From Tayster, below a poll that asks “do you sing in the car?”:
It’s been a week since I started the Shangri La Diet and I have lost eight pounds. More importantly, I have lost the cravings that I used to have. I don’t feel like eating as much food as I did before. And when I do eat food, I feel like I need to make it something besides a bag of chips and a chocolate cherry Coke. Since I eat less meals, I prefer to make the meals count.
I still can’t explain it, but it works.
One comment: “CHOCOLATE CHERRY COKE?!!! How did I not know about this assuredly sublime creation?!”
I did the SLD for ~3 weeks two years ago using sugar water. Lost ~20 lbs that never came back. I also made it a point to eat better food since I was eating fewer calories. I ended up becoming a vegetarian (one year ago). The “eat less, but eat better” part is interesting to me. I wonder how common the reaction is among SLDers. If it happens often, is it instinct or just people following their common sense? Perhaps it’s related to the effect you’ve mentioned elsewhere that after being successful with the SLD people report that they make other lifestyle improvements (exercise, stopping smoking, whatever). In addition to dropping meat, I also quit caffeine.