On the SLD forums, a member named Del posted this:
Roughly a month ago, I got tired of the oil. I was fighting to take it and something about one of them was causing an allergic reaction (dermatitis), so I switched to noseclipped oatmeal with brown rice protein. I haven’t noticed any change in my appetite suppression (read, still ridiculously good) and my weight loss has maintained at the usual rate of 3lbs or so per week. I’m really enjoying it and I have that nice full feeling as well.
So in the interest of sharing, that’s:
1/2 c. quick cook oatmeal
2T. brown rice or egg white protein
1 c of water
Cook in microwave for 2 minutes, let sit for one minute. Consume noseclipped morning and night.
In conventional nutritional terms, oil and the oatmeal mixture are very different. One is all fat, the other has almost no fat. Yet they have had the same effect on her weight. The theory behind the Shangri-La Diet predicts this but few if any other theories do. For example, if you believe in low-carb diets, you would predict that the oil (no carbs) would cause weight loss more easily than the oatmeal mixture (which has plenty of carbs).
But why would oatmeal or any other (nose-clipped) flavourless carb be any different than sugar water, the original flavourless carb in the SLD saga? SLD’rs are nose-clipping all kinds of foods.
Lori, are you saying this result was obvious? I’m afraid I don’t understand your question or point.