going to take a few days off from the SLD, and just stick to my low carbing, then try the SLD again, and see if I get the appetite suppression effect again. I will, of course, let you know how it goes.