Hi, sounds good everyone. your doing great. this is my 2nd day with it. i do not feel as hungry. so going for it. especially for the skin. good luck to all and have a good day. LaDean

For what it is worth, I've lost sixty-two pounds using the Shangri-la diet (I started November 13, about five-six months before the book came out).

The neat part is that you can try the diet without buying the book or buying much of anything.

An older lady where I go to church lost ten pounds (so far) on the diet, next thing you know, half the congregation is doing it, especially a number of older people who had given up ever losing weight.

It is neat. My mom's 70, btw.

Okay. I'll bite. [heh heh...]. I wanna try this too. The one thing that makes me upset after I fail on a diet is how much I spent on the book. Could someone outline the whole thing for me or direct me to a site for free? You can pm me if necessary....

Many thanks!!!

Okay. I think I got enough info to go on. Starting Wednesday morning....we'll see.:^:

Post with results, pro or con.

It is neat that you can try the diet, with things you have around the house, without spending any money. Almost everyone has some cooking oil or some sugar.

If it works, then spend twelve dollars on Amazon.com for the book.

I'm so glad it worked for me (I've bought, and given away, a boatload of books).

Best,

Stephen

Try the library too, sometimes they've got the book you can read for free!

~melissa

My mom has lost twenty pounds so far. I'm fifty, though I'll skip her age, you can tell it works for those of us who are "older."

;)

The same is true for expeller expressed walnut oil -- major difference between it and the other kind of oil.

For what it is worth, I hit 65 pounds lost and posted a picture of myself on my blog. I'm very pleased (obviously) with the Shangri-la diet.

Darn, make that 67 pounds lost.

Shangri-la Diet -- comments on it and my experiences
 

I read the review of the book, and I think the reviewer got parts of it confused, though that is probably as much the editor's fault as the reviewers.

I am an emotional eater. I gained about sixty pounds in the course of about six years as I buried three children, twenty pounds a funeral.

But, the Shangri-la Diet worked for me. No one I worked with was willing to really try it until I'd lost about sixty pounds. I now have two co-workers who it has also worked for, one who can finally wear his wedding ring after years of being too fat.

The hardest part is drinking the oil. I switched to a blend of extra light olive oil and Hain walnut oil. Pour three tablespoons of oil (any oil, my mother uses Canola oil and has lost more than twenty pounds, visiting me and seeing the changes convinced her to try) in a cup with a cup of hot water and one tablespoon of sugar. Swirl, and drink it down. The water kind of floats the oil in. Rinse your mouth out with water.

Don't drink, eat or taste anything (including gum, mints, cigarettes, coffee and diet coke) for an hour before or after. If it works for you, within a week or so you will notice that you feel differently about food, which will let you control how and when you eat.

If it works, just keep using the oil. You will notice smoother hair. If you take a high omega 3 oil, you will also sleep better. When you've lost as much weight as you want to lose, use less oil.

After a month or two, if the diet is working for you, buy the book.

This is the only diet I know of that you can start with whatever you have around the house, buy the book only if it works, and that you can use with other diets if you feel like it.

You've all read how calorie free soft drinks are correlated with gaining weight because they are thought to push your set point up. Flavor free calories seem to do the reverse, pushing your set point down, and your body follows.

Pretty easy to try for a week or so. At the worst, if you've used extra light (not extra virgin) olive oil or walnut oil the omega 3s will have pushed your HDL/LDLs in the right direction.

That's what I'd have said in the review and what I tell my co-workers and people at church who ask me about the diet.

Stephen, I'm curious about you :) I don't mean to be rude, but you've posted here 17 times since you joined in May, and every post except one has been to promote the Shangri-La diet. We are aware that there is a group of bloggers/posters whose goal to promote this book, and we wonder if you are part of it because you seem to have no other interest here. We've had an unusual number of new members show up to post once or twice about the virtues of this diet, and never be seen again.

Please don't misunderstand - I think it's GREAT that you have lost weight and improved your health! It's always an accomplishment, no matter what the circumstances. But our website is devoted to the bigger picture of good nutrition that comes with most weight loss diets. We talk about how to increase the whole grains in our diets, or which exercise videos are the best for obese women. Shangri-La barely touches on the subject.

I'm the one that wrote the review. I bought the book with high anticipation, due to the hype from the blogs. (Yes, I paid for the book, I'm not part of the blogosphere that was provided with free copies for promotion.) I didn't say anything particularly bad about the book, other than pointing out what the author thought of exercise. I just explained what the book promoted and what it didn't. If you want to see a BAD review, read this review by Megan Ogilvie. And this one by health expert Jonny Bowden.

I've posted to 3FC for a while a few months ago. I haven't posted in a while as I got caught up in exploring the internet through deli.cio.us. I read Robert's book and participate on his forums. I'm a SLDer and take about 3 tablespoons of extra light olive oil per day for the past two weeks. I will admit I haven't lost any weight in the past two weeks, but I also have a broken right ankle so I can't exercise. But I'm eating about 1400-1800 cals per day with the cals from the oil not added into the total.

I thins Robert's program assists any person who is in the process of losing weight. There are so many good books on nutrition, losing weight and just watching what you eat (counting calories) that I don't think that Seth could have added anything new to that area. If you just sit down with a diabetes exhange list and know how many calories per day you need to eat, etc then you can lose weight. Put in a sensible exercise program and over time the weight will come off.

The Shangri-la Diet had completely removed my sweet tooth. It is gone. This has been the greatest aspect of the program. I had a terrible craving for sweets all my life. This is one of the reasons why I was over 150 pounds overweight. Sweets now taste very bland to me, so they aren't any fun to eat.

Yes, my appetite is decreased so I'm not always thinking about food and my next meal. I'm not obsessed with food. I can go to a restaurant, only anything I want and know I won't be able to eat all of it. I take half my meal home and don't feel deprived.

I know by eating right and exercising I will lose weight. There isn't any magic pill that will do this for me, but the Shangri-La diet is a very useful tool for me to use.

Christy K