In the Shangri-La Diet forums, Maychi has posted about a new way of nose-clipping (eliminating the smell of food) that is socially-acceptable: Putting tiny pieces of pantyhose in your nose. They are invisible. Her husband and son wouldn’t eat with when she wore noseclips.
I started this on 1st August. After about five days I got AS [appetite suppression] I had never managed to achieve with sugar or oil or anything else.
She eats about 95% of her calories this way. It doesn’t entirely block smells but perhaps it changes them enough so that they aren’t recognized or are less recognized. Maychi started losing weight and so did someone else who tried it.
One little problem: You have to be careful what you say.
It’s not possible to produce certain sounds. So in order to not sound like you have a horribly blocked nose, you have to say “delicious!” instead of “yummm!” and and “super!” instead of “Nice!”
I tried nose clipping a few times with modest results (i.e. nothing like the big effect I got from sugar water). I noticed that some kinds of food were hard to eat nose clipped because breathing through the mouth at the while chewing was difficult. E.g. eating yogurt was easy to eat nose clipped, but a cereal like bite sized shredded wheat (which requires lots of chewing) hard.
I wouldn’t want to explain in the ER why I had pantyhose stuck in my nostrils.
My cousin smelled terrible when she was a small child. No one could figure out why. Until they discovered she had a piece of a sponge stuck in her nose, rotting.